it is said that the local historiography of iran – as a part of local historiography in islamic civilization – began after the widespread political, social, scientific, and cultural changes in various regions of iran and with khurāsān as its pioneer. but all the writers who have commented in this respect have disregarded the monographs that the traditionists of iraq school of historiography hav...

DENYS HAY, Annalists and historians. Western historiography from the eighth to the eighteenth century, London, Methuen, 1977, 8vo, pp. viii, 215, £2.95 (paperback). For very nearly forty years the distinguished Professor of Medieval History in the University of Edinburgh has planned to write a history of European historiography. He now does so with a brilliant survey, ranging from the historian...

versified historiography as a style of historiographycame into being in 6th/12th century iran through imitating ferdowsi’sshāhnāma and reached its height in mongol era. consequently, in less than a century, more than ten versified histories were composed including one of the most famous one, ẓafar-nāma ofḥamd-allāhmostawfi. but it was zojājitabrizi who composed the first versified history, homā...

Most postcolonial African writers choose English as the language of their literary works for the reason of wider audience reception but come to indigenize it to decolonize the colonial tool, i.e. colonial language. The translinguistic process of relexification means subverting colonial cultural imperialism and colonial linguistic imposition through the dialogic interaction opened in the w...

Since the State Agricultural School in Wageningen opened its doors in 1876, the Netherlands has had a school exclusively dedicated to researching, teaching, and propagating agricultural knowledge deemed important to the Dutch nation. Even though for most of its history the school has remained separate and inferior to Dutch academia – graduates of the school receive the telling title ‘agricultur...

This article reviews the historical debate on colonial causation and dimensions of Great Irish Famine 1845-50. It does so by briefly reviewing evolution relationship between Britain Ireland before focusing a number specific fields relating to coloniality famine. These include economic structures dynamics developing over century 1845 vulnerability society, vector potato blight its impact food av...

This essay analyzes the prominent role played by first wave feminism and by women writers between 1898-1903 as the Jamaica Times articulated a broad-based, middle class nationalism and launched a campaign to establish a Jamaican national literature. Largely overlooked, this archival material is significant because it suggests a subtle yet significant modification of anglophone Caribbean feminis...

In this historiography, the conclusions made by historians of the revisionist camp that assert the hidden handed yet ultimately successful legacy of President Dwight D. Eisenhower is placed under review by considering the work of post-revisionist scholars’ assessment of the Eisenhower administration’s foreign policy decisions during the 1950s. Specifically, the insights and arguments made by su...

As the UN has declared the years 2014-2024 the “Decade of Sustainable Energy for All”, countries in Sub-Saharan Africa struggle with the transition towards more sustainable and more inclusive energy infrastructures. In many rural areas, electrification rates remain as low as 1-2%. For many countries, one of the main barriers for rural electrification is the legacy of a model of top-down plannin...