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ABSTRACT In 1955, Hisayuki Miyakawa published an article that sought to introduce American and European scholars to the work of the Japanese Sinologist Naitō Konan (1866–1934). Miyakawa drew particular attention to what he called the “Naitō hypothesis”—that is, Naitō’s argument that China became modern during the Song dynasty (960–1279).
CHRISTIAN DE PEE
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“THE NORMAL EXCEPTION”: EDOARDO GRENDI, MICROANALYSIS, AND GENERALIZATIONS*
ABSTRACT “The normal exception” has long been a slogan of microhistory. This oxymoronic phrase is the iconic rendering of an incidental sentence that appeared in a 1977 article by Edoardo Grendi. His article, titled “Micro‐analisi e storia sociale” (Microanalysis and Social History), is cited more often than it is read.
FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO
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Study the past if you would define the future: Historical methods in medical education scholarship. [PDF]
Ellaway R +3 more
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Field Theory and Colonialism: Indirect Colonial Situation as a Social Field in Egypt (1882–1922)
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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Introduction: Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies. [PDF]
Skotnes-Brown J, Lynteris C.
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Becoming legal: feminism and abortion law in 1970s Italy
Abstract Conventional top‐down approaches to legal reform tend to overlook the contributions of social movements in legal change, often resulting in a gender‐blind analysis. In response, I advance ‘becoming legal’ as an analytical framework to rethink legal change in terms of a bottom‐up process encompassing informal proceedings as well as formal ...
ELENA CARUSO
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The influence of miasmatic theory on the construction of the Hospital Geral de Santo António in Porto in the nineteenth century. [PDF]
Palma M.
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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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Revisiting Capital and Class in the Ecological Crisis: Toward an Expanded and Historical Approach
ABSTRACT This article offers a critical review of recent literature examining the entanglement of ecological crisis, capitalism, and class struggle, and proposes the incorporation of an expanded and historical perspective on class. First, we offer an introductory conceptual mapping of the anticapitalist ecology and some of its most significant ...
Julio Martínez‐Cava Aguilar +1 more
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