Book Reviews: Les Chemins de fer Privés des Franches Montagnes. Naissance, Exploitation et défis d'un réseau (1892–1943) [Private Railways of the Franches Mountains. Birth, Exploitation and Challenges of a Network (1892–1943)], Das Verkehrsbuch der Schweiz. Faszinierendes und Ungewöhnliches Rund um das Thema Mobilität. Zum 50–Jahr-Jubiläum 2009 [Traffic and Transport in Switzerland. Thrilling News and Peciularities around the Topic of Mobility. Festschrift for the 50th Anniversary of the Swiss Transport Museum], Automatisierung, Schnellverkehr und Modernisierung bei den SBB 1955 bis 2005 [The Railroad of the Future: Automation, Rapid Transit and Modernization in the SBB, 1955 to 2005], La Bataille de la Route [The Battle for the Road], per Rickheden, Världens Nordligaste spårväg. Till 100–årsminnet av Kirunas spårvägar [The World's Northernmost Tram. To Commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Kiruna Tram System], Die Moderne Straße. Planung, Bau und Verkehr vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert [The Modern Road. Planning, Building and Traffic from 18th Century to the 20th Century, Palm Oil and Small Chop, Airborne Dreams: ‘Niseir’ Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways, Railroads in the African American Experience: A Photographic Journey, Fahren und Fliegen in Krieg und Frieden. Kulturen Individueller Mobilitätsmaschinen 1880–1930 [Driving and Flying in Peace and War. Cultures of Individual Mobility Machines], Radelnde Nationen: Die Geschichte des Fahrrads in Deutschland und den Niederlanden bis 1940 [Cycling Nations. History of the Bicycle in Germany and the Netherlands until 1940], Sometimes Eagle's Wings: The Saga of Aéropostale, the Quest for Speed

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-235
Author(s):  
Etienne Auphan ◽  
Anne Ebert ◽  
Alfred Gottwaldt ◽  
Massimo Moraglio ◽  
Martin Schiefelbusch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
The Road ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Road Planning ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pan American ◽  
Peace And War

Metropolitan Platon (Levshin) — publicist

2020 ◽  
pp. 62-115
Author(s):  
Eduard L. Afanasyev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
The Road ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Educated Person ◽  
The Trinity

The article deals with the work of Metropolitan of Moscow Platon II (worldly surname — Levshin) (1737–1812), who became famous not only as an outstanding preacher of the second half of the 18th century, but also as a historical writer. The well-known facts of his life and the creative history of works receive a new sound in the context of a spiritual biography; first of all — a strong connection to the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius and a deep understanding of the spiritual experience of venerable Sergius of Radonezh. A comparative analysis of the text “On the Road to Schism” (1767) and “Brief History of the Russian Church” (1805) was undertaken, illustrating the path of spiritual growth. The author is presented not just as a widely educated person, but as a hierarch, vigilantly expanding his spiritual horizon. Changes in genre priorities and lexical and stylistic features, adherence to certain literary traditions, the dominance of a national idea, proximity to Church Slavonic sources and ancient Russian literary tradition are traced. One of the key roles of the spiritual heritage of Metropolitan Platon II in the historical and literary process of the second half of the 18th century is confirmed.

The Singing Coachman or, The Road and Russia's Ethnographic Invention in Early Modern Times

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 33-61
Author(s):  
John Randolph
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
The State ◽  
National Character ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Road ◽  
Late 18Th Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Early Modern Times

AbstractScholars agree that the first modern ethnographic traditions surrounding Russia developed in travel accounts written by foreigners in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. These laid the foundations for a 'national turn' in Russian belles-lettres in the late 18th century. Yet scholars have paid relatively little attention to the history of the coach system, known as the iam, that made travel writing about Muscovy possible. Many foreign travelers—as well as Imperial Russian hommes des lettres —were fascinated by the figures of Russia's iamshchiki, the state peasants who manned the state-organized coach system. The lives and expressions of these coachmen were often taken as proxies for Russia's national character. This article describes this process, demonstrating how the iam system provided a practical as well as a symbolic frame for the making of early conceptions of Russian nationality.

