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...history. It emerges in the Victorian period when scholars like Max Muller and Cornelius Tiele set out to categorise religion in the same way that Linnaeus produced a taxonomy of the natural world. Muller and Tiele were not neutral observers, however. They were very much a part of the colonial project. And so the data they produced was of nations that were being subjugated...

...family home of David Hume. Hume was a pivotal figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, and his imminent death was widely anticipated. The crowds were anxious to know how he was facing up to his coming demise. Hume is best known today as a historian (through his History of England of 1754–62) and a philosopher. His Treatise of Human Nature is regarded by many as one of the...

...history of sound-recording technology recognise the impact of technological change on sound recording understand some of the decisions made by contemporary sound recordists, including the placement of microphones...Recording music and sound: 1 Recording production - For many people today the recording process is very simple. A recording device is placed in front of a...