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A Month in the Life of Jose Salud, Forester in the Spanish Phillipines, July 1882 (2009)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2009). A Month in the Life of Jose Salud, Forester in the Spanish Phillipines, July 1882. Global environment : a journal of transdisciplinary history, 2(3), 8-47. https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2009.020302

The discovery of a monthly work schedule for José Salud, a district forester on the island of Panay, provides us with an unique insight into the operations and workings of the Inspección general de Montes, the Spanish colonial forestry service in the... Read More about A Month in the Life of Jose Salud, Forester in the Spanish Phillipines, July 1882.

Preußischer Pomp : Zeremoniellnutzung und Ruhmbegriff Friedrichs des Großen im Berliner "Carousel" von 1750 (2008)
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Biskup, T. (2008). Preußischer Pomp : Zeremoniellnutzung und Ruhmbegriff Friedrichs des Großen im Berliner "Carousel" von 1750. Friedrich300 - Colloquien : Studien zur preußischen Geschichte in der Zeit Friedrich des Großen, 2,

Der Beitrag hinterfragt das Bild Friedrichs II. als eines besonders zeremoniellfeindlichen Monarchen, indem er mit dem Berliner "Carousel" von 1750 das größte höfische Fest in Preußen zwischen der Regierung Friedrichs I. und den romantisierenden Feie... Read More about Preußischer Pomp : Zeremoniellnutzung und Ruhmbegriff Friedrichs des Großen im Berliner "Carousel" von 1750.

"Primitive" discourse : aspects of contemporary North American Indian representations of the Irish and of contemporary Irish representations of North American Indians (2008)
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Porter, & Porter, J. (2008). "Primitive" discourse : aspects of contemporary North American Indian representations of the Irish and of contemporary Irish representations of North American Indians. American Studies, 49(3-4), 63-85. https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2010.0020

This article contrasts a number of contemporary incidences of Irish representation of and engagement with Native Americans and their history with two Native American novels and their depictions of Ireland and the Irish, LeAnne Howe’s 2001 book Shells... Read More about "Primitive" discourse : aspects of contemporary North American Indian representations of the Irish and of contemporary Irish representations of North American Indians.

Conflict and collaboration: Britain and Sultan Ibrahim of Johore (2008)
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Smith, S. C. (2008). Conflict and collaboration: Britain and Sultan Ibrahim of Johore. Indonesia and the Malay World, 36(106), 345-358. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639810802450357

The establishment of workable collaborative relations with indigenous elites formed a vital part of the maintenance of the British Empire. This was especially so in the Malay States, where the Malay rulers enjoyed considerable local prestige as relig... Read More about Conflict and collaboration: Britain and Sultan Ibrahim of Johore.

When Seve met Bregović: folklore, turbofolk and the boundaries of Croatian musical identity (2008)
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Baker, C. (2008). When Seve met Bregović: folklore, turbofolk and the boundaries of Croatian musical identity. Nationalities Papers, 36(4), 741-764. https://doi.org/10.1080/00905990802230514

Popular music in Croatia has consistently been a field where the boundaries of national cultural identity are set, contested and transgressed. The most contentious boundaries involve Serbian culture and the abstract "east", to which essentialized nat... Read More about When Seve met Bregović: folklore, turbofolk and the boundaries of Croatian musical identity.

Wild dances and dying wolves : simulation, essentialization, and national identity at the Eurovision Song Contest (2008)
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Baker, C. (2008). Wild dances and dying wolves : simulation, essentialization, and national identity at the Eurovision Song Contest. Popular Communication, 6(3), 173-189. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405700802198113

This paper examines Eurovision as a site for the public representation of the nation and explores the tendency towards simulation in such representations. The contest’s transnational audience and implication in commercial practices create pressures t... Read More about Wild dances and dying wolves : simulation, essentialization, and national identity at the Eurovision Song Contest.

The causes of the Thirty Years War 1618-48 (2008)
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Wilson, P. H. (2008). The causes of the Thirty Years War 1618-48. English Historical Review, CXXIII(502), 554-586. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cen160

The Thirty Years War (1618-48) was the most destructive conflict in Europe before the twentieth-century world wars. There are several explanations of what caused the war, but these rarely discuss the merits of alternative interpretations, nor do they... Read More about The causes of the Thirty Years War 1618-48.

Comparing vulnerabilities: Toward charting an historical trajectory of disasters (2007)
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Bankoff, G. (2007). Comparing vulnerabilities: Toward charting an historical trajectory of disasters. Historical Social Research ==, 32(3), 103-114. https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.32.2007.3.103-114

Disasters have two historical trajectories, one 'natural' in that they involve one or more physical hazards and the other societal in that they are largely culturally determined. They are 'historical' in the sense that both forces change over time. C... Read More about Comparing vulnerabilities: Toward charting an historical trajectory of disasters.

German court and French Revolution: émigrés and the Brunswick court around 1800 (2007)
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Biskup, T. (2007). German court and French Revolution: émigrés and the Brunswick court around 1800. Francia : Forschungen zur westeuropäischen Geschichte, 34(2), 61 - 87

In the history of migration, the émigrés of the French Revolution have long remained marginalised although they formed an important element of cultural transfer in the decades around 1800 when the Old Regime came to an end across the Eu... Read More about German court and French Revolution: émigrés and the Brunswick court around 1800.

Dangers to going it alone: Social capital and the origins of community resilience in the Philippines (2007)
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Bankoff, G. (2007). Dangers to going it alone: Social capital and the origins of community resilience in the Philippines. Continuity and Change, 22(2), 327-355. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416007006315

Robert Putnam's influential article 'Bowling alone: America's declining social capital' puts forward a number of possible factors to explain the decline of civil society in the USA. Many of these same forces are also at work in America's erstwhile co... Read More about Dangers to going it alone: Social capital and the origins of community resilience in the Philippines.

No place to call home: The 1807-1857 life writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, chronicler of outlying Mormon communities (2006)
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Porter, J. (2006). No place to call home: The 1807-1857 life writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, chronicler of outlying Mormon communities. Journal of the West, 45(1), 90

The article reviews the book "No Place to Call Home: The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities," edited by Edward Leo Lyman, Susan Ward Payne and S. George Ellsworth.