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Aspekt historiograficzny Herodota, Tukidydesa i Plutarcha w chrystologii Dziejów Apostolskich
Colloquia Theologica Ottoniana, 2019 The first part of the article describes the beginnings of ancient historiography and presents the methods used by the first Greek historians: Herodotus, Thucydides and Plutarch.
Katarzyna Sługocka
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Chasing the perfida Albione: Anglo‐Italian productivity gap in the late 1930s
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper presents new estimates of Anglo‐Italian labour productivity levels in manufacturing in the late 1930s, derived using the standard single‐deflation approach. The findings confirm a substantial productivity gap between Italy and the United Kingdom at the aggregate level, alongside pronounced intersectoral heterogeneity.
Tancredi Salamone
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Modern Interpretations on the Origins of the First World War: A Historiography [PDF]
, 2013 Gives facts regarding the relevance of the First World War in modern times.
Donau
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Speculation in the United Kingdom, 1785‒2019
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Speculation has long been thought to have significant economic effects, but it is difficult to measure, making it challenging to examine these effects empirically. In this paper we measure speculation in the United Kingdom since 1785 by using business and financial reporting in The Times newspaper.
William Quinn +2 more
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Cyclic Perserverence and Linear Mobility of Theatrical Events [PDF]
, 2010 This article illustrates the function of time in theatre historiography.
Sauter, Willmar,
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Regional and local divergence in welfare provision in England and Wales, 1776–1815
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article uses the township‐level data on welfare expenditure and provision gathered by parish officers in England and Wales at three points between 1776 and 1815 to illuminate regional and local differences during the period. These data have been linked to geographic information system (GIS) mapping systems, facilitating the mapping of ...
John Broad
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History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As a periodization that is generally understood to refer to an era of Terrestrial relationships that developed with modernization and nuclearization, the Anthropocene cannot be applied simply to premodern histories and texts. However, it has introduced historians to geological periodization as a mode of describing periods of changed ...
Gwenffrewi J. Morgan
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“TO SEUNAGAN SEEKING HAS SPREAD”: THE TRANSMISSION OF ESOTERIC TRADITION AND HISTORY AS PROPHECY
History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this essay, I explore accusations of heterodoxy, as well as rebuttals of these accusations, leveled at Sufi groups in late‐colonial and independent Aceh, the last region of what is today Indonesia to fall under Dutch colonial rule. What has been at stake in debates about the orthodoxy of such groups has not simply, or even primarily, been ...
DANIEL ANDREW BIRCHOK
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INTRODUCTION: REFLECTIONS ON HISTORY AS PROPHECY, CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION
History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this essay, I provide brief introductions to the notion of “prophetic” historiography that I developed in Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future: History as Prophecy in Colonial Java (1995) and to the five essays of this forum that were written in dialogue with it. I argue that “history as prophecy” forms a practice of writing in which the
NANCY FLORIDA
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