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Duncan Money deposited “Ain’t I a Bastard, Well I Received My Training in Aussie”: The Life of Frank Maybank, an Australian Trade Unionist in Central Africa in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 days, 17 hours ago
This article examines the working life of Frank Maybank (1901-94), a self-described Australian trade unionist on the Central African Copperbelt. Maybank was in many ways a worker of the world, he lived and worked in several countries and did all manner of jobs. The job he held the longest was General Secretary of the whites-only mineworkers’ u…[Read more]
Froilán Ramos R. deposited Tensiones de la Guerra Fría: Chile y la Primavera de Praga (1968) in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 days, 17 hours ago
This article analyzes the reception and reactions in the Chilean political
debate to the so-called “Prague Spring”, especially in the National Congress, in
August 1968. Methodologically, the historical study consults primary sources,
documents from the Historical Archive of the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
and press of the time, new…[Read more]Francesca Falk deposited Einleitung in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 week, 1 day ago
1970 wurde die Schwarzenbach-Initiative nur knapp verworfen. Sie war der Auftakt zu einer bis heute anhaltenden Reihe von «Überfremdungsinitiativen», die Generationen von Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichte traumatisiert haben. In diesem Buch sprechen Zeitzeug:innen der Schwarzenbach-Initiative über ihr Leben im Provisorium. Sie erzählen von prek…[Read more]
Anna-Mari Vesterinen started the topic CfP on the impact of pandemics – Helsinki University Press in the discussion
History on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days ago
Call for book proposals
Helsinki University Press (HUP) is soliciting proposals for original research, across multiple disciplines, on the cultural, economic, social, and political dimensions of pandemics. We welcome proposals for monographs, short monographs, and edited volumes. Dissertations and conference proceedings will not be considered.We…[Read more]
Rita Singer deposited “The Devil may take Snowdon”, or: inscribing touristic disappointment in Victorian visitors’ books in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days ago
Historically, tourism in Wales was invigorated by the reinvention of mountain scenery during the Romantic period when travellers gained new perspectives of the terrain from higher ground. It is also during this period that inns and guesthouses began keeping visitors’ books in which guests evaluated their surroundings and their hosts’ good ser…[Read more]
Norberto Barreto Velázquez started the topic Convocatoria 1er Congreso Latinoamericano de Estudios Sobre Estados Unidos in the discussion
History on Humanities Commons 1 week, 4 days ago
Convocatoria1er Congreso Latinoamericano de Estudios Sobre Estados UnidosFecha: 21 y 22 de septiembre de 2022Modalidad online La Red Latinoamericana de Estudios sobre Estados Unidos RELAESE, en cooperación con la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, lo invitan cordialmente a participar en el Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Estudios sobre Es…[Read more]
Luis de Orueta deposited Las Hermanas Livermore in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
España, a finales del siglo XVIII, todavía era un imperio colonial. El comercio con las provincias de ultramar estimulaba la venida de irlandeses, prusianos, suecos, holandeses, marselleses y sobre todo ingleses, que fundaban Casas de Comercio con españoles. Pero con la aparición de Napoleón en la escena europea, Inglaterra impuso el “blo…[Read more]
Manuel Loyola deposited Jorge Insunza Becker. Escritos políticos e ideológicos 1960-2012. Medio siglo de pensamiento comunista, T.4 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
Jorge Insunza Becker (21 de abril de 1936-17 de marzo de 2019) fue uno de los principales dirigentes del Partido Comunista chileno desde los años 60. Ingresó a las Juventudes Comunistas en 1954. En 1962 fue promovido al Comité Central del PC y desde 1965 fue parte de su Comisión Política, aquella que encabezó el triunfo de Salvador Allende de 19…[Read more]
Froilán Ramos R. deposited Latinoamérica y el Caribe. Miradas historiografía in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 month, 4 weeks ago
This chapter attempts to analyze the historiographical debate around agency/structure, especially focused on two current historians, Mary Fulbrook and Peter Burke. Likewise, the conception and relationship of the State within the historiography of the Cold War, seen from the perspective of structure/agent, is presented as a case study. In sum,…[Read more]
Sonia D. Andras deposited De la cosmetologie la cosmiatrie: Aurel Voina și manipularea istoriei personale in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 months, 4 weeks ago
This paper explores the methodological and discursive transition in Aurel Voina’s theoretical conceptualisation of cosmetic science. The primary focus is the rewriting of personal and professional identity, assessing how Aurel Voina negotiated his conceptual and practical expertise from his role as eugenics ideologue and policy maker in the i…[Read more]
Henning Fischer deposited ‘Erinnerung’ an und für Deutschland. Dresden und der 13. Februar 1945 im Gedächtnis der Berliner Republik in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 months ago
Die Erinnerung an die alliierten Luftangriffe auf Dresden im Februar 1945 bildet die Grundlage für eine Untersuchung des Charakters der kollektiven Erinnerung und ihrer Funktionalisierung in der Politik der deutschen Staaten seit 1945.
