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Mining And Visualizing Manuscript Provenance Data At A Large Scale, Arthur Fraas
Mining And Visualizing Manuscript Provenance Data At A Large Scale, Arthur Fraas
Arthur Mitchell Fraas
This presentation uses the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts to suggest ways in which large amounts of manuscript provenance data can be visualized.
Linking Archival Sources In The 2013 American Historical Review, Arthur Fraas
Linking Archival Sources In The 2013 American Historical Review, Arthur Fraas
Arthur Mitchell Fraas
An analysis of archival sources used by authors in the 2013 American Historical Review.
Making Claims: Indian Litigants And The Expansion Of The English Legal World In The Eighteenth Century, Arthur Fraas
Making Claims: Indian Litigants And The Expansion Of The English Legal World In The Eighteenth Century, Arthur Fraas
Arthur Mitchell Fraas
This paper explores the British Imperial legal world of the mid-eighteenth century. Within this period, the previously confined spaces of English law and legal institutions became open to an ever widening set of legal subjects, both people as well as places. The paper focuses on what was at the time perhaps England’s most remote and murkily defined legal space, the East India Company (EIC) settlements at Madras, Bombay and Calcutta. The paper shows how a series of legal actors: metropolitan judges, Indian litigants and elite lawyers, first bridged the legal worlds of England and the subcontinent. I argue that by …