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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Les procès de criminels nazis de l’année charnière 1958 dans la presse locale et suprarégionale du sud de la République fédérale d’Allemagne by Marie-Bénédicte Vincent

“…1958 has been identified by historians as the beginning of a new era for the memory of nazism in the federal republic of Germany. …”
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La mise en scène d’un procès pénal : réflexion sur les médias et le procès Demjanjuk by Rainer Volk

“…It also highlights the fact that much of the media coverage was limited to the dramatic circumstances of the case, while less attention was paid to the gaps in the evidence, which historians consider problematic. However, the court find the defendant guilty, which also raises the question of whether the Demjanjuk trial was intended to make up - very late in the day - for the German justice systems’ failure to deal with Nazi crimes.…”
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La connaissance des maîtres allemands anciens en France, de Dominique-Vivant Denon à Henri Focillon by Isabelle Dubois-Brinkmann, François-René Martin

“…Knowledge of the old German masters, the so-called "Primitives", from the end of the 18th century to the middle of the 20th century, is the result of an immense collective effort, to which art historians, museum curators, critics and writers have all contributed. …”
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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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Une histoire asynchrone de l’économie et de l’écologie, et de leurs « passeurs » by Sophie Boutillier, Patrick Matagne

“…Nevertheless, pollution was not an unknown fact of European populations, as historians’ works demonstrate. Ecology becomes a science one hundred years later, showing the difficult balance between human activities and natural resources. …”
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Independent Ruler, Indefinable Role by Yihao QIU

“…However, Chinese sources present a somewhat different picture and shed new light on several issues, including the status of Jochid rulers in the eyes of Yuan historians, the importance of Jochid apanages in China, local dual-administrative structures, and local officials of the Great Khan. …”
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Que vaut un négociant ? Prix et compétences des commerçants dauphinois, des années 1750 aux années 1820 by Boris Deschanel

“…The daily work of merchants and traders, in the eighteenth century, was the subject of many investigations by historians of commercial firms or commercial techniques. …”
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Planetary pictures: historicizing environmental and climate sciences in the Anthropocene by Thomas Simpson, James Poskett

“…How should historians of environmental and climate sciences respond to the Earth's move from the blank canvas to a foreground feature of ‘big-picture’ scholarship? …”
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COUNTERFACTUALS IN HISTORIOGRAPHY by Zenonas Norkus

“…The conviction of some historians that the counterfactuals are essentially forbidden in the scientific historiography is critised on the ground that counterfactuals are implied by the causal statements and statements of the relative causal importance. …”
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Les luttes sociales dans les campagnes andalouses : usages et significations du mot campesino de 1931 à 1936 by Arnaud Dolidier

“…However, most of these historians have been misusing the term « peasant », defining it in an ahistorical manner, therefore assimilating the social to the natural, especially the actors of rural Andalusia. …”
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Problems of book carrying in the works of Vaclovas Biržiška by Bronius Raguotis

“… The well-known bibliographer and historian of press Vadovas Biržiška (1884-1956) has addressed the problems of books' and periodicals' distribution and their functioning in many of his works. …”
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L’édition scientifique des documents comptables médiévaux : enjeux et perspectives d’une entreprise pluridisciplinaire by Aude Wirth-Jaillard

“…Nonetheless, accounts are of great interest for linguists, historians and archaeologists. Thus, it appears necessary to come up with editions of such documents according to a standard shared by all medievalists and based on the broad idea of faithfulness to the original text. …”
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Les enjeux de la bataille de Mânû (283/896) by Virginie Prevost

“…The battle of Mânû represents an important element of memory for Ibâḍism in North Africa and a crucial turning point in their history, often connected by Ibâḍî historians to the fall of the Imamate of Tâhart. This article, while retracing the conduct and the consequences of this event, is also focusing on the composition and evolution of Ibâḍism in North Africa during this period. …”
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Sarraounia, une reine africaine entre histoire et mythe littéraire (Niger, 1899-2010) by Elara Bertho

“…Published in 1980, he intended his novel Sarraounia  to be a form of  historical authentification, despite the fact the figure of a warrior queen was little known, if not completely unknown, to historians. He thus contributed to the creation of a 'national myth', although the subversive dimension present in the original work were gradually eliminated. …”
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Dire la conquête et la souveraineté des Hauteville en arabe (jusqu’au milieu du XIIIe siècle) by Annliese Nef

“…In contrast to the opinion often expressed by historians that pre-1250 Arabic texts reflect their authors’ systematic lack of interest in the Latins, or even for non-Muslims altogether, some political entities did attract their authors’ attention as is the case of the 11th-12th century Sicily. …”
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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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Understanding Richard Washburn Child’s Authoritarian Personality: From Theodor Adorno to the Histories of Gender and Emotion by Katy Hull

“…Instead of the psychoanalytical explanations favored in the 1950 study, this article uses theories developed by historians of gender and emotions to understand Child’s personality. …”
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La diffusion de la toponymie scandinave dans la Normandie ducale by François de Beaurepaire

“…Behind scandinavian place names known by historians and linguists, some observations have to be formulated. …”
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De la restauration à l’exposition : à la recherche de sens et de cohérence by Christine Benoit, Paméla Grimaud, Claude Badet, Elisabeth Mognetti, Roland May

“…During the alloted time for restoration, studies and interventions of numerous actors –conservators, curators, art historians, photographers and conservation scientists – have been focusing on the achievement of the restoration. …”
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