Results 31 to 40 of about 15,714 (176)
Kızılelma Viyana, bir ümidin sönüsü
Cahiers Balkaniques, 2013 Before the publication of Richard Kreutel’s important work on the Vienna account in Volume 7 of the Seyahatnâme it was thought that Evliyâ Çelebi was unaware of the second siege of Vienna (1683).
Semih Tezcan
doaj +1 more source
'Here We Go, Here We Go'. Football Fans’ World Cup Travelogues [PDF]
, 2009 This paper focuses on ten travelogues written by football fans during four FIFA World Cup tournaments (1994–2006), and explores how attendance at the World Cup Finals is represented in popular literary form.
Dart, JJ
core +1 more source
La langue européenne nommée Tâlyân chez Evliyâ Çelebi et ailleurs
Cahiers Balkaniques, 2013 What does mean the word Tâlyân in Evliyâ? Geographical and historical inaccuracies leave us with a few hesitations, italian, latin, slovenian? And does the word Lâtîn indicate greek, any slavic language, the church slavonic or/and latin?
Claudia Römer
doaj +1 more source
“Their Beastly Manner” : discourses of non-binary gender and sexuality in Shi’ite Safavid Persia [PDF]
, 2018 The Safavid dynasty ruled Persia between sixteenth and eighteenth centuries and is known as a turning period in the political, social and religious trajectories of Persian history.
Rahbari, Ladan
core +2 more sources
ViaticaIn French travelogues taking place in France, ecopoetics regularly appears as a significant, but not necessarily preeminent part of the travel writing.
Jean-Baptiste Bernard
doaj +1 more source
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley +1 more source
Beauty and lack thereof in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century travelogues [PDF]
, 2013 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Malta attracted several travellers, eager to discover this small State in the Mediterranean. In spite of the harsh travelling conditions, the traveller did not lose heart and bravely undertook the discovery
Micallef, Patricia
core
Transnational encounters in Algeria : para-colonial writing in the travelogues of German soldiers in colonial Algiers, 1830–1890 [PDF]
, 2017 This essay analyses travel writing by German-speaking soldiers serving in the French military in nineteenth-century colonial Algiers. It suggests that their position – that of Europeans associated with and employed by the French colonial powers without ...
Hodkinson, James R.
core +1 more source
Emerging applications of large language models in ecology and conservation science
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Large language models (LLMs) mark a major development in artificial intelligence, with potentially transformative implications for ecology and conservation science. Built on advanced deep‐learning architectures, these models can support a wide range of tasks. We reviewed emerging applications of LLMs, drawing on the wider scientific literature
Christos Mammides +5 more
wiley +1 more source
Field Theory and Colonialism: Indirect Colonial Situation as a Social Field in Egypt (1882–1922)
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Egypt under British rule (1882–1922) constituted a field of power in which the local state of Egypt and the British administration competed to dominate three key subfields to ensure control over a contested territory: the modern courts system, policing, and agricultural production.
Mehdi Hoseini
wiley +1 more source