Trade War in the Twenty-First Century: A Historical Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
Asim K. Karmakar ◽  
Sebak K. Jana
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
First Century ◽  
Trade War ◽  
Twenty First Century

From Anatomical to Digital Dissection: A Historical Perspective Since Antiquity Towards the Twenty-First Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-39
Author(s):  
Vincent Delmas ◽  
Jean-François Uhl ◽  
Pedro F. Campos ◽  
Daniel Simões Lopes ◽  
Joaquim Jorge
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century

Technological Choice in a Medieval Japanese Sword

2020 ◽  
Vol 983 ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
James Scott Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
First Century ◽  
Metallographic Examination ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Technological Choice ◽  
Chaîne Opératoire ◽  
Chaine Operatoire ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Functional Explanations

Japanese swords have long been a source of fascination for metallographers both Japanese and Western, but most studies lean toward functional explanations of metallurgical features or description of how features correspond to historical and ethnographic accounts of production. At the same time, there is a long tradition of sword connoisseurship that through its visual and historical perspective offers insight about particular smiths and their traditions. In a metallographic examination of a 15th century Japanese sword of the Bizen tradition, I take a chaîne opératoire approach and draw on aspects of both of the aforementioned scholarly traditions in order to better understand how late medieval Japanese sword smiths related to their materials and to their clientele. Based on my observations, I compare the apparent choices made by this sword’s smith to historical and ethnographic accounts of traditional sword production, and other published metallographic sections of Japanese swords. Then, I contextualize these choices in relation to contemporary production for export and for local consumption. Specifically, I will discuss possible reasons this sword’s metallurgical profile deviates from common practice according to twentieth and twenty-first century accounts of traditional Japanese sword smithing.

Lessing’s Laocoon as Analytical Instrument

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Giuliani
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
First Century ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Analytical Instrument ◽  
Classical Archaeology ◽  
Analytical Importance ◽  
Twenty First Century

Luca Giuliani evaluates Laocoon as an ‘analytical tool’ for twenty-first-century classical archaeology. In doing so, he returns to some of the same literary case studies that so engrossed Lessing 250 years ago—and none more so than Homer’s Iliad. By probing Lessing’s theories of the respective workings of art and text, and exploring them in the context of ancient depictions of the Iliad (especially seventh- and sixth-century BC vase-paintings), the chapter explores both the virtues and the problems of Lessing’s account. As Giuliani argues, this historical perspective can help us formulate the analytical importance of Lessing’s framework; at the same time, the perspective of ancient art can help us see how Lessing’s text is as much a treatise against as about the visual arts.

Past Non-Dependency in the Twenty-first Century

2019 ◽  
pp. 107-119
Author(s):  
Anastassia V. Obydenkova ◽  
Alexander Libman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
First Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Twenty First Century

This chapter aims to provide a different approach to the development of regional IOs since World War II, by singling out non-democratic tendencies in regionalism from a historical perspective. It explores differences between the functioning of DROs and NDROs over the last 70 years—from coerced organizations such as COMECON to modern alliances of autocrats. The chapter argues that the twenty-first-century NDROs (e.g. SCO) are different from those of the last half of the twentieth century (e.g. COMECON) in terms of membership composition, governance structure, and the characteristics discussed in earlier chapters. While historical NDROs were driven by ideologies such as Communism, in the main modern NDROs lack an ideological foundation (with the exception of ALBA and the Islamic world). The ideological foundation of Islamic ROs has changed—from pan-Arabism in the 1940s and 1950s to the dominance of various forms of political Islam and a focus on specific political institutions (e.g. the conservative rule of Gulf monarchies in the GCC).

scholarly journals Uncertain Mobilities

Transfers ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin G. Pooley
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
First Century ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Societal Norms ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Considerable Concern

Contemporary society assumes high levels of unimpeded mobility, and disruptions to the ability to move quickly and easily can cause considerable concern. This paper examines the notion of mobility uncertainty and disruption from an historical perspective, arguing that interruptions to mobility have long been a characteristic of everyday travel. It is suggested that what has changed is not so much the extent or nature of disruption, but rather the resilience of transport systems and societal norms and expectations about travel. Data are taken from five examples of life writing produced by residents of the United Kingdom during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The texts are used to illustrate the travel problems encountered and the strategies adopted to deal with them. A concluding discussion examines these themes in the context of twenty-first century mobility.

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