Book Reviews: The Liberal Idea of Freedom, The Governors and the Governed, Politics in England, The Treasury, A History of British Trade Unions since 1889, Communism and the French Intellectuals 1914–1960, A History of the Weimar Republic. Vol. II. from the Locarno Conference to Hitler's Seizure of Power, Dokumente Zur Parteipolitischen Entwicklung in Deutschland Seit 1945. Vols. I–III, Die Parteien in Der Verfassungswirklichkeit Der Bundesrepublik, Eastern Europe in the Sixties, Communism and Colonialism, The Soviet Economy, The Soviet Political Mind, A Nation So Conceived, The Meaning of Democracy: An Appraisal of the American Experience, Paths of American Thought, Issues of American Public Policy, Challenges to Democracy: The Next Ten Years, Power in Washington, Professional Staffs of Congress, The Republican Party, 1854–1964, City Politics, Urban Renewal Politics, Greater London, South Africa—The Dynamics of the African National Congress, An African Explains Apartheid, into Exile, South Africa's Rule of Violence, Unholy Wedlock, Out in the Mid-Day Sun, Immigration: Control or Colour Bar?, An African Student in China, The Political Thought of Mao Tse-Tung, Le Rôle De L'Opinion Publique Dans La Communauté Atlantique, The Dynamics of Nationalism, The Age of Nationalism, State and Nation, Nationalism and Communism, Imperialism, Neutralism, Human Rights in Europe, Britain's Moment in the Middle East, 1914–1956, The Arabs and the World, Dynamics of International Relations, Foreign Policies in a World of Change, The Changing Structure of International Law, Systems of Integrating the International Community

1965 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-143
Author(s):  
George E. G. Catlin ◽  
Peter Bromhead ◽  
D. N. Chester ◽  
Robert E. Dowse ◽  
A. G. Lehmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Republican Party ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
African National Congress ◽  
American Experience ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
History Of ◽  
African Student ◽  
French Intellectuals

Book reviews

2000 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-408
Author(s):  
Max Perutz
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Encounter ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Science And Politics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Michael Faraday ◽  
Selection Of

Twelve book reviews in the September 2003 issue of Notes and Records : Georgina Ferry, Dorothy Hodgkin: a life . J.D. Bernal: a life in science and politics . Edited by Brenda Swann and Francis Aprahamian. Max Perutz, I wish I'd made you angry earlier. Essays on science and scientists . A. Rupert Hall, Isaac Newton: eighteenth-century perspectives . G.I. Brown, Count Rumford. The extraordinary life of a scientific genius . The correspondence of Michael Faraday , volume 4. Edited by Frank A.J.L. James. The philosopher's tree: A selection of Michael Faraday's writings . Compiled, with commentary, by Peter Day. Science and exploration in the Pacific. European voyages to the Southern Oceans in the 18th century . Edited by Margarette Lincoln. Gillian Beer, Open fields: science in cultural encounter . Rocky Kolb, Blind watchers of the sky . Jan Golinski, Making natural knowledge. Constructivism and the history of science . Simon Conway Morris, The crucible of Creation: the Burgess Shale and the rise of animals .

scholarly journals Russian-Chinese (Harbin) Polytechnic Institute at the Stage of its Creation (1920–1925): to the 100th Anniversary of its Establishment

2020 ◽  
pp. 63-68
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Sergeevna Malyavina
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
Initial Period ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Polytechnic Institute ◽  
First Principle ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Joint Activities ◽  
The Road ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

The paper examines the history of the formation of Harbin poly-technical university, which is one of the leading modern universities of the People’s Republic of China and the initial period of its operation as the Russian-Chinese Polytechnic Institute (RCPI). The research is based on reports on the activities of the RCPI for the 1920–1925s, prepared for the Harbin press by its first principle, Russian engineer Alexey Alekseyevich Schelkoff (1876–1942), who found himself in China (since 1920) on the wave of post-October emigration. The studied sources made it possible to present the Institute's organization as a result of joint activities of the Russian and Chinese administration of the Board of the China-Eastern railway and representatives of the emigrant scientific community to provide the road with qualified engi-neering personnel, to clarify information about the personal composition of the Society for the estab-lishment of the Russian-Chinese Institute from the Chinese side. The article describes the structure of the Institute, highlights the features of financing RCPI and the organization of the educational pro-cess. The data on the number and personal of the first RCPI teachers (as of 1923), the dynamics of growth in the number of students in 1920–1924, in-cluding information on the number of Chinese stu-dents studying at the University, are presented. The names of the first graduates who graduated from the Institute in October 1924 and January 1925 are given.

