41,794 Result(s)
within
2005 - 2024
-
Chapter
The Manager’s Children: Family Space and a Private Life in the Nineteenth-Century Asylum
Purpose-built lunatic asylums were constructed across the British Isles for the reception of the pauper insane from the first decades of the nineteenth century. These large institutions were run by a Manager a...
-
Chapter
Some Implications of Pleistocene Figurative Rock Art in Indonesia and Australia
Until recent years, most western scholars had overlooked the existence of rock art in Indonesia or viewed it as being of limited antiquity and of largely regional-interest only. In 2014, however, an Indonesian...
-
Chapter
Rus’ as a Target of the Crusades: History and Historical Memory
The military conflicts between Rus’ian Prince Alexander Nevsky and the Catholic powers in the thirteenth century are commonly associated with crusading activities in the Baltic region. Yet it is striking that,...
-
Chapter
A Woman Between Two Cities: Louise d’Épinay, Paris and Geneva
In 1771–1772 Louise d’Épinay (1726–1783) wrote two letters from Paris to her friend abbé Ferdinando Galiani (1728–1787) in Naples that can fairly be called uncompromising statements of rationalist feminism. Of...
-
Chapter
Contingent Privacies: Knowledge Production and Gender Expectations from 1500 to 1800
This epilogue presents the main insights from Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe, demonstrating the key ways in which privacy factored into women’s knowledge-making practices...
-
Chapter
The Contemporary Turn
Making use of the analysis of the historical backdrop established in the three preceding chapters, Chap. 6 examines the contemporary organization of knowledge. Here all the hi...
-
Chapter
Overview of Persian Sasanian Silver Coins Unearthed in China
The frequent friendly exchanges between the Chinese and Iranian peoples can date back to the second century second century B. C. (the Mid-Western Han Dynasty). The Sasanian silver coins unearthed in China in r...
-
Book
-
Chapter
Marital Conversations: Using Privacy to Negotiate Marital Conflicts in Adam Eyre’s Diary, 1647–1649
Embracing private conversations as tools for conflict resolution, this chapter dissects a particular case of marital dispute in “Using Privacy to Negotiate Marital Conflicts in Adam Eyre’s Diary, 1614–1661”. T...
-
Chapter
The shorthand notebooks
-
Chapter
Holy War and Crusade in Southern Italy: Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries
The kingdom of Sicily was one of the most active theatres of crusading against Christians. The kingdom of Sicily saw the beginnings of holy wars against the political enemies of the papacy and the first uses o...
-
Chapter
Sport from Above
In this chapter, we will follow how sport developed in Sweden from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century. We begin here by considering the sporting life of the Swedish regents and ar...
-
Chapter
A Foreign Country
The last chapter of the book returns to the discussion raised in its first chapter, where traditionalist Scandinavian historiography was pitted against the general political and national developments in Europe...
-
Chapter
Anti-Fascist Medicine and the International Peace Campaign Against Urban Raids in Spain and China, 1936–1939
Between 1936 and 1939, an internationalist movement that perceived China and Spain as first stages of a global war against fascism raised funds for sending medical aid to both countries. The International Peac...
-
Chapter
The Politics of Street Naming
The chapter examines the role of streets as politically contested spaces that act as representations of a group’s self-image—its identity—and serve as a means of politicizing space. Street-naming, a complex pr...
-
Chapter
The Construction of Early Social Citizenship: The Lived Institution of Poor Relief in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Finland
The poor relief reform of 1852 in Finland coincided with the first rise of the Finnish national public sphere. Thus, the analysis of readers’ letters published in the nationwide Finnish-language press provides...
-
Chapter
Transformations of Employment Structure
Over the past 70 years since the founding of the PRC, China’s employment structure has undergone tremendous transformations. The labor force moved from the primary industry to the secondary and tertiary indust...
-
Chapter
Wreck Sites as Systems Disrupted by Trawling
This chapter examines the effects of bottom trawling on shipwreck sites, conceptualising them as process-response systems that achieve a quasi-equilibrium state over time. Disruptions to this state by bottom-c...
-
Chapter
Ottomanism Between Ideology and Realpolitik
The chapter delves into the intellectual landscape surrounding national identity in the early twentieth-century Ottoman Empire. Specifically, it examines the debates regarding Yusuf Akçura’s renowned article, ...
-
Chapter
A New Cycloid Narrative Centered on Torricelli and Roberval to Understand the Diverse Ways of the Mathematical Revolution
In this paper, I intend to document the on the cycloid in order to analyse the diverse mathematical ways of the scientific revolution, and the judgments mathematicians gave about their reasons to improve som...
