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Published: 01 November 2014
... for this pattern of evolution. A chart of these factors including economic, environmental, social and technological developments in addition to political factors both external and internal to transnational civil society is provided and explained. The wide range of historical sources relevant to a work...
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Published: 12 December 2013
...This chapter outlines a methodology for the interpretation of historical sources, helping to realize their full potential for the study of organization, while overcoming their challenges in terms of distortions created by time, changes in context, and selective production or preservation. Drawing...
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Published: 09 August 2012
... historical accuracy. Most critics who address the problem of historical sources in War and Peace fall into two opposing camps: the skeptics who question almost every historical aspect of War and Peace, exposing what they see as Tolstoy's meager preparation and considerable...
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Published: 08 January 2019
... politics daily life Athens historical sources historical contexts Demosthenes is not among the statesmen—and very few stateswomen—whose name designates an era. In book titles such as Demosthenes and his Time the possessive does not imply that much, and the exceptional...
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Published: 25 August 2015
... History of Toledo Toledo Higuera Spanish Republic of Letters Higuera’s scholarly connections scholarly collaboration Higuera’s learned networks historical sources In September 1611, Father Jerónimo Román de la Higuera lay dying. Thanks to the seventeenth-century Jesuit historian who described...
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Published: 15 December 2013
... anger Davis Natalie Zemon divorce families jealousy Keetley Dawn love marriage murder children death happiness reconstructing emotions emotional norms emotional experience feelings historical sources From the very beginning, those who have studied the history of the emotions have...
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Published: 12 June 2019
... Brady Mathew Library of Congress media memory capitalism Christian Science James William cultural reception historical sources American bicentennial memory historians ritual and ceremony communication public history corporations In the hopes and visions of their depositors, time vessels...
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Published: 19 November 2015
... farming or agriculture Sinicization Au Lac Han historical sources Van Lang Kingdom Hung Kings An Duong Vuong Co Loa Thanh Nam Viet Rampart system writing about the origins of Vietnamese civilization, O’Harrow (1979 : 140) observed that a crucial period of inquiry is the approximately...
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Published online: 03 October 2011
Published in print: 01 October 1992
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Published: 07 March 2018
... historica historical Pyrrhonism scepticism historical sources monumenta Guelf history In the summer of 1716, a few months before dying, Leibniz penned a letter to a Polish diplomat called Biber: “[I]t is only my massive historical work,” he explained, “that hinders me from executing my idea...
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Published: 20 March 2008
...This chapter explores the historical sources of dramatic symbolism and its philosophical and psychological foundations, based on new tendencies in literature, psychology, and music. It discusses psychiatric reconceptualization of trauma in the late 19th century, its relevance to symbolic meaning...
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Published: 16 November 1995
...This chapter conducts a study of Byrhtferth of Ramsey's working methods and handling of historical sources to shed light on how the Life of King Alfred is constructed. It notes that the Pseudo-Asser has certain definitive and crucial organizational and stylistic features in common...
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Published: 06 May 2024
... with the meagre knowledge we can gain from historical sources. It highlights the problems with the primary sources and the many questions they leave unanswered. national history cultural memory historian as detective Stephen I historical sources medieval texts Stephen I (r. 997–1038) was the first Christian...
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Published: 01 February 2016
... Worboys Michael Chanana Karuna Jawaharlal Nehru University JNU Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies Special Academic Zones SAZs Special Economic Zones SEZs Tsukuba Science City Mofussil Patna research National Archives historiography historical sources Kolkata National Library...
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Published: 17 May 2011
...This chapter explores the origins of the Antiochene network by analyzing the heritage that Theodoret of Cyrrhus depicted in works of history. It traces Theodoret's account of his heroic predecessors and compares it to other historical sources. The analysis reveals that Theodoret's writings...
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Published: 01 May 2019
...The chapter provides an overview of the book and its key themes. It identifies the importance of migration, urban history, economic success and social mobility. The authors have been encouraged to use a wide range of historical sources and make the book accessible to a wide readership ghettos...
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Published: 25 April 2024
.../relative state formulation many worlds interpretation quantum measurement EPR experiment collapse of the wavefunction quantum physics’ historical sources Wigner’s friend In 1956, a precocious young American, Hugh Everett III, drafted a thesis on the foundations of quantum mechanics that offered...
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Published: 01 September 2018
... fictional narrative timeline and the blend of historical characters and character prototypes presented in Marmion. It identifies the literary and historical sources that Scott drew upon most extensively when writing the poem and concludes with a brief discussion of the purpose of the verse...
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Published: 15 June 2018
... private business public arena social organizations troupes ways of life city’s image class Communist control high end tea balconies migrant workers residential committee jumin weiyuanhui Public space Public life Political culture Socialist state Historical sources The last day of 1949...
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Published: 15 December 2020
..., and Yoyotte et al. 1997 on Strabo, Geography 17. For papyrology, there are a number of introductory works, among them Turner 1980 and Pestman 1994 . Bagnall 1995 provides an excellent discussion of various methodological and historiographical problems in using papyri as historical...