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Ney, Stephen. "Samuel Ajayi Crowther’s Journeys in Christian and Islamic Book History." Social Sciences and Missions 32, no. 1-2 (May 3, 2019): 31–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18748945-03103002.
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Abstract Samuel Ajayi Crowther, the Yoruba linguist and Anglican missionary bishop, interacted in the 1870s with communities of multilingual Islamic scholars on the north fringe of Yorubaland. This essay uses contemporary scholarship on the book culture of Ilọrin to shed light on Crowther’s letters, in particular his triumphant account of a formal audience with the emir of Ilọrin in 1872, during which his performance centred on the bilingual collection of Christian books he bore. He emphasized the uniqueness and novelty of his Christian books and their associated practices. Yet his accounts invite us to begin viewing Africa’s Christian and Islamic book histories through the same analytical frame, which reveals how they were constituted in part through their interactions. This allows us to see they had more in common than Crowther assumed and than many scholarly accounts of African book history assume, particularly in the areas of the physicality of books, the modes of performance associated with books, and the interpersonal transactions that books facilitate.
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Bigold, Melanie. "Women's Book Ownership in Wales, c.1770–1830: The Ladies of Llangollen, Hester Thrale Piozzi and Elizabeth Greenly." Welsh History Review / Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru 31, no. 1 (June 1, 2022): 126–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.16922/whr.31.1.6.
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In A Nation and its Books (1998), numerous chapters emphasise the cultural impact of book collecting in Wales; however, apart from one entry, a history of women's book ownership is largely absent. This article seeks to redress this imbalance by providing an account of three women's libraries in Wales from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The records for these libraries provide statistical evidence about book-buying trends, as well as information about the materiality of the books, and the spaces they were housed in. Importantly, revisiting such collections helps differentiate and document women's cultural legacies through books in Wales.
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Wheeler, Brannon. "History Testifies to the Infallibility of the Qur'an." American Journal of Islam and Society 19, no. 4 (October 1, 2002): 145–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v19i4.1908.
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Dr. Fatoohi and Prof. al-Dargazelli have produced an intriguing and farreachingcomparison of the Bible and the Qur' an relating to Moses and theIsraelites. Both authors are kha/ifahs of Shaykh Muhammad al-Casnazanial-Husseini of the Aliyyah Qadiriyyah Casnazaniyyah Sufi tariqah. Theyhold degrees in physics from Baghdad University and Durham University,and have authored numerous books, especially on Sufism, in Arabic andEnglish.Although readers might expect this book to address literary and culturalissues surrounding the shared but different accounts of Moses and theIsraelites in the Bible and the Qur'an, the authors have chosen to focus ondemonstrating the Qur'an's historical accuracy. Dividing their book intoIO chapters, they argue alternately that the Bible is inconsistent and historicallyinaccurate, while the Qur'an is consistent and confirmed byexternal historical evidence. The Biblical account of Moses and theIsraelites is not directly compared to the Qur'anic account; rather, theBible is used primarily as a foil to emphasize what the authors see as theQur'an's reliability. For example, while the authors point out that the Bibleappears to give various names for Moses' father-in-law (Exodus 2: I 8, 3: I, ...
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Rojas, Fabio, and Alisha Kirchoff. "Books, History, and Black Lives." Contexts 21, no. 4 (November 2022): 6–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15365042221131072.
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Khalil Gibran Muhammad is the Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. He directs the Institutional Antiracism and Account- ability Project and is the former Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library and the world’s leading library and archive of global black history. Before leading the Schomburg Center, Khalil was an associate professor at Indiana University. He recently sat down with Contexts Co-Editor Fabio Rojas and Production Manager Alisha Kirchoff to discuss his career and research.
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Hildebrand Schat, Viola. "Spatiotemporal Concepts in Book Art." Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, no. 101-102 (April 6, 2021): 253–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.37522/aaav.101.2021.71.
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The perception of a book as an architectonical construction is a well-known fact. We could use the stage as a metaphor for the book, or, in other concepts the book becomes the equivalent of an exhibition space or even replaces it. In all these metaphoric circumlocutions the book not only reproduces content, but itself functions as an exhibition place, a stage, or another conception of space. Curiously enough, the consideration of the material aspects of books are taken into account at a time when digitalisation seems to dissolve the material body of books and, while theory makes it clear that texts and books are not equivalent. Therefore the question of what characterises a book is raised again. This question must take into account the variety of different approaches to books throughout the centuries. The perception of the book and, moreover, its relation with the user or reader becomes visible mainly through material aspects. The awareness of the spatial dimension of a book goes back to at least the Medieval period or even earlier.
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Pavlenko, S. V. "Children’s books in Canada: history of development and current issues." Bibliosphere, no. 4 (February 18, 2021): 52–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.20913/1815-3186-2020-4-52-60.
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The article studies the history of the development of children’s books in Canada. The author emphasises the main political, socio-economic and cultural factors that affect this process and form its unique characteristics. The hypothesis that «Canadian cultural identity» cannot yet be defined since it is continually, significantly affected by domestic issues and foreign cultures is proposed and analysed.The author analyses the historical way of Canadian children’s book development. The different stages of this development are taken into account: from the total domination of foreign children’s books on the Canadian market to the resurrection and reflection of the First Nation people’s history and culture in the new books of Canadian writers. The author suggests that the modern stage of the Canadian Children’s books existence gives these books a power to become an instrument of Canadian cultural identification.Different concepts of formation of the term Canadian children’s books are evaluated and their commonality and differences are underlined. The author defines the criteria that modern researchers, writers, publishers, cultural foundations and non-profit organizations use to describe the uniqueness of Canadian children’s books.The system of government and private financial support for Canadian writers, illustrators and publishers is described. The main strategies for support and promotion of Canadian children’s books inside Canada are analysed.
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Wootton, Charles W., and Mary Virginia Moore. "The legal status of account books in colonial America." Accounting History 5, no. 1 (May 2000): 33–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/103237320000500103.
