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Changing style and changing meaning: Icelandic historiography and the medieval redactions of Heiðreks saga [PDF]
, 2005 Sagas appeared on Scandinavian scholars' horizons around the seventeenth century, when their narratives were accepted as reasonably accurate accounts on past events.
Hall, Alaric
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Composing senselessness: Autoethnography after homicide
Anthropology and Humanism, EarlyView.Abstract Not all narratives create meaning, or create the same kinds of meaning; instead, some stories amplify meaninglessness, which—it is argued—is its own form of sense‐making. This article examines how meaning is formulated through narrative in the absence of a meaningful death, specifically in the context of a motiveless murder.
Jerome Arrow
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Вестник Мининского университета, 2017 This paper considers questions related to the use of the past for research strategies in the interpretation the character the state ideology monarchical Iran during the reign of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1925-1979.
E. B. Boev
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract Focusing on Southern Europe, this article sheds light on the mining landscape of the early Middle Ages. Based on the current state of historical and archaeological knowledge, the article raises a number of questions that can be extended to other European regions.
Nicolas Minvielle Larousse
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The incidence and persistence of partnerships in a British industrial city: Glasgow, 1861–81
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines the prevalence of business partnerships in a late‐nineteenth‐century British city, using individual‐level data from post office directories and censuses. Focusing on Glasgow, we present a detailed picture of partnership number and type, demographic characteristics of the entrepreneurs who ran them, and how these businesses ...
Graeme Acheson +3 more
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THEATRE HISTORIOGRAPHY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
Fluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 2014 The paper discusses the relationship between the (Croatian) theatre historiography and the (Croatian) national identity, a topic rarely considered in Croatian theatre studies.
Martina Petranović
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, 2006 National audience; Notice sur la place et l'affirmation de l'historiographie, en France, depuis trois décennies.
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Many economic historians have shown that the relationship between female labour force participation and economic development is U‐shaped. However, most studies on this phenomenon do not differentiate between female wage labourers and entrepreneurs.
Selin Dilli, Corinne Boter
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The failed promise of freedom—Emancipation and wealth inequality in the Caribbean
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Was there any redistribution of resources in the Caribbean societies after emancipation from slavery? What were formerly enslaved persons’ prospects to improve their socio‐economic status like after emancipation? To shed some light on these questions, this paper provides unique empirical evidence on patterns of wealth inequality before and ...
Dimitrios Theodoridis +2 more
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