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Australasian Histories of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean World History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Rohan Howitt
Australia and New Zealand have deep historical connections—geological, environmental, cultural, political, and economic—with Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Yet while Australasia and the Southern Ocean are historically entangled, their historiographies are largely estranged. This article provides a survey of Australian and New Zealand histories of Antarctica, the subantarctic, and the Southern Ocean
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Issue Information History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-27
No abstract is available for this article.
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Migration and Technological Dialogue in Early Modern East Asia: A Historiographical Review History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Floris van Swet
By reviewing historiographical trends within existing scholarship on migration and movement, and knowledge and technological dialogue in early modern East Asia, this article demonstrates how these bodies of work have become increasingly interdisciplinary and inclusive, thereby challenging prior characterisations of the region. Recent trends within the field combined with considerations of embodiment
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Issue Information History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-27
No abstract is available for this article.
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Pacifism and peace activism in modern Britain: A history of the ‘peace studies problem’ History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Fiona Reid
It is over 40 years since Ceadel defined interwar British pacifism as a ‘faith’. During that time, pacifism has had little political significance and the influential peace movement of the interwar years is now scarcely within living memory. Yet, what Margaret Thatcher once described as ‘the peace studies problem’ is a diverse and interdisciplinary field, and one in which scholarship, peace activism
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“Entanglement” as a concept in recent research on Christian missions in the South Pacific and Africa History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Kate Tilson
This article provides a short overview of ‘entanglement’ in recent histories of mission, examining what distinguishes it from earlier conceptualisations of cross‐cultural encounters. This article locates the emergence of the term in the social sciences and global histories of empire, and explores its current influence in studies of Christian evangelism in imperial and colonial contexts. This article
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Issue Information History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-26
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In search of an empirical foundation: Firearms trade and Pacific history History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Sebastian Hepburn‐Roper
While the importance of economic relationships and structures to the functioning of the Empire has received considerable attention for other regions, the Pacific has only begun to be more fully integrated into these discourses. This article explores how histories of maritime trade might take advantage of recent innovations in digitised sources to rectify this exclusion. The firearms trade is the key
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What is disability history the history of? History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Coreen Anne McGuire
This article has two connected aims. First, to contour the boundaries of modern disability history through outlining its development and second, to provide a new methodological agenda for disability history. The design model of disability has outlined an important new programme to integrate the social and medical models of disability by foregrounding materials. Yet 'disability things' (to use Ott's
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Issue Information History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-27
No abstract is available for this article.
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Bandits, heroes and villains: A view from a settler colony History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Meg Foster
‘Bushrangers’ were late 18th to early 20th‐century bandits who lived in the Australian bush through the proceeds of crime, but today, they are national legends. A particular constellation of factors led to the white male bushranger's status as a national hero in Australia. By charting the development of bushranging historiography alongside bushranging in practice and the bushranging myth, this article
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Issue Information History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-30
No abstract is available for this article.
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Issue Information History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-05
No abstract is available for this article.
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1923 and the legacies of genocide History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Ümit Kurt
This article discusses the founding of the Republic and the legacy of the Armenian genocide of 1915 in the subsequent decades by scrutinizing two pivotal facets. The first one revolves around the accumulation of capital by the Turkish state through the sequestration of Armenian properties, and the second one is the appointment of mid‐level Ottoman bureaucrats of the Committee of Union and Progress
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A tale of missed opportunities: The Cold War in Brazil History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Rafael R. Ioris
Brazil was not at the forefront of initial Cold War events and US‐Brazil relations have been more often defined by alignment than conflict. Still, Brazil was not immune to the Cold War logic and when these turbulent dynamics became more prevalent in Latin America, Brazil was at the center of US concerns and influence. But though much was promised and attempted, recurrent opportunities for constructive
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History of the Hanse: Construction and deconstruction History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Louis Sicking
This article explores 150 years of historiography of the Hanse, the premodern trade network of mainly Low German merchants and their towns. It focusses on the construction of its infrastructure (the Hanseatic History Association, its source publications and its journal) and on the deconstruction of viewing the history of the Hanse in terms of its rise, greatness and fall. Instead, it looks at three
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Issue Information History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-28
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Recent work on indenture in the British World History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Sascha Auerbach
This article provides an overview of the historiography of indentured labor in the 18th and 19th centuries, along with a brief narrative of the origin and definition of indenture. It traces the evolution of the history of indenture in the “British World” (defined here as the areas under both formal and informal British imperial control) from a neglected field to a major focus of historical study. The
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Issue Information History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-29
No abstract is available for this article.
