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Reading the diplomatic reports of Petras Klimas from Paris
Published 1996-12-01“… Petras Klimas (1891-1969) was one of the creators of independent Lithuania, as well as a historian and diplomat. In 1925-1940, he was the ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania in Paris. …”
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A brief essay on the administrative system of astrakhan kalmyks by Ivan Cherkasov: problem of authorship, reflection of the main stages of kalmyk history and features of public adm...
Published 2024-11-01“…In this regard, the author, as it seems, is the Astrakhan historian of the 19th century — I. G. Cherkasov.The description of the main stages of Kalmyk history in the essay reflects the line of the official protective direction, when the actions of the Russian administration were supported, and the blame for the negative moments in Russian-Kalmyk relations was laid on the Kalmyks. …”
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Alàgbà Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí as a Yorùbá Novelist
Published 2021-12-01“…He is not only a storyteller, he is a literary historian. Every creative writer in Yorùbá society is admired and judged as competent or otherwise not only by writing in the medium of the language but by having captivating story line and on the basis of his/her use of ‘quality’ Yorùbá language (i.e. language full of proverbs and other rhetoric devices). …”
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Tuzūkāt-i Tīmūrī as a Source on Chagatai Military Tactics, Late Fourteenth to Early Fifteenth Centuries
Published 2024-09-01“…The study discovers The Code is a composite work compiled from a text allegedly found in Arabia by Abu TalibTurbati in the early seventeenth century, subsequent comments of a translator and a copyist, some fragments of Timurid writings dated from the early fifteenth century, and corrections introduced by the Mughal historian Muhammad Ashraf Bukhari. The final version of Tuzūkāt-i Tīmūrī was completed between the mid-1620s and 1650s at the earliest. …”
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Hands on media history : a new methodology in the humanities and social sciences /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…/ Nick Hall -- A blind date with the past : transforming television documentary practice into a research method / Amanda Murphy -- (De)habituation histories : how to re-sensitize media historians / Andreas Fickers and Annie van den Oever -- (Un)certain ghosts: rephotography and historical images / Mary Agnes Krell -- Photography against the Anthropocene : the anthotype as a call for action / Kristof Vrancken -- On the performance of playback for dead media devices / Matthew Hockenberry and Jason LaRiviere -- The archaeology of the Walkman : audience perspectives and the roots of mobile media intimacy / Marus̆a Pus̆nik -- Extended play : hands on with forty years of English amusement arcades / Alex Wade -- Enriching 'hands on history' through community dissemination : a case study of the Pebble Mill Project / Vanessa Jackson -- The media archaeology lab as platform for undoing and reimagining media history / Lori Emerson -- Reflections and reminiscences : tactile encounters and participatory research with vintage media technology in the museum / Christian Hviid Mortensen and Lise Kapper -- A vision in Bakelite : exploring the aesthetic, material and operational potential of the Bush TV22 / Elinor Groom -- Hands on circuits : preserving the semantic surplus of circuit-level functionality with programmable logic devices / Fabian Offert.…”
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The Relationship between Academic History and Audio-Visual History in Lithuania: A Closing of the Gap?
Published 2006-06-01“…The enhanced role of historians in the creation of Lithuanian documentary film and television is connected with changes in self-conception among audio-visual communications specialists (authors and their "supervising" critics) as well as among historians; these changes were visible by 1993. …”
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Constitutional History as an Integral Part of General History: The German Case
Published 2023-09-01“…However, neither the Basic Law nor the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court play a significant role in the books of historians on the Federal Republic. The article argues that the influence of constitutional law on political behavior and social relations is a decisive factor for the situations, developments and events that historians want to describe and explain. …”
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Rechtsgeschichte als Geschichte von Normativitätswissen?
Published 2021-11-01“…The production of normative knowledge by other epistemic communities and communities of practice received far less attention, nor did legal historians integrate praxeological aspects into their research. …”
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Omri van Israel: 'n Poging tot historiese rekonstruksie
Published 1997-12-01“… Historians usually use the Old Testament as their source of information in writing contemporary works on the history of ancient Israel. …”
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The periodisation of Lithuanian history in the context of social history
Published 2006-06-01“…In the 20th-century historiography of Lithuania, such insights are found in the works of famous historians Z. Ivinskis, J. Jurginis, and E. Gudavičius. …”
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‘Viral’ Hunts? A Cultural Darwinian Analysis of Witch Persecutions
Published 2019-07-01“…Historians have convincingly argued that witch-hunts were not inspired by some hidden agenda; persecutors genuinely believed in the threat of witchcraft to their communities. …”
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The role of Nazi organizations in German repatriation from the Baltic states (1939-1941)
Published 2006-12-01“…The repatriation from Lithuania was executed in the winter of 1941; more than 50 thousand Germans and Lithuanians left the country. German historians ascribed the preparation for repatriation to the German community. …”
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Rechtsgeschichte und Ordnungsdenken. Zum rechtshistorischen Werk von Paolo Grossi
Published 2023-09-01“… Paolo Grossi (1933–2022) was one of the most influential legal historians of his generation. His works on the legal history of the Middle Ages and the modern period, not least his critique of the law of the modern age, have been widely received in Europe and Latin America. …”
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Recognising Cartulary Studies Thirty Years after Les cartularies
Published 2024-03-01“…It reflects on how this field has developed since the early 1990s, especially what has characterised the research and the kinds of themes and questions historians have explored. It situates the latest work on cartularies within the broader development of the field, such as long established interests in cartulary function, typologies, codicology and scribes, and the influences of editorial practices, as well as emerging ideas about reading cartularies. …”
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Contours of pacificism: Ramsden Balmforth's advocacy of peace in the Union of South Africa and beyond
Published 2013-06-01“…It is argued that Balmforth was not at any time an absolute pacifist, and that the distinction between “pacifism” and “pacificism” which was advanced by inter alia the British historians A.J.P. Taylor and Martin Ceadel is particularly useful for interpreting Balmforth and placing him on the spectrum of positions with regard to the ethical defensibility of taking up arms. …”
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Coastal Yorubaland: Habitability, Inhabitance, and Inheritances
Published 2021-12-01“… Although the conference from which this Special Issue derives was convened by two prominent historians, this article is multi-disciplinary; both within and outside the boundaries of history. …”
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A Handlist of Illustrated Early Solomonic Manuscripts in German Public Collections
Published 2023-03-01“… Illustrated manuscripts in the Ethiopic language, as material objects that carry textual and visual information, are among the most valuable sources of data for art historians specializing in this area. This article provides a handlist of illustrated early Solomonic manuscripts housed in German libraries and museums. …”
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LEADING THEORIES IN AKWA IBOM COLONIAL HISTORIOGRAPHY
Published 2022-12-01“…European scholars, missionaries, historians and scientists were dislodged to perfect Britain's ambitions in Akwa Ibom area through various ideological and pseudo-scientific postulations. …”
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Burial customs, the afterlife and the pollution of death in ancient Greece
Published 2005-06-01“…The sources consulted include Homer's epic poems, archaeological data and vase paintings, as well as the writings of later historians, philosophers and other prominent people. …”
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The Landbound Chicken and the Deliberate Chameleon yet have their Uses: Yorùbá Art History, Language, and Interpretation.
Published 2021-12-01“…The import of Abiodun’s major contributions regarding Yorùbá art’s history and the validity of his contentions are considered here in light of the varied contributions both foreign and Yorùbá art historians bring to Yorùbá scholarship, in the recognition that working with art of bygone centuries makes all scholars outsiders to a degree. …”
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