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Barrow, Tony. "THE ACCOUNT BOOKS OF THEDISKO BAYOF NEWCASTLE, 1784–1802." Mariner's Mirror 81, no. 2 (January 1995): 171–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00253359.1995.10656545.
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Mirzorakhimov, A. "HISTORICAL AND RELIGIOUS LITHOGRAPHIC BOOKS ON THE LITERARY HERITAGE OF UZBEKISTAN." CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF HISTORY 03, no. 11 (November 1, 2022): 24–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/history-crjh-03-11-05.
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Although books on the history of Central Asian petroglyphs have been widely published, no scientific research has been carried out in this regard to date. Of course, there are specific reasons for this situation, first of all, the rise of ideas that the people of Central Asia were backward and illiterate in the period before the October coup d'état of 1917, attempts to falsify knowledge about historical periods that educate the population in the spirit of patriotism and freedom, the study of lithographic books about history hindered in a way. Also, the focus on handwritten books in the coverage of historical processes has led to the exclusion of historical lithographic books. However, lithographic books were important not only from a source point of view, but also from a social point of view. It should be noted that the wider spread of manuscript books, as well as the social factor of lithographic books, allowed for the wide distribution of important historical sources among the population. Taking into account the fact that the work “History of Mullozoda” was published several times in lithographs, it is possible to know how widespread it was among the population [1].
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Herbert, Sandra. "Charles Darwin as a prospective geological author." British Journal for the History of Science 24, no. 2 (June 1991): 159–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087400027060.
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On occasion Charles Darwin can seem our scientific contemporary, for the subjects he engaged remain engaging today, but in his role as author he belongs to the past. It is not customary today for scientists to write book after book, as Darwin did, or for these books to serve as the primary vehicle of scientific communication. For Darwin, however, the book was central. He wrote at least eighteen, depending on what one counts; in hisAutobiographyhe entitled the section describing his most important work ‘An account how several books arose’; and in his personal Journal, begun in August 1838 after he had come to a mature sense of himself, he organized entries around his books. A characteristic entry is that for 1846: ‘Oct. 1st. Finished last proof of my Geolog. Observ. on S. America; This volume, including Paper in Geolog. Journal on the Falkland Islands took me 18 & 1/2 months:–’. Further, almost always he had a book under way: when one was complete, the next was begun. He called them the milestones to his life.
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Khromov, Oleg. "Books from Sofia library in the cyrillic book collection at the Russian state library." St. Tikhons' University Review 110 (February 28, 2023): 29–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.15382/sturii2023110.29-39.
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The article tires to identify early printed editions from Novgorod churches and monasteries as part of the Russian State Library (RSL) collection. It shows the way they got to the RSL and provides a method for their attribution. In the XVIII century, the books were collected in the St. Sophia Cathedral library in Novgorod. In the middle of the XIX century, some of them were brought to the library of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy. In the 1870s, the idea of exchanging book duplicates between the St. Petersburg Theological Academy and the Moscow Public and Rumyantsev’s Museums arose. It was supported by His Eminence Metropolitan of St. Petersburg, Novgorod and Finland Isidore. In 1874, the Rumyantsev’s Museum received 126 books. Among them, there were books from the Kirillo-Belozersk Monastery, the Sofia Library and some items of an unknown origin (without owner's signs). The article shows the methodology and process of attribution the books from Novgorod monasteries and churches based on the study of owners’ signs (for example, dedicatory inscriptions, authographs and other notes) taking in account the history of the Sofia Library collection. There were some contributions from the nobility, for example, D. M. Bashmakov, a statesman of the 17th century; or Princess Natalia Kirillovna, a mother of Peter I, who made a donation to the Novgorod Convent of Great martyr Euphemia the Glorious. This fact allows us to look at the history of monastic libraries in a more detailed way exploring their parts. The attribution of the books of Novgorod origin at the RSL collection illustrates the research method for regional Cyrillic book collections, which for the most part remains unexplored.Keywords: the early Cyrillic printed books, the Sofia Library, Novgorod Books, editions of the Moscow Printing House, the history of libraries, St. Petersburg Theological Academy, monastic and church libraries, books of Ancient Russia, regional collections of old printed books.
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Bailey, Richard W. "Gerry Knowles, A cultural history of the English language. London: Arnold, 1997. Pp. x, 180. Hb $59.95, pb $20.00." Language in Society 29, no. 1 (January 2000): 131–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500251038.
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In his preface, Knowles makes clear what his book is not. It is not a history of literary English, and it is not an account of changes in linguistic form; it is a “cultural history.” In the introductory chapter, he declares: “In view of the close connection between language and power, it is impossible to treat the history of the language without reference to politics” (9). Of course, books that purport to be histories of English have often “treated” the subject without apparent politics. Knowles is right in alleging that the politics of such books has often been implicit, since most of them provide information about the ascent of one variety of the language to the elevated status of a standard – as if that were an inevitable and desirable result of the spirit of goodness working itself out through speech.
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Orbayy, Kayhan. "ACCOUNT BOOKS OF THE IMPERIAL WAQFS (CHARITABLE ENDOWMENTS) IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN (15th TO 19th CENTURIES)1." Accounting Historians Journal 40, no. 1 (June 1, 2013): 31–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/0148-4184.40.1.31.
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ABSTRACT The history of accounting in the Eastern Mediterranean has not been adequately studied through its primary sources, despite the fact that the Turkish archives house an enormous amount of material for exploring accounting practices in the Ottoman Empire. Ottomanists used the account books as sources for Ottoman socioeconomic and institutional history. They analyzed, fully transliterated and published the account registers of the central treasury, the Istanbul shipyard and the waqf institutions. Nevertheless, accounting historians did not even show interest into published archival sources up until recent years. Owing to a few recent works that were based on the primary sources, nowadays accounting historians are more and more aware of the richness and significance of Ottoman archives for accounting history and for comparative accounting research as well. This study introduces the account books kept in the Ottoman waqf institutions between the 15th and 19th centuries in order to raise awareness of the Eastern Mediterranean accounting tradition and to spark further in-depth and comparative works focused on the history, functioning, role and change of accounting in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Ryabova, Maria. "The Account Books of the Soranzo Fraterna (Venice 1406–1434) and Their Place in the History of Bookkeeping." Accounting Historians Journal 45, no. 1 (June 1, 2018): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/aahj-10580.
