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The aim of this special issue is to study the Middle East and Eastern Europe, including South-Eastern Europe, as one interwoven space and to use it as a laboratory to explore conceptual issues regarding modern societal transnational and state international history.…
It is shown that Shaftesbury’s opposition to both Cromwell during the Protectorate and Charles II in the Restoration was guided by a resolute ‘conscience’.
My findings underscore how critical teachers are in the school reform story. When we fail to see reform from the perches of these vital agents we miss a major piece of the reform story.
Along with showing the centrality of education in the relations between the socialist countries and the Middle East during the Cold War, this article brings to the fore a number of forgotten connections and suggests avenues for further research.
...documentations of housing projects offered by state-socialist Romanian design institutes to governmental clients in North Africa and the Middle East appeared as tools and records of negotiations among unequal parties...
In uncovering a vast array of contexts in which women acquired knowledge, became literate, and promoted intellectual advancement, Hall has successfully amplified the archivally silent world of women’s education in medieval England.
"...interdependence was seen both as an opportunity and a threat in the relations between smaller non-oil producing countries such as Yugoslavia and the rich Middle East."
What I show is that, due to an Orientalist take on South Yemen and Dhofar, the Soviet side widely failed to appreciate the political importance and potential of socialist currents in the Middle East, reducing cooperation to a selfish ‘pragmatism’.
The existence of this institution invites a number of questions about the early 20th century relations between the Austro-Hungarian and the Ottoman empires, from economy to politics.
In an attempt to create social cohesion, medieval European schoolmasters harnessed “youthful rebelliousness” during annual rituals so that a “modicum of order could be maintained.
Diplomatic historians have long pointed out that the early months of 1921 featured the culmination of a campaign of Soviet revolutionary diplomacy in which Moscow established diplomatic relations with newly reinstated governments in Ankara, Tehran and Kabul.
Without doubt, the troubling events in the wake of the Bishops’ Wars and Wentworth’s intention to recruit Irish Catholics for the army left an indelible mark on Protestants in England.