From the Wright brothers' first flight and the First Russian Revolution to the horrors of war, to the development of motor and air travel and the birth of the digital revolution, the changes seen in the twentieth century were global in scope and monumental in terms of impact. Modern History in Pictures: A Visual Guide to the Events that Shaped Our World explores these earth-shattering events as…
Writing equipment is key for the comprehensive study of Roman handwriting, non-monumental inscriptions and literacy. Cost, material and design of the equipment and how it was used had an impact on many aspects of writing such as letter shapes, document layout and who was writing. Im-portantly, the equipment also has an impact on what kinds of ancient handwritten texts have survived and therefor…
In 1922 an in terest ing exchange took place in Moscow’s Botkin hospital concerning a “delicate and even shy” patient who had just had a bullet extracted from his neck and was recovering in ward no. 44.1The patient wanted to know all about his nurse, the other patients, and the medical personnel. He even asked the nurse why she looked so “bad” and ques-tioned the professor tending to …
Some people are one-book people; their lives and their workare dominated, usually with conscious complicity, by a single book.William Pitt, first Earl of Chatham (1708-78), seems to have found a"politician's vade-mecum" in Spenser's Faerie Queene.1 Umberto Eco,despite the vast range of reference apparent in all that he writes, in-sists that the guiding star of it all is…
In an era of extractivist economies, climate change, and forced mobil-ity, who and what belongs? Who and what does not? What can be learned from sitting with a plant you germinated from seed? One of the most significant voices to emerge in recent years, Brazil-born Maria 'lhereza Alves has focused precisely on such questions in her twenty-year art project Seeds o/Change that has spanned contine…
A second reason to study work is that it is inherently social: it necessarily involves relations between people that are arguably more fundamental than their ideological relationships. Since work must go on, while ideology may be ignored or even f louted, it is a good place to start trying to understand society. Applebaum argued that the study of work is even more important for studying societi…
The term shie-tzyy was appropriated from the Chinese car-penter, to whom it denoted a small wedge-shaped cut of wood usedto fill a crack or cleavage in an article of furniture. With similarprecision, the Yuarn dramatist could always turn to the demi-actfor a flexible alternative to the simple four-act format of the stan-dard music drama.…
his exhibition, Northeastern Asia and the Northern Rockies, has been conceived as an introduction in four parts that will help visitors to the museum and scholars of the university understand key elements of both traditional and current Northeastern Asian native and migrant cultures. The first three parts of the exhibition introduce fundamen-tal concepts inherent in Daoism, Confucian…
This volume introduces a new publication series and a new emphasis in memory studies. The title of the series is Entangled Memories in the Global South. The term “mnemonic solidarity” which gives this book its title signals one response to the observation that historical memories have become entangled. It proposes that that entanglement invites us to rethink memory stu…
This monograph approaches ancient medicine through the study of a single individual who practiced magico-medical healing in ancient Mesopotamia. The healer’s name was Ki?ir-Aššur and he was the grandson of B?ba-šuma-ibni, the patronymic ancestor of a family of exorcists. We know nothing about Ki?ir-Aššur’s birth and death, except that he lived arou…