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Dima Hurlbut deposited “Where Do We Go from Here? Writing Children into African History,” African Studies Quarterly 16, no. 1 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days ago
This is a review essay published in African Studies Quarterly.
Dima Hurlbut deposited “LDS Materials for the Study of Sub-Saharan Africa at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University,” Working Papers in African Studies, no. 273 (2020): 1-4. in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days ago
This is a working paper published in Working Papers in African Studies.
Dima Hurlbut deposited Review of Taylor G. Petrey, Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism (Durham, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2020), Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 58, no. 4 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days ago
This is a book review published in Choice.
Dima Hurlbut deposited Review of P. Jane Hafen and Brenden W. Rensink (eds.), Essays on American Indian and Mormon History (Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2019), Nova Religio 24, no. 2 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days ago
This is a book review published in Nova Religio.
Dima Hurlbut deposited Review of James H. Sweet, Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), Entremons: UPF Journal of World History 11 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days ago
This is a book review published in Entremons: UPF Journal of World History.
Dima Hurlbut deposited Review of Timothy R. Landry, Vodún: Secrecy and the Search for Divine Power (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), African Studies Quarterly 19, no. 3 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days ago
This is a book review published in African Studies Quarterly.
Dima Hurlbut deposited Review of Lovemore Togarasei (ed.), Aspects of Pentecostal Christianity in Zimbabwe (New York, NY: Springer, 2018), Nova Religio 23, no. 4 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days ago
This is a review published in Nova Religio.
Dima Hurlbut deposited Review of Ebenezer Obadare, Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria (London, UK: Zed Books, 2018), Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 41, nos. 3-4 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days ago
This is a book review published in Pneuma.
Dima Hurlbut deposited Review of Charlotte Walker-Said, Faith, Power and Family: Christianity and Social Change in French Cameroon (Woodbridge, UK: James Currey, 2018), International Journal of African Historical Studies 52, no. 3 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days ago
This is book review published in the International Journal of African Historical Studies.
Dima Hurlbut deposited Review of Douglas Thomas and Temilola Alanamu (eds.), African Religions: Beliefs and Practices Through History (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2019), Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 56, no. 11 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days ago
This is a book review published in Choice.
Froilán Ramos R. deposited El mundo se resquebraja. la percepción chilena de las revoluciones de Europa oriental en 1989 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 5 days ago
This paper analyzes the perception of the Eastern European revolutions of 1989
through the Chilean press, in the context of the process of political change that Chile was experiencing
at that time. The research relies on the critical review of various contemporary media:
newspapers, magazines, and written testimonials, which allow us to…[Read more]A. Hilal Ugurlu deposited Philanthropy in the Form of a Hair Strand: Sacred Relics in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lands in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
From the last quarter of the eighteenth century, the caliphal status and the legitimacy of the Ottoman sultans were constantly and increasingly challenged. One of the most effective and powerful tools that they utilized in order to strengthen their diminishing image in the eyes of their subjects was the re-appropriation of sacred places, either by…[Read more]
Froilán Ramos R. deposited Iglesia, desarrollo y Alianza para el Progreso en Chile (1961-1970) in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
This paper analyzes the position of the Chilean Catholic Church in the debate on national development and the Alliance for Progress that took place in the
country during 1961-1970. The Church participated in the public discussion through the magazine Mensaje, in which positions were opposed between economic (material) development and spiritual…[Read more]Rita Singer deposited Liberating Britain from Foreign Bondage: A Welsh Revision of the Wars of the Roses in L. M. Spooner’s Gladys of Harlech; or, The Sacrifice (1858) in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
In the ten years following the publication of the infamous Reports on the State of Education in Wales (1847) that had classified the Welsh population as a vice-ridden nation of working-class drunkards and promiscuous hoydens, the middle-classes in Wales strongly rejected this Anglo-centric condemnation at first in the press and, later on, in…[Read more]
Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited “Foreword.” YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 2 (2020) in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
“Foreword.” YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 2 (2020): 3
Samuel Grinsell deposited Mastering the Nile? Confidence and Anxiety in D. S. George’s Photographs of the First Aswan Dam, 1899–1912 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
The first Aswan Dam was built at the dawn of the twentieth century and celebrated as a triumph of imperial engineering. Five years after its completion, workers returned to extend the dam. Photographer D. S. George recorded both the building and extension projects for the Egyptian Public Works Department in a series of images that give a unique…[Read more]
Hélène Huet started the topic FLDH SPRING 2021 WEBINAR SERIES in the discussion
History on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Join us for our Digital Humanities in the Sunshine State (and beyond!) 2020-2021 Webinar Series. Registration for the Spring webinars is now open on the FLDH website. Can’t attend? The webinars will be recorded and available on the FLDH YouTube channel.
Rita Singer deposited How Gothic Was My U-Boat: The Welsh Press and German Submarine Warfare in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 months ago
In an article that exposes the roots of Brexit-era Germanophobia, Rita Singer details how Welsh press coverage and poetry about U-Boat attacks on Welsh ships evolved into racialised depictions of German U-Boat combatants as ‘Huns’, monsters, ghouls and Satanic fiends
Froilán Ramos R. deposited Sobre transiciones pasadas. La experiencia chilena hacia la Democracia (1983-1990) in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
This is a chapter about the Chilean experience toward Democracy (1983-1990).
Kathleen W. Peters deposited Sacred Views of Saint Francis: The Sacro Monte di Orta in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Overlooking Lago di Orta in the foothills of the Northern Italian Alps, the Renaissance-era Sacro Monte di Orta (a UNESCO World Heritage site) is spectacle and hagiography, theme park and treatise. Sacro Monte di Orta is a sacred mountain complex that extolls the life of St. Francis of Assisi through fresco, statuary, and built environment.…[Read more]
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