Referenced Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS) and Algorithmic Historiography: The Bibliometric Reconstruction of András Schubert's Œuvre [PDF]
Referenced Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS) was recently introduced as a method to analyze the historical roots of research fields and groups or institutions. RPYS maps the distribution of the publication years of the cited references in a document set.
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Menorah Review (No. 66, Winter/Spring, 2007) [PDF]
A Collection by MR\u27s Poet Laureate -- Examining Historiography -- Revisiting Jewish Radicalism -- The World of Rabbi Nathan -- Why a Dictionary of ...
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(The Impossibility of) Acting upon a Story That We Can Believe [PDF]
The historical sensibility of Western modernity is best captured by the phrase “acting upon a story that we can believe.” Whereas the most famous stories of historians facilitated nation-building processes, philosophers of history told the largest ...
Simon, Zoltán
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Menorah Review (No. 54, Winter, 2002) [PDF]
Halakha, Hermeneutics and History -- Go -- Dialogue in Pursuit of Social Action -- Dream Joggings -- Rabbis, Society and Historiography -- Was Herod a Jew?
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HOW EUROPEAN HISTORIANS IN THE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES TOLD THE HISTORY OF HUMAN MASS MIGRATIONS OR VÖLKERWANDERUNGEN [PDF]
Historians’ interest in the history of human migrations is not limited to recent years. Migrations had already figured as explanatory factors in connection with cultural and historical change in the work of classical and ancient studies scholars of the ...
Wiedemann, Felix
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Inertial Frames and Clock Rates [PDF]
This article revisits the historiography of the problem of inertial frames. Specifically, the case of the twins in the clock paradox is considered to see that some resolutions implicitly assume inertiality for the non-accelerating twin. If inertial frames are explicitly identified by motion with respect to the large scale structure of the universe, it ...
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Trans feminism and the women's liberation movement in Britain, c. 1970–1980
Abstract The history of the British women's liberation movement (WLM) is a growing field of study, but it has had little to say about trans participants in the movement. Drawing on feminist and LGBT+ archives and interviews, this article argues that while trans acceptance in ‘women‐only’ groups was not guaranteed during the period between 1970 and 1980,
Sam Caslin
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Menorah Review (No. 19, Summer, 1990) [PDF]
Jewish Historiography -- Dreyfus and French Catholicism -- Child of Israel -- Behind the Scenes of the Forty-Year War -- Learning the Lessons of History: Reflections on the Writing of Michael ...
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Eugene Garfield and Algorithmic Historiography: Co-Words, Co-Authors, and Journal Names [PDF]
Algorithmic historiography was proposed by Eugene Garfield in collaboration with Irving Sher in the 1960s, but further developed only recently into HistCite^{TM} with Alexander Pudovkin. As in history writing, HistCite^{TM} reconstructs by drawing intellectual lineages.
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On the field: Race, gender and sports in colonial Ghana
Abstract This article analyses Ghanaian women's sport practice from the late nineteenth century to the late 1950s, from games intertwined with displays of colonial authority to school competitions, physical education and tennis. The article argues that their performances played with changing categorisations of African girlhood and womanhood, especially
Claire Nicolas
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