2026 December - 15 articles
This study examines the transformation of youth employment in Greece between 2000 and 2024, encompassing the pre-crisis period, the global financial and sovereign-debt crises, the economic adjustment programmes, the subsequent recovery, and the COVID...
The Industrial Revolution is commonly periodized through mechanization, steam, electricity, mass production, computing, digital networks, and artificial intelligence. This article proposes an alternative variable of historical observation: the functi...
This article examines Portuguese imperial expansion across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans through the lens of environmental history, arguing that mobility, ecological variability, and locally grounded environmental knowledge were central to the makin...
Lobola is an important African cultural institution historically associated with the exchange of cattle between families. Beyond their economic value, cattle carried meanings related to fertility, reproduction, ancestors, kinship, legitimacy, ritual...
Text Correction [...]
This article offers a condensed overview of the principal historiographical debates concerning the Albigensian Crusade and the dissident communities of Languedoc referred to here as Cathars. It proposes a contribution to an emerging psychohistorical...
The seamless pagoda (無縫塔/无缝塔) is a form of Buddhist funerary pagoda that took shape within the Chan (Zen) monastic communities of the Song dynasty. With the maturation of the Five Mountains and Ten Monasterie...
Beginning in the 1860s, both the Kingdom of Serbia (Yugoslavia) and Romania gained notoriety as important regional factors in the South-Eastern European struggle for power. The beginning of the 20th century marks the strategic emergence of common int...
This article examines how “Blue Shirts” [藍衣社] was made and remade as a political label through press circulation in Republican China. Rather than assuming that each occurrence referred to a stable organisation, it ana...
The paper examines the history of the forest owned by the Dukes of Sermoneta, the Caetani family, situated in the Pontine Marshes region south of Rome. Chronologically, the study covers the period from the early decades of the nineteenth century&mdas...
This paper reexamines the legacy of Peter Spencer and the African Union Methodist Protestant (A.U.M.P.) Church, challenging the dominant historical narrative that credits the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church as the first independent Black...
This article examines the ways in which ancient Greek tragedy has contributed to the formation, negotiation, and transformation of cultural memory and identity across different historical periods. Focusing on the continuing circulation and reinterpre...
The Sinaia Lead Plates constitute a corpus of over one hundred inscribed and illustrated metal plates reportedly discovered in Romania in the late nineteenth century, of which forty-six are currently preserved. Frequently classified as modern forgeri...
This article re-examines the national theory of Austro-Marxism as a response to the dual crisis of the late Habsburg Empire: the paralysis of imperial governance and the erosion of cross-national class solidarity. Karl Renner and Otto Bauer proposed...
In this work, we take the historical accounts on the discovery of quasicrystals as a starting point to reflect on important elements in the development of science: experimental evidence, reproducibility, theory changes, resistance to change, and corr...
