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Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire, 2018 The Greeks of Egypt were the largest foreign community in Egypt along the 19th and the middle of the 20th century. Historiography has long attributed their departure to the Suez crisis and the nationalization measures taken by Gamal Abdel Nasser in the ...
Angelos Dalachanis
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Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
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Field Theory and Colonialism: Indirect Colonial Situation as a Social Field in Egypt (1882–1922)
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Egypt under British rule (1882–1922) constituted a field of power in which the local state of Egypt and the British administration competed to dominate three key subfields to ensure control over a contested territory: the modern courts system, policing, and agricultural production.
Mehdi Hoseini
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De Romilly vs. Kagan: Dos Tucídides frente a frente [PDF]
Talia dixit, 2015 The aim of the present study is to provide a comparative analysis of two essential books on the work of Thucydides that have recently translated into the Spanish and are now available in the Spanish-speaking editorial market.
Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido
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Review-discussion: historical knowledge and historical narratives in the Severan period: Adam M. Kemezis, Greek Narratives of the Roman Empire under the Severans: Cassius Dio, Philostratus, and Herodian, Greek Culture in the Roman World [PDF]
, 2016 No abstract ...
Burden-Strevens, C.W.
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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Byzantine Turns in Modern Greek Thought and Historiography, 1767-1874
Historical Review, 2015 This article examines representations of Byzantium in Modern Greek historical thought, from the first translation (1767) of the Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae to the publication of Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos’ complete Ἱστορία τοῦ Ἑλληνικού ...
Dean Kostantaras
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Some Notes on historical Thought and historical Science in Antiquity (Ancient Greece) [PDF]
Античный мир и археология, 2017 The article deals with the major factors of emergence of historical science (exactly as science, which presupposes investigation rather than a pure appraisal of facts) in Greece on the verge of Archaic and Classical periods.
Surikov, Igor Evgenyevich
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Introduction: Creating new worlds out of old texts [PDF]
, 2015 Despite initial expectations that globalization would eradicate the need for geographical space and distance, "maps matter" today in ways that were unimaginable a mere two decades ago.
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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