COUNTERFACTUALS IN HISTORIOGRAPHY by Zenonas Norkus

“…The conviction of some historians that the counterfactuals are essentially forbidden in the scientific historiography is critised on the ground that counterfactuals are implied by the causal statements and statements of the relative causal importance. …”
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Accounting for Complexity: Thinking With Idealisations, Models, and Data by Kathryne Metcalf

“…This Review essay describes three recent books which take up complex problems and the problem of complexity: philosopher Angela Potochnik’s Idealization and the Aims of Science (2017); science and technology studies (STS) scholar Nicole Nelson’s Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders (2018); and historian of science Bruno Strasser’s Collecting Experiments: Making Big Data Biology (2019). …”
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Pline l’Ancien a-t-il cru à ses mythes ? by Valérie Naas

“…We are then led on to tackle Pliny’ s relationship to information – in particular through the instance of the legendary beasts – and, to a larger extent, the relationship of the historian to myth.…”
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Ammianus and Constantius’ Adventus – Rome from Site to Sight by Jonas Bjørnebye

“…This article deals with the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus’ famous description of the emperor Constantius II’s visit to Rome in 357 CE. …”
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Feudalism in the GDR : Medieval History at the Humboldt University (1946-1989) by Susanne König

“…How this effected the concrete historian and his work will be analysed to expand the state of research on the historiography of the GDR. …”
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Armorican Graffiti. Prolégomènes à l’étude des graffites romains d’Armorique by Patrick Galliou, Bernard Tanguy

“…One of the main problems faced by the historian of ancient Armorica is the scarcity of inscribed documents from the great public or private epigraphy. …”
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Memories and Records: Thoughts on <i>The Vaccine Archive</i> by Vicki Sung-yeon Kwon, Lathika Sritharan

“…Vicki Sung-yeon Kwon, an art historian and curator, and Lathika Sritharan, a public health researcher, discuss their collaborative project Memories and Records: The Vaccine Archive, an archive display of vaccine-related memories and immunization records of people from various parts of the world. …”
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Les Historiens bretons et la langue bretonne au xixe siècle by Jean-Yves Guiomar

“…Judging by the scope of the great Breton historian's research, we can at least say that he was not sufficiently convinced of this embarrassment to feel he had to learn the language. …”
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Les anciens et la Nation : quelques réflexions sur les utilisations de l’Antiquité classique à l’Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro (1840-1860) by Rodrigo Turin

“…The aim of the present article is to discuss some limitations and problems raised when applying the Koselleck’s model of modern concept of History into linguistic spaces other than that studied by this German historian. The reconstruction of the ways in which the ancients are used by the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, considered together with the intellectual contexts as well as the writing genres enrolled in each text, enable the comprehension of different means to represent the past, emphasizing its specificities and contingencies.…”
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La tradizione repubblicana: problemi e contraddizioni del primo cinquantennio - The Republican Tradition by Marco Scavino

“…Two topics that played a fundamental role in his activity as a historian, closely related with his political and civil passion. …”
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Les universitaires et intellectuels rwandais à l'épreuve du génocide des Tutsi : première mémoire, première histoire by Rémi Korman

“…Finally, the article gives an account of the first Rwandan historian studies on the genocide. By restoring the role of often unknown actors, it aims to refocus the debate on the first Rwandan historiography of the genocide.…”
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Commémoration et histoire : les célébrations du premier centenaire de l’indépendance à Mexico by Michel Bertrand

“…In the same line, a well-known historian, Genaro García, was in charge of writing an «official chronicle» of the celebration. …”
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From Russia with Love by Foletti, Ivan, Rakitin, Pavel

“… The article investigates the perception of the cultural and artistic production of the Southern Caucasus, after the annexation of Georgia in 1801, by three highly educated intellectuals of the time: the Metropolitan Evgeniy Bolkhovitinov, the historian Platon Ioseliani and the artist and architect Grigory Gagarin. …”
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Contribuições da cartografia temática como instrumento analítico em estudos históricos. by José Rogério Beier, Lucas Montalvão Rabelo

“…It is sought, therefore, to draw attention to some relevant elements of this tool that can serve the historian in the formulation of new problems for his investigation; in the analysis of the problems already formulated and, mainly, in the construction of the argumentation of his narrative. …”
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Intimidades enclaustradas: sexualidad y moral. Entrevista con Asunción Lavrin (Guanajuato, Mexico, agosto 2011) by Rafael Castañeda García

“…This paper details how she became interested in the issue of women's history in Latin America, and the importance of studying the manuscripts of nuns as a way of understanding women's spirituality. The historian defines key concepts such as sexuality, gender and masculinity, highlights the fact that generic studies to include men and women. …”
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Celebrating the 85th Birth Anniversary of Indus Rizakovich Tagirov by A.A. Litvin, N.A. Fedorova

“…This paper marks the 85th birth anniversary of Professor of Kazan University, Member of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences Indus Rizakovich Tagirov, a brilliant and famous historian. The reflections of I.R. Tagirov’s colleagues and students from Samara, Ulyanovsk, and Kazan on his personality and life path are provided. …”
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Orientalism and the Eastern European Periphery by Mihaela Mudure

“…Focus is laid upon the Romanian scholar Dimitrie Cantemir (1673-1723), the first Christian historian who was allowed to use the Ottoman archives for his work. …”
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‘Juan Alberto Kurz Muñoz and his academic contribution to the study of the history of Russian art’ [Juan Alberto Kurz Muñoz y su aportación a la historiografía del arte ruso. In: A... by Ester Alba Pagán

“…This is a biographical and bibliographical article, describing and analysing the most important contributions to the world of art by the art historian Juan Alberto Kurz Muñoz. He was a pioneer in the study and promotion of Russian-Soviet art in Spain. …”
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COUNTERFACTUALS IN HISTORIOGRAPHY by Zenonas Norkus

“…The conviction of some historians that the counterfactuals are essentially forbidden in the scientific historiography is critised on the ground that counterfactuals are implied by the causal statements and statements of the relative causal importance. …”
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Itinéraire d’un savant ambitieux. La carrière du physicien Jean Thibaud sous le régime de Vichy by Pascal Bellanca-Penel, Hugues Chabot

“…We propose to follow Thibaud’s career path as closely as possible in the light of a personal “accommodation” strategy—a concept proposed by the historian Philippe Burrin to describe various forms of adaptation to the circumstances of the Occupation that we revisit in the context of this study.…”
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