Computer and quantitative methods in tourism history. A reflection based on the Spanish case by Carlos Larrinaga

“…Quantitative methods are an increasingly used instrument among historians due to the enormous possibilities they offer. …”
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Title not available by Fernando Pérez Villalón

“…From a text by the historian Joaquin Fernandois about the function of travel writing, this essay proposes a new reading of the essays of Gabriela Mistral and Luis Oyarzún. …”
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Les lunettes et la queue de blaireau : Jean Potocki et l’art du bien voyager by François Rosset

“…This article focuses on the work of the late 18th-century historian and scholar Jean Potocki, who travelled through many countries. …”
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Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea: Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols by Amani Khelifa

“…Jager’s research answers an earlier call by Native-American historian and feminist scholar Clara Sue Kidwell in her 1992 Ethnohistory article, “Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries,” to revisit these stories from a non-Eurocentric perspective.  …”
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Expatriate foreign relations: Britain's American community and transnational approaches to the U.S. Civil War by Tuffnell, S

“…The diplomacy of Britain’s American community during the Civil War refocuses historian’s attention on the offshore institutions and civic life that conditioned American public diplomacy throughout the nineteenth century.…”

A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES / by Harkness, Deborah E., 1965-, author 552693

“…Diana and Matthew - the forbidden love at the heart of it. When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. …”

The history of the peat manufacturing industry in The Netherlands: Peat moss litter and active carbon by M.A.W. Gerding, E.H.K. Karel, G.E. de Vries

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Zoya Veniaminovna Moshkina – Leading Scientist on the History of Political Hard Labor and Exile in Transbaikalia by Anna V. Volochaeva

“…The problems of the Trans-Baikal historian’s research, new aspects of studying the problems of the Nerchinsk political penal servitude have become a scientific basis for a new generation of scientists.…”
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The Views of Students in History Department About “The Misuses of History” by Ramazan Kaya

“…The purpose of this study is to determine the views of students who are both historian candidates and pre-service teachers about the use and misuse of history. …”
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Przed dziełem sztuki. Wspomnienia ze studiów by Piotr Skubiszewski

“…Similar sensitivity to form and the understanding of its significance for the art historian’s work were represented by two other professors important for the author, both educated by Dettloff already before World War II: Gwido Chmarzyński and Zdzisław Kępiński. …”
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IN THE WAKE OF PUGACHEV’S REBELLION: EXPERIENCE IN ORAL HISTORY by N. V. Shevtsov

“…Pugachev's Rebellion is a subject of numerous works of Russian historians, writers, articles, research journalists and ethnographers. …”
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How to Reflect on 20th Century Man Facing Dramatic Situations and Hard Choices? by Aurimas Švedas

“…Collingwood, a British historian, archaeologist, and philosopher. …”
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Epistolary heritage of Panteleimon Kulish from collections of Ossolinski National Institute in Wroclaw by Adamska Iryna

“…His interest in historical topics is also reflected in the second letter of this period addressed to the famous Polish historian Karol Szajnocha. Alongside with his administrative work in Warsaw, Panteleimon Kulish found time to collect materials for his research and exchange them with his Polish colleagues. …”
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Portret Herodota w świetle traktatu De Herodoti malignitate Plutarcha z Cheronei by Anna Marchewka

“…Moreover, Plutarch accuses the historian of Halicarnassus of being malicious (κακοήθεια). …”

Facing the Work of Art. Memories of My Student Years by Piotr Skubiszewski

“…Similar sensitivity to form and the understanding of its significance for the art historian’s work were represented by two other professors important for the author, both educated by Dettloff already before World War II: Gwido Chmarzyński and Zdzisław Kępiński. …”
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From documents of last third of 17th - first third of 18th centuries to history of Kyiv Region by Mytsyk Yurii, Tarasenko Inna

“…Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine, which are contained in the collection of registries of documents of the 17th-18th centuries, organized by a Ukrainian historian, and documents from the act book of the 17th-18th centuries from the city of Kozelets from the collection of the Polish historian Maryan Gozhkowski, which is kept in the Manuscripts Department of the Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Polish Academy of Sciences. …”
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Un inverno 1943-1944. Testimonianze e ricordi sulle operazioni per la salvaguardia delle opere d’arte italiane durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale/A Winter 1943-1944. Testimonies an... by Alessandra Lavagnino

“…The text traces the events of art historian Emilio Lavagnino in the winter between 1943 and 1944. …”
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Chunyu Yi, ein früher Wegbereiter der chinesischen Medizin by Hsu, E

“…He was an official of the kingdom of Qi until, with 36 years of age, he devoted himself entirely to medicine. The historian and astrologer Sima Qian wrote a Memoir on him in the 105th chapter of the <em>Records of the Historian</em> (<em>Shiji</em>), which in its extant form contains two versions of his biography, 25 medical case histories and eight interview questions and answers. …”

Rewriting the Egyptian river: the Nile in Hellenistic and imperial Greek literature by Todd, H

“…</p> <p>Chapter 1 examines the significance of Diodorus Siculus' representation of the Nile at the beginning of his universal history; it argues that the river's prominence constructs Egypt as a primeval landscape that allows the historian access to the distant past. The Nile is also seen to be useful to the historian as a conceptual parallel for his historiographical project. …”

Sources and historiography: conceptualizations of contraband trade in colonial Brazil by Ernst Pijning

“… Smuggling is a difficult topic for Brazilian historians. No historian of colonial Brazil has devoted a book solely to the topic of contraband trade yet. …”
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