"The House of Goldsmith Michael Lutsch. New Data on the History of a Pre-Modern Town House in Cluj"

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-36
Author(s):  
Melinda Mihály ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local History ◽  
The South ◽  
South Side ◽  
Stylistic Evolution ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of

"This study is dedicated to a building in downtown Cluj, located on the south side of today’s Memorandumului Street. Although the edifice features many aspects of the stylistic evolution of the architecture of Cluj (it was built in Gothic style, with considerable changes that pertained to the Renaissance and then the Baroque styles), the history of the edifice is almost unknown in the literature of local history. Our study aims to provide a detailed description of the building, to outline the various stages of its construction, and to identify the people who animated its spaces and contributed to the history of the building."

The People from the Horizon: An Illustrated History of the Europeans among the South Sea Islanders

1980 ◽  
Vol 146 (2) ◽  
pp. 296
Author(s):  
Steven Phelps ◽  
Philip Snow ◽  
Stefanie Waine
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
South Sea

“We have left undone those things which we ought to have done”: Southern Religious History in Retrospect and Prospect

1998 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald G. Mathews
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
American South ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious History ◽  
The South ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
The American South ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Many

One of the most distinguishing marks of the American South is that religion is more important for the people who live there than for their fellow citizens in the restof the country. When this trait began to identify the region is surprisingly unclear, but it has begun to attract attention from scholars of religion and society who have hitherto been esteemed as students primarily of areas outside the South. The study of religion in Dixie cannot but benefit from this change. After centuries of obsession with thickly settled, college-proud, and printexpressive New England—an area not noted for excessive modesty in thinking about its place in the New World—students of American religion are turning to a region whose history has sustained a selfconsciousness that makes its place in American religious history unique. For studying the American South begins with a dilemma born of ambiguity: whether to treat it as a place or an idea. Sometimes, to be sure, the South appears to be both; but sometimes it is “place” presented as an idea; and sometimes it is a place whose historical experience should have, according to reflective writers, taught Americans historical and moral lessons they have failed to learn. Confusion results in part from the South's contested history not only between the region and the rest of the United States but also among various competing groups within its permeable and frequently indistinct borders. Differences between region and nation will, however, continue to dominate conversation even though the myth of southern distinctiveness may mislead students as much as the myth of its evangelical homogeneity. If inquiry about religion in the South should be sensitive to the many faith communities there, the history of the South will still by contrast provide insight into the broader “American” society.

scholarly journals Liligo Glacier, Karakoram, Pakistan: a reconstruction of the recent history of a surge-type glacier

2003 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 168-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guglielmina Diolaiuti ◽  
Massimo Pecci ◽  
Claudio Smiraglia
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Satellite Images ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
The South ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
South Side ◽  
Ice Surface ◽  
History Of ◽  
Two Phases

AbstractLiligo Glacier is a small glacier located in a transverse valley, which flows on the south side of Baltoro Glacier, Karakoram, Pakistan. Terminus variations of Liligo Glacier since 1892 were reconstructed using various methods and sources (historical documents, cartography, photographs, satellite images and field surveys). The glacier is characterized by two phases of strong advance (beginning and end of the 20th century), separated by at least half a century of retreat. The advance rates, together with some ice-surface features such as the heavily crevassed surface and terminus morphology, are considered to be indicative of a surge-type glacier.

scholarly journals تاريخ انتشار الإسلام في منطقة بنجكولو جزيرة سومطرة، إندونيسيا

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Yenni Patriani
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
The Third ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Islamic Religion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Cultural Monuments ◽  
Cultural Relics

This paper is about the history of the spread of Islam in Bengkulu region, Indonesia. Sumatra is the sixth islands of the world and the third islands of Indonesia in size after Borneo and Papua. Bengkulu is located in the south of Sumatra. The Arab civilization and cultural relics in Indonesia were numerous, especially in the Bengkulu region of Sumatra. These effects were in fact derived from the power of the Islamic religion. One of the objectives of this research is to highlight the efforts of Arab and Indonesian scholars in spreading Islam in the Bengkulu region, and to clarify the history of Bengkulu before the introduction of Islam, which began with the entry of the monastic buddies during the era of King Ajay Brinah Sikalawi Libung. These are the following questions: How was the life of the people of Bengkulu before the introduction of Islam? What are the Arab cultural and cultural monuments in Bengkulu? To answer these questions, we relied on the descriptive approach.

Early Modern Oels and the Singularities of Local History*

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-239
Author(s):  
Maria Piasecka
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Local History ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Print Shop ◽  
Relationship Of

Abstract The article explores the local history of the Silesian city of Oels as presented in selected early modern books and pamphlets published primarily in the local print shop, but also in other cities. A prominent example of such a historical event is the 1535 tempest, descriptions of which were published in its immediate aftermath. The much-later Beschreibung of 1657 is presented as an example of creating local identity through emphasizing two cultural aspects linked to the event: the alleged nefarious role of the Jewish community and the special relationship of the local citizens with the dukes of, at first, the Podebrad, and later the Württemberg families. Although natural disasters are repetitive occurrences, the 1535 tempest was understood by the people of Oels in a singular manner, which was characteristic for the local context. The thesis about the singularity of the local history is further corroborated through a number of examples from Oels. Different aspects of singularity dominate in different publications depicting local events: the singularity of situations, people and places.

