New History Compass article coming soon: ‘PRESERVING HERITAGE AND THE VALUES OF EXCHANGE: LESSONS FROM NIGERIA’ by Prof. Peter Probst … Provisional Abstract: Research on heritage preservation in Africa shows a field shaped by different and often opposite positions as to the actual meaning of heritage. Does heritage signify valuable remnants of the past that … Continue reading »
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COMING SOON: ‘Food-related interaction among Christians, Muslims, and Jews in high and late medieval Latin Christendom’ by Prof. David Freidenreich
New History Compass article coming soon: ‘Food-related interaction among Christians, Muslims, and Jews in high and late medieval Latin Christendom’ by Prof. David Freidenreich … Provisional Abstract: Social historians of the Middle Ages can gain a richer understanding of interreligious relations by examining the ways Christians, Muslims, and Jews interacted over food. Legal and non-legal … Continue reading »
COMING SOON: ‘“ ‘The wounds of class’: A Historiographical Reflectio n on the Study of Deindustrialization, 1973-2013.’ by Dr. Steven High
New History Compass article coming soon: ‘“ ‘The wounds of class’: A Historiographical Reflection on the Study of Deindustrialization, 1973-2013.’ by Dr. Steven High … Provisional Abstract: This article examines forty years of multi-disciplinary scholarship on deindustrialization in North America and the United Kingdom. This field of research emerged in the 1970s and 1980s as … Continue reading »
COMING SOON: ‘Women and Abolitionism in the United States: Recent Historiography’ by Prof. Margaret Kellow
New History Compass article coming soon: ‘Women and Abolitionism in the United States: Recent Historiography’ by Prof. Margaret Kellow … Provisional Abstract: The past twenty years have seen substantial developments in the historiography on women and abolitionism in the United States. These include a focus on the experience of African American women both as activists … Continue reading »
COMING SOON: ‘Indigenous People and Legal Culture in Spanish America’ by Dr. Yanna Yannakakis
New History Compass article coming soon: ‘Indigenous People and Legal Culture in Spanish America’ by Dr. Yanna Yannakakis … Provisional Abstract: This article reviews recent literature on indigenous people and the legal systems in colonial Mexico and the Andes, with special emphasis on legal engagement as a form of politics and the making of legal … Continue reading »
COMING SOON: ‘Reading ‘multiculturalism’: A historiogra phy of policy and ideal in Australia’ by Dr. Zoe Anderson
New History Compass article coming soon: ‘Reading ‘multiculturalism’: A historiography of policy and ideal in Australia’ by Dr. Zoe Anderson … Provisional Abstract: This article will detail the historiographical accounts of the reasons for the creation of a policy of multiculturalism, and the ways in which multiculturalism has been explained and understood through contemporary analyses … Continue reading »
COMING SOON: ‘The Mongol Empire in World History: The State of the Field’ by Prof. Michal Biran
New History Compass article coming soon: ‘The Mongol Empire in World History: The State of the Field’ by Prof. Michal Biran … Provisional Abstract: The study of the Mongol Empire has made enormous strides in the past two decades, and its most notable impact is the shift of seeing the Empire not only in national … Continue reading »
COMING SOON: ‘“We are Brothers! Let us Separate!” Jews and Community Buildin g in American Cities during the Nineteenth Century’ by Prof. Tobias Brinkmann
New History Compass article coming soon: ‘“We are Brothers! Let us Separate!” Jews and Community Building in American Cities during the Nineteenth Century’ by Prof. Tobias Brinkmann … Provisional Abstract: The article examines the evolution of organized Jewish communities in the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century. After discussing why the … Continue reading »
COMING SOON: ‘Postsecular Sex? Secularisation and Religious Change in the History of Sexuality in Britain’ by Dr. Timothy Jones
New History Compass article coming soon: ‘Postsecular Sex? Secularisation and Religious Change in the History of Sexuality in Britain’ by Dr. Timothy Jones … Provisional Abstract: Histories of twentieth century British religion and sexuality, and that work which connects the two, have been almost universally structured by the secularisation thesis, the assumption that politically and … Continue reading »
COMING SOON: ‘Going Beyond Overlooked Populations in Lebanese Historiography: The Armenian Case’ by Dr. Tsolin Nalbantian
New History Compass article coming soon: ‘Going Beyond Overlooked Populations in Lebanese Historiography: The Armenian Case’ by Dr. Tsolin Nalbantian … Provisional Abstract: Scholarship on the historiography of Lebanon consistently calls attention to ethnic and religious communities that have been conveniently “left out” of Lebanese history to perpetuate either a mostly Maronite imagination of Lebanon … Continue reading »
