Results 41 to 50 of about 223 (176)

LAS REFORMAS RELIGIOSAS DE AKBAR Y SU RELIGIÓN PERSONAL

open access: yesRevista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara, 2016
Este artículo se enfoca en la figura del emperador mogol Akbar (1542-1605) y en la motivación detrás de sus reformas religiosas. En él se debaten los análisis de algunos historiadores que han interpretado estas reformas como el resultado de un viraje en ...
Roberto E. García
doaj   +1 more source

Postcolonial History in the Service of Anticolonial Politics: Critical Historiography and National Myth in Contemporary India

open access: yesМеждународная аналитика, 2023
The article examines the relationship between the shaping of Indian foreign policy discourse, macro-historical processes that influence the formation of Indian political elites, and the development of historical knowledge about the Indian Ocean region ...
A. V. Kupriyanov
doaj   +1 more source

Atlantic trade and the West African market economy: New evidence from cowry imports, 1650–1905

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, billions of cowries arrived in West Africa, leaving one of the few quantitative traces available for historians to measure the Atlantic trade's impact on the precolonial market economy. Yet, current estimates substantially underestimate the volume of cowry imports.
María José Pont Cháfer
wiley   +1 more source

A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

A Tale of Two Choices: Son Preference and Reproductive Outcomes in Uzbekistan

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this study, we use data from the recent round of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) conducted between 2021 and 2022 to estimate the effect of son preference on reproductive behavior in Uzbekistan. We find strong evidence for differential stopping and spacing behavior among Uzbek women.
Khilola Dushamova   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gifts, Sovereignty and Power: The British and French Trading Companies in Mughal India, 1735-65

open access: yesRevue Française de Civilisation Britannique
This article focuses on the gifts awarded by Indian powers to the British and French trading companies and their representatives in Mughal India in exchange for services rendered – notably the provision of military support.
Robert Ivermee
doaj   +1 more source

Queers Queering STEM: Reimagining Inclusive STEM Education

open access: yesJournal of Research in Science Teaching, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 569-588, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Grounded in queer theory, this study explores the intersections of queerness and STEM trajectories through the lived experiences of three queer adults with postgraduate degrees in STEM and contributes their insights for queering STEM education.
Nelly K. M. Marosi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 541-553, July 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptions of national identity and interreligious contact avoidance in differing domains: A multigroup analysis of majority and minority religious groups in India

open access: yesBritish Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 65, Issue 3, July 2026.
Abstract The current research examined how inclusive versus exclusive conceptions of national identity were associated with interreligious contact avoidance across relatively public (neighbours) versus private (marriage) domains among majority and minority religious groups.
Kumar Yogeeswaran   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Jesuit strategy in Japan and India in the 16th Century as a precursor to modern Western “Soft Power”

open access: yesVestnik RUDN. International Relations, 2017
The principles of “soft power”, within the context of the historical development of international relations both on the worldwide and regional levels, had been applied in the East and in the West long before the aforementioned theories appeared.
Olga Vilenovna Volosyuk   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy