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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
wiley   +1 more source

Demography and life histories across the Roman frontier in Germany 400-700 CE. [PDF]

Nature
Blöcher J, Vallini L, Velte M, Eckel R, Guyon L, Winkelbach L, Thomas MG, Gharehbaghi N, Mitchell CT, Schümann J, Köhler S, Seyr E, Krichel K, Rau S, Hirsch J, Duras J, Cloarec-Pioffet P, Füglistaler A, Klement K, Wilkenhöner M, Vetterdietz L, Gentilin F, Müller M, Mücke AL, Zedda N, Tawfik Y, Saal E, McGlynn G, Bramanti B, Orschiedt J, Molitor R, Fliß B, Spazier I, Shankland D, Vetterling C, Karpf K, Planert V, Hölzl S, Codreanu-Windauer S, Quast D, Mikić I, Fiedler S, Päffgen B, Brami M, Richter T, Chaix R, Brather-Walter S, Steffens P, Marquart M, Becker T, Haberstroh J, Meier M, Schmidt-Hofner S, Brather S, Harbeck M, Patzold S, Wegmann D, Burger J.   +57 more
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‘Liberation’ of ‘Younger Brothers’ or Genocide of Subhumans? Genocidal Discourses on Ukrainians in Putin's Regime

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores Russia's genocidal discourses on Ukrainians, focusing on the predominant narrative that frames cultural genocide as the ‘liberation’ of Ukrainians through the erasure of their cultural identity. Existing literature tends to overlook this form of genocidal discourse, which diverges from typical ‘othering’ by instead ...
Martin Laryš
wiley   +1 more source

Isotope analyses reveal chronological and bioarchaeological consistency at a tribal community of the Sântana de Mureș-Chernyakhov culture in Transylvania. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Major I, Horváth A, Futó I, Gál SS, Szigeti A, Molnár M, Körösfői Z.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
wiley   +1 more source

Global tastes, local choices: Strontium isotope and concentration evidence for changing dietary input in Roman Nijmegen, the Netherlands. [PDF]

PLoS One
De Coster M, Hendriks J, James HF, Snoeck C, Davies GR, Kootker LM.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Engineered Identity: Albanian Nationalism and the Limits of Established Nationalism Theories

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the development of Albanian nationalism as a test case for assessing the explanatory reach of three major approaches to the study of nationalism: modernist, constructivist and historical‐comparative. Rather than privileging a single theoretical framework, the article places these approaches in dialogue, treating them as ...
Alda Kushi
wiley   +1 more source

Woodlands of Antiquity: A millennium of dendrochronological data on forest exploitation and timber economy between the Alps and the Atlantic. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Muigg B, Haneca K, Tegel W, Grünewald M, Bernard V, Bleicher N, Blondel F, Bolliger M, Broich M, Couturier Y, van Daalen S, Domínguez-Delmás M, Girardclos O, Herzig F, Langenegger F, Le Digol Y, Nelle O, Nicolussi K, Oberhänsli M, Perrault C, Rzepecki A, Vorst Y, Weidemüller J, Westphal T, Seim A.   +24 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Pictures and the Frame: Banknote Iconography and Bottom‐Up Nationalism in Pre‐ and Post‐Revolutionary Tunisia

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Bottom‐up nationalism’—the belief that the nation is of the people, by the people and for the people—can serve as a powerful collective action frame for mass mobilization. We study the evolution of Tunisian dinar banknote iconography as an indicator of the institutionalization of bottom‐up nationalism before and after the Jasmine Revolution ...
Jacques E. C. Hymans, Chloe Bernadaux
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Religious Tolerance of the Late Roman Empire

, 2020
The topic of religious tolerance is one that spans the scope of human history. In the following essay, this subject will be examined within the context of the late Roman Empire (180-395 CE.). This ancient period represents a chapter of Roman history almost exclusively recounted by ancient Christian historians, the result of which has led to the ...
openaire   +1 more source