Xu Guoqi (Hong Kong University): The Great War and Asia’s great transformation Santanu Das (King’s College, London): Beyond nation and the Great War: Indian and trans-national intellectual responses to violence, 1914-1922 Erez Manela (Harvard University): Empires at War: The Great War as global conflict John Horne (Trinity College, Dublin): Empires and occupations: the global dynamics of the il...

As a prelude to articles published in this special issue, I sketch changing historiographical conventions regarding the 'occult' in recent history of science and medicine scholarship. Next, a review of standard claims regarding psychical research and parapsychology in philosophical discussions of the demarcation problem reveals that these have tended to disregard basic primary sources and inste...

Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS) and Multi-RPYS provide algorithmic approaches to reconstructing the intellectual histories of scientific fields. With this brief communication, we describe a technical advancement for developing research historiographies by introducing RPYS i/o, an online tool for performing standard RPYS and Multi-RPYS analyses interactively (at http://comins.leyd...

The paper deals with the specific plot features of a popular Swedish travelogue My Son on Galley (1781) in which Jacob Wallenberg describes his journey from Sweden to China 1769–1771. object analysis is general structure travel novels (using Mikhail Bakhtin’s terminology) and travelogues. As result, it proved that linear, chronological structure. It includes not only description itself document...

La Topographie légendaire des Évangiles en Terre Sainte by M. Halbwachs was one of the first studies which employed strategy comparing “travelographic” descriptions tracing dependence physical world on predetermined settings. The author concludes that geographical space “Promised Land” is realised through “legendary” images. localisation specific events occurs following collective ideas communi...