The article demonstrates how Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) geographic headings for the Southern Levant mirror the political investment of Congress and the American public in Middle East politics over the last thirty years. The headings' evolution as well as Library of Congress rules governing their creation is charted in detail. These LCSH headings contrast markedly with those established in other national libraries (BnF, DNB) and independent value vocabularies (TGN, GeoNames), and global opinion regarding the legal status of the occupied territories. I sketch the historical context of their formation and offer suggestions as to how libraries can "decolonize" their metadata in service of Sanford Berman's "access and equity."
We assemble a set of methodologies using theories in variationist linguistic and GIScience, and tools used in historical GIS to analyse spatial variation in Japanese dialectal lexicon.
Based on historical dialect atlas data, we calculate a linguistic distance matrix across survey localities. The linguistic variation expressed through this distance is contrasted with several distance based measurements utilised to estimate the potential of language contact across Japan historically and at present. Besides, administrative boundaries are tested for their separation effect.
Aggregate association measures within linguistic variation can challenge previous notions of dialect area formation. Depending on local geographies in spatial subsets, great circle distance, travel distance and travel times explain a similar proportion of the variance in dialectal variation despite the limitations of the latter two. While they explain the majority, two further contact estimations have lower explanatory power: least cost paths implemented to model contact before the industrial revolution, based on DEM and seafaring, and a linguistic influence index based on the law of gravity. Historical domain boundaries and present day prefecture boundaries are found to have a substantial effect on dialectal variation. However, the interplay of boundaries and distance is yet to be identified. We claim that a similar methodology can address spatial variation in other digital humanities, given a similar spatial and attribute granularity.
still has a strong cultural identity, and sponge fishing is part of a very old past in the Mediterranean. It can be traced more than 2500 years ago in this inner-sea 1. Stimulated by the new needs of the industrial revolution, this sector of the fisheries economy is growing strongly and peaked in the last decades of the nineteenth century2. However, this growth seems paradoxical. It is technically at odds with developments in the other sectors of the fishing economy in the Mediterranean at the present time. Subject to homogenisation processes driven by the discovery of new material, Mediterranean fishing, like that of the small pelagic species revolutionised by the advent of the purse seine, has seen a tightening of its fishing practices in the period between the two wars. Marginalisation of the oldest processes is the most remarkable consequence. This is not the case with sponge fisheries, which coexist in the 20th century with multi-layered and new gear derived from mechanisation and engineering. The origins of this singularity are currently being questioned. It is sought to highlight the limitations of the mechanisation process of this fishery, regardless of whether these limits are of a human or ecological nature. Italian documentary collections of the General Administration of Dodecanese (1912-1943), currently kept by the public archives of Rhodes, provide a concrete illustration of the complex and plural organisation of a fishing campaign through the example of the Kalymnos fleet. These funds provide knowledge of the actors involved in its financing, its technical implementation and its physical progress. ; International audience ; still has a strong cultural identity, and sponge fishing is part of a very old past in the Mediterranean. It can be traced more than 2500 years ago in this inner-sea 1. Stimulated by the new needs of the industrial revolution, this sector of the fisheries economy is growing strongly and peaked in the last decades of the nineteenth century2. However, this growth seems ...
Study of the living conditions of workers is an area that is already classic in social history. It recognises its 'founding fathers' in the near-contemporary analyses of the English industrial revolution and continues in the early and mid-century discussions on the effects (charitable or negative) of industrial capitalism on workers. The analyses concerned living costs, wages, coverage of living needs, etc. Housing housing, consumption, family structure, access to education, food intake are also among the topical issues analysed. The aim is to rebuild the whole world of popular experience: their working environment, free time, living conditions, intellectual or religious concerns, political and trade union practices and identity forms assumed or rejected. This series of questions developed to a large extent in relation to the organised working class, looking mainly at European countries. From there they moved to other different situations, where there was no homogenous (not even clearly shaped) working class but another set of notions had to be adopted. That is why there are concepts such as 'workers', 'popular sectors', 'under the village' and others, which sought to identify the heterogeneity of figures that could be recognised among subordinate sectors of society. FIL: Bohoslavsky, Ernesto. National University of the Comahue. Faculty of Humanities. Study Group on Social History (GEHiSO); Argentina. ; El estudio de las condiciones de vida de los trabajadores es un área ya clásica dentro de la historia social. Reconoce sus «padres fundadores» en los análisis casi contemporáneos a la revolución industrial inglesa y prosigue en las discusiones de principios y mediados de este siglo acerca de los efectos (benéficos y/o negativos) del capitalismo industrial sobre los trabajadores. Los análisis versaban sobre costo de vida, salarios, cobertura de necesidades vitales, etc. La vivienda obrera, los consumos que tiene, la estructura de familia, el acceso a la educación, los alimentos ingeridos son otros de los tópicos ...
