... maritime dimension) and the 150th anniversary of the Indian Mutiny (where troop ships were so important in carrying men to the subcontinent). Public history has never been more important. What should be commemorated, and in what manner, raises highly contentious and significant questions not only about...

... Rogers James Hotchkiss Wilde Oscar Arnold Edwin Quiller Couch Arthur Orientalism Walt Whitman Robert Louis Stevenson Polynesia song cycles James Hotchkiss Rogers Sāmoa Hawai’i colonial history In his 1887 essay ‘Books Which Have Influenced Me’, Robert Louis Stevenson reflected on his...

... Ionian Sea Aegean Sea Adriatic Sea Coastal Archaeology Island Archaeology Dispersal pathways Origins of seafaring Marine resources Coastline history THE BALKAN PENINSULA is bordered by the Black Sea to the north-east, the Aegean Sea to the south-east, the Ionian Sea to the south-west...

... of the argument to follow. Justice Prospering [εὐδαιμονία] Plato The Sophists The History of Moral and Political Philosophy Midway through Book I of Plato’s Republic, the character Socrates attempts to placate a rather animated Thrasymachus: ‘After making such a speech do you have it in mind...

...This chapter takes a systematic look at one particular sub-discipline, Greek history, from their predecessors, who had created and adorned the heroic age of historical scholarship on the history of ancient Greece. It tries to describe different innovations in studying Greek history as lucidly...

...Some are familiar with the dictum often attributed to Mommsen at the end of the nineteenth century, according to which papyrology was destined to become the leading discipline of ancient history in succession to epigraphy, which had previously been dominant. During the century in which this new...

...This chapter focuses on how the history of political ideas has been approached in the context of British political science. This has the consequence that the discussion ranges over commentators who are explicitly not historians. It claims that the current British approaches to the study of past...

...Frechulf of Lisieux’s Histories are one of the richest but least studied works of Carolingian historiography. This introductory chapter accounts for this neglect while also setting out a new framework for understanding Frechulf’s text. After outlining what is known about Frechulf’s...

...This concluding chapter briefly restates the book’s key themes by stressing the different roles historical knowledge played in the Carolingian world. From there, it sketches the medieval reception history of Frechulf’s work. In particular, it touches upon how Frechulf’s compilation of authoritative...

... Asebu Burum Ankobra Ankombra Etsi Kormantin Kwaman Kwanyako Obrumankoma Takyiman Accra Adangme Ahanta Akuapem Akwamu Ga Guan Kpeshi Ofisadu Reindorf C C Volta river Migrations Asante Africa African global diaspora History Identity Chapter one is an attempt to address...

... Antwi Mensa Asinaa dwommo Dwommo Kugyan Aberefi Yaa Akua Afriyie Gyebi Kankanfo Kaase Kusi Aduaku Kwasi Ko Onomaya Apaw Opoku Atia Owusu Afriyie Asumenya aka Asumenya Asantemanso Asante Africa African global diaspora History Identity The Golden Stool is Osei ne Opoku sika dwa...

... Owusu Tia Adu Borade Apaw Berefo Heman Akuapem Dahomey Abena Siabura Amankwaa akyeremade OSEI KWAME Asante Africa African global diaspora History Identity Asantehene Osei Kwadwo (1764-77) is memorialized in royal praise poetry (apae) as koawia, ‘he who...

... Oten Kwasi Ama Sewaa Asante Africa African global diaspora History Identity In the later 1990s, in an annex close by the huge state reception room in the new Manhyia palace built by and for the Asantehene Opoku Ware II, half a dozen neglected books were to be found stacked on a small table...

... akuma ntamkeseɛ Pine R Afua Sapon Amankwaa Akuma Apaaso Cape Coast Golden Stool sika dwa kofi Osei Kwadwo abakom dwa Afua Kobi ri Ampadu Fante Kwaku Adofo Owusu Koko aka Owusu Akompi Kwasi Boakye Asante Africa African global diaspora History Identity Fredua Agyeman was born...

... Akyeamponmeneso Breman Abu Koko Agyaako Antoa apeboso Edweso Kofi Poku Konoku Nsuben river Obiri Yaw Opoku Ntiben aka Ofiri Osei Ntibanso Tafo Abesim Ahyiresemu river Yaw Boakye Asante Africa African global diaspora History Identity Let us begin at the end. In 1883 Asantehene Mensa Bonsu...

... Kwabena Kokofu Kwaku Abebrese Kwaku Baa Kwaku Kumase Kyeaboso Yaw Pense Asante Africa African global diaspora History Identity Historians customarily describe the quinquennium between the deposition of Asantehene Mensa Bonsu in 1883 and the accession of Asantehene Agyeman Prempe in 1888 as being...

...Traces the life, character and policies of Asantehene Osei Agyeman Prempeh II. Shows why he decided to write his ‘History’ and details its production and later fate. Shows scholarly pursuit/interaction with the text, including that by the present editor. Osei Agyeman Prempeh II: ‘History of Ashanti...

... in the context of prosopography. Aside from providing records of the history of Armenia, these sources can supply useful and sometimes unique information about eleventh-century Byzantine history. Anatolia Ani Armenia Armenia Armenia relations with Armenia sources for BaŁk‘ Armenian kingdom Byzantine empire...

...This chapter examines British scholarship and research on the political history of England during the period from 1272 to 1520. It explores the influences and modes of thought that underlay the preoccupations and lines of approach of the scholarship of the years before and attempts to provide...

...This chapter examines British research and publications concerning medieval economic history. It shows that the study of medieval economy and society helps to unify a number of areas of research and has developed an important position as a hub with links to many other disciplines. It explores...