Revisiting Industrial Policy and Industrialization in Twentieth-Century Latin America
This brief article seeks to introduce the reader to this special number on industrialization in contemporary Latin America. It does so considering three issues.
Carlos Brando, Andrés Álvarez
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Disconsolate Suffering: Joe Sacco's Comics Journalism and the Ambivalence of Humanitarian Witnessing
ABSTRACT Through a close reading of Joe Sacco's seminal work of graphic journalism, Palestine, this article argues that Sacco unsettles the consoling effects of mass media by disrupting dominant narratives of difference, otherness, and spectacularized violence.
Bryant Scott
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[Latin American bestiary: animals in the historiography of Latin America].
The animal history analyzes the relationships between human societies and non-human animals in the past. As an academic subfield, animal history dates back to the 1980s, but it has its antecedents. In Latin America, there is a rich tradition of writing about animals from the sixteenth century onwards.
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The ‘Pierre Duhem Thesis.’ A Reappraisal of Duhem’s Discovery of the Physics of the Middle Ages [PDF]
Pierre Duhem is the discoverer of the physics of the Middle Ages. The discovery that there existed a physics of the Middle Ages was a surprise primarily for Duhem himself.
Patapievici, Horia-Roman
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The Problem of Christ’s Acquired Knowledge
Abstract Thomas Aquinas is universally applauded for his “courage and perspicacity” in eventually admitting an acquired knowledge in Christ. According to this doctrine, Christ, through the experience of his senses, came to know what he previously did not know.
Joshua H. Lim
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From Masada to Sarikamis: Trauma and Defeat Turns Into Heroic Resistance and Ontological Security
ABSTRACT This article traces the characteristics of the political discourse in the post‐modern era, which sees the necessity of using traumas and defeat to create national‐religious narratives. Through a critical discourse study of two case studies—the Battle of Masada (73 CE) and the Battle of Sarikamis (1914–1915), this article presents an analytical
Tarik Basbugoglu +3 more
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On the nature of civilization in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
The article by the medievalist historian presents a critical review of the reports on the nature of civilization in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Polish, Russian, German, and Lithuanian historiography based on the definition of civilization by
Alfredas Bumblauskas
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A river of risk : a diagram of the history and historiography of risk management [PDF]
The history of risk and risk management can be evaluated through the historiography of the subject. Writings on the history of risk and risk management can also be treated as pieces of evidence.
Hay-Gibson, Naomi
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Beyond Bandung and Belgrade: Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, A Forgotten Indian Voice for World Peace
ABSTRACT Dr. Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907–1966) was an Indian polymath best known for his intellectual contributions in a dizzyingly wide range of fields: mathematics, statistics, genetics, numismatics, history, and literature. His enduring reputation seems to have been posthumously sealed as the father of Marxist historiography in India. What has
Suchintan Das
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La historiografía latina medieval de Hispania. Un quehacer de la filología latina hoy
En el presente trabajo el autor se propone trazar un cuadro general de la producción historiográfica latina de la Hispania medieval (s. VIII-XIII), tomando el término de historiografía en un sentido amplio, razón por la que se incluyen no sólo las ...
Vitalino Valcárcel Martínez
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