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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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Of Alpinists and Domestic and Wild Animals in the Alps (1857-1899): a Corpus Analysis
Caliban: French Journal of English Studies, 2020 British and Irish alpinists were among the first to explore the highest altitudes in the Alpine massif and to write about it, especially in the second half of the nineteenth century. They reported on their travels and many travel narratives they produced
Samia Ounoughi
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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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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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The Alcobaça Abbey hydraulic landscape [PDF]
, 2015 Introduction: This paper concerns the main domain (“coutos”) of Alcobaça Abbey (central Portugal), founded in 1153. It shows the involvement of the Cistercian monks in shaping hydraulic landscapes along time. This monastic territory is limited westwards
Jorge, Virgolino Ferreira +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 1, January 2026.Polynesian pigs were brought to the Hawaiian Islands with Polynesian settlement in the mid‐1200s and represent part of the cultural legacy of Hawai‘i. Yet, the introduction of European pigs since 1778 and onward has put into question the ancestral composition of contemporary animals, and conservation efforts have been challenged by tension between the ...
Anna M. Mangan +8 more
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Artful Citizenship Project- Year 3 [PDF]
, 2006 Artful Citizenship is an arts-integrated social studies curriculum project designed to provide third- through fifth- grade students and teachers with the tools necessary to: * develop visual literacy skills; * implement social science content across ...
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Life and traditions of Caucasian Circassians: historical-comparative probe of travelogues of European travellers from the beginning of the 16th century to the half of the 19th century (Život a zvyky kaukazských Čerkesov: historicko-komparatívna sondáž cestopisov európskych cestovateľov od začiatku 16. do polovice 19. storočia) [PDF]
Muzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo, 2017 The aim of this study is to clarify evolution of life and traditions of Circassian society in a historically comparative perspective. It is based on published travelogues and diaries of European travellers who visited various parts of Caucasian Circassia
Michal Šmigeľ +2 more
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Jean‐Baptiste Say and the Political Economy of Republican Utopia in Revolutionary France
History, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 54-65, January 2026.Abstract This article offers a fresh analysis of Olbie (1798), a frequently overlooked essay by the French author and economist Jean‐Baptiste Say (1767–1832). It positions Olbie as a central text for comprehending Say's political thought and situates it within the wider historical context, in particular French republicanism during the 1790s.
MINCHUL KIM
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