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Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Introduction. The development of banks in the Ottoman Empire is a complex topic in domestic and foreign historiography. Eastern societies, especially Muslim ones, have long had a negative attitude towards banking activities, considering it an offspring ...
E. R. Khalimbekova
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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Waqf in Algeria: Its Historical Exploration from Ottoman to Post-Independence Era
This study provides a critical discussion on the history of waqf in Algeria throughout three main different eras namely, the Ottoman rule era, the French colonisation period and after independence era, to raise awareness and enrich researchers’ thoughts ...
Abdelkader Laallam +3 more
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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A Village on the Outskirts of the Ottoman Empire: Archaeological Research at Tell Zeyd
This paper presents the most recent results from the research programme Zeyd Archaeological Project; launched in 2022, this project aims at exploring economy and society in the hinterland of the historical province of Mosul in the long Islamic period ...
Tonghini, Cristina +3 more
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CERAMICS IN CIRCULATION: NETWORK ANALYSIS FROM THE OTTOMAN BALKANS AND AEGEAN
This study addresses challenges in Ottoman archaeology, where sites and materials are often neglected due to the complex legacy of Ottoman heritage. The Ottoman Empire has left an lasting mark on the heritage of three continents.
Tsveta Kodzhabasheva
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ABSTRACT Between 2018 and 2021, the Identification and Documentation of Immovable Heritage Assets (IDIHA) Project recorded over 19,000 rock art panels in the AlUla (al‐‘Ulā) region of north‐western Saudi Arabia. This study presents a chronological assessment of the corpus, drawing on superimpositions, datable motifs, inscriptions, and varnish formation,
Maria Guagnin +3 more
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National identity after conquest
Abstract Conquering powers routinely adopt state‐directed nationalization projects that seek to make the boundaries of the nation coterminous with the (newly expanded) boundaries of the state. To this end, they implement policies that elevate the economic status of individuals who embrace the occupier's national identity and discriminate against those ...
Christopher Carter, Daniel W. Gingerich
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