The value of the travelogues and observations recorded by travelers are an important tool for shedding light on hidden aspects Kurdish history. Especially about historical periods which little is known. Therefore, surveyors, after being analyzed, can become a good conducting research. It was because importance that we chose this article entitled (The City Kirkuk in Writings Memoirs Foreigners d...

This article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the cognitive-rhetorical strategies prominent British and Russian intellectuals in context systemic crisis “era transition” process formation cultural/imperial/national identities Britain Russia seventeenth eighteenth centuries. The authors focus on identifying semantic shift cultural code emerging based material polemical works, sermons, tra...

This remarkable book is an outcome of many years reflection on conceptual history by one its leading exponents, who through the magnificent Iberconceptos project has explored scope for thinking about life ideas ‘beyond Bielefeld (Koselleck) and Cambridge (Skinner)’. Fernández Sebastián here offers a master class in what can be hands seasoned practitioner both rigorous imaginative, not to mentio...

The Partition of India was one the crucial moments marking transition between colonial and postcolonial era. has become ever since a long-term process that continues to elicit political, cultural emotional contexts in South Asia. creation Pakistan as homeland for Asian Muslims involved division Bengal Punjab along religious lines while celebratory narratives decolonization nationhood marked off...

This article presents the results of a study of the medicinal uses of natural substances in medieval and Ottoman al-Sham (the Levant). It involved a meticulous survey of a wide range of historical sources spanning approximately 1100 years and including medical and pharmacological literature, travelogues, geographical and agricultural literature, dictionaries, archives, the Genizah and other med...

Abstract This introductory theoretical chapter makes the case for reading seventeenth-century French travel writing to Caribbean in situ. Using Édouard Glissant’s notion of point entanglement, it argues a shift perspectives that would seek undo colonial bias early modern texts and other entangled ramifications literature. In so doing, book brings attention ways which enslaved Indigenous peoples...

The paper deals with history, culture and urban life portrayed through the of streets. This topic is particularly interesting bearing in mind that this town extremely significant cultural center Montenegrin framework. Its story has mostly been written informally, a street or caf?. It covers period from late XIX century until end XX century. text represents particular interrelation between certa...

Abstract In the Finnish medical discussion during middle decades of twentieth century, challenging differential diagnostics between hyperthyroidism and various neuroses was perceived to yield a risk unnecessary surgical interventions psychiatric patients. 1963, surgeon Erkki Saarenmaa claimed that ‘the most significant mark neurotic transverse scar on neck’, result an thyroid surgery. The utter...