CromohsPub Date : 2021-03-24DOI: 10.36253/CROMOHS-12572
José María Pérez Fernández
{"title":"Introduction: Approaches to the Paper Revolution: The Registration and Communication of Knowledge, Value and Information","authors":"José María Pérez Fernández","doi":"10.36253/CROMOHS-12572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/CROMOHS-12572","url":null,"abstract":"Invented in China and brought to Europe by Muslim merchants across the Silk Road, the use of paper in the West took off in the Mediterranean towards the end of the Middle Ages. Overshadowed in cultural and media history by the invention of print, paper has played a fundamental role as the media infrastructure for innumerable processes involving the registration and communication of knowledge and value in communities and institutions, from religious orders, mercantile societies, to global empires. \u0000This thematic section of Cromohs features four essays. Three essays examine particular cases of paper as a medium for the codification and exchange of knowledge, information and value, whereas the fourth outlines the state of the art on the history of the so-called paper revolution and methodological issues illustrated with relevant case studies. These essays exemplify the research conducted by the Paper in Motion workgroup within the People in Motion COST action.","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"23 1","pages":"76-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41481369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2021-02-03DOI: 10.36253/CROMOHS-12559
Friedrich N. Ammermann, P. Barrett, Olga Byrska, Elisa Chazal, Vigdis Andrea Baugstø Evang, Eoghan Christopher Hussey, Roberto Larrañaga Domínguez, Carlos Jorge Martins, F. Mohamed, S. Mörsdorf, B. Nugteren, Anna Orinsky, Rebecca Orr, C. Pantaleoni, Lucy Riall, Giorgio Riello, Asensio López, Alejandro Salamanca Rodríguez, Liu Shi, Takuya Shimada, Halit Simen
{"title":"For a Fair(er) Global History","authors":"Friedrich N. Ammermann, P. Barrett, Olga Byrska, Elisa Chazal, Vigdis Andrea Baugstø Evang, Eoghan Christopher Hussey, Roberto Larrañaga Domínguez, Carlos Jorge Martins, F. Mohamed, S. Mörsdorf, B. Nugteren, Anna Orinsky, Rebecca Orr, C. Pantaleoni, Lucy Riall, Giorgio Riello, Asensio López, Alejandro Salamanca Rodríguez, Liu Shi, Takuya Shimada, Halit Simen","doi":"10.36253/CROMOHS-12559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/CROMOHS-12559","url":null,"abstract":"This article is authored by a group of PhD researchers at the European University Institute (EUI) and two teachers as part of the PhD seminar in Global History held in the Fall of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. We consider three topics: ‘The politics of global history’ thinking about global history as a form of activism; ‘Whose global history?’ considering issues of property and sharing; and ‘An open global history’ proposing a utopian future (for a troubled present). We believe that in order for global history to thrive, its practitioners need to be more inclusive and acknowledge imbalances of power across world areas, across genders, and across career stages. \u0000Image Caption: Sekisui Nagakubo after Matteo Ricci, Sankai Yochi Zenzu (山海輿地全圖) (Naniwa, 1785). Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C.","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41684088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2021-02-03DOI: 10.36253/CROMOHS-12562
Alessandro Stanziani
{"title":"Global History, Area studies, and the Idea of Europe","authors":"Alessandro Stanziani","doi":"10.36253/CROMOHS-12562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/CROMOHS-12562","url":null,"abstract":"In 1949, Fernand Braudel proposed a view of the Mediterranean in which part of the Muslim World appeared integral to Europe. This was a courageous act. At the very moment when, after the Second World War, Europe was reflecting on its unity and the idea of pan-European institutions was first conceived, Braudel did not think of Europe as stretching only from the northern Mediterranean shores of the North Sea. Instead, he emphasized the unity of the Mediterranean Sea and the structural compenetration of Muslim and Christian societies with their respective values, despite the multiple conflicts that had opposed them over the centuries. He reached this conclusion without reading Arab sources, for which he was strongly criticized. Moreover, later in his life, Braudel would change his mind. In A History of Civilizations, he clearly distinguished the European “civilization” from the Islamic one. He also differentiated between Russian, African, Indian civilizations, and so on.","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43180074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.13128/CROMOHS-24554
S. Ferente
