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New Frontiers in History

A special issue of Histories (ISSN 2409-9252).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 9752

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Prof. Dr. Greg Melleuish

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Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong, Wollongong 2500, Australia
Interests: Australian history and politics; history of political ideas; philosophy of history; intellectual history

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is designed to celebrate the founding of the open access journal Histories and is focused on presenting new ideas and advances at the cutting edge of historical scholarship. The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to: micro and global history, historical methods, cultural history, social history, environmental history, intellectual history, public history, and the philosophy of history. The aim is to build a community of authors to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions relating it to their personal areas of interest and expertise. We hope you see a possibility to go further in this direction and use the solid infrastructure of "Histories".

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  • History
  • historiography
  • cultural history
  • social history
  • environmental history
  • intellectual history
  • public history
  • philosophy of history

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Prehistory and Ideology in Cold War Southeast Asia: The Politics of Wartime Archaeology in Thailand and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1954–1975
by Maurizio Peleggi
Histories 2023, 3(2), 98-111; https://doi.org/10.3390/histories3020008 - 21 Apr 2023
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The two decades comprised within the partition of Vietnam and the end of the Indochina Wars surprisingly saw major advances in prehistoric archaeology in the region. This article examines the political context and implications of archaeological investigations conducted in Thailand and the Democratic [...] Read more.
The two decades comprised within the partition of Vietnam and the end of the Indochina Wars surprisingly saw major advances in prehistoric archaeology in the region. This article examines the political context and implications of archaeological investigations conducted in Thailand and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam under the guidance of, respectively, American and Soviet specialists, as an aspect of the cultural Cold War. Archaeological discoveries in both countries debunked colonial archaeology’s account of prehistoric Southeast Asia as a passive recipient of Chinese cultural influence by documenting autonomous technological development. The article argues that the new image of mainland Southeast Asia’ prehistory that formed by the early 1970s reflected the superpowers’ objective of empowering the region’s postcolonial nation-states notwithstanding their political contrasts, yet it was not equally congruent with the nationalist narratives of Thailand and North Vietnam. Full article
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The Network of Early Modern Printers and Its Impact on the Evolution of Scientific Knowledge: Automatic Detection of Awareness Relationships
by Matteo Valleriani, Malte Vogl, Hassan el-Hajj and Kim Pham
Histories 2022, 2(4), 466-503; https://doi.org/10.3390/histories2040033 - 9 Nov 2022
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This work describes a computational method for reconstructing clusters of social relationships among early modern printers and publishers, the most determinant agents for the process of transformation of scientific knowledge. The method is applied to a dataset retrieved from the Sphaera corpus, a [...] Read more.
This work describes a computational method for reconstructing clusters of social relationships among early modern printers and publishers, the most determinant agents for the process of transformation of scientific knowledge. The method is applied to a dataset retrieved from the Sphaera corpus, a collection of 359 editions of textbooks used at European universities and produced between the years 1472 and 1650. The method makes use of standard bibliographic data and fingerprints; social relationships are defined as “awareness relationships”. The historical background is constituted of the production and economic practices of early modern printers and publishers in the academic book market. The work concludes with empirically validating historical case studies, their historical interpretation, and suggestions for further improvements by utilizing machine learning technologies. Full article
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A Framework for European Thought on Psychology, Education, and Health Based on Foucault’s The Order of Things
by Carol Nash
Histories 2022, 2(3), 222-240; https://doi.org/10.3390/histories2030018 - 12 Jul 2022
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In European thought, the relationship among the fields of psychology, education, and health is both complex and obscured. Foucault’s acclaimed work, The Order of Things, offers a framework to evaluate their interconnection by identifying three distinct periods of European thought since the [...] Read more.
In European thought, the relationship among the fields of psychology, education, and health is both complex and obscured. Foucault’s acclaimed work, The Order of Things, offers a framework to evaluate their interconnection by identifying three distinct periods of European thought since the 16th century, with respect to the ordering of phenomena—Renaissance, Classical, and Modern. Theoretically dense and often difficult to decipher, the book’s categorization of language, value, and being has been understandably underused, yet it provides deep insights into what have come to be known as psychology, education, and health, and remains invaluable in understanding the origin, limits, and consequences of these fields. Investigated is how Foucault’s analysis can be interpreted, concerning the development of these areas in each of the three periods of European thought. An approach based on narrative research appraises the analysis offered in the book. The results, presented for the first time in table form, compare these three periods, demonstrating a continuing practical value to Foucault’s insights. With the aid of the framework presented by these tables, the boundaries and relationship of psychology, education, and health become clear, and their limitations—plus potential solutions to them—can be identified to mitigate anticipated negative consequences. Full article
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