British travelers’ impressions of the Russians during the reign of Alexander II [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2016 This article examines the image of Russia and its people in the travelogues of British travelers during the rule of Alexander II (1855–1881). In reality, hardly anybody from Britain visited the country of the tsars, and very few could speak its language.
Iwona Sakowicz
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Representation of an absent space: construction of the United States and New York in 1950s and 1960s Czech travel writing [PDF]
, 2015 Early postwar Czech travel writing was mainly concerned with representations of countries from the newly emerging Soviet Bloc and former European colonies in the developing world.
Solic, Mirna
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Amerikanische Blicke auf Italien und seine Kunst am Beispiel der Italienfahrten von H. W. Longfellow, J. F. Cooper, N. Hawthorne [PDF]
Eon, 2022 Travelling to Italy was of crucial importance for many Americans in the 19th century. When they came to Italy, however, they did not simply visit the country but read it through the eyes of earlier travellers and poets who had already contributes to the ...
Kinzel, Till
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The Place of Polish Films on German market between 1920s and 1930s, with special emphasis on Borderlands [PDF]
, 2015 This book was financially supported by the National Programme for the Development of Humanities: project “Cinema: Intercultural Perspective. Western-European Cinema in Poland, Polish Cinema in Western Europe. Mutual Perception of Film Cultures (1918–1939)
Biel, Urszula
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Immunity, 2007 Details of how HIV-1 is transmitted across mucosal barriers remain sparse. In this issue of Immunity, Hladik et al. (2007) describe an organ culture system for imaging HIV-1 interaction with vaginal epithelial T cells and Langerhans cells early after infection.
Boggiano, Cesar, Littman, Dan R.
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Back from Shingly: revisiting the premodern history of Jews in Kerala [PDF]
, 2018 Jewish history in Kerala is based on sources mainly from the colonial period onward and mostly in European languages, failing to account for the premodern history of Jews in Kerala. These early modern sources are based on oral traditions of Paradeśi Jews
Gamliel, Ophira
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An analysis of the reflection of why and how the dimensions and aspects of Shah Abbas's political power are applied in the narratives of Safavid travelogue writers [PDF]
پژوهشهای تاریخی ایران و اسلام, 2019 Safavid period travel books, along with the reflection of various dimensions and aspects of the social-political life of Iran in the Safavid era, give a significant and distinct narrative of how to exercise political power during Shah Abbas's period ...
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Revista de Historia, 2016 The texts written by European and North American travelers -travelogues, letters, reports, etc.- have played a major role in the production of Central American otherness and have had its repercussions in Central American literatures.
Werner Mackenbach
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North Africa in Russian Travelers Perception: Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt in Russian Travelogues
Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2020 The article is devoted to the analysis of Russian travelers ideas about North African countries (Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt) in the period from the end of the XIX century to the beginning of the XX century.
S. Mulahi
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«Deh, non opinate, o Signora, così spregevolmente di noi»: l’Italia illustrata dalle italiane
Altrelettere, 2012 This article discusses the symbolic values assigned to Italian women writers in the historical age that precedes national unification. At the beginning of 19th century, aiming at its Risorgimento, Italy shaped its own identity.
Tatiana Crivelli
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