Introduction: Labour in Transport: Histories from the Global South (Africa, Asia, and Latin America), c.1750 to 1950

AbstractThis introduction highlights the main subjects and research questions addressed in the articles making up this Special Issue on the labour histories of transport in the Global South. Although historiographical interest in the history of transport labour is growing, scientific knowledge on the subject is still very limited. This is especially true for histories from outside Europe and North America. Important topics and research problems covered here are: (1) transport labour as facilitating the exchange and mobility of goods but also of peoples and ideas – as such transport constitutes a noteworthy element of social history; (2) transport labour as a factor of production which is relevant for industrial and agrarian societies, as well as for market-driven and socialist economies; (3) the extent to which the processes of globalization, imperial expansion, and the emergence of global capitalism owe a debt to transport labour of the global south and its micro-histories.

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The Dimensions of Scientific Controversy: The Biometric—Mendelian Debate

The British Journal for the History of Science ◽

10.1017/s0007087400026170 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 299-320 ◽

Cited By ~ 37

Author(s):

Robert Olby

Keyword(s):

Social History ◽

Scientific Activity ◽

Scientific Controversy ◽

Sociological Factors ◽

Sociological Approach ◽

Scientific Controversies ◽

History Of ◽

The Subject ◽

The Right ◽

Scientific Arguments

The increasing attention which has been given to social history of science and to the sociological analysis of scientific activity has resulted in a renewed interest in scientific controversies. Furthermore, the rejection of the presentist view of history, according to which those contestants who took what we can identify, with the benefit of modern knowledge, as the ‘right’ stand in a controversy, were right and their opponents were ‘wrong’, left the subject of scientific controversies with many questions. What determines their emergence, course and resolution? When Froggatt and Nevin wrote on the Bio-metric-Mendelian controversy in 1971 they called their article ‘descriptive rather than interpretative’, so they avoided the very questions we would like to ask. Provine, in the same year, concentrated on the strong personalities of the contestants, their clashes, and the scientific arguments in play. But in 1975 Mackenzie and Barnes argued that the controversy could not be accounted for unless recourse was had to sociological factors. Their view has become widely known and figured prominently in 1982 in Steven Shapin's recital of the empirical achievements of the application of the sociological approach. I have returned to this subject because I do not yet feel altogether convinced by Mackenzie and Barnes' analysis. Even if their analysis of the controversy between Pearson and Bateson be accepted, it is not so obvious how effectively it can be used to explain the controversy between Weldon and Bateson, and I am not confident that it is adequate for an understanding of the evolution of their differing views of the mechanism of evolution.

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Finding a Voice: the Community Dramas of Monticchiello

New Theatre Quarterly ◽

10.1017/s0266464x00005200 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 7 (25) ◽

pp. 77-96

Author(s):

Richard Andrews

Keyword(s):

Social History ◽

Systematic Analysis ◽

Cambridge University ◽

Italian Comedy ◽

Full Study ◽

History Of ◽

Complete Survey ◽

The Subject ◽

Regular Contact ◽

The Village

The regular community drama activity of the village of Monticchiello in Italy has been pursued for nearly a quarter of a century, but is still little known abroad. A full study of the phenomenon is as much a study of the community, past and present, as it is a piece of theatrical analysis, in the area where there is a complete interlock between social history and the theatrical activity which a society produces. Since the work and history of the Teatro Povero have too many ramifications for everything to be summarized or even alluded to in one article, Richard Andrews here sets out to introduce the subject to students of theatre ‘by example’ – aiming to dig a single trench into the strata, in order to convey the outlines of the subject, hopefully without damage to the evidence needed for a more complete survey. Richard Andrews is Professor of Italian at Leeds University, having previously taught at Swansea and Kent. For the past fifteen years his research interests have been mainly concentrated on theatrical material, and he is currently preparing a study of sixteenth-century Italian comedy for Cambridge University Press. His regular contact with Monticchiello dates from 1983, and has been supported by a systematic analysis of all the texts produced there since 1967.

