Results 61 to 70 of about 7,505 (264)

Republican Sicily at the start of the 21st Century: the rise of the optimists?

Pallas, 2009
This study considers trends in the historical study of Republican Sicily in the twentieth century. It outlines the existence of optimistic and pessimistic interpretations of the period, and examines some of the underlying reasons (principally the ...
Jonathan R.W. Prag
doaj   +1 more source

Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
wiley   +1 more source

Images of “the Republican Citizen” Designed in the Context of National Identity Construction in Türkiye during the Early Republican Period

Yakın Dönem Türkiye Araştırmaları
In the 19th century, as a result of certain economic, political, and social changes, the model of the nation-state came to replace that of the multinational empire.
Hadiye Yılmaz Odabaşı, Deniz Ülke Arıboğan   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Language of Gendered Violence and Sexual Aggression in the Spanish Civil War: Conceptualizations and Reassessments

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the conceptual vocabulary through which violence against women during the Spanish Civil War has been interpreted, with particular attention to the longstanding predominance of the category ‘sexed violence’ (violencia sexuada).
SABINA MOMPÓ TORIBIO
wiley   +1 more source

State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source

‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
wiley   +1 more source

THE PHENOMENON OF ROMAN REPUBLICAN COINAGE IN PRE-ROMAN DACIA. A REXAMINATION OF THE EVIDENCE

Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2015
This article offers a re-examination of the phenomenon of Roman Republican coinage during the pre-Roman period in Carpathian region. It is argued that by compiling the evidence into a multifaceted database, new insights are gained on the explanation of ...
Marius Grigore Stan
doaj   +1 more source

Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
wiley   +1 more source

La ville comme manifeste

Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2003
This article aims at analysing the progression of the republican movement in Brazil and the installation of the Republic as one of the elements which can explain the secularisation that the city is undergoing at that same period, that is, along the ...
Rubenilson Brazão Teixeira
doaj   +1 more source