Recently added articles from The Historian:
Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752. By Jonathan I. Israel. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xxiv, 983. $55.00.) In this book, a sequel to his Radical Enlightenment (Oxford University Press, 2001), the author ...
Demonstrations and lamentations: urban and rural responses to war in Russia in 1914.
Sep 22, 2009; ... IN A LETTER TO his father dated 20 July 1914, (1) a young Russian officer making his way to the front described the atmosphere in the Russian capital, St. Petersburg, during the first days of World War I: <Pre>The mood of the masses is most patriotic; on the streets they...
The Indian saltpeter trade, the military revolution and the rise of Britain as a global superpower.
Sep 22, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION BETWEEN 1601 AND 1801, ships made thousands of voyages carrying goods from Asian ports to the primary European markets for East Indian commodities: Amsterdam, London, l'Orient, Copenhagen, Lisbon, and Stockholm. (1) On average, these Indiamen measured 1,000 tons ...
Southeast Asian slavery and slave-gathering warfare as a vector for cultural transmission: the case of Burma and Thailand.
Sep 22, 2009; ... I. OVERVIEW SOUTHEAST ASIA, perhaps more than any other region in area studies, struggles to define itself as a legitimate cultural zone for academic research. This has much to do with the dominant framework for understanding the region as the center point in the long-distance ...
Staying the royal sword: Alcuin and the conversion dilemma in early medieval Europe.(religious conversion)
Sep 22, 2009; ... A GRISLY SCENE unfolded after the battle. The treacherous pagans had been defeated and would now be obliged to convert to the new faith. But all that had happened before, and each time the dogs had found a way to return to their vomit. Years of frustration welled up inside the king as he ...