Search results for "World history"

Mallard, Grégoire. 2019. Gift Exchange

2021

Mallard, Grégoire. 2019. Gift Exchange: The Transnational History of a Political Idea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1108453486. 280 p.

Soundless Screams: Graffiti and Drawings in the Prisons of the Holy Office in Palermo

2017

The discovery of graffiti in the early years of the twentieth century by the folklorist Giuseppe Pitré left by prisoners of the tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition in Palermo has been followed by more extensive investigations in recent years. These images and words have added a concrete and particular dimension to Sicily’s position at the crossroads of the Mediterranean. As well as images of saints and naval battles are to be found inscriptions not only in Italian, Sicilian and Latin but also in English and Hebrew. This article cross references this visual and textual evidence with the relevant archives of the tribunal in order to provide a powerful microhistory of suffering and resilience …

Juan Bautista Muñoz (1745-1799) : un ilustrado valenciano, autor de la Historia del Nuevo Mundo y fundador del Archivo General de Indias

2000

Towards World Philosophy and a World History of Philosophy—Karl Jaspers: His Work, Calling, and Legacy

2011

Professor Wisser’s address to students during the Summer Semester of 1995 at the University of Mainz (Germany) regarding the contributions of Karl Jaspers on world philosophy, a history of world philosophy, and the value of his thought for philosophizing in general. Discussion of the semantics of seeing, hearing, and learning and what Jaspers has to offer as regards the continuous project of Bildung as contrast to other major figures in the history of Western philosophy and theology.

Discussing Wartime Collaboration in a Transnational Digital Space: The Framing of the UPA and the Latvian Legion in Wikipedia

2017

Mārtiņs Kaprāns and Mykola Makhortykh examine how memory wars and memory truces occur in a transnational space of digital media. Examining how the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the Latvian Legion are represented on Wikipedia, the chapter discusses interactions between digital technology and the contentious memory of collaboration. To this end, it investigates the different framing strategies used to represent wartime memories in Wikipedia, the ways these strategies are developed by local editors’ communities, and the reception of Wikipedia’s representations of the past by national and transnational audiences. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the different forms of consensus used in…

Missionaries, Agents of Empire and Medical Educators: Scottish Doctors in Late Nineteenth-Century Southern and East-Central Africa

2014

A Finnish socialist female parliamentarian stopped on the Dutch border

2020

A Finnish socialist female parliamentarian stopped on the Dutch border: the (de) politicization of Finnish women’s suffrage in Dutch battles on votes for women This research article in transnational history analyses an incident during which Hilja Pärssinen, a Finnish socialist woman MP, was stopped on the Dutch border in September 1913 on her way to visit a suffragette college in London. This two-hour event at the border and public controversy that followed were clashes between competing ideological and gendered discourses on women’s political agency. The incident was a nexus of intersecting discourses on a range of issues: Dutch and international debates on women’s suffrage, discourse on ‘…