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Articles 1 - 21 of 21
Full-Text Articles in History
Memoirs Of A Public Intellectual, Chandan Gowda
Who Survived The Titanic? A Logistic Regression Analysis, Lonnie K. Stevans, David Gleicher
Who Survived The Titanic? A Logistic Regression Analysis, Lonnie K. Stevans, David Gleicher
Lonnie K. Stevans
A logistic regression analysis of an extensive data set on the Titanic passengers is presented which tests the likelihood that a Titanic passenger survived the accident--based upon passenger characteristics. The main finding is that underneath the strong overt preference afforded in the rescue by the authorities to women and children over men, there was a complex class determination of survival rates among men, on the one hand, and women and children, on the other. We hypothesize that the statistical interactions of gender and class are explained by two crucial decisions made by the ship’s authorities: 1. to encourage, and perhaps …
Book Review: Subordinate And Marginal Groups In Early India, Edited By Aloka Parasher-Sen, Ananya Vajpeyi
Book Review: Subordinate And Marginal Groups In Early India, Edited By Aloka Parasher-Sen, Ananya Vajpeyi
Ananya Vajpeyi
Marginality and subordination have been important themes in India's human and social sciences for almost a hundred years. Aloka Parasher-Sen's edited volume is a useful intervention in the literature on caste in the "intermediate and immediate past" (p. 3). This is the long stretch of South Asian premodernity frequently ignored by historians, thanks to presentist commitments that tend to overwhelm their scholarship ideologically or lop-sided archival and linguistic skills that tend to constrain it intellectually. The politics of the discipline of history being what it is today, the ancient, colonial, and contemporary periods all receive disproportionate amounts of scholarly attention, …
Ethical Regulation And Humanities Research In Australia: Problems And Consequences, Robert Cribb
Ethical Regulation And Humanities Research In Australia: Problems And Consequences, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Examines problems created for humanities and social science research by the unthinking application of ethical prescriptions from bio-medical research.
The Law As A Weapon In Marital Disputes: Evidence From The Late Medieval Court Of Chancery, 1424-1529, Sara M. Butler Dr.
The Law As A Weapon In Marital Disputes: Evidence From The Late Medieval Court Of Chancery, 1424-1529, Sara M. Butler Dr.
Sara M. Butler Dr.
No abstract provided.
Medieval Nominalism And The Literary Questions: Selected Studies, Richard Utz, Terry Barakat
Medieval Nominalism And The Literary Questions: Selected Studies, Richard Utz, Terry Barakat
Richard Utz
Like few other topics in the academic study of medieval literature, the search for the possible parallels between philosophical and literary texts reveals the not always peaceful coexistence among the three basic approaches to the study of medieval literature and culture: While hard-core medieval philologists would not accept any claims for a “literary nominalism” unless direct textual dependence can be demonstrated, scholars in medieval studies and the comparative study of medieval literature have shown themselves more accepting of investigations which diagnose a certain nominalistic Zeitgeist, mentality, or milieu especially in late medieval culture; and scholars preferring presentist/postmodern approaches have wholeheartedly …
Hidden Spheres Of Politics, Chandan Gowda
Chaucer And The Discourse Of German Philology: An Addendum, Richard Utz
Chaucer And The Discourse Of German Philology: An Addendum, Richard Utz
Richard Utz
Contains several additions to the “Annotated Bibliography” of German and Austrian Chaucer criticism between 1793 and 1948 published in Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002)
Latvia: History, Steven R. Morrison, J. Michael Lyons
Latvia: History, Steven R. Morrison, J. Michael Lyons
Steven R Morrison
No abstract provided.
Latvia: The Economy, Steven R. Morrison
Συνοπτικό Διάγραμμα Προϊστορικής Αρχαιολογίας, Kosmas Touloumis
Συνοπτικό Διάγραμμα Προϊστορικής Αρχαιολογίας, Kosmas Touloumis
Kosmas Touloumis
A diagrammatic survey of the theory, the methods, the archeologists, the sites and the data of prehistoric archaeology in Greece.
Gender And Time In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Richard Utz
Gender And Time In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Richard Utz
Richard Utz
The word "time," as defined by cultural critic Norbert Elias in his essay on the sociology of knowledge, is a human symbol "for a relation which a group of human beings, who possess the biological capability of memorization and synthesis, establishes among several events, one of which they standardize as the frame of reference or measuring rod for the others". Similarly, Aaron Gurevic underlines there there are no universal definitions of space and time ...