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ABSTRACT This paper contributes to the study of the accounting and legal practice existing in the Venetian Republic in the late Middle Ages. The author examines two account books created by the Soranzo fraterna, a trading firm organized as a family partnership and operating in the first half of the 15th century. The larger of the surviving ledgers, known as the libro real novo, is generally considered to be the earliest extant Venetian example of double-entry bookkeeping. New sources discovered by the author in the State Archives of Venice confirm that the libro real novo represents a compilation of accounts (a so-called estratto) prepared in view of a complicated litigation at the giudici di petizion court. The detailed examination of the judicial conflict in question reveals the purposes behind the composition of this book and the impact that the circumstances of its creation had on the accounting techniques used. JEL Classifications: M41; N73; N83.
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Barreiros, Bruno, and Palmira Fontes da Costa. "Materia Medica and the History of the Book in Seventeenth-Century Portugal." Nuncius 36, no. 2 (June 23, 2021): 394–430. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18253911-03602007.
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Abstract This article provides an analysis of the most successful books on materia medica printed in Portugal in the seventeenth century and their influence on subsequent works. The study is informed by methodologies and concerns from the field of the history of the book and pays particular attention to paratexts, genres as well as to physical formats. It shows that these elements were fundamental in defining intended audiences and in constructing strategies of legitimation for their authors. In addition, it assesses issues of readership by considering the marginalia preserved in some copies of these books. The investigation has also into account a significant number of manuscripts on the subject. In spite of their limited circulation, this article shows the advantage of manuscript culture in the dissemination of knowledge on materia medica. Since they could circumvent censorship, particularly in the case of chemical remedies, they reveal a more open approach towards therapeutic innovations and the integration of new ideas and practices.
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Howley, Joseph A. "Book-Burning and the Uses of Writing in Ancient Rome: Destructive Practice between Literature and Document." Journal of Roman Studies 107 (July 10, 2017): 213–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0075435817000764.
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ABSTRACTThis article examines the burning of written material at Rome from the Republican period until the rise of Christianity, using the lens of book history. It considers why and how Romans burned written material, gathering for the first time all testimony of burning any kind of writing, and examines responses to these burnings in ancient discourse. A capacious, book-historical approach to Roman book-burning shows that differences in practice and uses — of books as opposed to documents, for example — account for the different consequences Romans saw for burning different written media.
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Shumeyko, Mikhail F. "Book Projects on the 100th Anniversary of Belarusian State University." Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences 64, no. 5 (November 1, 2021): 151–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.30727/0235-1188-2021-64-5-151-159.
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The article provides an overview of the books published in the Republic of Belarus for the 100th anniversary of the Belarusian State University. Four books prepared in the form of essays by faculty members of several departments (history, international relations, mechanics and mathematics) and the Fundamental Library. The greatest attention is paid to two such works. Peer-reviewed jubilee editions give a comprehensive idea of the history of the university, its structure in different years, the current state, and faculty potential. It has been established that the editions are based on rich source material. In this aspect, the work titled Unknown V.I. Picheta is especially significant, as it acquaints the reader with a previously unpublished book Review of the Activities of the Fist Western Committee by the first rector of the Belarusian State University, an outstanding historian, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the BSSR Academy of Sciences V.I. Picheta. The article point out that this book, supplemented with several dozen letters from Picheta’s correspondence with twenty colleagues, students (mainly from the time of the book’s composition), will arouse great interest in the scientific community of Belarus, Russia, and other countries. The review briefly analyzes the structure and content of the book, published in 2019, for the 130th anniversary of the university philosopher, vice-rector and dean S.Z. Katzenbogen. It is concluded that all publications do not only celebrate the anniversary of the first university in Belarus but also, taking into account their scientific component, contribute to the deepening of the study of the history of the development of Belarusian science and culture of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
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Socha, Klaudia. "The Sources for the Studies on the Development of the Publishing Market and Book Prices in the 18th-century Poland." Z Badań nad Książką i Księgozbiorami Historycznymi 17, no. 1 (July 27, 2023): 9–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.33077/uw.25448730.zbkh.2023.757.
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The article focuses on the book production in the 18th century, referring to the preserved documents enabling studies on the publishing process, and the development of book prices at the final period of the noble Polish Republic. Preserved account books present management strategies of publishing companies, the cost of materials, and ways to price the work of typesetters and printers. The other source consists of inserate prints announcing publishing subscriptions, and giving accounts of subsequent editorial and printing works. These materials are extremely valuable, as there are only a very few of them preserved in Poland due to changing fortunes of the printing houses.
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Goldman, Robert P. "Augmenting the Past: Historical and Political Consciousness in Vālmīki’s Uttarakāṇḍa." Studies in History 34, no. 2 (May 14, 2018): 182–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0257643018772406.
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The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki, although widely renowned as a kāvya, and, indeed, as the very origin and inspiration of the entire genre of poetry, is also understood to be an itihāsa, a history. It shares, in fact, both non-mutually exclusive genre designations with its sister epic, the Mahābhārata. Nonetheless, the central books of the work, particularly kāṇḍas two through six, in large measure read as much like a romance as they do an account of human military and political history. In this article, I argue that the lack of such history in these books was a concern of the authors of the epic’s seventh and final kāṇḍa, the Uttarakāṇḍa, and that one of the several functions of this important but generally understudied, frequently criticized and often excised book is to remedy this perceived lack. In support of this argument, I compare the treatment of history in the Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata and examine a series of largely ignored Uttarakāṇḍa passages in which the authors appear to revise and extend the military and political history of the earlier kāṇḍas in ways suggestive of their reading of the Mahābhārata.
