Note: Includes bibliographical references , Introduction , Negativity and historicist time: facticity and intellectual history of the 1930s , Ontological optimism, cosmological confusion, and unstable evolution: Tan Sitong's Renxue and Zhang Taiyan's response , Nation, history and ethics : the choices of post-imperial historiography in China , Reading Takeuchi Yoshimi and reading history , [2] The burden of the past and the hope for a better future ; An eschatological view of history: Yoshimi Takeuchi in the 1960s , The campaign to criticize Lin Biao and Confucius and the problem of "Restoration" in Chinese Marxist historiography , [3] Recollection of the past and the popularization of history ; Popular readings and wartime historical writings in modern China , Figuring history and horror in a provincial museum: the water dungeon, the rent collection courtyard, and the socialist undead , [4] History and the definition of spatial, cultural and temporal boundaries ; Revolution as restoration : meanings of "national essence" and "national learning" in Guocui Xuebao , Temporality of knowledge and history writing in early twentieth-century China : Liu Yizheng and The history of Chinese culture

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction: China Visualised : What Stories do Pictures Tell? , Part I. The China Photographs : Three Readings ; Part II. The Visibility of Chinese Women and Home ; Part III. Advertising and Propaganda : The Visual in Public Communications ; Part IV. Moving Pictures.

Note: Literaturangaben , Introduction , Settler colonization and societies in world history : patterns and concepts , Part A: General perspectives ; Why the settlers soared : the dynamics of immigration and economic growth ; In the "golden age" for settler societies , Five hundred years of European colonization : inequality and paths of development , Uneven development paths among settler societies, 1870-2000 , Settler colonialism in Africa , Jews in mandatory Palestine and additional phenomena of atypical settler ; Colonization in modern time , Part B: Comparative themes settler-indigenous relations ; "Great frauds and abuses" : institutional innovation at the colonial frontier of private property : case studies of the individualization of Maori Indian and Metis lands , Aboriginal economies in settler societies : Maori and Canadian prairie Indians , Labor and migration ; Patterns and processes of migration : an overview , Three island frontiers : Japanese migration in the Pacific , Coerced labour in southern hemisphere settler economies , Labor market outcomes in settler economies between 1870 and 1913 : accounting for differences in labor hours and occupations , Finance and capital flows ; Wakefieldian investment and the birth of new societies, c. 1830 to 1930 , Financial intermediaries in settler economies : the role of the banking sector development in South Africa, 1850-2000 , Trade and investment ; International trade and investment of the settler economies during the twentieth century : Argentina, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa , Trade, dominance, dependence and the end of the settlement era in Canada ; Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, 1920-1973 , Institutional development ; So similar, so different : New Zealand and Uruguay in the world economy , The state and economic policy in twentieth century Australia and New Zealand : escaping the staples trap? , Institutional patterns of the settler societies : hybrid, parallel, and ; Convergent , Notes on contributors ; Index.

Note: Includes index , Introduction : les echelles de l'evenement , Introduction : les echelles de l'evenement , The Ottoman conquests of Egypt and Algeria , Venetians in the Levant in the age of Selim I , La republique de Venise face a la conquete ottomane de l'etat mamelouk , Les chevaliers de Rhodes face a la conquete de l'Egypte , La politique mamelouke de Selim Ier , Egyptian civilian society and tax-farming in the aftermath of the Ottoman conquest , " Les circassiens avaient brule les registres" , La ville demobilisee : ordre urbain et fabrique de la ville au caire avant et apres 1517 , The Ottoman conquest and Egyptian culture , The Ottoman conquest of Egypt and the arts , L'opinion italienne sous-evalue-t-elle la conquete de l'Egypte : quelques temoignages et un contexte (1516-1521) , Portraits d'un conquerant : Selim Ier au miroir de la culture artistique italienne de la Renaissance (1517-1575) , Les mille et une nuits et les ottomans , Fini "la belle vie des circassiens" : la conquete de l'Egypte reconsideree : dans le durar al-Aman d'ibn Abi al-Surur al-Bakri (m. apres 1653) , Ottoman-Mamluk relations and the complex image of Bayezid II , The Ottoman conquests of Egypt and Algeria , Venetians in the Levant in the age of Selim I , La republique de Venise face a la conquete ottomane de l'etat mamelouk , Les chevaliers de Rhodes face a la conquete de l'Egypte , La politique mamelouke de Selim Ier , Egyptian civilian society and tax-farming in the aftermath of the Ottoman conquest , " Les circassiens avaient brule les registres" , La ville demobilisee : ordre urbain et fabrique de la ville au caire avant et apres 1517 , The Ottoman conquest and Egyptian culture , The Ottoman conquest of Egypt and the arts , L'opinion italienne sous-evalue-t-elle la conquete de l'Egypte : quelques temoignages et un contexte (1516-1521) , Portraits d'un conquerant : Selim Ier au miroir de la culture artistique italienne de la Renaissance (1517-1575) , Les mille et une nuits et les ottomans , Fini "la belle vie des circassiens" : la conquete de l'Egypte reconsideree : dans le durar al-Aman d'ibn Abi al-Surur al-Bakri (m. apres 1653) , Beitr. teilw. engl., teilw. franz.

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , General introduction , Kingship, women and politics in Morkinskinna , How to legitimate rebellion and condemn usurpation of the crown : discourses of fidelity and treason in the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus , Introduction to part two : property, law, charters , The power to judge : jurisdiction in property conflicts in thirteenth-century Denmark , Disputing property in thirteenth- and fourteenth- century Zealand : the records of Soro donation book , Gifts and society in fourteenth century Sweden , The field of property devolution in Norway during the late middle ages : inheritance settlements, marriage contracts and legal disputes , The feelings in the feud : the emotional turn in the study of medieval vengeance , The rules of conflict among the warrior aristocracy of the high middle ages , Legal history and the history of disputes

Note: Ourgrowth of a conference held July 9-13, 2007 in Berlin at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

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Note: Includes bibliographical references and index