A history of childhood: Children and childhood in the West from medieval to modern times; Ancestors: The loving family in Old Europe

AbstractThis article re-examines our understanding of modern sport. Today, various physical cultures across the world are practised under the name of sport. Almost all of these sports originated in the West and expanded to the rest of the world. However, the history of judo confounds the diffusionist model. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, a Japanese educationalist amalgamated different martial arts and established judo not as a sport but as ‘a way of life’. Today it is practised globally as an Olympic sport. Focusing on the changes in its rules during this period, this article demonstrates that the globalization of judo was accompanied by a constant evolution of its character. The overall ‘sportification’ of judo took place not as a diffusion but as a convergence – a point that is pertinent to the understanding of the global sportification of physical cultures, and also the standardization of cultures in modern times.

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Is the History of Childhood Ready for the World? A Response to “The Kids Aren’t All Right”

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1093/ahr/rhaa383 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 125 (4) ◽

pp. 1300-1305

Author(s):

Ishita Pande

Keyword(s):

Review Essay ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

Limiting Factors ◽

Childhood Studies ◽

Chronological Age ◽

History Of Childhood ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

Children And Childhood ◽

Historical Agency

Abstract In a complement to the 2020 AHR Roundtable “Chronological Age: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis” (125, no. 2), this AHR Exchange focuses on the history of children and childhood. Sarah Maza presents a critical review essay, highlighting the limiting factors in the expanding field of childhood studies. Children, she observes, produce few sources of their own voices, have limited agency, and as individuals and as a group soon outgrow their subaltern status—they grow up. Robin P. Chapdelaine, Nara Milanich, Steven Mintz, Ishita Pande, and Bengt Sandin—historians representing diverse geographical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives on the history of children and childhood—react to Maza’s observations by bringing up important methodological questions about subjecthood, agency, and modernity. Maza’s rejoinder reflects on these questions and on the possibility of age-based historical agency.

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Giovanni Levi and Jean-Claude Schmitt, editors. A History of Young People in the West. Volume 1, Ancient and Medieval Rites of Passage. Translated by Camille Naish. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1997. Pp. vi, 396. $35.00 and Giovanni Levi and Jean-Claude Schmitt, editors. A History of Young People in the West. Volume 2, Stormy Evolution to Modern Times. Translated by Carol Volk. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1997. Pp. vi, 409. $35.00

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/103.3.845-a ◽

1998 ◽

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Rites Of Passage ◽

Harvard University ◽

The West ◽

Modern Times ◽

History Of

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The Indo-Roman Pepper Trade and the Muziris Papyrus

10.1093/oso/9780198842347.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Federico De Romanis

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

South India ◽

The South ◽

The West ◽

Modern Times ◽

South Indian ◽

History Of ◽

European Trade ◽

Early Modern Times ◽

Commercial Relationships

This book offers an interpretation of the two fragmentary texts of the P. Vindobonensis G 40822, now widely referred to as the Muziris papyrus. Without these two texts, there would be no knowledge of the Indo-Roman trade practices. The book also compares and contrasts the texts of the Muziris papyrus with other documents pertinent to Indo-Mediterranean (or Indo-European) trade in ancient, medieval, and early modern times. These other documents reveal the commercial and political geography of ancient South India; the sailing schedule and the size of the ships plying the South India sea route; the commodities exchanged in the South Indian emporia; and the taxes imposed on the Indian commodities en route from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. When viewed against the twin backdrops of ancient sources on South Indian trade and of medieval and early modern documents on pepper commerce, the two texts become foundational resources for the history of commercial relationships between South India and the West.

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Western Esotericism and the Science of Religions

Numen ◽

10.1163/1568527952598756 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 48-77 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Karen-Claire Voss ◽

Antoine Faivre

Keyword(s):

17Th Century ◽

Specific Form ◽

Diverse Group ◽

The West ◽

Modern Times ◽

Jacob Boehme ◽

History Of Religions ◽

History Of ◽

Western Esotericism

AbstractThe term “esotericism” refers here to the modern esoteric currents in the West (15th to 20th centuries), i.e. to a diverse group of works, authors, trends, which possess an “air de famille” and which must be studied as a part of the history of religions because of the specific form it has acquired in the West from the Renaissance on. This field is comprised of currents like: alchemy (its philosophical and/or “spiritual” aspects); the philosophia occulta; Christian Kabbalah; Paracelsianism and the Naturphilosophie in its wake; theosophy (Jacob Boehme and his followers, up to and including the Theosophical Society); Rosicrucianism of the 17th century and the subsequent similarly-oriented initiatic societies; and hermetism, i.e. the reception of the Greek Hermetica in modern times.

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How the West Was Fun: Children’s Literature and Frontier Mythmaking toward the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Western Historical Quarterly ◽

10.1093/whq/whz099 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 51 (1) ◽

pp. 49-74

Author(s):

Brian Rouleau

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Popular Culture ◽

Indigenous Peoples ◽

The United States ◽

Juvenile Literature ◽

The West ◽

Western History ◽

Westward Expansion ◽

History Of Childhood ◽

History Of

Abstract This article discusses the important role that juvenile literature played in creating America’s frontier mythos. It argues that children were a crucial audience for adult authors seeking to justify and normalize settler colonial policies. But, more importantly, young people themselves were active participants in the perpetuation of a popular culture that glorified westward expansion and the eradication of Indigenous peoples. In acknowledging as much, we arrive at a richer understanding of the important intersections between western history and the history of childhood in the United States.

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Asia and the West as Partners Before “Empire” and After

The Journal of Asian Studies ◽

10.2307/2942407 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 28 (4) ◽

pp. 711-721 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Holden Furber

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

South Asia ◽

Special Interest ◽

South Asians ◽

South East Asia ◽

The West ◽

New Era ◽

Modern Times ◽

History Of ◽

Asian History

A large number of us who are here today in 1969 remember the early beginnings of our organization. I remember particularly a small gathering of one of our earlier incarnations in John Fairbank's livingroom discussing our problems, when we were so small that Wilma Fairbank could send out the postcard notices of meetings without any secretarial help. We are now old enough to have acquired traditions, one of which is the rotation of the presidency from China to South East Asia to Japan to South Asia and then round again. By a fortunate chance the turn of South Asia falls this year on the centenary of the birth of the greatest of South Asians of modern times. Another of our traditions is that the president should deliver an address on a topic close to his own special interest—in my case the history of modern India. I am, however, going to deviate somewhat from that practice this afternoon. In closing, I shall make some suggestions which I hope all of us will keep in mind in this new era of Asian history which is now upon us.

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