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Kirkham, Linda M., and Anne Loft. "THE LADY AND THE ACCOUNTS: MISSING FROM ACCOUNTING HISTORY?" Accounting Historians Journal 28, no. 1 (June 1, 2001): 67–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/0148-4184.28.1.67.
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Amanda Vickery's, The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England, [1998] provides a challenging and controversial account of the lives of genteel women in provincial England. In this review essay, we consider the implications of her insights and revelations for accounting history research. We argue that her work raises a number of issues concerning what and where accounting took place in the 18th century. In particular, it is suggested that the detailed ‘accounts’ contained within genteel women's pocket books were a means by which they came to ‘know’ their household in order to manage their duties and responsibilities. Accounting historians are encouraged to consider these ‘private’ records as a potentially illuminating source of material on accounting within and without the 18th-century household.
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King, Rachael Scarborough. "Ephemeral Improvement: Interactive Print and the Material Texts of Early Abolitionism." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 139, no. 2 (March 2024): 220–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s0030812924000166.
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AbstractThis article argues that a reliance on material texts tied to the concept of improvement—such as picturesque engravings, diagrams, and account books—pushed the early abolitionist movement toward a reforming, ameliorationist ethic that disavowed revolutionary action and immediate emancipation. Although the term improvement had broad social applicability by the late eighteenth century, its original connections to land management made it an especially important concept for the abolitionist debate. Integrating book history with studies of enslavement and abolition, I show how abolitionists’ use of visual-textual forms such as diagrams and account books created an emphasis on gradual improvement. In response, Black abolitionists both emphasized concepts other than improvement and presented their works in different material forms. Olaudah Equiano and Quobna Ottabah Cugoano adapted the genre of autobiography to demonstrate how their own ostensible improvements did not have the effects anticipated by the logic of white abolitionists, ultimately undercutting the usefulness of improvement as a guiding concept for abolitionism.
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Hampel, Robert L. "Books by Journalists on American Education." History of Education Quarterly 41, no. 1 (2001): 95–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5959.2001.tb00079.x.
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In 1995, Nicholas Lemann wrote an essay for the American Historical Review (AHR) in which he called himself a “non-academic historian” and described the rewards and challenges for that tribe. The Big Test should be scrutinized as the work of an historian, as this Forum does (and as I have done elsewhere, taking issue with his account of the formation of the Educational Testing Service in 1946 and 1947.) Here I will focus on the nonacademic part of Lemann's identity by comparing his work with several dozen books from his profession on American education.
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Pam, S. J., and Celia Miller. "The Account Books of Thomas Smith, Ireley Farm, Hailes, Gloucestershire, 1865-1871." Economic History Review 40, no. 1 (February 1987): 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2596303.
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Khrapunov, Nikita I. "The Account of the Crimean Khanate in a Treatise by Adrian de Verdy du Vernois." Golden Horde Review 11, no. 1 (March 29, 2023): 109–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.22378/2313-6197.2023-11-1.109-122.
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Research objectives: The aim of this article is to explore a lesser-known source that provides information about the Crimean Khanate – a treatise called “Essays on the Geography, Politics, and History of the Turkish Empire in Europe,” written by the French “armchair” scholar Adrian-Marie-François de Verdy du Vernois, who collected and summarized various materials on the history of the region in his work. Research materials: The article is based on an extract dedicated to the Crimea from the aforementioned treatise, which was published twice, in 1784 and 1785. This text has not yet been studied in Russian historiography. Results and novelty of the research: The study sheds light on the biography of de Verdy du Vernois, demonstrating the diversity of his scholarly interests. It is shown that during his work on the analyzed treatise, the Frenchman used a wide variety of sources, including books written by French diplomats and writers, encyclopedic works of “armchair” researchers, maps of the Northern Black Sea region, and state documents. The article reveals the information potential of the French treatise, which describes the geographical location and history of the Crimean Khanate, its relations with the Ottoman Sultan and the circumstances under which the Crimea accepted the Turkish protectorate, the ethnic structure of the state, the urban centres subordinated to the khan, the cities under Turkish power, the Russian interests in the Black Sea Area, and the Russo-Ottoman war of 1768–1774. Additionally, the article shows the place of the analyzed book among contemporary Western intellectuals’ perceptions of the Crimea and reveals erroneous and stereotypical views.
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ANDREAU, JEAN. "REGISTERS, ACCOUNT-BOOKS, AND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS IN THE DE FRUMENTO." Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 50, Supplement_97 (September 1, 2007): 81–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2007.tb02494.x.
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van der Poel, Marc. "Tacitean Elements in Grotius's Narrative of the Capture of Breda (1590) by Stadtholder Maurice, Count of Nassau (Historiae, Book 2)." Grotiana 30, no. 1 (2009): 207–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/016738309x12537002674600.
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AbstractThis article is part of the Dossier on Tacitus published in last year's issue of Grotiana. It offers a combined study of both the content and the language and style of Grotius' account of the capture of Breda in the second book of the Historiae, published in 1657 together with the Annales under the title Annales et Historiae de rebus Belgicis. A thorough analysis of Grotius' account of this eventful and dramatic turning point in the Dutch revolt reveals that it is nothing but a defective and occasionally unclear rehearsel of the standard narrative of the capture based on the well-known and in Grotius' day widely read history-books written in French and Dutch. The rather artificial imitation of Tacitus's brevitas on the stylistic level does not suffice to qualify Grotius's account as a masterful piece of Tacitean writing, because it does not highlight the motives of the chief characters in the story nor the connection between the events and their effects, and because Grotius fails to present his own perspective on this important episode in the war against Spain.
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Bogomazova, Anastasya A. "Sea Vessels of the Onega Cross Monastery in 1657–60." Herald of an archivist, no. 4 (2023): 995–1005. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2073-0101-2023-4-995-1005.
