How can historians of small spaces and cities focus on local events and issues and at the same time carry on conversations with peers in a disciplinar... [more]
Building on recent works that question a simplistic, White narrative of the history of academic oral history, this article focuses on the labors of Bl... [more]
Herodotus' 5th-century BC Histories provide us with one of the earliest written accounts for the practice of cannibalism. This paper examines the reference concerning cannibalism contained in Herodotus, reviews the theories proposed to account for these
In this paper, I consider Thomas Soderquist's recent call for a biographical approach to historical narrative. He stresses in particular the need to pay greater attention to the existential struggles of our historical actors. Echoing Raphael Samuel, he a
In the period 1880-1914, France pioneered social-welfare programmes for some categories of the population, but was decades behind some European nations in other areas. The image of France as a social-policy laggard is accurate when on considers its record
In 1950 occupied Austria experienced the most dangerous wave of labour protest in its post-war history. The government reacted by accusing the Communist Party of attempting to destabilize democracy, seize power and draw the country into the Eastern Bloc.
No Hispanist was more instrumental in defining the field of Latin American Colonial Studies than William H. Prescott (1796-1859). His histories, most notably the History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843), were bestselling works which informed the U.S. publ
This paper focuses on the role of the estrangeirados ('Europeanized' intellectuals) as significant diffusion channels for the new scientific and technological ideas and practices stemming from the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. A definitio
This article distinguishes between critical and reconciliatory postcolonialisms, arguing that the former seeks radical alternatives to modernity based on non-Western traditions and lifeways, while the latter works to reconcile colonized peoples to colonia
This article explores the history of rural collectivization in the Republican zone throughout the Spanish Revolution and civil war (1936-9). It is based on a variety of underused primary sources from military and civilian archives that provide information
History is the nightmare from which Stephen Dedalus wishes to wake, but history, linear temprality, cannot be interrupted within its own terms. In a context where groups finds themselves radically alienated from history-as happened in the aftermath of the
This essay argues that many of the aesthetic imperatives and critical categories associated with modernism (imagism, vorticism, impersonality, the 'dissociation of sensibility,' the stream of consciousness, etc.) grew directly out of a host of non-liter
Three theses are explored, the first two historical and the third philosophical-theological: (1) throughout most of the history of Western civilization, science and religion have been closely connected with each other, and each has beneficed from the conn
This article offers a reassessment of the relationship between the British Communist Party and the Communist International in the period 1928-32. While these years have generally been portrayed as disastrous for the British Party-in which the dictates of
This paper addresses the efforts of both Havelock. Ellis and Sigmund Freud to posit a theory of homosexuality, and especially considers their efforts to (re-)negotiate each other's theories. Its central premise derives from the sociology of scientific kn
The development of both the modern state and modern scientific discourses in the non-Western world are closely linked together, both being the outcome of the colonial encounter. Using a Foucauldian framework of power/knowledge and his notions of 'epistem
'The separation of theory and practice is not one that will easily be overcome by academic and philosophical critique, however necessary and important these are.' (Shanks and Tilley 1992, xxii) Here a team of archaeologists address this difficult theme,