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Histories, Volume 5, Issue 2

2025 June - 14 articles

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Articles (14)

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  • Open Access
2,781 Views
14 Pages

Across the centuries, trees have been recognised as one of the oldest lifeforms on earth, witnessing and subject to the passage of time on a scale that far exceeds human life, telling us who we are in the world. This paper explores the intricate natu...

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  • Open Access
4,563 Views
12 Pages

Polish scholarly literature has not comprehensively analysed the image of the French Revolution of 1789–1799 in history textbooks. Similarly, 20th- and 21st-century historiography has presented no exhaustive overview of these events. This artic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,102 Views
25 Pages

Since the early 14th century, the Mediterranean coasts of the Crown of Aragon had mechanisms in place to alert populations of incoming threats from the sea. In addition to maritime surveillance systems strategically positioned at elevated vantage poi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,506 Views
52 Pages

Massachusetts in the 1780s was deeply polarized. In the preparty era, the most developed communities were able to monopolize the levers of policymaking and governance in order to secure their interests. The least commercial–cosmopolitan communi...

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  • Open Access
2,046 Views
22 Pages

This article assesses the importance of two tax controversies in conditioning market access in fifteenth-century Bruges. It looks at diplomatic posturing on the management of this market and the conditions for partaking in its trade. The theory of &l...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,947 Views
31 Pages

The Latin (De Homine, 1662, 1664) and French (L’Homme, 1664) editions of René Descartes’ Treatise on Man present different iconographic traditions, but the iconography of the Latin editions is little known. Dutch physician and bota...

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  • Open Access
5,791 Views
24 Pages

In the Spanish Empire, the term mestizo/mestiza denoted, overwhelmingly, people of so-called “mixed” European and indigenous ancestry, but there existed also some regional adaptations with differing genealogies such as the mestizos de san...

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  • Open Access
3,276 Views
18 Pages

A Digital Archival Lens on the First Saudi State: Uncovering Its Representation in English Newspapers

  • Maha Ali Alkhashil,
  • Samia Boubaker Ghazouani and
  • Nouf Rezeg Al-Rodhan

This study examines how English newspapers portrayed the First Saudi State (FSS) between 1794 and 1819, focusing on their role in shaping European perceptions. The starting point, 1794, corresponds to the earliest located article mentioning the FSS,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,419 Views
11 Pages

During the 17th and early 18th centuries, within the framework of Castilian inheritance law—which mandated the equal partition of marital assets among all legitimate descendants—the elites of colonial La Rioja devised a set of complex and...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,721 Views
15 Pages

China’s engagement with global governance has evolved significantly since 1949, transitioning from outright rejection during its revolutionary isolation (1949–1971) to strategic engagement with key institutions such as the United Nations,...

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  • Open Access
1,772 Views
17 Pages

In this article, I consider the narratives framing Italian-language accounts of ecclesiastical censorship in early modern Italy and its impact on the modern Italian state. I set out Adriano Prosperi, Vittorio Frajese and Gigliola Fragnito’s int...

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  • Open Access
2,963 Views
23 Pages

Three languages of service in the Hunter Valley show the emotional impact of new labour systems on valuing and self-valuing in work. The newspaper advertisements present a self-image of the servant as a negotiator for wages and conditions, and servan...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,177 Views
26 Pages

Jacob Gens, the head of the Vilnius Ghetto Police Force, and eventually the entire Ghetto during the Holocaust, was murdered on 14 September 1943 by the head of the Vilnius Gestapo. Historical documents and Holocaust survivor testimonies indicate tha...

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