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Constitutionalism in Post-Ottoman Southeast Europe during the 19th Century: Serbia, Greece and Romania in Comparative Perspective
Get PDFThe essay investigates the emergence of constitutional statehood in post-Ottoman Southeast Europe during the 19thcentury in comparative perspective on the example of Serbia, Greece and Romania. It locates central turning points and highlights similarities as well as peculiarities of these processes in relation to the paradigm of Europeanization which functioned as the guiding principle in all three cases. It concludes that Europeanization, respectively “De-Ottomanization”, although dominating Southeast European political discourses, was not a clear-cut uniform concept but to a considerable degree influenced by specific regional factors, in particular the imperial legacies of the region, which have to be considered in order to make the Europeanization-paradigm a viable analytical tool for historical research
Do Australian 19th Century Gold Discoveries have Implications for Interpreting Early Gold Mining Elsewhere?
Get PDFEight discovery histories of well-documented Australian goldfields indicate the bonanza recoveries available to “first-movers” into previously unmined areas. These have implications for how we interpret goldfields elsewhere that have been repeatedly re-worked since Antiquity and where earliest exploitation has left no clear record. Australian gold was first mined after European settlement in the 19th century, and the manual techniques in the initial stages were not substantially better than available to Bronze Age miners. Dry blowing was used extensively in both arid and seasonally dry regions, often as an initial step followed by transport to a water source. The ease of gold recovery from placers conferred a huge competitive advantage over lode gold, which required crushing and grinding. Hence, early production was generally dominated by free gold recovered from proximal settings including non-alluvial placers (residual, eluvial, colluvial, and hillslope areas). Earliest returns were often prodigious: 5 to 50 grams of gold or more per miner per day in the discovery phase, and 1-5 grams while unworked ground remained. Commonly these high returns were prolonged by “rolling rushes” in which multiple nearby gold occurrences were discovered. Nevertheless, production waned rapidly (within 2-15 years) unless major lodes or large distal placers were discovered. Early returns are not a good predictor of overall productivity: more than 90 percent of gold was recovered in the initial burst of activity on some fields. Colluvial and proximal alluvial placer mining overwhelmingly dominated early production in most Australian goldfields but leave minimal archaeological evidence. That was probably the case elsewhere in the world, where gold was first mined in the Bronze Age or earlier, and we should heed this when interpreting their earliest mining phases
Römer in der Wüste: Warentransport und interregionale/interkulturelle Vernetzung zwischen Nil und Rotem Meer
Get PDFΈμπόρία, σταθμοί, λιμένες: Der Weihrauchhandel im Mare Erythraeum des ersten nachchristlichen Jahrhunderts
Get PDFDrachentöter und Gottesmütter: Visuelle Herrschaftsstrategien in Diptychen des Hl. Georg und der Hl. Jungfrau von aṣe Zärʾa Yaʿəqob bis aṣe Lǝbnä Dǝngǝl
Get PDFMemory identification and its failures
Get PDFWhen we remember, we often know that we do. How does this memory identification proceed? After having articulated some constraints on an attractive account of memory identification, this paper explores three types of accounts that respectively appeal to features of memory content, of memory as an activity, and of memory as an attitude. It offers reasons to favour an attitudinal account giving pride of place to the feeling of familiarity
Translating Trauma into Testimony: Collaborative Storytelling with Former ISIS Child Soldiers in Northern Iraq
Get PDFResearch involving highly vulnerable groups, such as those with deeply traumatic experiences, presents researchers with significant ethical and methodological hurdles. This article outlines a project conducted in northern Iraq with former ISIS child soldiers. We reflect on our methodological and ethical decisions within the framework of the do no harm imperative — a cornerstone of research ethics that has faced criticism for its perceived inadequacy. Our focus lies in detailing the development, theoretical underpinnings, methodological justification, and practical application of a participatory approach through collaborative storytelling with children and adolescents. In addition to adhering to the do no harm principle, which seeks to prevent adverse consequences such as re-traumatisation, we advocate for a positive ethic of recognition. This approach facilitates the methodological translation of traumatic experiences and their socio-political transformation into testimonies
El culte als \u27homes de lletres\u27 i els seus usos a la Catalunya del Vuit-cents: els casos de Jaume Balmes i Antoni de Capmany
No full textThis paper analyses the main displays of posthumous cults of commemoration for the figures of Jaume Balmes and Antoni de Capmany that took place in Catalonia between approximately 1848 and 1891. Inscribing these tribute initiatives in the wider scholarship on the political uses of death and the public celebration of great men, we identify them as turning points in the cultural practice of public commemorations dedicated to writers, artists and intellectuals. Balmes and Capmany were erected as collective reference points by a significant segment of the Catalan ruling classes who were in some way attached to the liberal regime. In doing so, they sought to provide themselves with prestigious cohesive symbols for a society they wished to distance both from reactionary positions and from revolutionary popular mobilisation. Through the symbolic figures of Balmes and Capmany, the promoters of these commemorative cults were able to shore up their own reputation and claim a leading role within the Spanish nation for the local and regional areas in which they were active.This paper analyses the main displays of posthumous cults of commemoration for the figures of Jaume Balmes and Antoni de Capmany that took place in Catalonia between approximately 1848 and 1891. Inscribing these tribute initiatives in the wider scholarship on the political uses of death and the public celebration of great men, we identify them as turning points in the cultural practice of public commemorations dedicated to writers, artists and intellectuals. Balmes and Capmany were erected as collective reference points by a significant segment of the Catalan ruling classes who were in some way attached to the liberal regime. In doing so, they sought to provide themselves with prestigious cohesive symbols for a society they wished to distance both from reactionary positions and from revolutionary popular mobilisation. Through the symbolic figures of Balmes and Capmany, the promoters of these commemorative cults were able to shore up their own reputation and claim a leading role within the Spanish nation for the local and regional areas in which they were active.This paper analyses the main displays of posthumous cults of commemoration for the figures of Jaume Balmes and Antoni de Capmany that took place in Catalonia between approximately 1848 and 1891. Inscribing these tribute initiatives in the wider scholarship on the political uses of death and the public celebration of great men, we identify them as turning points in the cultural practice of public commemorations dedicated to writers, artists and intellectuals. Balmes and Capmany were erected as collective reference points by a significant segment of the Catalan ruling classes who were in some way attached to the liberal regime. In doing so, they sought to provide themselves with prestigious cohesive symbols for a society they wished to distance both from reactionary positions and from revolutionary popular mobilisation. Through the symbolic figures of Balmes and Capmany, the promoters of these commemorative cults were able to shore up their own reputation and claim a leading role within the Spanish nation for the local and regional areas in which they were active