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Tell me your story about the Chilean dictatorship: When doing memory is taking positions

Memory Studies ◽

10.1177/1750698018761170 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 601-616 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Marcela Cornejo ◽

Carolina Rocha ◽

Nicolás Villarroel ◽

Enzo Cáceres ◽

Anastassia Vivanco

Keyword(s):

Social History ◽

Life Stories ◽

Political Repression ◽

Diverse Range ◽

The Social ◽

Political Orientations ◽

History Of ◽

The Subject ◽

Chilean Dictatorship ◽

The Right

The current memory struggles about the Chilean dictatorship makes it increasingly relevant to hear a diverse range of voices on the subject. One way of addressing this is to study autobiographical narratives, in which people construct a character to present themselves as the protagonists of a story by taking multiple positions regarding what is remembered. This article presents a study that analyzed the life stories of Chilean people (diverse in their generations, cities, experiences of political repression, political orientations and socio-economic levels) and that distinguished between the positions that they take when presenting themselves as the protagonists of an autobiographical story about the Chilean dictatorship. The results point to salient and recurrent positions that allow people to earn the right to be considered part of the social history of the dictatorship, that involve different definitions regarding those responsible and the victims of what happened, and that unveil a strong family and filial logic of remembering.

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Materials for the Study of Labor and Working Class History in Italy

Newsletter European Labor and Working Class History ◽

10.1017/s0147547900014204 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 16-19

Author(s):

Kenneth Kirkland

Keyword(s):

Intellectual History ◽

Social History ◽

Social Scientist ◽

Labor History ◽

The Political ◽

Starting Point ◽

The Social ◽

Working Class History ◽

History Of ◽

The Subject

The subject suggested in the title is so broad as to make it rather difficult to decide what boundaries to draw around the study of various resources available to the historian or other social scientist who sets out to study labor history, the social history of Italian workers and peasants, and the political and intellectual history of socialism and other radical movements. Keeping in mind that the following discussion is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather an indication of the necessary starting point to begin an investigation is probably the best way to understand this note.

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Special issue on Aspects of OV and VO order in the history of English

English Language and Linguistics ◽

10.1017/s1360674305001590 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 1-4 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

ANN TAYLOR ◽

WIM VAN DER WURFF

Keyword(s):

Large Body ◽

Special Issue ◽

Diachronic Syntax ◽

University Of Leiden ◽

History Of ◽

The Subject ◽

English Syntax ◽

The University ◽

Recent Monograph ◽

Detailed Picture

Whether judged by the amount of intrinsic interest, the number of knock-on effects, or the sheer volume of scholarly work devoted to it, it seems safe to say that one of the major issues in English historical syntax is the shift from object–verb (OV) to verb–object (VO) order. Over the last three decades in particular, a large body of literature has grown up that has resulted in an increasingly detailed picture of this change. No doubt in part because the recent introduction of electronic corpora has provided a boost to data-oriented work, the popularity of this change shows no imminent signs of abating. Evidence for the continuing popularity of this topic was demonstrated at two conferences held at the University of Leiden Centre for Linguistics in 2003 (the second Holland–York Symposium on the History of English Syntax in April 2003, and the Conference on Comparative Diachronic Syntax in August 2003). Although neither of the meetings had the shift from OV to VO in English as a special theme, the conference programmes together included no fewer than eight papers on the topic. Seven of these can be found in this special issue, which aims to illuminate selected aspects of the alternation between OV and VO order in the history of English; the collection of articles is rounded off by a review of a recent monograph on the subject.

