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Objecting to the Burden: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi’s Zakhor and American Jewish Literature

Humanities
In his seminal book Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory (1982), renowned historian Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi argues that it is literature and culture, and not historiography, that shaped Jewish collective memory for generations. In Yerushalmi’s telling,
Ariel Horowitz
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Chasing the perfida Albione: Anglo‐Italian productivity gap in the late 1930s

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper presents new estimates of Anglo‐Italian labour productivity levels in manufacturing in the late 1930s, derived using the standard single‐deflation approach. The findings confirm a substantial productivity gap between Italy and the United Kingdom at the aggregate level, alongside pronounced intersectoral heterogeneity.
Tancredi Salamone
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond a literacy model for psychiatry in the mass media. [PDF]

BJPsych Bull, 2023
Miller G.
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Speculation in the United Kingdom, 1785‒2019

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Speculation has long been thought to have significant economic effects, but it is difficult to measure, making it challenging to examine these effects empirically. In this paper we measure speculation in the United Kingdom since 1785 by using business and financial reporting in The Times newspaper.
William Quinn, John D. Turner, Clive B. Walker   +2 more
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70 years of Scottish National Accounts: 1948–2018

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper provides a comprehensive time series of historical National Accounts for Scotland (onshore and offshore) from 1948 to 2018. It includes a detailed breakdown by income component and industrial sector using methods that are forward and backward compatible.
Graeme Roy, Niall G. MacKenzie, Sandy Stewart   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multiple Distortion Effects of Digital Literary Historiography? The (Again) Forgotten Literary Work of Louise Otto

Lucke A. Multiple Distortion Effects of Digital Literary Historiography? The (Again) Forgotten Literary Work of Louise Otto. In: Llamas M, Sanz A, Pérez I, LEETHI Group, eds.
Pérez, Irene, Lucke, Alexa ; https://orcid.org/, Sanz, Amelia, Llamas, Miriam, LEETHI Group   +4 more
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Early American Studies Now: A Polemic from Literary Studies [PDF]

, 2013
This polemic stages a critique of (often presentist) political readings of early American novels dominant in Early American Studies (and American Studies more generally), proposing a return to aesthetic questions informed by systems theory ...
Schweighauser, Philipp
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Florus and Dio on the enslavement of the provinces

, 2015
This paper draws attention to the unprecedented prominence of metaphors of enslavement to Rome in the historical narratives of Florus and Cassius Dio.
Lavan, Myles Patrick
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Beyond Brunhild: reassessing women in the Fredegar Chronicle

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Scholarly consideration of women in the seventh‐century Fredegar chronicle has long been dominated by the author’s hostility towards Brunhild, queen of Austrasia. Statistical analysis of Latin world chronicles before ad 900, however, shows that Fredegar’s representation of women was unusually high within this tradition.
Emily Quigley
wiley   +1 more source

"Is literary historiography still an option? Major implications and prospects in writing a literary historiography of Taiwan at the time of the Sinophone". Position paper presented at the conference Sinophone Studies: New Directions Harvard University, October 14th – 15th 2016.

, 2016
This contribution addresses the significance of literary historiography of Taiwan at the time of the Sinophone. The historiography of Taiwan literature is a relatively recent research field which mainly sprouted out of the need either to support a China ...
Federica PASSI, Passi, Federica
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