Ruling Grain-Rich Sicily

2021 ◽  
pp. 133-177
Author(s):  
Mark R. Thatcher
Keyword(s):  
Regional Identity ◽  
Persian Wars ◽  
Key Events

This chapter examines the articulation and political valences of Sicilian regional identity. Although Sicily as a region was defined according to geographical criteria, namely, the boundaries of the island, a subjective sense of Sicilian-ness developed that relied in part on two goddesses, Demeter and Kore (or Persephone). Myths described them as patrons of the whole island, making Sicily the location of key events in their biographies, and their cults were widespread there, including among non-Greeks. Sicilian leaders and tyrants from the Deinomenids onward used the two goddesses to create legitimacy for themselves. Moreover, a second criterion also contributed to Sicilian identity: a sense of contrast with Greeks of the mainland, especially Athens, beginning around the time of the Persian Wars and culminating with Athens’s Sicilian Expeditions. By excluding mainland Greeks and possibly including non-Greeks on the island, Sicilian identity cut across familiar ethnic categories.

Historic Past, Promising Future: An Archival Research Project on Tourism and Identity in the Limestone City

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasmine Charete
Keyword(s):  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Birthday Celebration ◽  
History Department ◽  
Key Events ◽  
The City

1973: The City of Kingston holds a year-long birthday celebration in honour of its 300th called Tercentenary. Planning for this event takes three years and ongoing consultation with major stakeholders in the city and its residents. This archival research presentation discusses the original motives behind the Tercentenary Committee and its members, the key events in both planning and execution of Tercentenary, and major festivities throughout the year and their impact on the Kingston community and the image of Kingston as a historic city. As with many other heritage tourism events, the City uses Tercentenary to solidify community identity and civic pride in order to further promote tourism and profits from visitors. Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities theory informs the project, alongside other Canadian examples of heritage tourism that shaped regional identity over the past century. Using these secondary sources, I will argue that the Committee(s) desire to tie the City’s Historic Past to its Promising Future shaped their perspectives on marketing Tercentenary to residents and Kingston stakeholders as much as to visitors. This project is one of the first in a new course offered in the History Department titled HIST 501: History/Queen’s Archives Internship. Students complete archival tasks such as indexing and minor preservation and can choose to partake in a personal research project.

Demographic processes in Armenia in the 16th century - in the first half of the 17th century

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikayel Malkhasyan
Keyword(s):  
Population Distribution ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
General Picture ◽  
Persian Wars ◽  
Average Family Size ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Demographic Processes ◽  
Key Events ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The monograph presents a comprehensive study of the demographic processes in Armenia in the 16th century and in the first half of the 17th century, focusing on the peculiarities, tendencies, key events. The work highlights the effects of the Turkish-Persian wars, the Jalal movements, the Ottoman Empire, the ethno-religious policies of Safavid Persia, natural disasters, epidemics, and famine on demographic processes, as well as the average family size coefficient, the main waves of internal migration (foreign ethnic infiltrations), the general picture of the population distribution. The book can be useful for historians, researchers of historical demographics, students and a wide range of readers. (in Armenian).

Revising Plants, man and life: Edgar Anderson reshapes a classic book

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Kleinman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Evolutionary Synthesis ◽  
Ernst Mayr ◽  
Active Participant ◽  
Evolutionary Mechanism ◽  
Popular Work ◽  
Scientific Attention ◽  
Key Events ◽  
Jesup Lectures

On at least four occasions, Edgar Anderson (1897–1969) began revising his book Plants, man and life (1952). Given both its place in Anderson's career and his place in the development of evolutionary theory in the mid-twentieth century, the emendations are noteworthy. Though a popular work, Plants, man and life served as the distillation of Anderson's ideas on hybridization as an evolutionary mechanism, the need for more scientific attention on domesticated and semi-domesticated plants, and the opportunities such plants provided for the study of evolution. Anderson was an active participant in several key events in what historians have come to call the Evolutionary Synthesis. For example, he and Ernst Mayr shared the 1941 Jesup Lectures on “Systematics and the origin of species”. Anderson's proposed revisions to his book reflect both an attempt to soften certain acerbic comments as well as an attempt to recast the book as a whole.

How to Define the Czechoslovak Underground

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 42-46
Author(s):  
Barbara Bothová
Keyword(s):  
Significant Influence ◽  
The State ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The West ◽  
State Security ◽  
The Third ◽  
Key Events

What is an underground? Is it possible to embed this particular way of life into any definition? After all, even underground did not have the need to define itself at the beginning. The presented text represents a brief reflection of the development of underground in Czechoslovakia; attention is paid to the impulses from the West, which had a significant influence on the underground. The text focuses on the key events that influenced the underground. For example, the “Hairies (Vlasatci)” Action, which took place in 1966, and the State Security activity in Rudolfov in 1974. The event in Rudolfov was an imaginary landmark and led to the writing of a manifesto that came into history as the “Report on the Third Czech Musical Revival.”

An archaeological analysis to trace the emergence and transformation of qualified physical education teachers in Singapore primary schools

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-84
Author(s):  
Ho Jin Chung ◽  
Muhammad Sufri ◽  
Chee Keng John Wang
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Physical Education Teachers ◽  
National Archives ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status ◽  
Archaeology Of Knowledge ◽  
Archaeological Analysis ◽  
Key Events ◽  
Underlying Processes

This study explored the underlying processes associated with the policy of increasing qualified physical education teachers (QPETs) in Singapore primary schools. Data were collected from the National Archives of Singapore, Newslink, NewpaperSG and documents. An ‘archaeological analysis’ by Foucault (1972) was used to trace the discursive conditions which enabled and facilitated the policy. Three distinct elements were borrowed from ‘The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language’, namely: the status – as reflected in the positions of individuals influencing the PE policies and initiatives; the institutional sites – as in the locations of the decisions being exercised, and; the situation – identified by the key events leading to the decision to increase QPETs in primary schools. The conclusions based on the analysis of these elements offer a clearer understanding of the various contributions to the adoption of the policy and serve to provide an insightful lens to policymakers who might seek to redesign the future shape of Physical Education.

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