The Gem of the Prairie

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Lombardo
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Campaign Contributions ◽  
The South ◽  
South Side ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Machine Politics

This chapter traces the history of vice and crime in Chicago from the Civil War until the beginning of Prohibition, paying special attention to the rise of machine politics under Michael Cassius McDonald, organizer of Chicago's first crime syndicate. It argues that organized crime in Chicago was not imported from the south of Italy but began because Chicago machine politicians provided political protection to vice syndicates and criminal gangs in exchange for votes and campaign contributions. The chapter reviews the history of one vice district that played a significant role in the development of organized crime in Chicago, the Levee, beginning with the original Custom House Levee and its eventual movement to the “New” Levee in the city's Near South Side. It also discusses the roles played by municipal aldermen John Coughlin and Michael Kenna as protectors of vice and crime in Chicago's First Ward. Finally, it analyzes the history of the public outcry against segregated vice and the eventual closure of the Levee vice district.

Early years of East India Company rule in Chittagong: Violence, waste and settlement c. 1760–1790

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anandaroop Sen
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Early Years ◽  
East India Company ◽  
The South ◽  
Property Relations ◽  
The People ◽  
British East India Company ◽  
History Of ◽  
Frontier Studies ◽  
The Way

This article probes the production of the uplands of Chittagong in the early years of British East India Company (EIC)rule in Bengal and its eastern frontiers. The South Asian debates around the nature of agrarian property relations have largely skipped places like Chittagong uplands, consequently, the uplands appear in academic and popular discussions as an already constituted outside to this agrarian historiography. The history of the uplands then become easily separated and consumed as part of frontier studies. The article seeks to address the constitution of this outside. Narrating a story where the protagonists range from influential Bengali middlemen in EIC retinue, Company officers responsible for Chittagong administration to mobile Arakanese men called ‘Magh zamindars’, brought together in a swirl of forged documents and contending claims to ‘wastelands’, the article glimpses into the complex interlocking between upland and lowland networks of Chittagong. It frames this narrative by unpacking the revenue categories of sair and kapas mahal; the two categories used for Chittagong uplands during this period. Disaggregating them allows one to see how the uplands were created in the image of the commodity cotton: the people who produced it, the way it was exchanged and the violence that marked the process.

The Kuala Muda District: History of the administrative centres of Kota Kuala Muda & Sungai Petani, 1905-1957

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadaraja K.
Keyword(s):  
Local History ◽  
Japanese Occupation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Modern System ◽  
History Of

This book on local history discusses some important events that shaped the history of the Kuala Muda District in the first 50 years since the introduction of a modern system of administration in Kedah in 1905 until Malayas independence in 1957.More specifically, it highlights the development of the two administrative centres of the district, namely Kota Kuala Muda and Sungai Petani.The study, first, shows the transformation of Kota Kuala Muda from a feudal territory to a modern administrative centre of the district in 1905 which saw the establishment of several public offices, including the appointment of government officers to run the affairs of the district.It then focuses on Sungai Petani and its emergence as the new administrative centre in 1915, in place of Kota Kuala Muda, leading to the construction of a new township including roads, railway, buildings and expansion of plantation agriculture.The study also deals with some aspects of the Japanese occupation and the Emergency and how these events affected the people in the district.In sum, this book depicts the trials, tribulations and triumphs that the Kuala Muda District had gone through in the past.

XVI—Recent Discoveries in Romsey Abbey Church

Archaeologia ◽  
1901 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-320
Author(s):  
C. R. Peers
Keyword(s):  
Wood Block ◽  
The South ◽  
Undisturbed Soil ◽  
South Side ◽  
The North ◽  
Structural History ◽  
History Of ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Church

The remains of walls found in October and November, 1900, during the process of laying down a wood block floor in the nave and crossing of Romsey Abbey, are shown on the accompanying plan (Plate XLL). Those on the south side of the nave may be dealt with first, as they have no bearing on the structural history of the church, and the record of them is chiefly of value because they are now buried beneath 6 inches of concrete and a wood block floor, and will probably not be seen again for many years. They are of two dates, the wall running east and west being the older. This is 19 inches thick, of flint and stone rubble, and was traced from the eastern angle of the first nave pier to within 2 feet of the fourth, where it ends without a return. It is plastered on the north or inner face with a coat of rough yellowish plaster, continuous with a floor of the same character, 16 inches below the present pavement level, which is at the original level of that of the existing Norman nave. This plaster floor rests, as to its western part, on a layer of flints on the undisturbed soil, and extends along the whole length of the wall from east to west, and northwards as far as the digging went, that is, nearly to the south edge of the paving of the central alley of the nave.

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