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Back from Shingly: revisiting the premodern history of Jews in Kerala [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Amerikanische Blicke auf Italien und seine Kunst am Beispiel der Italienfahrten von H. W. Longfellow, J. F. Cooper, N. Hawthorne [PDF]

open access: yesEon, 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
doaj  

HIV's Vagina Travelogue [PDF]

open access: yesImmunity, 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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Entre Imperial Eyes e “información fidedigna”. Reflexiones sobre la representación de América Central en textos de viajeros alemanes

open access: yesRevista 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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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]

open access: yesپژوهش‌های 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 ...
مجتبی ذهابی   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reassessing the Significance of Firearms in Central Africa: The Case of North-Western Zambia to the 1920s [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Based on a close examination of European travelogues and the evidence produced in the wake of the formulation of colonial gun policies, this article contends that the significance of firearms in Central Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth ...
Gann   +5 more
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Analysis of Ardabil’s Business and Communication Routes in Survival and Prosperity Based on Historical Texts and Archaeological Data [PDF]

open access: yesAnastasis: Research in Medieval Culture and Art, 2020
In the early Islamic centuries, Ardabil is considered to be the oldest and the first city in the Azerbaijani province due to its regional biodiversity in geographical texts. The present study investigates the communication routes to the peripheral points
Mehdi Hosseini Nia   +3 more
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The Image of Bratislava in Czech Travelogues of the Interwar Period [PDF]

open access: yesSlovenska Literatura, 2021
The paper focuses on the literary representations of Bratislava in Czech travelogues and formulates various narratives of those depictions of the city that are related to the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918.
Jana Pátková
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«Deh, non opinate, o Signora, così spregevolmente di noi»: l’Italia illustrata dalle italiane

open access: yesAltrelettere, 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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The Construction of Italy in Soviet Travelogues [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
At the focus of the article is Aimée Beekman’s travelogue Plastmassist südamega madonna (A Madonna With a Plastic Heart, 1963). Using imagology (or image studies) as the theoretical basis, the article analyses the Soviet Estonian author’s image of Italy ...
Kõvamees, Anneli
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