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

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
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

Military Strategies of Roman Cities Establishment Based on the Space Syntax Analysis Applied to the Vestiges of Timgad

open access: yesHeritage
Roman cities represent the Empire’s broader approach to urban planning, characterized by geometric precision and a strategic layout. Their spatial organization reflects the underlying military and administrative objectives, which can be better understood
Marouane Samir Guedouh   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesHistory, 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

Peel (J. H. B.), Along the Roman Roads of Britain

open access: yes, 1973
Ternes Charles-Marie. Peel (J. H. B.), Along the Roman Roads of Britain. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 51, fasc. 4, 1973. Histoire (depuis l'Antiquité) - Geschiedenis (sedert de Oudheid) pp.
Ternes, Charles-Marie
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Family Work Among the Astors

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
wiley   +1 more source

Roman roads and communications in Late Antique South Pannonia.

open access: yes, 2010
U radu se na temelju izvorne građe, arheoloških spoznaja i relevantne historiografske literature raspravlja o prometnim komunikacijama u kasnoantičkoj južnoj Panoniji s poglavitim obzirom na tri rimske cestovne osi na spomenutom prostoru: podravsku ...
Hrvoje Gračanin, Gračanin, Hrvoje
core   +1 more source

Ancient defensive walls and roads around the Danube crossing near Lake Kartal: Experience of cartographic stratigraphy

open access: yesTyragetia, 2017
The article is devoted to the results of the application of cartographic stratigraphy to a single micro-region – the Danube crossing area near Lake Kartal.
Igori Sapozhnikov
doaj  

300 Years of Degradation in Wales Estuaries and Coasts

open access: yesNatural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The world's oceans are in a severe state of degradation, yet our understanding of that degradation is often based on changes observed only in the past 20–50 years. This narrow view leads to marine conservation efforts that aim to preserve already degraded ecosystems, shaped by shifted ecological baselines.
Richard K. F. Unsworth   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Study of Roman Roads and Bridges

open access: yes, 2008
In the ancient world, Roman roads represented an event of exceptional political significance. Often they still constitte teh suport of the modern network, not only in Italy and in the nations overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, but also in those of the ...
QUILICI, LORENZO
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

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