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The recent years have seen a growing scholars’ interest in the Russian North exploration, sea expeditions of the 16th–20th centuries, and fishing industry and maritime culture of the Pomor Russians. Northern monasteries, which owned salt and fishing industries along the shores of the White Sea, played an important role in the exploration of the North and in the development of traditional Russian shipbuilding and navigation. Thus, the Solovetsky Monastery had its own fleet in the 16th – 17th centuries. Unlike the Solovetsky Monastery’s fleet, ship economy of other Northern monasteries remains fragmentarily studied. The article analyzes first steps of the Onega Cross Monastery in creation of its own fleet: types of vessels, methods of their acquisition. The main sources are Transfer book (otvodnaya kniga) of the Onega Cross Monastery (1657) and account books for February 1657 – March 1661, stored in the fond of the Onega Cross Monastery in the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA). While the Transfer Book (i.e. inventory of the monastic property) recorded presence or absence of ships in a certain year, the account books traced their movement. The monastery’s account books are a valuable source on the history of its ship economy, containing various data on the monastery’s vessels: they record ships purchase and fitting-out, construction orders, and sales; names of artisans and of sellers or buyers; hire and lease of ships; their repair; hiring of the so-called “Boat Cossacks” (hired workers) and captains; captains’ names. The study is based on historical-genetic method. It shows that the monastery bought sea vessels from its very founding. The earliest mention of a sea vessel (karbass) purchase is recorded in the monastery’s account book and dated May 1657. In 1657–60, the monastery used karbasses and boats (pavozkas) for shallow water deliveries. The monastery yearly ordered construction of several vessels of each type or bought them; names of sellers or craftsmen were indicated. All of them were residents of villages on the Onega. The monastery also sold several ships.
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Poppy, Pat. "The Clothing Accessory Choices of Rachel, Countess of Bath, and Other Mid-Seventeenth-Century Women." Costume 54, no. 1 (March 2020): 3–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cost.2020.0141.
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This article examines the clothing accessory choices of Rachel, Countess of Bath, for the period of her first marriage, 1639–54. Her General Account Book listing purchases she made, and the other account books, from the Tawstock Estate in Devon and the London household, show the accessories she bought, both for herself and her servants. It will consider how much she spends on her accessories and, through the evidence of surviving tradesmen's and individuals' probate inventories, whether these accessories were also available and purchased by women lower down the social scale. It will look at the differences in accessory costs and fabrics across society.
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Salem, Paul. "EDGAR O'BALLANCE, Civil War in Lebanon, 1975–92 (London: MacMillan Press, 1998). Pp. 257. £22.00 cloth." International Journal of Middle East Studies 32, no. 2 (May 2000): 313–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002074380000249x.
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Edgar O'Ballance is a military journalist and historian who has covered more than twenty wars and insurgencies and written more than fifty books or monographs on conflicts in the Middle East, North Africa, Central Europe, and Asia. His book is a chronological blow-by-blow account of the Lebanese War (1975–90), including a brief account of the events leading to the breakdown of April 1975 and the events immediately following the conclusion of the war in October 1990. Strangely, the title of the book describes the Lebanese War as having extended until 1992. There is no explanation for this odd dating, although it is clear that the author concluded his research in 1992; the book itself ends its chronological accounting in late 1991.
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Lynch, Deidre. "Walter Scott's Loose Leaves: Books, Scraps, and Dispersive Reading." Novel 55, no. 3 (November 1, 2022): 480–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00295132-10007529.
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Abstract Novel studies and book history alike emphasize the significance of Walter Scott's creation of his Magnum Opus edition (1829–33): a repossession, on behalf of a newly individuated author and between the covers of a uniformly manufactured edition, of publications that had previously appeared as the works of sundry authorial eidolons. For a nineteenth-century culture of collected editions, this act of rebinding represented a foundational moment. But Scott's novels also figured prominently within a robust tradition of commonplacing and scrapbooking in which books were understood as things that came apart, literally and figuratively, as well as things that came together. Nineteenth-century readers were keen to cut up, recontextualize, and reboot Scott's printed works inside their own homemade manuscript volumes. Guided by their practices, we are able to see how Scott's own novels—particularly Waverley, Rob Roy, The Monastery—yield an alternative account of the book as something scrappy, loosely bound, and made through scissors and paste methods: a temporary gathering ready to be dispersed once more. This essay explores the implications of this alternative account of the book for our ideas of novelistic form, and in particular for what Elaine Freedgood has called the “diegetic illusion”: a way of conceptualizing texts as though they were tightly bound books, which understands novels as the containers for enclosed, bounded worlds. To trace these implications is to see how the dispersive readings that helped define Scott's nineteenth-century afterlife might also prove useful points of reference for twenty-first-century efforts to decolonize novel studies’ understanding of its object.
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Jones, Amelia. "Chronological Dyslexia: Remembering/Representing/Performing Aids." ARTMargins 12, no. 1 (February 1, 2023): 92–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/artm_r_00339.
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Abstract Exploring two major books on the visual and performance histories of the ongoing and historical AIDS crisis in the US and beyond—Brian Getnick's edited volume Final Transmission and Avram Finkelstein's firsthand account, After Silence—this review asks how we have come to contemplate and understand the intensities, losses, and absences of the AIDS catastrophe. Drawing on theories on death, dying, and the cultural expressions around them, the review puts pressure on the particular offerings of these two very different books, ultimately pulling out passionate moments of vulnerability and self-reflexivity in each book as the most effective and powerful ruminations on global crises such as the AIDS pandemic.
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Kuzmin, I. A. "Typology of the genre of military memoirs using the example of “Seven Pillars of Wisdom” by Lawrence of Arabia." Science and School, no. 1 (February 29, 2024): 21–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.31862/1819-463x-2024-1-21-27.