This Working Paper builds on the scientific discourse on valuation of SSH research as well as SSH-integration in EU framework programmes and aims at summarizing the key findings from the November 2018 Austrian EU Presidency Conference "Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities for a European Research Agenda - Valuation of SSH in mission-oriented research". It deals with the topic in three instalments. First, it will discuss recent trends in research funding. Second, it provides a brief historical overview of the efforts of integrating SSH into the EU Research Framework Programme. It then adds some observations about continued challenges in SSH. Finally, it will conclude with some suggestions for SSH scholars, based on the discussions from the conference. In that regard the Working Paper is also a document for further reading for those who have read earlier, shorter texts that were published in preparation of that conference.
Includes indexes. ; Based on A. Caprioli's Ritrai di cento capitani illustri, Rome, 1596. His portraits have been used in slightly altered form. ; Engraved title-page; engraved portrait illustrating each biographical sketch. ; The portraits are probably by Pompilio Totti and are based on engravings by Aliprando Caprioli's illustrations for Ritrai di cento capitani illustri, Rome, 1596. In later printings the text is attributed to Giulio Roscio. ; Dedication and prefatory note by Totti. ; Numbers 61-64 repeated, 77-80 omitted, in pagination. ; Imprint in colophon (p. [288]): In Roma, Appresso Andrea Fei, MDCXXV. ; Signatures: [a]⁴ b⁴ A-2O⁴. ; Errata: p. [15] (first series) and p. [1] at end. ; Cicognara, ; Mode of access: Internet.
The plates comprised in the atlas are issued in portfolios. ; The plates are lithographed by Lemercier & Cie, Paris, after designs by Louis Delaporte. ; "Le premier volume contient la partie descriptive, historique et politique du voyage . Le second volume est exclusivement consacré aux observations scientifiques et aux travaux spéciaux de la Commission d'exploration. La Géologie et la Minéralogie y ont été traitées par m. de docteur Joubert; l'Anthropologie, l'Agriculture et l'Horticulture, par M. le docteur Thorel. Mon interprète chinois, M. Thomas Ko, y a donné la traduction d'un ouvrage chinois qui contient de précieux renseignements sur les richesses metallurgiques et les procédés d'exploitation de la province du Yun-nau . Le volume se termine par les spécimens des Langues indo-chinoises recueillis par M. de Lagrée et par moi . L' Atlas qui accompagne cet ouvrage se divise en deux parties. La première, à laquelle ont contribué MM. de Lagrée, Delaporte et moi, comprend les Cartes et les Plans; la seconde est l'Album même du voyage: elle est entièrement l'œuvre de M. Delaporte"--Preface, p. ii-iv. ; Title printed in red and black. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Mode of access: Internet.
This Working Paper builds on the scientific discourse on valuation of SSH research as well as SSH-integration in EU framework programmes and aims at summarizing the key findings from the November 2018 Austrian EU Presidency Conference "Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities for a European Research Agenda - Valuation of SSH in mission-oriented research". It deals with the topic in three instalments. First, it will discuss recent trends in research funding. Second, it provides a brief historical overview ofthe efforts of integrating SSH into the EU Research Framework Programme. It then adds some observations about continued challenges in SSH. Finally, it will conclude with some suggestions for SSH scholars, based on the discussions from the conference. In that regard the Working Paper is also a document for further reading for those who have read earlier, shorter texts that were published in preparation of that conference.
Title from cover. ; Supplements accompany some numbers. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Vols. for 1910- published by the United States Infantry Association; -1950 by the U.S. Infantry Association. ; Merged with: Field artillery journal (Washington, D.C.), to form: United States Army combat forces journal. ; OSU's copy 2 forms part of the Will Eisner Collection.