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Plants and processes in wetlands: A background

Marine and Freshwater Research ◽

10.1071/mf9941369 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 45 (8) ◽

pp. 1369 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

PI Boon ◽

MA Brock

Keyword(s):

Research Effort ◽

Grey Literature ◽

Wetland Ecology ◽

Scientific Journals ◽

Special Issue ◽

Inland Wetlands ◽

Considerable Research ◽

History Of ◽

Research Findings ◽

The Subject

It is easy to gain an impression from the recent contents of Australian scientific journals dealing with ecological research that little attention is paid to the botanical ecology of Australia's inland wetlands. Less than 1% of the papers published in key Australian ecological journals over 1987-93 dealt with some aspect of the vegetation ecology of these environments. Yet over the period 1982-94 research on this topic accounted for up to 23% of the papers presented at annual conferences of the two major Australian scientific societies to which Australian limnologists are likely to belong. This discrepancy indicates that wetland vegetation is the subject of a considerable research effort by Australian limnologists, but that few of their research findings are published in refereed Australian journals. Analyses of the references cited in key review articles suggests that refereed journals outside Australia cannot account fully for the 'missing' publications: we demonstrate that much research is placed in the largely inaccessible 'grey literature' published by government departments and the like. It is also possible that some research is destined never to be published. This imbalance between the intensity of the research effort and the history of publication in Australian refereed journals prompted local scientists involved in wetland research to participate in a Special Issue dedicated to the botanical and process-oriented aspects of wetland ecology.

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Maritime Archaeology and Capacity Development in the Global South

Journal of Maritime Archaeology ◽

10.1007/s11457-019-09244-x ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 321-332 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lucy Blue ◽

Colin Breen

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Capacity Building ◽

Maritime Archaeology ◽

Capacity Development ◽

Global South ◽

International Congress ◽

Special Issue ◽

The Subject ◽

And Training ◽

Sixth International

Abstract The Honor Frost Foundation sponsored a session, ‘Maritime Archaeology, Capacity Building and Training in the Developing World’ at the Sixth International Congress on Underwater Archaeology (IKUWA VI) held in Freemantle, Australia, in November 2016, dedicated to capacity development in the context of maritime archaeology. The papers presented in this special issue of this journal represent an attempt to understand different approaches to capacity building and development within the sphere of maritime cultural heritage. This paper, by way of an introduction to the subject, and this special issue, aims to explore the nature of capacity building and development in relation to maritime cultural heritage.

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Introduction: a global history of the Irish Revolution

Irish Historical Studies ◽

10.1017/ihs.2020.1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 44 (165) ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

Enda Delaney ◽

Fearghal McGarry

Keyword(s):

Global History ◽

Special Issue ◽

Irish Nationalism ◽

Fresh Perspective ◽

History Of ◽

The Subject ◽

Irish Revolution ◽

The Revolution

AbstractHow might the history of Ireland's revolution be reassessed if viewed within a transnational, comparative or global framework? Drawing attention to recent writing on the subject, this introduction considers the conceptual and historiographical issues at stake in reframing the history of the Irish Revolution, as well as considering potential limitations to these approaches. We assess what topics in particular lend themselves to a fresh perspective focusing on Irish nationalism, while also indicating areas where there is considerable scope for new lines of inquiry. In this era of intensive commemoration of the events that unfolded between 1912 and 1923, this special issue serves to remind us that the history of the revolution should not be confined to the island of Ireland. We argue that thinking transnationally and comparatively can promote a more inclusive and diverse global history of Irish Revolution.

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Pattern, process, inference and prediction in extinction biology

Biology Letters ◽

10.1098/rsbl.2016.0828 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 20160828 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Barry W. Brook ◽

John Alroy

Keyword(s):

Natural Science ◽

Evolutionary History ◽

Extinction Risk ◽

Special Issue ◽

Effective Protection ◽

Practical Applications ◽

Recent Developments ◽

History Of ◽

The Subject ◽

Patterns And Processes

Extinction is a key feature of the evolutionary history of life, and assessments of extinction risk are essential for the effective protection of biodiversity. The goal in assembling this special issue of Biology Letters was to highlight problems and questions at the research frontier of extinction biology, with an emphasis on recent developments in the methodology of inferring the patterns and processes of extinction from a background of often noisy and sparse data. In selecting topics, we sought to illustrate how extinction is not simply a self-evident phenomenon, but the subject of a dynamic and quantitatively rigorous field of natural science, with practical applications to conservation.

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