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- 1From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6182)Yet another book about the Second World War? Freelance historians and publishers will tell you that they keep piling them high in the shops because we keep buying them. Many readers take comfort in the feel-good...
- 2From:Contemporary Arab Affairs (Vol. 14, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis paper analyzes the complex processes that have been shaping the increased involvement of Bahraini women in politics, especially their share in elected political offices as MPs. Looking back at the unprecedented rise...
- 3From:British Journal of Canadian Studies (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedQuebec 1961-3 The city of Montreal I arrived in with my young family on the evening of 8 September 1961 was a grey granite Scottish town of banks, insurance firms and rather grand department stores. Eaton's, Morgan's...
- 4From:Fides et Historia (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI'm not sure I've ever imagined myself educating for activism. Or maybe I just haven't been honest with myself that that's what I've been up to all along. Yet when I think about what history can do, at its best, there...
- 5From:Novos Estudos Jurídicos (Vol. 24, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDespite the vast historiography that exists on the brazilian Estado Novo [New State], the same can not be said about the Brazilian Constitution of 1937, about which there have been very few studies. The eloquent silence...
- 6From:Africa (Vol. 89, Issue S1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract In Zimbabwe after 2000, ZANU(PF) leaders' past experiences of student activism in Rhodesia were celebrated by the state-owned media as personifications of anticolonial, nationalist leadership in the struggle...
- 7From:American Literary Realism (Vol. 51, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedJoan of Arc was an unexpected source of fascination for Mark Twain, who otherwise rejected the Middle Ages as an age of obscurantism, barbarity and submission to the Crown and the Catholic Church--the exact reversal of...
- 8From:Contributions to the History of Concepts (Vol. 13, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPolitical theorists, especially in the subfield of ideology studies, continue to draw insights from Begriffsgeschichte (conceptual history) to help them better analyze the morphology of political concepts over time....
- 9From:Antiquity (Vol. 92, Issue 365) Peer-ReviewedThe origins of ancient states is an important archaeological research topic that illuminates the precursors of modern nations. Public buildings, as is the case today, created urban settings in which political,...
- 10From:British Journal of Canadian Studies (Vol. 31, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article proposes to read the landscape in Jane Urquhart's Away both as a stratigraphy of memories and as a cultural medium that not only symbolises power relations but also works as an agent of power. Through...
- 11From:History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEmpirically, little is known about the individual reception of films about the Holocaust, but this has rarely prevented intense speculation about the impact of films on Holocaust knowledge, memory and consciousness....
- 12From:Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law (Vol. 50, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedAlthough women's rights in many countries reflect Sharia Law, the interpretation of Sharia Law is not uniform across these countries. a result, not all countries that follow Sharia Law protect women's rights to the same...
- 13From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 64, Issue 11)The coming age is shadowed on the past, As on a glass. --Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1821 EVERY HISTORIAN worries over presentism--the tendency for contemporary sentiment to distort the study of the past. Some call it...
- 14From:Pulse International (Vol. 18, Issue 20) Peer-ReviewedByline: Shaukat Ali Jawaid "Kiani Kahani" is an autobiography by Maj.Gen. Masud Ur Rehman Kiani HI (M), SI, T Bt, one of the pioneer cardiac surgeons of Pakistan. The book contains 44 chapters with numerous small...
- 15From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 40, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedA play about the end. of the roaring 1920s and the return of a renegade artist, Djuna Barnes's The Antiphon (1958) is both a family drama and a reflection on the state of 1930s and 1950s American politics. Written in...
- 16From:East Asian Journal of Popular Culture (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT This article explores the highly contested topic of nostalgia for the Japanese colonial period in contemporary Taiwanese popular culture and the ways in which colonial nostalgia participates in contemporary...
- 17From:The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Vol. 137, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe reign of the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtafi (r. 1136-1160) was one of great historical significance. Despite his having been chosen and elevated to the caliphate by the Seljuq sultans during the nadir of Abbasid power,...
- 18From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 63, Issue 9)During this year of living with Donald Trump, I have mostly resembled the frantic fellow in Edvard Munch's "The Scream." Hands clasped to my face and over my ears, mouth agape, bug-eyed, and barreling away from...
- 19From:World Policy Journal (Vol. 24, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Japanese did not seek, they abjured our company. It was only the terror [italics added] of our fleets which thrust our society upon them against their will. --A lonesome British warning about Western intrusion...
- 20From:Alberta History (Vol. 53, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn this special issue of Alberta History, four Alberta premiers are featured one from each political party--and documents are presented in which they have expressed their views on some phases of their careers. Alexander...