Historians’ interest in university history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has been more limited case France than for other countries. This even weaker with regard to students, a situation that only began change at beginning twenty-first century. However, pioneering work could have launched research dynamic from 1980s onwards, as first part this article shows explains. In its se...

Textiles and clothing were still are an important source of culture as well indicator a robust economy social status. Textile household goods heirlooms, providing valuable information about the standard living, socio-political events, cultural influences regions from which they originate. This paper presents preliminary results research project dealing with traditional natural dyes used in Gree...

In the second half of nineteenth century, Portugal undertook in its mainland and colonial territories an ambitious modernising programme based on technoscientific grounds. From late 1870s onwards, such was widely advertised Occidente, most important illustrated journal time that published several drawings original photographs. this paper, I will analyse imagery authentic photography related to ...

the biggest problem in guerilla warfare and at one time we were carrying so many wounded on stretchers, with two men carrying, that there were few left to fight. Food was very scarce; we seemed to live on boiled billy goat-which tastes as the billy goat smells-and a rock hard maize bread "chicken mash," equally unpalatable. Vegetables were never seen. Later we could get sheep milk yogurt and in...

The first thing to be said about this book is that it is an excellent survey of nineteenth-century scientific instruments. Its excellence lies in its value as a guide to the identification of objects. The volume is extremely well produced; the illustrations, which are mainly photographs of instruments, are first class; and Dr. Turner's detailed text irreproachably sound. The book is a general a...

Recent feminist and gender-oriented scholarship about the Victorian sonnet has attributed a pioneering role to Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese in the nineteenth-century revival of the genre. Eminent literary critics such as Angela Leighton, Alison Chapman, and Dorothy Mermin agree that theSonnets, in Chapman’s words, ‘translate the amatory discourse of Petrarchanism int...

Abstract This paper traces the transformation in how Ottoman scribes, statesmen, and bureaucrats imagined body politic from sixteenth to nineteenth century by focusing on metaphors derived medicine human body. As others have shown, sixteenth- seventeenth-century political writing demonstrates a clear influence of Galenic Aristotelian Avicennan metaphysics conceptualizing state society. During e...

’abd al-raḥmān jabartī got involved in writing egypt’s incidents at a time when this country was about to enter developments due to which the traditional features of egypt would undergo some transformations. the transformative trends were originated from the fact that since nineteenth century new european thoughts in various cases, including historiography, which jabartī had been witnessing sin...