Place naming creates a link between language, culture, and ideas. This study sought to conduct an assessment of the process for villages hamlets in Klego District, Boyolali Regency, Central Java Province. The attempted find patterns based on geographical appearance (toponym) social culture or history (historiography). In addition, structure signs meanings which those used naming. A qualitative-...

the importance or centrality of persian histories (whether imperial, regional or universal) can be gauged from the deep reliance placed by british historians on them for their own understanding of india’s past. the examples are numerous: dow, erskine, elliot and dowson explored persian sources for their writings. stewart also based his history of bengal mainly on persian materials; mill did not...

This paper provides a reassessment of historical debates about the nature of popular movements in and around the year 1000, with particular reference to the work of Richard Landes and Dominique Barthélemy. Heresy and heresy accusations do not feature in the classical historiography of millennialism in medieval Europe, including Norman Cohn’s Pursuit of the Millennium. Nor does the assertion tha...

While modern musicology has seen the frequent exploration of issues of historiography and canonicity, biography itself has largely eluded critical investigation until much more recently. The discipline has lately challenged the aesthetic of musical canon, for many decades a largely uncontested phenomenon, as well as that of the Great Composer. Recent scholarship has similarly addressed the matt...

In Rebels, Reds, Radicals, Ian McKay offers us a reconceptualization of Canada’s left history. Those looking for a blow by blow account of the development of socialism in Canada might possibly be disappointed by this book. More historiography than history, it attempts to provide an alternative approach to understanding left history in Canada. Only the final chapter offers a more conventional hi...

The narrative patterning of historiography changed profoundly around 1800. Instead of the accumulative, encyclopaedic format typical of the 18th century, a historical narrative hinged on the progress of mankind became viable (Condorcet, Fichte etc.). This also had an impact on the writing of the history of mathematics. An interesting testimony of this transition can be found inAlexander vonHumb...

This paper examines how links between the People's Republic of China and the UK were rebuilt in the 1970s. It not only fills a gap in the historiography but also makes three particular arguments. The first is that there were two intersecting institutional paths along which the rebuilding of links were followed: a foreign policy path, in which the most important body was the Foreign and Commonwe...

Within the context of the return to democracy, the new constitution enacted in 1988 transformed health into an individual right and initiated the process of creating a public, universal and decentralized health system, profoundly altering the organization of public health in Brazil. This article discusses the main institutional, political and social aspects of this health reform, along with the...

This paper studies the formation of Japanese ventures in family planning deployed in various villages in Asia from the 1960s onward in the name of development aid. By critically examining how Asia became the priority area for Japan's international cooperation in family planning and by analyzing how the adjective "humanistic" was used to underscore the originality of Japan's family planning prog...

Comparative histories of health system development have been variously influenced by the theoretical approaches of historical institutionalism, political pluralism, and labor mobilization. Britain and the United States have figured significantly in this literature because of their very different trajectories. This article explores the implications of recent research on hospital history in the t...