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Issue Information History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-28
No abstract is available for this article.
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The historiography of social reproduction and reproductive labor History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Jacqueline Allain
This article tracks the categories of social reproduction and reproductive labor as they appear in historical scholarship. Both within and beyond the historical discipline, scholars of diverse political, theoretical, and disciplinary persuasions deploy these concepts to denote a wide range of labors and processes in a manner that seems at times to have little coherence. The intentions of this article
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Issue Information History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-01
No abstract is available for this article.
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Tools of imperialism or sources of international law? Treaties and diplomatic relations in early modern and colonial Southeast Asia History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Stefan Eklöf Amirell
The history of treaty-making, diplomacy, and international law has traditionally been written from Eurocentric perspectives, but since the middle of the 20th century, Southeast Asia has attracted relatively much attention because of the region's importance for the 17th-century Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius. More recently, however, the interest in Southeast Asia's role in the history of international law
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Britain's fiscal-military state in the eighteenth century: Recent trends in historiography History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Robin Ganev
John Brewer's argument that eighteenth-century Britain developed a centralized and effective fiscal-military state that allowed it to become a great power has been instrumental in making early modern state-building an important field of inquiry for historians. New directions in the field explore conflicting eighteenth-century ideologies, the notion of a ‘naval-military’ state, the non-military dimensions
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Issue Information History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-02
No abstract is available for this article.
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The university in modern South Asia: Historiographical framings between the local and the global History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Meher Ali
This essay traces different historiographical framings of the modern university in South Asia. Although the trajectories of this institution are manifold and complex, the university's deep imbrications with colonial expansion and developmentalist ambitions lend it to both national and global perspectives. Focusing on the late colonial to early postcolonial period, I examine how recent scholarship has
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Moving subjects: Directions and methodological challenges in the historical study of migrant children and youth History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Ella Fratantuono, Alyssa Martin
Over the last decade and a half, scholars have demonstrated increased interest in studying the history of young people, as signalled by an expanding presence of relevant societies and journals. Though children and young people comprise a significant number of the world's current migrant population, young migrants in the past are not often the central focus of historical research. This article aims
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From colonialism to global health: Frameworks for the history of medicine in Portugal's empire History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Hugh Cagle
Portugal's empire brought together peoples and pathogens, along with wide-ranging forms of medical expertise and curative practice, into multiethnic and polyglot colonial settlements around the globe. Many aspects of Portuguese imperial policy and much of the work of colonial institutions were fundamentally linked to the challenges of disease, population loss, and the preservation of health. Only in
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History of celebrity branching out History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-07 Adrian Wesołowski
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the expanding field of celebrity history. While there was once a debate surrounding the application of the concept of celebrity to the past, historians have recently recognised the importance of exploring transient fame and social distinction, solidifying this line of inquiry. However, our understanding of historical celebrity has since evolved, involving
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Issue Information History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-02
No abstract is available for this article.
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Medicine in the field: Growing connections between environmental and medical history History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Vanessa Heggie
This article argues that Environmental History and History of Medicine are disciplines that are natural allies and productive partners; successfully working across the sub-disciplines will be essential to understanding current and future crises, including climate change and pandemics. While it is relatively easy to find acknowledged intersections between histories of science and/or technology and of
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Archaeology in Botswana's history History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Phenyo Churchill Thebe, Boga Thura Manatsha
In this paper, we argue that archaeology plays a significant role in promoting history, and the two disciplines complement each other. The study uses archaeological monuments and sites to assess how these can be used to effectively enhance the transmission of history to the public. This paper demonstrates the tremendous value of historical archaeology beyond colonial records as a source of data for
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Issue Information History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-01
No abstract is available for this article.
