This volume gathers together documents that illustrate the variety of experiences and themes involved in the transformation of American political, economic, and social systems from the 1870s to World War I, and presents the essential perspectives of race, class, gender, and culture.[...]

Statistical theory is primarily a product of the twentieth century. Frequentist thinking has prevailed over Bayesian primarily because of the practical difficulty of fitting all but the simplest Bayesian models. This book takes the reader into the domain of Bayesian inference where complex hierarchi[...]

Up to now, ritual has been under-utilised for studying human behaviour. This book narrows the gap in our understanding of the social causes and consequences of our actions by focusing on the ritualised behaviours that define much of our daily lives. Knottnerus breaks new ground by comprehensively de[...]