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International Journal of Philosophy and Social Values, 2020 One’s consciousness is expected to be more open to new ways and learnings during travel. As each traveler is unique, each one can grow in wisdom. This article will argue on the value of doing philosophy in travelling as it gives meaning, identity, and ...
Juan Rafael G. Macaranas
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Currents of Progress, Toy Store for Tourists: Nineteenth-Century Mexican Liberals View the Niagara Falls [PDF]
, 2019 The essay addresses the depiction of the Niagara Falls as an ambivalent symbol of progress in nineteenth-century Mexican travel accounts of the United States. At that time, various Mexican intellectuals spent some time in the USA.
Haas, Astrid
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The Historical Turn: How Chinese Buddhist Travelogues Changed Western Perception of Buddhism
Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies, 2019 Information about Buddhism was scarce and vague at best in the West until the beginning of the nineteenth century. The first Orientalists studying Indian sources had to rely on Hindu texts written in Sanskrit (e.g.
Max Deeg
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Phonographic Recordings in Finno‐Ugric Languages in Finnish Archives
Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This review discusses audio recordings made by Finnish scholars among the Russian Arctic people in the early twentieth century and stored in various archives in Finland. The background of the recordings, together with their broader meaning and the possibilities for research they offer, is brought out.
Karina Lukin
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, 2005 Research into historic gardens has often emphasized the garden – the work of art – or else its creator or owner and his interests. Insofar as he has been mentioned, the gardener has often been viewed as an instrumental person giving effect to other ...
Ahrland, Åsa
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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.
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Beyond National Currency: The Plurality of Early Modern Money
History Compass, Volume 24, Issue 1, February 2026.ABSTRACT Diversity in money leaps at historians of early modern societies, whether they analyse account books, legal documents, travelogues and diaries, or try to make sense of a sum casually mentioned in a source from the period. The plurality of money objects contrasts with the homogeneous, singular currencies imposed by nation‐states in the 19th and
Sebastian Felten
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Svět mezi řádky : prolegomena k výzkumu Čapkovy cestopisné tvorby
Bohemica Litteraria, 2013 The study analyzes several aspects of Čapek's travelogues: presentation of the space that is constructed as a system of archetypal universals (e.g. the mountain, the house, the sea, the city) and time that complements the first category.
Agnieszka Janiec-Nyitrai
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 6-24, February 2026.Abstract The so‐called Liber Iesus, a Latin prayer book commissioned for the young Massimiliano Sforza by his father Ludovico il Moro in the 1490s, features a splendid miniature depicting a meeting between the child count and Emperor Maximilian I. It is accompanied by a brief dialogue in German with an interlinear version in Italian on the topic of the
Michael Berger
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Evliyâ Çelebi’nin Freng-pesend Resim Tutkusu
Cahiers Balkaniques, 2013 Evliyâ Çelebi evidently became acquainted with European painting at an early age. Somewhat later, as he writes, he studied calligraphy with Güğümbaşı Mehemmed Efendi and nakş — i.e., painting — with Nakkaş Hükmizâde Alî Beg. He also informs us in several
Nuran Tezcan
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