Un diálogo difícil con los contemporaneístas by Eduardo González Calleja

“…Bartolomé Bennassar maintained a stormy relationship with contemporary Spanish history, where alternated editorial successes such as his Historia de los españoles, failures such as Le défi espagnol and controversies such as those raised by his biography of Franco and his essay on the Civil War. His historiographic perspective was influenced both by the social and geographical environment he frequented (the most conservative Castile, one of the Spanish regions less prone to change in a modernizing sense) and by his thematic preferences, which were aimed at the study of collective mentalities in the long-term, characteristic of the renewal impulse of the Nouvelle Histoire. …”
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Le cens, l’autel et la ville chef-lieu : Auguste et l’urbanisation des Trois Gaules by William Van Andringa

“…This essay proposes to trace and understand the fundamental process of urbanization of the Three Gauls – it marks the advent of municipal civilization in these areas – by looking at the textual sources in the light of the results of recent urban archaeology. …”
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TURKEY’S SEARCH FOR SECURITY AND THE SOVIET FACTOR DURİNG THE SECOND WORLD W AR by Şaban Çalış

“…In this essay, an attempt has been inade to analyse Turkey’s search for security during the Second World War within the context of the Soviet factor and Turkish diplomatic relations with the great powers. …”
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"Narrative Cloggers": Notes on Description and Subversion in Nicholson Baker’s Fiction by Françoise Sammarcelli

“…This paper argues that the proliferating descriptive passages in Nicholson Baker's novels seem to short-circuit narrative progression instead of being mere additives to the narrative, in a textual exploration which blurs the traditional distinction between description and narration. The essay focuses on three of Baker’s novels and comments on the evolution in Baker’s work between 1988 and 2003, from the exuberant description of objects in The Mezzanine (1988), to a more intimate rehistoricizing of the object as a trace of the narrator’s experience as a family man in Room Temperature (1990), to the repeated encoding of daily life as an ever-renewed mystery in A Box of Matches (2003).Dwelling on the various strategies at work in Baker’s descriptions (such as his frequent experiment with conjunction and disjunction, or his particular use of metaphor and metonymy), this paper also shows how the humorous defamiliarization of the visible contributes to the resistance of the texts. …”
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Translating Transgressions in Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: by Joutha Monisha

“…Under the parable-esque, whodunit nature of the novel, Tokarczuk explores the theme of transgressions in the light of animal rights activism. This essay is an investigation into the contrasting ideas highlighted by the authorial voice and the persepective held by the protagonist’s in the light of affect theory and Tokarczuck’s own conception of a tender narrator. …”
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La mémoire des villes dans la société digitale : quelques réflexions pour São Paulo et l’exemple de « Quand la ville était plus douce » by Martin Jayo, Diego Vasconcellos Vargas

“…Two decades after its publication, the essay On the Memory of Cities, by geographer Maurício de Almeida Abreu, preserves all its relevance and continues to be widely quoted and acknowledged. …”
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Delphi in Schwarz und Weiß.. Bilder der Antike in Claude Debussys Klaviermusik by Tihomir Popović

“…Die Nähe des musikalischen Archaismus zu Exotismus und dadurch zum orientalistischen bzw. kolonialistischen Denken wird hervorgehoben. This essay discusses the compositional construction of images of ›classical antiquity‹ in the piano music of Claude Debussy. …”
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Machine politics: The cultural science of permissionless systems by Rennie Ellie

“…The survival of permissionless blockchains is typically cast as a cryptoeconomic security problem for mechanism designers to resolve. This essay argues that, long-term, these networks may require something that looks more like a UNESCO protection convention for machine culture than an equation. …”
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O protagonismo do poder público na condominização residencial da cidade de Alfenas-MG by Lilian Mara de Castro Azevedo, Evânio dos Santos Braquinho

“…This article presents as an essay in the sense of relating a previous work to the political analysis of urban planning and the role of the State as a space producer, which are part of our research project of the Master's Degree in Geography at Universidade Federal de Alfenas-MG.…”
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Amnesia and Oblivion in England’s Long Reformation by Alexandra Walsham

“…This essay explores aspects of the history of forgetting in the context of England’s long Reformation stretching from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. …”
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Dickens Today by Marianne Camus

“…This essay suggests a way in which Dickens’s novels might be made more immediately accessible to students by drawing parallels between the sociopolitical situations they describe and our own. …”
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Benjamin : image, trace et politique by Adolfo Vera

“…Nous étudierons ici cette question par rapport à la théorie benjaminienne de la photographie, pour essayer de comprendre ce qui est énoncé à la fin de la Petite histoire de la photographie, au moment où Benjamin, en parlant des photos d’Atget, annonce la portée politique de la photographie à l’époque moderne : reconfigurer la scène d’un crime qui a été commis, et dont les traces ont été brouillées.…”
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The Dominance of Homeopathic Medicine in Yoruba Healthcare Delivery by Richard Taye Oyelakin

“… This essay, in the main, argues that the strength and dominance of Yoruba Indigenous Medicine (here-in YIM) consists, not just in outlining the properties of the ingredients, structure, and process of production, as well as modes and mediums of administration, but also, and fundamentally, in the whole qualifying moral and spiritual status of the producers and administrators of the medicine. …”
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La Flora Común es la Flora Medicinal by Brent Berlin, Elois Ann Berlin

“…This essay draws a definitive distinction between special or secret knowledge and popular [folk or common] knowledge of the medicinal plant species that form the core of the empirical herbal medicine of the Tzeltal and Tzotzil of the Chiapas Highlands. …”
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Agroindústria alimentar: epicentro do agronegócio no Estado do Ceará (Brasil) by Denise Elias

“…In this way, we basically intend to present an argumentative essay for verification of the three mentioned theses, along three different main sections of this paper. …”
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Only Dead Metaphors Can Be Resurrected: A Review of Jill Lepore’s These Truths by George Blaustein

“…It is also the most substantial attempt in recent years to revive the national history as a serious intellectual genre. This essay takes the form of a narratological interpretation of These Truths. …”
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Yorùbá Proverbial Metaphor: A Rhetoric tool and Guiding Principle to Conflict Resolution by Emmanuel Oluniyi Ademola

“…To amplify this belief, Yorùbá at different occasions incorporate some of the proverbs that are relevant and applicable to conflicting situations in their attempt to resolve conflicts. This essay examines some of the selected proverbs while synthesized them as a rhetoric tools and guiding principles to constructive conflict resolution in the Yorùbá traditional Society. …”
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La transmission de legs ottomans en Tunisie. La maisonnée Bū Ḥājib des années 1870 aux années 1930 by M’hamed Oualdi

“…By studying a Tunisian household, that of the Bū Ḥājib family, established in the second half of the 19th century, this essay explores the multiple forms of Ottoman legacies and the various Ottoman provincial practices used by some Tunisian elites well into the first five decades of the French colonization in Tunisia. …”
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Le langage de la diversité by Sara Ahmed

“…Feminist and postcolonial scholars have offered powerful critiques of the language of diversity. This essay aims to contribute to the debate by examining how diversity workers work with the term diversity within the context of education. …”
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The Intellectual and Developmental Character of Cardinal Newman’s University Preaching Style by Edward Ondrako

“…With this in mind, the essay examines several key events and examples of his university preaching style beginning with his final sermon to the university faculty at Oxford in 1843, through his time in Dublin in 1856, with a final look at his acceptance speech when named a Cardinal in 1879. …”
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