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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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Les lieux du pouvoir comme lieux sociaux sont pour l’historien nécessairement des lieux écrits – même le château de Versailles a bien changé depuis le xviie siècle et ce qui reste de la vie de cour gît dans des écrits tels que ceux que nous examinons ...
Dinah Ribard, Nicolas Schapira
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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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This article is the sequel to the article "The Bookplates of the Fund of Lituanica of the 17th Century at the Library of Lithuanian Academy of Science." There are 6,524 books with 1,883 bookplates in the Fund of Lituanica of the 18th century.
Alma Braziūnienė
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ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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HISTORICAL AND MENTAL ROOTS OF MARGINAL CULTURE IN EUROPE IN THE 17TH CENTURY
The article is devoted to the phenomenon of marginal culturein Europe in the 17th century. The author studies the historical and mental origins of its formation, its characteristics and place in the cultural history of the continent.
G. G. Pikov
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La novela como género literario en el siglo XVII en Francia
This paper deals with the configuration of the novel as a literary genre in France during the 17th century. After a brief introduction to the concept of literary genre, with Aristotle’s "Poetics" as the main source, it deals with the study of the novel ...
Miguel García Peinado
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Judicial Review of the Improper Policy Implementation of Treaties
In recent years the courts of England and Wales have come to recognise a new iteration of judicial review which this article terms ‘review of improper policy implementation of treaties’ or ‘RIPIT’. RIPIT enables a reviewing court to scrutinise a domestic policy document which is promulgated for the purpose of securing compliance with a legislatively ...
Joanna Bell
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The usefulness of tithes as a measure of agrarian production and also as a way to reveal climate events and changes in Latin America is still debated. This article analyzes the practice of farming out tithes and the evolution of their revenue over two ...
Jakob Schlüpmann
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History of the Creation of the Tobolsk Diocese in the Official Correspondence of the 17th century
This article studies the correspondence of the 17th century on the creation of the Tobolsk diocese in Siberia. The documentary complex has been preserved in the book of the Siberian Prikaz, published in 1994. It consists of two types of documents (letters by tsar, patriarch and archbishop, as well as the replies of the voivodes), which allow ...
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