Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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On the Way Towards a Cognitive Historiography: Are We There Yet?
The publication of the first issue of the Journal of Cognitive Historiography essentially aimed to mark the birth of a new interdisciplinary field, which is willing to take upon the challenge of exploring how people in past societies thought and behaved.
Dimitris Xygalatas
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ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Friedrich List's Adam Smith historiography and the contested origins of development theory [PDF]
Friedrich List's National System of Political Economy continues to be positively received in IPE, where it is treated as a seminal text in development theory.
Watson, Matthew
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Victorian Women and the Gendering of Mountaineering in the Alps
ABSTRACT This article explores the gendered segregation of Victorian mountaineering, highlighting how societal norms sought to confine women to passive roles within the alpine landscape. As Elizabeth Le Blond declared, ‘there is no manlier sport in the world than mountaineering’, encapsulating the pervasive attitudes of the era.
William Bainbridge
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he scientific study of the history of the Estonian book began in the 1930s, and some essays published then have not lost their value up to the present.
Mare Lott
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Child Labor in the Gold Coast: The Economics of Work, Education, and the Family in Late-Colonial African Childhoods, c. 1940-57 [PDF]
Historical knowledge of childhood in the Gold Coast (modern Ghana) is sparse and too often disconnected from a global historiography that has convincingly demonstrated the "child" to be a social construct. In contemporary discourse the "African child" is
Lord, Jack
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BEYOND ‘BAD DENSITY’ AND TERRITORIAL STIGMA: An Infrastructure Access Lens on Suburban Exclusion
Abstract Segregation and social exclusion in postwar suburban housing estates are typically addressed as problems of residential location. For decades, postwar suburbs in all corners of the world have been targeted as designated sites of punitive urban intervention, grounded in territorial stigma and normative notions of density.
André Klaassen, Greet De Block
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REVIEW to: Álvaro Sánchez-Ostiz, Beginning and End: From Ammianus Marcellinus to Eusebius of Caesarea, Anejo VII de Exemplaria Classica, Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, 2016 (ISBN 978-84-16872-02-2) [PDF]
BEGINNING AND END, FROM DUSK TO DAWN ... The beginnings of the Christian historiographical genre and the end of pagan historiography, both symbolized in two personalities that, one from Christianity and one from paganism, live and write history in Latin ...
María Luisa Harto Trujillo
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The Flemish movement and Flemish nationalism: instruments, historiography and debates [PDF]
This article gives a concise overview of the historiography of the Flemish movement and the Belgian nationality conflict. It addresses the main working instruments and scientific infrastructure.
De Wever, Bruno
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