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Contabilizar el comercio imperial: analysis of early double-entry accounting books with TEI/DEPCHA Free
Naoki Kokaze and others
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 40, Issue Supplement_1, January 2025, Pages i39–i45, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqae032
Published: 01 July 2024
... initial stage results from analyzing the encoded text, based on our case study. We selected the accounting books containing transactional data from 1558 to 1560. The encoding process followed the Text Encoding Initiative proposed by the Digital Edition Publishing Cooperatives for Historical Accounts...
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Appropriation and Resistance
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James V. Wertsch
Published: 12 January 1997
..., “social language” or other form of textual space. An example involving the production and consumption of historical accounts about a nation-state is reported. The chapter uses an episode from Estonian history as the focus of the analysis. This is the events surrounding the incorporation of Estonia...
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The Metanarrative Controversy
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Ernst Breisach
Published: 15 November 2003
...Since the 1980s, the term metanarrative has replaced the formerly used phrase philosophy of history. The prefix meta (Greek for beyond) indicated a narrative that overarched other narratives. Like a philosophy of history, it linked smaller historical accounts...
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Published: 01 August 2011
... fiction, a form that presents experience through the eyes of a slave. This perspective, fictional though it may be, offers readers today insights into the past that was not, for various reasons, contained by historical accounts of slavery. Chesnutt Charles W free black marriage Jones Edward P legal...
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The Private Life of the Prime Minister? Politics, Drama and Documentary in Pääministeri and Palme
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Anneli Lehtisalo
Published: 01 June 2015
... Bamberg Rolf Pitko Matti Tapper Mikael Frears Stephen Pääministeri Palme documentary drama Dramatised Past Creating the Mystery Engaging the Audience Historical Accounts Circulating Narratives In spring 2003, Finland’s first female Prime Minister was inaugurated. The leader of the Centre Party...
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The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva
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Jennifer Radden (ed.)
Published online: 03 October 2011
Published in print: 04 April 2002
... between these historical accounts of melancholy and today's psychiatric views on depression....
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Material Histories
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Ann Brower Stahl
Published: 18 September 2012
... us that historical accounts — our insights into socio-historical processes — are material to the present, thus underscoring the need to consider how those accounts are shaped by and simultaneously shape contemporary perceptions and practices. An extensive analysis of material moments and material...
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Sara Paretsky: Detective fiction as trauma literature
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Cynthia S. Hamilton
Published online: 21 January 2016
Published in print: 01 July 2015
... the writing of history. Here, Paretsky uses the form to expose the partiality of historical accounts—whether they be personal, institutional, or national—that authorise the ‘forgetting’ of a particularly insidious kind. Significantly, all these issues are explored within the framework of the traditional hard...
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How to Tell a Story That Might Prevent a Hanging: Mary Blandy, Parricide, 1752
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Susan Heinzelman
Published: 25 February 2010
... writers Imagination law and Watt Ian The Rise of the Novel Faller Lincoln Mary Blandy trials murder historical accounts narratives nomos On April 6, 1752, Mary Blandy was hung for murdering her father, a lawyer of Henley-upon-Thames in Oxfordshire. She was charged with poisoning him by feeding...
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Published: 01 November 2010
... into Brazilian history and the manner in which, through anecdotal narratives, official historical accounts are debunked, reflecting the poet's unwavering postcolonial perspective. Agrestes 1985 ambiguity Brazil Crime na Calle Relator 1987 culpability domination Melo Neto J Cabral de oppression romance...
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A history of cognitive rehabilitation
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George P. Prigatano
Published: 29 September 2005
...This chapter provides a brief history of cognitive rehabilitation. It reviews how brain injuries sustained in war have provided great stimulus both to the theoretical foundations of neuropsychology, and to some of the early formulations of the process of rehabilitation. Historical accounts...
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Development Success: Historical Accounts from More Advanced Countries
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Augustin K. Fosu (ed.)
Published online: 24 January 2013
Published in print: 22 November 2012
..., and elsewhere in the world. As such, they may constitute ‘role models of development’. This scholarly volume contains historical accounts of a select set of successful countries in the developing world; successful by virtue of their growth and development path — albeit at times in an uneven, non-linear...
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Narrativist History in the Poststructuralist Mode
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Ernst Breisach
Published: 15 November 2003
.... In the nineteenth century, the so-called literary historians considered language to be the neutral medium in which findings about the past were symbolically expressed. Via style, language was granted a limited active role in constructing historical accounts. Aristotle Danto Arthur Epistemology and theory...
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The “Children of the Sea” Uncovering Images of the Botpippel Experience in Caribbean Art and Literature
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Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert and Martha Daisy Kelehan
Published: 01 May 2008
...This chapter discusses and tries to uncover multiple meanings and alternative
historical accounts implicit in paintings and literature that depict the ordeals of the
Haitian “boat people” in their trans-Caribbean crossings. It
investigates how Haitian painters have developed an iconography...
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Published: 23 February 2023
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Achieving Development Success: Strategies and Lessons from the Developing World
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Augustin K. Fosu (ed.)
Published online: 23 May 2013
Published in print: 14 March 2013
..., and elsewhere in the world. As such, they may constitute ‘role models of development’. This scholarly volume contains historical accounts of a select set of successful countries in the developing world; successful by virtue of their growth and development path—albeit at times in an uneven, non-linear...
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