{"title":"James Belich John Darwin Margaret Frenz and Chris Wickham eds, The Prospect of Global History , Oxford Oxford University Press 2016","authors":"S. Ferente","doi":"10.13128/CROMOHS-24554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/CROMOHS-24554","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"21 1","pages":"139-142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66145286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.13128/CROMOHS-24560
M. Volpato
{"title":"Adam Knobler, Mythology and Diplomacy in the Age of Exploration , Leiden-Boston: Brill 2017","authors":"M. Volpato","doi":"10.13128/CROMOHS-24560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/CROMOHS-24560","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"21 1","pages":"169-172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66145360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.13128/CROMOHS-24547
M. Pakucs
{"title":"‘This is their profession’ Greek merchants in Transylvania and their Networks at the End of the 17th century","authors":"M. Pakucs","doi":"10.13128/CROMOHS-24547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/CROMOHS-24547","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the commercial network of a Greek merchant from Transylvania at the end of the seventeenth century. Based on various archival material, it unfolds the extent of business interests and contacts of a trading network, spanning a wide territory in the Balkans and Central Europe as well, extending our prior knowledge of how the early Greek diaspora communities operated. Established in the Transylvanian juridical system with the specific role of providers of Ottoman products, Greek merchants swiftly extended their commercial activities as intermediaries of trade with Central European markets as well. The article also touches upon the difficulties of identifying individual merchants in different sources and languages.","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"21 1","pages":"36-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.13128/CROMOHS-24547","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66145180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.13128/CROMOHS-24544
Henning Trüper
{"title":"Disciplinarity and Forgetfulness: On the Older Historiography of Global Connections","authors":"Henning Trüper","doi":"10.13128/CROMOHS-24544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/CROMOHS-24544","url":null,"abstract":"It is probably fair to say that the (re-)turn towards the writing of global connected histories in recent years has not prompted exceptional curiosity for earlier cognate approaches. So far, historiographical ambitions in this field have rarely strayed, it would seem, beyond an interest in disciplinary canons, and within these, national traditions have often garnered the focus. Arguably, this is not a result of accidental neglect, but rather the consequence of various obstacles that beset a more fully fledged historiography of global connections.","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"21 1","pages":"18-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66145171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.13128/CROMOHS-24550
Constanța Vintilă-Ghițulescu
{"title":"‘Le Coquin Grec’ vs. ‘le Véritable François’ Being a foreigner in the Danubian Principalities in Eighteenth Century","authors":"Constanța Vintilă-Ghițulescu","doi":"10.13128/CROMOHS-24550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/CROMOHS-24550","url":null,"abstract":"Being foreign in the Romanian lands in the eighteenth century is the subject of this investigation. The article starts from the particular case of the Linchou family, who, through their diplomatic activities in the Levant and the Romanian Lands, open up an entire dossier regarding the process of identification staged by a foreigner. With the help of diplomatic correspondence and commercial archives, we observe how Francois-Thomas Linchou engages in a series of social and political games aimed at attracting advantages and privileges to uphold the commercial activities he had developed in Wallachia and Moldavia. However Linchou’s attempt to remain in the sphere of social representations, claiming privileges, without accepting the staus of re’aya was to lead to the failure of his integration into a social network and consequently his decapitation.","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"21 1","pages":"90-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66145206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CromohsPub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.13128/CROMOHS-24562
Ben Gook
{"title":"Joseph Ben Prestel, \"Emotional Cities Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo 1860-1910\", Oxford Oxford University Press 2017","authors":"Ben Gook","doi":"10.13128/CROMOHS-24562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/CROMOHS-24562","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38885,"journal":{"name":"Cromohs","volume":"21 1","pages":"179-181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.13128/CROMOHS-24562","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66145401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}