The purpose of this paper is to offer a tentative historiography of the emergence of one language ideology, that of English as the one and only language of American national identity. I will examine the appearance and growth of this ideology from the 18th to the 20th century, ending with the post-World War I period when three discourses, that of Americanization, that of Anglicization, and that ...

Is the gene 'special' for historians? What effects, if any, has the notion of the 'gene' had on our understanding of history? Certainly, there is a widespread public and professional perception that genetics and history are or should be in dialogue with each other in some way. But historians and geneticists view history and genetics very differently - and assume very different relationships bet...

In recent Australian Aboriginal history, testimonies have played a significant role in bringing into the public domain knowledge about the practices and effects of the removal of Aboriginal children from their families and communities. Broadly defined, the category of testimony includes a wide range of texts, such as autobiographical narratives, oral histories, semi-official testimonies such as...

This paper applies Max Weber’s proposition regarding the differences between the ‘sciences’ to the ‘historicist controversy’: the problems emerging from opposing approaches to understanding the past. The historiography in question is the development of the ‘biomedical model’ of health and disease, and the rise of ‘medicine’ in the course of 19th century Europe and Britain. While Weber’s theoret...

The article discusses the forms of republicanism that existed in territory Uzbekistan different historical times and eras. author, based on research historians, orientalists memoirs travelers, believes first republic emerged 14th century Samarkand. founders were Sarbadars. second — Tashkent “aristocratic” land-holding (18th century) was founded by Yunus Khoja after a long internecine war. did n...

already been well charted elsewhere. In part because there is scant comparison of the sort that can extract broader significance from narrowly local scrutiny, the monograph offers little that is analytically new. But it does draw upon a rich cache of regional manuscripts that often generate intriguing glimpses of what health care and the experience of illness were like. Accordingly, the most un...

The paper examines the historiography of zong in Chan/Zen studies in relation to Venerable Sheng Yen’s Dharma Drum Lineage in the historical context of postwar Taiwanese religions. It also examines the evolution and the theoretical basis of Sheng Yen’s formulation of Chinese Buddhist orthodoxy.

This article deals with the process of forming a special historiography approach as Frontier one in historical science Russian empire 19– early 20th centuries and partly post-imperial period circumstances rising national states. was chosen for analytical authors who represented studies, exploring mostly Slobids’ka (Sloboda) Ukraine Southern Ukraine, which geographical situation influenced their...

The center and radius of perception associated with a written text are defined, and algorithms for their computation are presented. Indicators for anisotropy in large scale space perception are introduced. The relevance of these notions for the analysis of literary and historical records is briefly discussed and illustrated with an example taken from medieval historiography.

While dealing with the historiography of post-independence African economy, the writer has made attempts to consult sources of different interests. Majority of the sources consulted for this purpose are books written by Marxist scholars. Thence, they reflect the maxims of socialism at continental and state level in Africa. Their explanations rest on the cardinal causes for the underdevelopment ...