Potted Histories: Cremation, Ceramics And Social Memory In Early Roman Britain,, Howard M. R. Williams
Potted Histories: Cremation, Ceramics And Social Memory In Early Roman Britain,, Howard M. R. Williams
Howard M. R. Williams
Archaeologists have identified the adoption of new forms of cremation ritual during the early Roman period in south-east Britain. Cremation may have been widely used by communities in the Iron Age, but the distinctive nature of these new rites was their frequent placing of the dead within, and associated with, ceramic vessels. This paper suggests an interpretation for the social meaning of these cremation burial rites that involved the burial of ashes with and within pots as a means of commemoration. In this light, the link between cremation and pottery in early Roman Britain can be seen as a means …
Death Warmed Up: The Agency Of Bodies And Bones In Early Anglo-Saxon Cremation Rites, Howard M. R. Williams
Death Warmed Up: The Agency Of Bodies And Bones In Early Anglo-Saxon Cremation Rites, Howard M. R. Williams
Howard M. R. Williams
It is argued that recent archaeological theories of death and burial have tended to overlook the social and mnemonic agency of the dead body. Drawing upon anthropological, ethnographic and forensic analogies for the effects of fire on the human body, together with Gell’s theory of the agency of inanimate objects, the article explores the cremation rites of early Anglo-Saxon England. As a case study in the archaeological study of the mnemonic agency of bodies and bones it is suggested that cremation and postcremation rites in the 5th and 6th centuries AD in eastern England operated as technologies of remembrance. Cremation …
[Review] History Of Oceanography: Abstracts Of The Vii International Congress Of The History Of Oceanography. V.L. Stryuk (General Editor) (2003), Enrique Wulff
Enrique Wulff
No abstract provided.
[Review] El Instituto De Investigaciones Pesqueras: Tres Décadas De Historia De La Investigación Marina Española. Ángel Guerra Sierra & Ricardo Prego Reboredo (2003), Enrique Wulff
Enrique Wulff
No abstract provided.
[Review] Historia De La Sección De Corrosión De La Asociación De Químicos De Cataluña (1960-2002). Enrique Julve Y Juan Cullell (2003), Enrique Wulff
[Review] Historia De La Sección De Corrosión De La Asociación De Químicos De Cataluña (1960-2002). Enrique Julve Y Juan Cullell (2003), Enrique Wulff
Enrique Wulff
No abstract provided.
[Review] 90º Aniversario. El Instituto Español De Oceanografía: Sus Orígenes Y Primeras Investigaciones. Juan Pérez De Rubín (2004), Enrique Wulff
[Review] 90º Aniversario. El Instituto Español De Oceanografía: Sus Orígenes Y Primeras Investigaciones. Juan Pérez De Rubín (2004), Enrique Wulff
Enrique Wulff
No abstract provided.
[Review] Historia De La Bioestadística: La Génesis, La Normalidad Y La Crisis. José Almenara Barrios, Luis Carlos Silva Ayçaguer, Alina Benavides Rodríguez, Cesáreo García Ortega, Juan Luis González, Juan Luis González Caballero (2003), Enrique Wulff
Enrique Wulff
No abstract provided.
Spanish And Mamluk Carpets: Comparisons Of Decoration And Structure, Carol Bier
Spanish And Mamluk Carpets: Comparisons Of Decoration And Structure, Carol Bier
Carol Bier
Two recent exhibitions, Carpets of Andalusia and Mamluk Rugs from Egypt, at The Textile Museum afforded a rare opportunity to compare two radically different rug-weaving traditions from the perspectives of design and weave structure. While not often evident to the casual viewer, there is a significant relationship between design, pattern, and weave structure in all Oriental carpets. The opportunity to explore such differences warrants careful examination and critical viewing.The Mamluk rugs all probably date from the last quarter of the 15th century. They comprise a cohesive group defined by color, a geometric style, and similarity of weave characteristics.
City, Chronicle, Chronotope: Re-Constructing And Writing Old Quito, Ernesto B. Capello
City, Chronicle, Chronotope: Re-Constructing And Writing Old Quito, Ernesto B. Capello
Ernesto B. Capello
No abstract provided.