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Introduction
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Pietro Di Paola
Published: 15 November 2013
..., in London, this book contributes to the historiography of diasporic anarchism. Baracchi Giovanni Bonometti Riccardo Borghesani Domenico Cambi Arturo Cini Francesco Gori Pietro Kropotkin Petr Malatesta Errico Milano Edoardo Nettlau Max Pacini Isaia Pietraroja Gennaro Protti Radaelli Luigi Razzia...
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The Significance of Coastal Shipping in British Domestic Transport, 1550-1830
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John Armstrong
Published: 01 January 2009
... transport. It assesses the economic variables of British transport and how they affected coastal shipping, and addresses the imbalance in transport historiography in favour of road transport over coast. It examines tonnage and haul distances through London as provided by a number of secondary sources...
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The Cinderella of the Transport World: The Historiography of the British Coastal Trade
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John Armstrong
Published: 01 January 2009
...This final chapter evaluates the historiography of the British coastal trade as it stood when first published in 1996. It highlights the lack of academic research into coastal shipping, offers suggestions for the scholarly neglect of the subject, and outlines the current knowledge of the economics...
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Oceanic Historiography: The American Dimension
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William Henry Flayhart m
Published: 01 December 1995
... and Two; the US Merchant Marine; American Shipbuilding Industry; Shipwreck and Maritime Archaeology; US Coast Guard; US ports; US Fishing, Whaling and Hunting; US Social History; and Recreation and Sport in the US. American Maritime History American Oceanic Historiography International Maritime History...
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Published: 01 January 1993
...This chapter presents an illustrated catalogue of types of invention in ancient historiography (the sub-title echoes the famous ‘seven types of ambiguity’ of the literary critic Empson); these types cover a spectrum of cases from modest elaboration of fact to outright, even flagrant, lying...
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Lies and Fiction in the Ancient World
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Christopher Gill (ed.) and T.P. Wiseman (ed.)
Published online: 23 January 2014
Published in print: 01 January 1993
... was explicitly defined in ancient critical, rhetorical and philosophical writing or was implicitly recognised even if was not explicitly theorised. A wide range of genres of ancient writing are discussed, ranging from Homeric epic, Hesiod, and archaic Greek poetry to Greek and Roman historiography, philosophy...
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The Triumph of Greco-Roman Rhetorical Assumptions in Pre-Carolingian Historiography
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Roger Ray
Published: 01 January 1986
...This chapter explores the prevalence of Greco-Roman rhetorical assumptions in historiography. It notes that the aim of historiography is the same as in oration; to persuade its readers and listeners. That is why it is important for a historiographer to move people by using available means...
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The Inheritance of Historiography 350–900
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Christopher Holdsworth (ed.) and T.P. Wiseman (ed.)
Published online: 29 May 2014
Published in print: 01 January 1986
...To what extent did the historians of the early Middle Ages inherit the aims and methods of Greek and Roman historiography? How far were they influenced by classical conventions about literary genre, rhetorical technique, and political subject-matter? A conference held in Exeter in 1985 brought...
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‘Mission Impossible?’
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Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
Published: 15 December 2013
... and historiography, the idea of Africa, the construction of sectarian identity politics in contemporary Congo-Zaire, and the indigenization of the Bible by clerics such as Placide Tempels. Main texts under discussion: L’Autre Face du royaume (1973), Entre les eaux (1973...
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Maritime History: A Gateway to Global History?
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Amélia Polónia
Published: 01 January 2010
... maritime historiography and the existing intersection between maritime history and global history. It concludes by claiming that the dynamics of global trade - competition and cooperation in past and present alike - have become central to to the study of maritime history, and asserts that the contributions...
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Visions of History: Looking Back at the Algerian War
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Edward Welch and Joseph McGonagle
Published: 15 August 2013
... and Stora Benjamin Photographier la guerre d'Algérie Hôtel de Sully Paris Paris Match Photographier la guerre d'Algérie exhibition propaganda Riboud Marc Chominot Marie historiography history photography Algeria FLN Front de Libération Nationale Front de Libération Nationale FLN Mauss Copeaux...
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Published: 01 April 2018
... Kickham Charles J Luby Thomas Clarke O’Leary John Rossa Jeremiah O’Donovan Whiteside James arson Clark Gemma Saurin William Carey James Maume Patrick O’Donnell Patrick O’Donnell Teresa Phoenix Park Murders 1882 Steele Tom ‘Head Pacificator’ vagrancy Crime Violence Disorder Historiography...
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Published: 01 June 2009
... in fiction, poetry, film, and historiography. Beti Mongo Chirac Jacques Sarkozy Nicolas Sembene Ousmane Verschave Xavier Blanchard Pascal Ferguson Niall Memmi Albert Mbembe Achille Forsdick Charles Murphy David Lionnet Françoise ASCALF Association for the Study of Caribbean and African Literature...
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The Jewish Community of the Second Republic in Polish Historiography of the 1980s
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Andrzej Chojnowski
Published: 01 May 2004
...This chapter addresses the Jewish community of the Second Republic in Polish historiography of the 1980s. The problem of the ethnic minorities in the Second Republic – their socio-economic situation, their role in the political and cultural life of the country, their relations with the state...
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Conclusion
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Michael B. Miller
Published: 01 January 2007
...; and the shifting role of ports and port infrastructures. It concludes by suggesting that maritime and migration historians can further their studies by expanding and exploring one another’s territories. Migration Patterns Globalisation Emigrant Agents Port Infrastructures Migration Historiography Maritime...
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Introduction
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Virginia Crossman
Published: 01 March 2014
...) was responsible for overseeing the system as a whole. It also provides a brief overview of the historiography of poverty and welfare in Ireland, and discusses the sources available to the historian and the challenges they present. Nation The Northern Ireland poor law Poor Relief Act 1838 property tax Second...
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Published: 01 March 2018
...This chapter sets the scene for the following chapters. It gives a broad overview of the history of medical education in Ireland while setting the book within the wider historiography. It outlines the political and cultural context for the period and briefly describes each chapter. Cohan Dr Little...
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Boy and the Historians
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Mark Stoyle
Published: 15 August 2011
... Miller John historian Pierce Helen historian witch hunt of 1645–47 Eliot Warburton C.H. Firth Evelyn Waugh Tory Party Veronica Wedgwood Historiography* Richard Harris Ken Hughes Simon Schama Toy Poodle Any attempt to piece together the true history of Prince Rupert's dog must begin...
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Introduction
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Oliver H. Creighton and others
Published: 01 January 2017
...This introductory chapter outlines the historiography of the reign of King Stephen (1135–54), highlighting how study has been dominated by documentary history while archaeological and other material evidence has played a marginal role. It identifies landmark studies of the period, summarises...
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The coherence of the inconsistent self: some reflections on mentality, identity and historiography
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Arne Jarrick
Published: 01 June 1999
... for Gustavus III's war efforts against Russia and his hostile attitude towards the nobility, arguing that his attitudes on these issues constituted a lower level of articulation or consciousness. The chapter concludes by offering some reflections on identity and historiography. Le Goff Jacques Löfgren Orvar...