Ein kritischer Begriff der Erinnerung wird vereint mit einer historiografischen Skizze Dresdens im…[Read more]Sonia D. Andras deposited Crafting Illusions: Fashion as a Means of Decoding Social and Cultural History in Interwar Bucharest in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
This paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the Little Paris. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what type of role…[Read more]
Sonia D. Andras deposited Creating City Chic. The Parisian Influence on Interwar Bucharest Fashion in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
This paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the so-colled ”Little Paris”. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what typ…[Read more]
Sonia D. Andras deposited Allo, allo, ici le Bucharest du pedigree! The nationalization of women’s fashion in interwar Bucharest in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
The newly formed Greater Romania engaged in a process of modernization, with Bucharest as its flagship metropolis, striving to be recognized internationally and reach economic stability. Women’s fashion became a marker in substantiating Romania’s self-assertion as a modern state, with great emphasis on creating a viable textile industry. This occ…[Read more]
Sonia D. Andras deposited Dialog identitar în lumea modei și frumuseții interbelice: Paris-București / Identity Dialogue in the World of Interwar Fashion and Beauty: Paris-Bucharest in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
This paper proposes a journey between Bucharest viewed as Little Paris and the original Paris, to determine the way in which the two capitals communicated with each other, whether it was based on dynamic interactions, beyond a simplistic Parisian dialogue. I will interpret Little Paris as an identity construction, clearly mirrored in the universe…[Read more]
Sonia D. Andras deposited Beauty and Nation: Miss Romania as International Ambassador in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
My paper will use gender studies and theories about nation and nationhood in order to explain the argument that beauty queens are viewed by the pageant organizers and aficionados as ambassadors not only of local, regional and national beauty, but also representatives of their cultures and nations. Therefore, they not only function as objects for…[Read more]
Sonia D. Andras deposited Fashion, Dress, Costume: a Proposed Terminological Clarification in the Historical Research of Women’s Clothing (Preprint) in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
This paper delineates the conceptual variations between the notions ‘fashion’, ‘dress’ and ‘costume’ in English-language texts on women’s garment histories using relevant examples from interwar Romanian periodicals. The aim is to offer a more precise formulation, as these three terms have largely been used interchangeably. This paper is built on a…[Read more]
Sonia D. Andras deposited SD Andras – The Women of Little Paris: Women’s Fashion in Interwar Bucharest in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
Interwar Romania was a space of social-cultural contrasts which it wholeheartedly embraced. Bucharest, as the capital, was the perfect mirror of Romanian society, a liminal space, geographically and culturally. Women’s fashion and beauty in interwar middle-class Bucharest, offers a wide array of unexplored research questions which are addressed i…[Read more]
Neal Martin deposited A Call to Piety: A New Interpretation of The Judgment of Martin Luther On Monastic Vows in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
This conference paper presents a new analysis of Martin Luther’s treatise “The Judgment of Martin Luther on Monastic Vows”. This treatise has long been interpreted as Luther’s utter rejection of monasticism. However, upon closer inspection we find that Luther’s treatise is not simply a reactionary writing dealing solely with his utter conte…[Read more]
Froilán Ramos R. deposited Review: Pilar Cagiao Vila (Coord.), Diplomacia y acción cultural americana en la España de Primo de Rivera. Madrid: Marcial Pons – Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, 2020. in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Book review:
Pilar Cagiao Vila (Coord.). Diplomacia y acción cultural americana en la España de Primo de Rivera. Madrid: Marcial Pons – Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, 2020.- Load More