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Between India and the Indies: German mercantile networks, the struggle for the imperial crown and the naming of the New World

Culture & History Digital Journal, 2014
In 1507, the excitement over the publication of the Mundus Novus led to the naming of a new continent on the map, a globe and a learned treatise as an appendix to an edition of a work by Ptolemy published in Saint-Dié, Lorraine.
Renate Pieper
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Wujud Nasionalisme Tokoh Modernis Islam: Kontribusi K.H. Mas Mansur dalam Mengantarkan Indonesia Merdeka

Jurnal Sejarah Citra Lekha
This study aims to reaffirm the role of K.H. Mas Mansur in the context of Indonesia's struggle for independence from colonial rule. The research employs historical research procedures, including heuristics (source gathering), verification (criticism of ...
Miftahuddin Miftahuddin, Danar Widiyanta, Adnan Rafsanjani   +2 more
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A tale of two towns: Water provision and management in the towns of Beaufort West and Vanrhynsdorp, c. 1900–1970

Contree
The Karoo region of South Africa receives some of the lowest annual precipitation in South Africa. The towns of Beaufort West and Vanrhynsdorp share a history of unreliable water supplies, coupled with extreme poverty that left a large section of the ...
Wessel P. Visser, Daniel R. Rademan
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Advanced Ancient Steelmaking Across the Arctic European Landscape

Open Archaeology
This article presents results that seriously challenge conventional frameworks regarding the time, course, and cultural context of the introduction of iron and steel in Europe, in turn central metals in the narrative of civilization development.
Bennerhag Carina, Söderholm Kristina
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