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]
Is mental illness an object of knowledge? The history of psychiatry teaches us to doubt it, by emphasizing the infinitely variable and fluctuating character of psychiatric entities. Mental illness is not simply 'out there', waiting to be described and t
Background: Florence Downs is a well-recognized nursing leader, educator, editor, and scholar who helped shape nursing as an intellectual discipline, and wrote extensively about the importance of links between research and practice. Objectives: Through th
This article examines diplomatic relations between England and the Italian duchy of Savoy during the 1620s through the Savoyard ambassador, Alessandro Scaglia. Historians have generally viewed England's participation in the Thirty Year's War from an ess
In the late nineteenth century, it became common to consider the Franks, the Frisians and the Saxons, three Germanic tribes believed to have settled in the Netherlands during the Early Middle Ages, as the oldest ancestors of the Dutch people. The success
This article argues against the historiography of Borchardt and others who believe that the German government did not act against the Depression because it thought such crises were self-correcting. The budget debate of 1926 showed the government of Hans L
Four main military cultures existed within the Army of Africa: Africanist, Juntero, peninsular and political. Although they co-existed, each enjoyed a period of hegemony within the Army as a result of the course of military action in Morocco or the coloni
During the 1940s Europe was a key topic for consideration by the British Labour Movement, post-war reconstruction plans were an oft-discussed subject. The Fabian Society played a central role as both a forum in which ideas could be debated and as a dissem
Although rural populations continue to suffer a lack of attention from many historians, an examination of the province of Bologna during the early nineteenth century reveals that this is a mistake. As a substantial literature now shows for the case of Fra
In 1947 the British government departed from its policy of non-intervention in Spanish affairs and actively encouraged the formation of a united anti-Franco opposition front. By then Britain's post-war accommodation of the Franco regime, reflecting its s
Since the contribution of Brothwell and co-workers in early 1968, few studies have considered the cortical bone involution in European skeletal series of archaeological interest. The present study concerns the involutive process mechanisms and intra- and
Bodmin Moor is one of the most complete and best preserved upland prehistoric landscapes in Britain. The field archaeology has been described in some detail, although on the basis of comparatively little excavation, but this has nevertheless been used to
Homo erectus (Pithecanthropus) reached Java from the Asian continent and became one of the oldest islanders in the world. This article deals with the palaeomagnetic and (40)AR/(40)AR dating of the 'lower lahar', a layer located at the base of the fossil
Recent discussions of globalization leave the nature of movement and of the moving objects in transnational flows relatively unexamined. Incorporating historical and ethnographic material from the British Virgin Islands, I use the analogy of the critique
The archaeological site of the Touffreville rural settlement (Calvados, France) has yielded rich assemblages of Coleoptera and plant macroremains dating from the period spanning the transition between the La Tene and Gallo-Roman periods, providing us with
In this paper, I explore the intriguing connections the film Before The Rain makes between the deadly resurgence of a kind of ethnic primordialism and what would appear to be its opposite, globalization, seen most clearly in the emergence of an internatio