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Slave voices and experiences in the later medieval Europe History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Hannah Skoda
Late medieval slavery was profoundly entangled in urban life in particular. Cities all around the Mediterranean coast were implicated in the trade—although this article focuses on the Christian Mediterranean which was bound together by a general reliance on Roman law (alongside local customary laws and the canon law of the Church). Recently, scholarship on late medieval slavery has proliferated, offering
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Teaching women's work and thought in undergraduate history of science courses History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Elizabeth Yale
As a rich field of scholarship now demonstrates, from at least the early modern period, women have consistently contributed to natural philosophy, science, and medicine in Europe and the Anglo-American world. Their participation in these fields, like men's, has been shaped by gendered social and cultural expectations. It has risen and fallen on cyclical waves of effort to exclude them or minimize their
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Issue Information History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-01
No abstract is available for this article.
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Horse racing: Unnatural selection in the renaissance History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Mackenzie Cooley
This article uses the renaissance culture of horse racing as a window into the practices and language of breeding, artifice, and race. The popular palio racing circuit brought local and foreign horses into Italian city centers to test their speed. Racing culture, and other formal and informal competitions related to animals incentivized the development of specialized horse breeds called razze in Italian;
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From objects of study to worldmaking beings: The history of botany at the corner of the plant turn History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez
The “plant turn” of recent years has surfaced as an interdisciplinary position that sees plants as more than inert, passive objects subject to the whims of humans and of more charismatic animal life. Recent research in STEM, the social sciences, and the humanities, alongside scholarly publishing pursuits, have opened a field in which a small yet expanding community of scholars are proposing the worldmaking
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Issue Information History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-01
No abstract is available for this article.
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Issue Information History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-08
No abstract is available for this article.
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The contentious Ghanaian: An historical appraisal of social movements in Ghana History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Nana Yaw Boampong Sapong
Ideas of freedom, liberty, and social justice are germane to most societies, including African societies. The quest for these values also often involves contentions, dialog, and compromise. Sadly, the often-told stories of political and social change in Africa are brush-stroked with bloodshed, tears, and anguish. This Africa of pessimism, unfulfilled dreams, state-sponsored violence, and civil wars
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Issue Information History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-26
No abstract is available for this article.
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Revisiting space and emotion: New ways to study buildings and feelings History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Maja Hultman, Sophie Cooper
In her 2014 History Compass article, Margrit Pernau issued a call for scholars to consider entanglements between history of emotion methodologies and space. She argued that ‘bodies are necessarily situated in space, and they bear the imprint of the spaces they are moving through and have moved through.’ Nine years after the publication of Pernau's article, this study engages with developments in the
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Notes on historiography of photographs from India History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Ranu Roychoudhuri
Despite its long and layered histories, critical analyses of photography in India began rather late and remain comparatively limited in number. However, the burgeoining scholarship in the field illuminates photography's role in conditioning modern South Asian experiences, while also highlighting the global character of the medium that complicate the unmarked history of photography. Three intertwined
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Issue Information History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-11
No abstract is available for this article.
