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Moorish Blood: Islamophobia, Racism and the Struggle for the Identity of Modern Spain
For the last five hundred years, Spanish society has had to deal with an apparently uncomfortable fact: that for at least half a millennium, Iberia...
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Modernism in Disguise? Neglected Aspects of the So-Called Revival of a Classical Indian Dance Form
Contact with remote cultures in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries stimulated major changes in the art practices of India and Western...
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The Crisis of European Art and the Emergence of Esthetics
Around the middle of the eighteenth century, Europe – in parallel with the circumstances preceding the French RevolutionRevolution – saw a rejection...
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The Role of Women in Translation History: Translating and Collaborating in the Re-sha** of Italy in the Early Romantic Period
Translation plays a crucial role in moments of transition, yet its role in the development of new modes of female expression has only recently...
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Women and Art in Africa: A Historical View
Women and Art, in Africa installations and performance Installations Africa’s art history provides examples of women who were artists, sources of...
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Reflections on Visual and Material Sources for the History of the Exact Sciences in Early Imperial China
This article takes stock of the seeming wealth of visual and material sources concerning stars and numbers that has come down to us from early...
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‘Sickly and Spent’: Reassessing the Life and Afterlife of Anne of Great Britain
As a reigning queen and historical figure, Queen Anne’s memory and reputation have long been shaped by the perspectives of her contemporaries and...
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Cosmopolitanism and Transculturality in the Habsburg Empire: The Art-Loving and Charitable Ladies of Sinas Family
The family of Sinas were very rich people and they were thought of as tycoons in the Habsburg Empire. A number of them were engaged with charities to...
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Emulation, Wealth and Civilisation: Works on the History of Trade and Industry in Early Modern England
Central to the development of English commercial civilisation during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were trade expansion, imperial...
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Modern China’s Imagining of the Nanyang and the Construction of Transnational Asia
In recent years, academic attention has been increasingly focused on the study of Asianism. This chapter analyses modern China’s imagining and...
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The Formation and Establishment of Modern Engineering Education in China
The Guimao educational system established the institutional framework for China’s modern engineering education. It also draws lessons from the...
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The Concept of Progress
The concept of progress is often applied by philosophers and historians in confusing ways; the concept deserves clarification. First, it would be...
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The Early Career of Fath ‘Ali Shah (1798–1804)
As early as 1794 Agha Mohammad Shah, a eunuch with no children of his own, had designated his nephew Fath ‘Ali Khan, whom he always referred to as...