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The Travelogues of Abdullah Munshi: A Retrospective Study

International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
The colonisation of Tanah Melayu (Malaya) by Western powers in the 19 th century influenced the Malay literature of the time. Those literary works have given different interpretation covering various aspects such as culture, religion and society in ...
Nurul Zafirah Zakaria, Firuz-akhtar Lubis   +1 more
semanticscholar   +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
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Correctable or not? The case of plant epithets derived from the Elbrus/Elburs Mountains in Iran, with further notes on taxonomic grey literature

TAXON, EarlyView.
Abstract Plant name epithets (as well as names of other organisms governed by the ICN), which are derived from geographic names, are not correctable when their original spelling was intentional and based on contemporary linguistic realities, even if it is currently considered outdated.
Alexander N. Sennikov, Irina V. Belyaeva
wiley   +1 more source

The Savage Worlds of Henry Drummond (1851–1897): Science, Racism and Religion in the Work of a Popular Evolutionist

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
wiley   +1 more source

Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
wiley   +1 more source

Discomforting Narratives: Teaching Eighteenth-Century Women’s Travelogues

ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830, 2014
In this essay, I describe an undergraduate course I designed and taught on eighteenth-century women’s travelogues and advocate for more courses that explicitly focus on noncanonical genres and authors.
Elizabeth Zold
doaj   +1 more source

European Cities in the Foreign Studies of Mykola Rigelman

Київські історичні студії, 2023
The article considers the range of subjects related to Mykola Rigelman’s travels to European countries in the 40-60s of the 19th century. The travelogues of this public figure and historian became the basis of our scientific research.
Oleh Ivaniuk, Yevheniia Bilodid
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
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Visual Satire Under German Censorship: The Card Game Pharo in Johann Heinrich Ramberg's Illustrations and in Contemporary Descriptions

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines image–text relations in German illustrations of gambling around 1800, specifically focusing on the card game Pharo and the artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It shows Ramberg's technique of reuse and variation as well as the degree of satire in the designs and their accompanying descriptive or fictional texts.
Waltraud Maierhofer
wiley   +1 more source

Urban Space Securitization: Foreign Visits to Soviet Omsk in the 1920s–1960s

Historia provinciae: журнал региональной истории
The First World War had an enormous impact on the perception by the sovereign national states of their own territorial space. For a number of countries, the end of the war was accompanied by a change in their policy towards national borders, including ...
Dmitrii M. Nechiporuk
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