Coastal Yorubaland: Habitability, Inhabitance, and Inheritances by Toyin Falola

“… Although the conference from which this Special Issue derives was convened by two prominent historians, this article is multi-disciplinary; both within and outside the boundaries of history. …”
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La mémoire de la participation des Espagnols à la Résistance française : une construction difficile by Miguel Sans

“…The occultations or glorifications which these polemics entail can only give a fragmented and incomplete knowledge of this Resistance, and make the work of historians difficult.…”
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Acteurs et dynamiques de l’histoire de l’architecture à Bordeaux dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle by Gauthier Bolle, Nina Mansion-Prud’homme

“…Thus, a first concrete situation, analysed during a one-day workshop held in Bordeaux in November 2018, allows a certain number of hypotheses to emerge and to feed questions around the actors, the institutions and the currents of thought that have shaped the field of Architectural History throughout the second half of the 20th century in France. The careers of historians, which bear witness to the diversity of the field and its structuring over the last fifty years, highlight both the hybridity of professional profiles and the plurality of theoretical approaches.…”
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Recognising Cartulary Studies Thirty Years after Les cartularies by Joanna Tucker

“…It reflects on how this field has developed since the early 1990s, especially what has characterised the research and the kinds of themes and questions historians have explored. It situates the latest work on cartularies within the broader development of the field, such as long established interests in cartulary function, typologies, codicology and scribes, and the influences of editorial practices, as well as emerging ideas about reading cartularies. …”
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Contours of pacificism: Ramsden Balmforth's advocacy of peace in the Union of South Africa and beyond by F. Hale

“…It is argued that Balmforth was not at any time an absolute pacifist, and that the distinction between “pacifism” and “pacificism” which was advanced by inter alia the British historians A.J.P. Taylor and Martin Ceadel is particularly useful for interpreting Balmforth and placing him on the spectrum of positions with regard to the ethical defensibility of taking up arms. …”
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O “pacto sucessório” revisitado: o texto e o contexto by Abel Estefânio

“…For the contemporary historians such a chronology is impossible but it was perfectly acceptable for the modern ones. …”
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The Transatlantic Political Economy by Allan Potofsky

“…On both sides of the Atlantic, a desire to deepen economic ties between the two « regenerated » nations was kindled by the ideological potentials of republicanism in the United States and of the « reform monarchy » at the end of the ancien régime and opening years of the Revolution.This article examines an overlooked element in the « master narrative » of historians who have focused on the degradation of the political and economic ties between the two nations after 1787 : the American financial debt toward France grew in significance with the awareness of the proportions of the deficit of the French state. …”
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La forja de Isidro Gomá como adalid del antirrepublicanismo en la Iglesia de España (1927-1933) by Roberto Ceamanos Llorens

“…Gomá, the archbishop of Toledo (1933-1940), is one of foremost personalities studied by Spanish Civil War historians, because of the backing he gave to the rebels. …”
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La lettre des frères pontifes contenant la Vita lyonnaise de saint Bénezet (1245) : une forgerie au service d’un récit fondateur lyonnais ? by Jean-Benoît Krumenacker

“…Up until now, this text has mainly been used by historians from Avignon discussing the Avignon bridge or its founder, with no connection to the Lyon context of its writing. …”
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Entrer à l’école maternelle : le contrat narcissique à l’épreuve du scolaire by Véronique Kannengiesser

“…The article, based on authors historians and sociologists of the education, shows that the infant school, since its creation, distinguishes itself of the other childcare facilities and that its educational model tends increasingly towards that of the elementary school but with its own objectives. …”
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About myths and true story of Muslims of Ust-Ishim district of Omsk region (Islam through the prism of local history) by A. P. Yarkov

“…The described case testifies that in the future, the creation of scientifically grounded «Histories of Siberian villages» is an urgent task for scientists and local historians…”
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La Nouvelle-Orléans au XIXe siècle : femmes de couleur libres, femmes de pouvoir ? by Nathalie Dessens

“…This article dwells on the emergence of a few feminine figures in the studies conducted by historians of Louisiana since the 1980s and examines the relative invisibility of women in the early historiography of New Orleans’s antebellum period (1800-1860). …”
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Historia y memoria del trabajo forzado del sistema concentracionario franquista by Juan Carlos García-Funes, Fernando Mendiola Gonzalo

“…Regardless the recent efforts carried out by historians and memorial associations, this lack of knowledge reaches the victims’ families and a great part of Spanish society. …”
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« The Fault is that she is my wife » : L’ambivalence des représentations d’Henriette-Marie (1625-1649) by Alice Leroy

“…Many historians have focused on Charles I, his reign but his representations. …”
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La mise en tourisme du patrimoine paysager de la Vallée des peintres entre Berry et Limousin : un levier de développement rural ? by Edwige Garnier, Frédéric Serre

“…This profusion of artistic creativity focusing on the landscapes of the valley then fell into oblivion before the work of art historians exhumed this key period of local cultural history. …”
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L’Antiphonaire d’Oosteeklo et son enlumineur (Cornelia van Wulfschkercke ?) by Dominique Vanwijnsberghe

“…Despite its importance for the history of Flemish book painting, the Oosteeklo Antiphonal, kept at the library of the Ghent Museum of Fine Arts, has been largely neglected by art historians. A remarkable colophon discloses the identity of its patroness, Quentine de Mastaing, abbess of the Cistercian convent of Oosteeklo. …”
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Max Weber's concept of feudalism and history of Lithuania by Zenonas Norkus

“…The first pole is approximated by the political and legal concepts of feudalism developed by the mainstream German historians in the 19th and 20th centuries (G. von Below, H. …”
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Proceso de recolección y comercialización de hongos comestibles silvestres en el Valle de Toluca, México

“…In Mexico, human consumption of edible fungi has occurred since the time of the Pre Columbian cultures. Historians of the sixteenth century and beyond have described the use of fungi as well as the manner in which they were classified. …”
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“We can and we must”: The scientificity of trade-union history-writing in the Soviet Union in the 1920s by Roman Gilmintinov

“…Instead of engaging with professional historians, the new regime initiated a whole range of large-scale participatory projects incorporated into political and public institutions to produce new, revolutionary history. …”
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La guerre et le canon by Michel Matly

“…This validates comics as pertinent sources for historians or sociologists, but also put our own representation of the war into perspective, as not more than the look of “here and today”. …”
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