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The Experience (and Constitution) of Society in Postwar and Post-Industrial Finland, 1960–2020
This chapter asks how experiences of society, societal structures, and ideas of society are related; how they produce actions (like politics); and...
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Political and Social Structures of the Philippine Sultanates
This chapter describes the political and social structures of the Philippine sultanates. Firstly, the system of Datus or Datuship defines many...
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New Explanatory Frameworks and Black Death Forgetting
At the beginning of the twentieth century, new and important research was carried out in which the role of the Black Death in historical change was...
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Introduction: Viewing Plantations at the Intersection of Political Ecologies and Multiple Space-Times
In this chapter, we outline our contribution to the study of plantations, building upon a wide and important body of critical literature that has...
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Wissensorganisation
Wissensorganisation betrifft das Intime der Forschung, den persönlichen Arbeitsstil. Nicht um Methoden im engeren Sinne geht es, sondern um Verfahren...
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Silver, Rogues, and Trade Networks: Sangleyes and Manila Galleons Connecting the Spanish Empire and Qing China
This chapter examines the structure of trade in the South China SeaSouth China Sea region through an analysis of merchant networks operating in this...
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On the Interpretations of the Cultural and Techno-Scientific Significance of Portuguese Navigations: A Historiographic Approach
Asking why modern science appears in Europe, H. Floris Cohen (in How modern science came into the world) speaks about three traditions that merge in...
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Nostalgia for Oranges: Plantations as a Development Promise in Socialist Cuba
Plantations have mainly been studied as precursor forms of capitalism or as their most exemplary outcome, as a system which relies on the alienation...
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On the Interpretations of the Cultural and Techno-Scientific Significance of Portuguese Navigations: A Historiographic Approach
Asking why modern science appears in Europe, H. Floris Cohen (in How modern science came into the world) speaks about three traditions that merge in...
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The Mandate of Heaven, the Rule of the Emperor: Self-Sufficiency of the Middle Kingdom
This chapter pays special attention to the analysis of the state administrative capacity of late Ming and Qing China by exploring the reforms...
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The Second Generation and the Philosophy and Writing of History
This chapter discusses the second generation of Marxist historians. Those selected—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940), Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), and Georg...
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Visualizing Stalinist Space: The 1951 Geographical Atlas of the USSR for Secondary Schools
This chapter offers a close critical analysis of the structure, design, and content of the Geographical Atlas of the USSR for Secondary Schools,...
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Islamic Legacy in Medieval Iberian Societies: Building Rules
By considering the building regulations of medieval Christian societies of the Iberian Peninsula with the ones contained in Islamic sources from...
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Revisiting Corruption Theory on the Indian Ocean World: A Case Study of Slave Trade in the 19th Century Western Indian Ocean
The nineteenth century is widely understood as the period when the Indian Ocean world was overwhelmed by Western influence. Thus, the nineteenth...
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“[They] Are Not of Any Service, Except for Wasting Wages and Burning a Lot of Timber”: The Soldiers of the Guard of the Royal Shipyard of Barcelona (1575–1600)
Little after the famous battle of Lepanto (1571), the Spanish monarchy focused its attention and most of its resources on fighting the Protestants of...
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Historiography of Science and Philosophy of History: Toward a Rapprochement Between Disciplines That Never Ruptured
It has been observed that the history of science and the philosophy of science have largely gone in very different directions in recent decades. I...