EPITAFIES OF THE RELATIVES OF HADJI IBRAHIM AL-URADI AS A SOURCE ON THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE SCIENTIST AND ON THE HISTORY OF GIDATL

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-21
Author(s):  
Sh M Khapizov ◽  
M G Shekhmagomedov
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Medieval History ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Arabic Script ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Culture ◽  
The Look ◽  
Cultural Monuments ◽  
Written Sources

The article is devoted to the study of inscriptions on the gravestones of Haji Ibrahim al-Uradi, his father, brothers and other relatives. The information revealed during the translation of these inscriptions allows one to date important events from the history of Highland Dagestan. Also we can reconsider the look at some important events from the past of Hidatl. Epitaphs are interesting in and of themselves, as historical and cultural monuments that needed to be studied and attributed. Research of epigraphy data monuments clarifies periodization medieval epitaphs mountain Dagestan using record templates and features of the Arabic script. We see the study of medieval epigraphy as one of the important tasks of contemporary Caucasian studies facing Dagestani researchers. Given the relatively weak illumination of the picture of events of that period in historical sources, comprehensive work in this direction can fill gaps in our knowledge of the medieval history of Dagestan. In addition, these epigraphs are of great importance for researchers of onomastics, linguistics, the history of culture and religion of Dagestan. The authors managed to clarify the date of death of Ibrahim-Haji al-Uradi, as well as his two sons. These data, the attraction of written sources and legends allowed the reconstruction of the events of the second half of the 18th century. For example, because of the epidemic of plague and the death of most of the population of Hidatl, this society noticeably weakened and could no longer maintain its influence on Akhvakh. The attraction of memorable records allowed us to specify the dates of the Ibrahim-Haji pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, as well as the route through which he traveled to these cities.

Vyshnivetsky Castle Library of Prince Mychailo Servaty Vyshnivetsky – Historical Book Heritage and Object of Bibliological and Historical Reconstruction

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 166-182
Author(s):  
Iryna Tsiborovska-Rymarovych
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Cultural Images ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
History Of ◽  
Grand Duchy Of Lithuania ◽  
Definition Of

The article has as its object the elucidation of the history of the Vyshnivetsky Castle Library, definition of the content of its fund, its historical and cultural significance, correlation of the founder of the Library Mychailo Servaty Vyshnivetsky with the Book.The Vyshnivetsky Castle Library was formed in the Ukrainian historical region of Volyn’, in the Vyshnivets town – “family nest” of the old Ukrainian noble family of the Vyshnivetskies under the “Korybut” coat of arm. The founder of the Library was Prince Mychailo Servaty Vyshnivetsky (1680–1744) – Grand Hetman and Grand Chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilno Voievoda. He was a politician, an erudite and great bibliophile. In the 30th–40th of the 18th century the main Prince’s residence Vyshnivets became an important centre of magnate’s culture in Rich Pospolyta. M. S. Vyshnivetsky’s contemporaries from the noble class and clergy knew quite well about his library and really appreciated it. According to historical documents 5 periods are defined in the Library’s history. In the historical sources the first place is occupied by old-printed books of Library collection and 7 Library manuscript catalogues dating from 1745 up to the 1835 which give information about quantity and topical structures of Library collection.The Library is a historical and cultural symbol of the Enlightenment epoch. The Enlightenment and those particular concepts and cultural images pertaining to that epoch had their effect on the formation of Library’s fund. Its main features are as follow: comprehensive nature of the stock, predominance of French eighteenth century editions, presence of academic books and editions on orientalistics as well as works of the ideologues of the Enlightenment and new kinds of literature, which generated as a result of this movement – encyclopaedias, encyclopaedian dictionaries, almanacs, etc. Besides the universal nature of its stock books on history, social and political thought, fiction were dominating.The reconstruction of the history of Vyshnivetsky’s Library, the historical analysis of the provenances in its editions give us better understanding of the personality of its owners and in some cases their philanthropic activities, and a better ability to identify the role of this Library in the culture life of society in a certain epoch.

Book reviews

2018 ◽  
pp. 150-152
Author(s):  
L. M. Besov
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
State Institution ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Fundamental Science ◽  
Technical Potential ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientific Technical ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Presidents of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for 100 years of its existence: Scientific and organizational cont ribution to the progress of fundamental science / VN Gamalia, Yu. K. Duplenko, V. I. Onoprienko, S. P. Ruda, V. S. Savchuk; for ed. V.I. Onoprienko; National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; State Institution "G. M. Dobrov Institute Research of Scientific-Technical Potential and History of Science". - Kyiv: SE "Inf.-analytical Agency ", 2018. - 215 p.

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