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The article establishes the features of such a genre modification as military memoirs. The author reveals the main features, required for creating books in this genre. He also demonstrates the secondary features, which representatives of the genre can also have in some cases. As an example the author uses the military account of the British military man and writer Thomas Edward Lawrence, aka Lawrence of Arabia, titled “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”. This book is a late representative of this genre, which appeared in Ancient Greece. So Lawrence’s book has all the main features of this genre modification with a long history of formation and development.
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Heyck, Thomas William. "The Decline of Christianity in Twentieth-Century Britain." Albion 28, no. 3 (1996): 437–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4052171.
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The history of religion in Britain—as distinct from church or ecclesiastical history—is making an impressive comeback in the consciousness of historians, with important implications for British cultural and social history. Not least affected is the history of Britain in the twentieth century. Fifteen years ago, the well-known social historian Alan Gilbert published his The Making of Post-Christian Britain, which soon became the standard account of the secularization of British society since the eighteenth century. Taking off from careful statistical surveys of Christian church membership and participation that he had done in two earlier books, and looking for explanation to a very broad range of cultural, economic, and social factors, Gilbert presented an argument that has seemed so powerful as to be an almost irresistible account of the apparent fact of the secularization of Britain. More recently, however, both religious historians and sociologists of religion have begun to question not only Gilbert's premises and argument, but also the very concept of secularization. The result of this questioning, exemplified by the books here reviewed, is a major controversy concerning the recent history of religion in Britain.
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Lingga, Salman Al Farisi, Salminawati Salminawati, Ahmad Mustaqim, and Pandi Kurniawan. "History of the Development of Philosophy and Science in the Islamic Age." Solo International Collaboration and Publication of Social Sciences and Humanities 1, no. 01 (September 10, 2023): 01–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.61455/sicopus.v1i01.5.
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The type of research that the author uses is a type of qualitative research using a content analysis approach, or it can be called content research. This analysis is a research technique for making a conclusion or inference that can be replicated and the correctness of the data by taking into account the context. The object of this research is explored through various information in the form of books, interpretations, and journals. This journal aims to discuss Islamic philosophy, born from the holy book of Muslims themselves because it contains many verses that tell people to think. On the other hand, because of the incessant efforts made by Alexander the Great in conquering important cities such as Egypt, Iraq, Syria, and Persia, cultural centres were later established in these important cities which helped develop Alexander's efforts in developing knowledge. Greek knowledge and philosophy.
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Ulum, Muhammad Bahrul. "Book Review: Asma Afsaruddin, The First Muslims History and Memory (Oxford: Oneworld Publication, 2011) pp. xx + 254. Paperback: $19.95." e-Journal Lentera Hukum 4, no. 3 (December 16, 2017): 237. http://dx.doi.org/10.19184/ejlh.v4i3.6176.
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This is one of remarkably few recent books devoted to the Islamic theoretical conversation of constitutional law, by considering the genesis of polity within the Muslim community through historical, political, theological, and legal perspectives. The book provides the contentious concept of jihad and Islamic state which is perceived as the early Muslims’ legacy in this contemporary world. Specifically, it opens a window into the way of understanding the Muslim history by contesting Muhammad’s tolerant polity and the current extremism notion attached to Islam. Beginning the chapter, Asma Afsaruddin, an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame, presents an account of the dawn of Islam brought by the Prophet Muhammad. She takes the lifetime of Muhammad into an account of how the early Muslim community would be shaped from the age of ignorance (Al-Jahiliyya). The term Al-Jahiliyya refers to the time of recklessness and disregard for certain moral, spiritual, and social values revered by Muslims and other righteous people (p. 3).
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JONES, DEWI. "“Nature-formed botanists”: notes on some nineteenth century botanical guides of Snowdonia." Archives of Natural History 29, no. 1 (February 2002): 31–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2002.29.1.31.
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During the nineteenth century mountain guides could be hired at almost all the inns and hotels of Snowdonia; they were local men self-educated in subjects like botany and geology. In 1838 Edwin Lees while staying at The Dolbadara, Llanberis, an inn with a long tradition with the Snowdon guides, hired the services of such a man. Names of local guides are sparsely found among the pages of visitors-books kept in the huts on Snowdon's summit, inscribed for posterity by the Victorians, also in rare guide-books and on slate tombstones. Tom Jones of Beddgelert was guide to Sir Henry De la Beche during his geological survey of Snowdon. William Williams the botanical guide, known locally as „Will boots”, an expert on Arctic-alpine plant localities, met his end when his rope broke while he was gathering a rare fern for a client on Snowdon. Slate-quarryman Hugh Lewis, who showed Charles Babington the locality of another rare fern, was also guide to a mysterious lady fern-collector who published an account of her mountain adventures under the pseudonym „Filix-foemina” in a gardening periodical. John Hughes, whose pocket-book is still kept in the family, bears testimony of clients who benefited from his extensive local knowledge on geology and botany.
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Fridenson, Patrick. "Business and the Shop Floor." Contemporary European History 2, no. 1 (March 1993): 81–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777300000321.
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Historians of Europe need to take into account these two new books of general business history, as they throw new light on the European economy and society. Their approach, however, is different: Chandler, an historian of America, ventures into two European countries; Lazonick, an historian of Britain, now deals also with the US; Chandler's ambitions are to attempt a comparative history of industrial organisations, whereas Lazonick focuses on the workplace.
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CHARTIER, ROGER. "THE ORDER OF BOOKS REVISITED." Modern Intellectual History 4, no. 3 (October 4, 2007): 509–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479244307001382.
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The Order of Books was published in France in 1992 and translated into English in 1994. I have to confess that I had not reread it since, and perhaps I would have never read it again had I not been invited to do so for this exercise. The central aim of that book was to try to understand something of how in the period between the fourteenth and the eighteenth century the written word was classified, organized, and perceived by all the actors involved within the trajectory of the text, from authors to publishers and printers, from the printing shop to the library. I will begin by recounting some of the factors in my own intellectual life that I believe led up to that book, and go on to reflect on the arguments that I posited in 1992, in the hope of giving some account of the ways in which that earlier work might today be supplemented.