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The science of talismans today History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Benjamin Anderson
The science of talismans was cultivated in Arabic, Greek, and Latin in the first millennium AD and entered European vernaculars in the seventeenth century. Its primary concern is the ability of images to produce effects in the world, even at a distance. In the eighteenth century, European intellectual discourse rejected the talisman on physical, moral, and aesthetic grounds. Today, it has returned
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Migration and innovation in early modern Islamic societies. The case for firearms History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Rémi Dewière
The objective of this article is to review the historiography of the relationship between migration and firearms technologies in the early modern Islamic World. By examining historiographical debates on the role of firearms in early modern Islamic societies, we will look at the place of migrants in the historical literature of firearms. During the colonial period, debates shifted from the alleged conservatism
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Charity and philanthropy in Middle East history History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Amy Fallas
Until the late 20th century, few studies focused on the history of charity and philanthropy in the Middle East from the medieval to modern periods. The work that explored this subject largely concentrated on the ideals of charitable practices, such as the faith-based tenets of social welfare as an Islamic communal practice and the religiously mandated form of almsgiving (zakat). But during the late
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Issue Information History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-29
No abstract is available for this article.
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Conceptualising the ‘Administration of the Dead’: Cadavers, war and public health in the early 20th century History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-15 Romain Fathi
This article examines the relative absence of historical literature pertaining to the battlefield disposal of military corpses during and shortly after the First World War. It posits that while First World War Studies constitute an enormously rich field of research, scholars are yet to consider corpses and their disposal as a central topic of investigation, as is the case with other disciplines and
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Debating Latin America's Cold War: A vision from the south History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Rafael R. Ioris, Vanni Pettina
The historiography on Latin America's Cold War has grown significantly in the last few years. But though the field has expanded in ways that include new perspectives, much could be gained by engaging more closely with voices from the South or works produced by scholars based in Latin America. Similarly, more nuanced analytical framings that pay closer attention to post-World War II development, particularly
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Issue Information History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-01
No abstract is available for this article.
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Early modern parliamentary studies: Overview and new perspectives History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Paulina Kewes, Steven Gunn, Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves, Paul Seaward, Tracey Sowerby, Jim van der Meulen
In this essay, we call for a new approach to representative assemblies of early modern Europe and beyond. While there are vast national historiographies on their legal constitutional structure, little effort has been made to reconstruct the cultural and transnational dimension of such bodies, a phenomenon we describe as ‘parliamentary culture’. We argue that there is much to be gained from an investigation
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Issue Information History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-02
No abstract is available for this article.
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The administration of justice in Wales during the long eighteenth century History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 John Walliss
While the last four-and-a-half decades has seen a growing body of historical scholarship on the administration of justice in England during the long eighteenth century, the administration of justice in Wales is a relatively neglected topic. This article reviews the relatively small historiography on the administration of justice in Georgian Wales, highlighting the ways in which patterns of indictments
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Issue Information History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-04
No abstract is available for this article.
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Teaching & learning guide for: The crisis of the postcolonial nation-state and the emergence of alternative forms of statehood in the Horn of Africa History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Namhla Thando Matshanda
1 AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION The African postcolonial state is in crisis, and it has been for a while. The sources and forms of this crisis are multiple in nature. My focus on this article is on the political aspects of this crisis. The idea of the African postcolonial state became a reality when the majority of former colonies in Africa gained independence from European colonial rule. What these former
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Gender and madness in nineteenth-century Britain History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-29 Amy Milne-Smith
For decades, the history of gender and madness was a story about women. Individuals deemed lunatics were universally treated as passive victims of medio-legal forces beyond their control. New generations of scholars have looked beyond power binaries to interrogate the complex network of gender, class, family, and culture to place ‘the mad’ as historical actors in a complex and often contradictory story
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National indifference and dynastic loyalty in comparative perspective: The demise of the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires revisited History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Mario Maritan
The demise of the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of the First World War marked the end of centuries of multi-ethnic coexistence. To this day, outside the field of history, the perception of both empires is rooted in the idea of the inevitability of their demise, which, as the story goes, was due to the strength of nationalist movements and the intensity of inter-ethnic strife
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Toxic remedies: Poisons and medicine in Eurasian history History Compass (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 David Arnold
Histories of medicine are conventionally confined to one geographical region and assume a sharp distinction between medicines and poisons. Recent scholarship, however, has created very different perspectives. Medico-toxic substances were highly mobile commodities that often breached any clear distinction between what kills and what heals. The investigation of poisons could be innovative and integral