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On the Beginning and Transformation of Modern Chinese Historiography
After the First Opium War (1840-1842) there were increased academic interests in studying the history and geography of China’s northwestern borderlands, introducing foreign history and geography and writing the modern history of China. Such interests,
Zhang Yue
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The Reflection of Changes in religious views on Public Histories in Safavid Era [PDF]
Historiography in every era is the complete mirror of that era. One of the brightest eras in Iran history is Safavid era. In this era, Iran history was involved with the greatest changes in different political and cultural arenas.
Badr al-Sadat Alizadeh Moghaddam
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave
ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
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ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
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'How warped the mirrors': postmodernism and historiography [PDF]
Postmodernism, though it may be described in many ways, may be thought essentially to be captured by Lyotard's phrase, 'incredulity towards metanarratives'.
Olson, Ryan Scott
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Identifying Romanness: virtus in Latin historiography during the late Republic and early Empire
This thesis deals with the role of the concept of virtus in Roman historiography of the late Republic and early Empire. I shall argue throughout the study that analysing and tracing this concept in the works of the historians of this period take us to ...
Balmaceda, Catalina
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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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Development of Islamic Historiography in Indonesia
This research carries the theme of the development of Islamic historiography in Indonesia with a focus on the methods of writing Islamic history, the influence of traditional literature, and other relevant topics.
Anggy Giri Prawiyog +3 more
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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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