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Nurrohimah, Binti, Rikah Rikah, M. Kelvin Zudhianshah, and Ming Ming Lukiarti. "PENGEMBANGAN USAHA DESA WISATA RELIGI DI DESA TUYUHAN KECAMATAN PANCUR KABUPATEN REMBANG." Buletin Abdi Masyarakat 3, no. 1 (August 15, 2022): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.47686/bam.v3i1.513.
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Mentoring is an activity in community empowerment by placing assistants who act as facilitators, communicators, and dynamists. In this case, service assistance with Pokdarwis in Tuyuhan Village, Pancur District, Rembang Regency. The problems faced by Pokdarwis include the lack of popularity of Maqam Mbah Djumali, no list of attendance books for pilgrims, no genealogy that explains the history of Maqam Mbah Djumali, no Pokdarwis google account and social media accounts, and the location of Maqam Mbah Djumali is not yet available. registered.Based on these problems, the implementing team made a program plan to introduce the existence of Maqam Mbah Djumali, namely by carrying out marketing carried out through online media, making attendance lists for pilgrims, making genealogies that explain the history of Maqam Mbah Djumali, creating gmail accounts, creating accounts. Instagram social media, to registration of business locations on Google Maps.The results of the program implementation by the implementing Team with Pokdarwis are making an attendance list for pilgrims, making banners, creating a Pokdarwis google account, creating Instagram social media accounts as marketing media, and registering business locations on google maps to make it easier to find addresses.Keywords: Mentoring, Pokdarwis, and Maqam Mbah Djumali.
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Tomkó, Zoltán. "Kalapács és üllő között." Belvedere Meridionale 33, no. 2 (2021): 56–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/belv.2021.2.3.
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In 1571, Christian Schesaeus (1535?–1585) published his most important work, the four-book historical account entitled Ruina Pannonica, in Wittenberg. This verse work covers the history of Hungary from 1540 until 1552. The Wittenberg edition also contains the three-book Historia de bello Pannonico about Suleiman I’s final campaign in Hungary, which took place in 1566. Centuries later manuscripts were found containing five books which were identified as books V-VIII and XII of the Ruina Pannonica. Josef Trausch proposed that the apparently missing books IX-XI were in fact the three books of the Historia de bello Pannonico. István Hegedűs even asserted that from the beginning Schesaeus wanted to write a great epos in twelve books on the model of Vergil’s Aeneid, centering around the life and rule of John II (1540-1571). He also viewed Schesaeus as a precursor of transylvanianism. On the basis of these assumptions, Ferenc Csonka, the editor of the Schesaeus corpus, published a twelve-book edition of the Ruina Pannonica. Péter Kulcsár argued that this editorial decision was problematic on several grounds, holding that while Schesaeus did have the intention of expanding his work, he never completed this project. In this paper, I argue that the four books of the Ruina Pannonica published in Wittenberg constitute a complete work with its own cohesive message and objectives, that the original idea has certainly not been to write a long work covering the period from 1540 until 1571 and concentrating on John II, who was still alive when the work was written, and that Schesaeus can hardly be considered a precursor of transylvanianism.
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Costeloe, Michael P. "Prescott's History Of The Conquest And Calderon de la Barca's Life In Mexico: Mexican Reaction, 1843-1844." Americas 47, no. 3 (January 1991): 337–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1006804.
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In 1843, two friends, one Scottish and one American, published books about Mexico which were to become essential reading for students of Mexican history. Much the better known of the two is William Hickling Prescott whose History of the Conquest of Mexico became an instant best-seller and remains to this day one of the classics of Mexican historiography. Less well-known but equally valuable to historians of nineteenth-century Mexico is Frances Calderón de la Barca's vivid account of Life in Mexico based on her experiences during the two years from 1840-1841 when she lived in the country as the wife of the first Spanish ambassador. By coincidence, Prescott and Sra. Calderón were close personal friends and regular correspondents and they gave each other much assistance in preparing their respective books for publication. Both their works were greeted with critical and public acclaim in the English-speaking world of Europe and North America but reactions in Mexico were markedly different. While Prescott's book was received with qualified enthusiasm, Life in Mexico was the subject of hostile reviews and its author much vitriolic, personal abuse.
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ORBAY, Kayhan. "Structure and Content of the Waqf Account Books as Sources for Ottoman Economic and Institutional History." Turcica 39 (December 31, 2007): 3–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/turc.39.0.2033057.
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Costeloe, Michael P. "Prescott's History Of The Conquest And Calderon de la Barca's Life In Mexico: Mexican Reaction, 1843-1844." Americas 47, no. 03 (January 1991): 337–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003161500016734.
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In 1843, two friends, one Scottish and one American, published books about Mexico which were to become essential reading for students of Mexican history. Much the better known of the two is William Hickling Prescott whose History of the Conquest of Mexico became an instant best-seller and remains to this day one of the classics of Mexican historiography. Less well-known but equally valuable to historians of nineteenth-century Mexico is Frances Calderón de la Barca's vivid account of Life in Mexico based on her experiences during the two years from 1840-1841 when she lived in the country as the wife of the first Spanish ambassador. By coincidence, Prescott and Sra. Calderón were close personal friends and regular correspondents and they gave each other much assistance in preparing their respective books for publication. Both their works were greeted with critical and public acclaim in the English-speaking world of Europe and North America but reactions in Mexico were markedly different. While Prescott's book was received with qualified enthusiasm, Life in Mexico was the subject of hostile reviews and its author much vitriolic, personal abuse.
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Lau, David. "Drastic Measures in Los Angeles." Boom 3, no. 2 (2013): 82–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/boom.2013.3.2.82.
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This essay is a review of two recent books of criticism: Bill Mohr's account of the Los Angeles poetry scene and Ignacio Lopez-Calvo's account of recent film and fiction set in Latino L.A. The essay argues for a conception of L.A. rooted in understanding the political and economic history of the city, and concludes with some speculation on the future of cultural production in the southern California region.
