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‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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National treasure or a redundant relic: the roles of the vernacular in Czech art
RIHA Journal, 2013 The article examines the reception of folk art in the visual culture of Bohemia and Czechoslovakia and focuses on the shift in the meaning of folk art in the period of early twentieth-century modernism.
Filipová, Marta
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AlmanackThis paper aims at pointing out relevant questions on the analysis of the work of nineteenth-century cartoonist Ângelo Agostini, as well as to present pertinent arguments on the analysis of images in the historiographical field.
Vinícius Liebel
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“If You Can Read This . . .”: Winslow Homer’s The Gulf Stream and the Viewing of His Pictures
Panorama, 2018 To anyone who had the temerity to press a nose against the picture, to sniff at or try to smell it, he gave a clear message. . . . Just below his signature and the painting’s date, Homer wrote in light-colored script, as if it were flotsam from a wreck: “
Marc Simpson
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
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Maps and Diaspora: Affect, Agency and Epistolary Praxis
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract Following discussions, interactions and reflections during the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) conference ‘Map Room Conversations’ sessions, this paper examines maps and diaspora through an affective lens. By utilising an auto‐ethnographic epistolary praxis of letter writing and employing the therapeutic prompt, ‘What came up for ...
Rohini Rai, Iqbal Singh
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Material Matters: The Transatlantic Trade in Photographic Materials during the Nineteenth Century
Panorama, 2020 Katherine Mintie
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Coloration Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Plants and their extracts have been used for dyeing fabrics, skin and hair for thousands of years and have been experiencing a revival in the last years due to increasing health risks arising from oxidative hair dye precursors. We developed a novel two‐step method to dye keratin fibres based on in situ formed silver nanoparticles including a ...
Julia K. Hachmann +4 more
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