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Sheikh, Samira. "Persian in the Villages, or, the Language of Jamiat Rai’s Account Books." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 64, no. 5-6 (November 26, 2021): 693–751. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685209-12341551.
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Abstract District (pargana)-level land revenue administration in late-Mughal south Gujarat was run mostly by Hindu and Jain family firms which operated within a multilingual environment featuring Gujarati and Marathi as well as Persian. Similar arrangements continued under early East India Company control but, by the 1820s, the British had done away with land-revenue family firms and their contextual multilingualism, replacing them with directly-employed village accountants writing only in Gujarati. This article argues that pargana-level officials’ multilingualism and relative autonomy were not an 18th-century aberration but a key feature of Mughal administration, dislodged with difficulty by the British.
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Kuter, Mikhail, Marina Gurskaya, and Dmitriy Aleinikov. "The earlier synthetic balance sheet of Datini's Company in Avignon (1410): The combined accounting system." De Computis - Revista Española de Historia de la Contabilidad 17, no. 1 (June 29, 2020): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.26784/issn.1886-1881.v17i1.371.
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When studying accounting history, the use of archival sources is very important. Unfortunately, when scholars explore the genesis of accounting practice, archival sources are not often used. This paper does so, presenting a detailed explanation of features of the accounting system used by Francesco di Marco Datini’s’ company in Avignon 14091410. This accounting system used stocktaking and double entry in order to determination of the operating result and produce an analytical balance sheet. This study analyzed the Quaderno di Ragionamento (the book for drawing-up final accounts, including the financial result) with the aim of clarifying the features of this process. It also investigated the procedure used in preparing the synthetic balance sheet, a process not known previously elsewhere. This research was based on the archival material comprising of account books of the medieval merchant company of Datini, preserved in the State Archive in Prato.
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Sirks, Boudewijn. "Did the published Theodosian Code include obsolete constitutions?" Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis / Revue d'histoire du droit / The Legal History Review 89, no. 1-2 (May 10, 2021): 70–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718190-12340003.
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Summary It is a point of contention whether the Theodosian Code contains also obsolete constitutions as foreseen for the projected interim code of CTh 1,1,5, or only valid constitutions (with the exception of Book 16). The text of CTh 1,1,6 is unclear in this point and seems to be a mere continuation of the plan of CTh 1,1,5. However, it appears that the first view does not take into account other statements of Theodosius, and that research into particular subjects shows the compilers have rendered a logically consistent review of the law, without superfluous texts. In view of this evidence it is better to assume that also elsewhere in the Books 1 to 15 as a rule only valid laws were included.
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Jenkins, Philip. "Tory Industrialism and Town Politics: Swansea in the Eighteenth Century." Historical Journal 28, no. 1 (March 1985): 103–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x00002235.
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In the last two decades, British urban history has flourished. The Tudor and Stuart periods have attracted particular attention, so that we are well informed on the party factions and politics of this time. There are excellent general accounts by Drs Clark, Slack and others; and notable local studies like Dr Evans' account of Norwich. However, it is interesting that early eighteenth-century towns are by no means as well covered, especially in the area of politics. We have studies of Norwich and the West Midlands, but these mostly concern the period after 1760. On the first half of the century, most of the available published material comes from incidental references in books on broader party politics and organization; for instance in works by Drs Holmes, Brewer and Colley.
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Korogodina, Maria Vladimirovna. "Variation of the script in the East-Slavonic manuscripts of the 15th – 16th centuries." Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana 2(32) (2022): 60–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu19.2022.205.
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The scripts of the East-Slavonic manuscripts modify significantly in the 15th and 16th centuries. New types of scripts and styles of handwriting are appeared in that time. The multiplicity of the patterns makes up many scribes to master several styles of handwriting and to vary them depending on their goals. They often use another style of handwriting for the scribe’s note. It allows a scribe to differ the main text from the information about him. Various styles of handwriting, belonged to the same scribe, were used for coding different types of text and different genres. It led to the forming in the 16th century of the close connection of the style of the script not only with the genre of the book, but with its destination also. So appearance of new styles of scripts and variation of them testifies about shifts in the attitude to the culture heritage in East-Slavonic region. The ability of scribes to write in various handwritten styles poses the question of attribution of handwriting to researchers. Currently, there is no methodology for solving this applied problem. To date, studies of the functions and structure of the scribal manner, its relationship with the genre and purpose of the text are more promising. For example, to create a book the copyist takes into account the height of the line, its ratio to the proportions of the sheet, the mirror of the text, the width of the margins and even the thickness of this book. It is important not only the time and region of the appearance of new handwriting, but also their transition to those handwritten books whose writing had previously been standardized. Any changes in the design and appearance of the book – for example, the use of unusually small and dense handwriting, the appearance of pocket books that are copied into an eighth part of a sheet – speak of new functions of the book and the formation of new traditions.
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Sibilio, Barbara, and Ilaria Elisa Vannini. "Development of the administrative-accounting system of the Conservatorio S. M. degli Angiolini in Florence from 1785 to 1859: Institutional changes and isomorphic pressures." Accounting History 25, no. 2 (December 5, 2019): 261–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1032373219882436.
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S. Maria degli Angiolini in Florence, founded as a monastery in 1507, became a conservatorio (a special type of girls’ school) in 1785 and thereafter carried out the education of young females. Between 1785 and 1859, it underwent various changes due to political, social, cultural, religious and economic events. These events, the result of the liberal enlightenment age, influenced the institution’s configuration, its formal organisation structure, teaching activity (pedagogic approach, methods, criteria and contents of the training offered), as well as its accounting system (system of book-keeping and method of registration). This article presents the analysis of rare documents, laws, regulations and account books to identify, in light of new institutionalism, the principal agents of transformation, in particular in accounting systems, within conservatori, with focus on S. Maria degli Angiolini.