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Historical irrealism: Paul A. Roth and the epistemic value of narrative explanation 历史非现实主义：保罗·A·罗斯与叙事阐释的认识价值

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Rethinking History Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2022.2158647

Verónica Tozzi Thompson

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Experiments in history: the voice of Bondi 历史的实验:邦迪的声音

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Rethinking History Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2022.2158644

D. Booth

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Mapping the displacement of history: from twentieth-century crisis to twenty-first-century possibilities 绘制历史的位移图：从二十世纪的危机到二十一世纪的可能性

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Rethinking History Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2022.2155362

María Inés La Greca

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Complexity and materiality in representations of reality 现实表征中的复杂性和物质性

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Rethinking History Pub Date : 2022-12-12 DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2022.2151231

Kalle Pihlainen

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Trauma, modernism, realism: a genealogy, the middle voice 创伤，现代主义，现实主义:一个谱系，中间的声音

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Rethinking History Pub Date : 2022-12-08 DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2022.2151220

M. Valderrama

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The other side of the linguistic turn: theory of history and the negotiation of humanity 语言转向的另一面:历史理论与人性谈判

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Rethinking History Pub Date : 2022-11-15 DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2022.2143672

María Inés La Greca

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Disappearance and archive fevers in film: the rewriting of history and practical uses of the past 电影中的消失和档案热：对历史的改写和对过去的实际利用

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Rethinking History Pub Date : 2022-11-11 DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2022.2144024

Natalia Taccetta

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The histories we tell: historical consciousness and student protests in a Chilean public high school 我们讲述的历史:智利公立高中的历史意识和学生抗议

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Rethinking History Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2022.2136595

Rodrigo Mayorga

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The role of empathy in bridging Western and Indigenous knowledges: Dominick LaCapra and Ailton Krenak 共情在弥合西方和土著知识中的作用:多米尼克·拉卡普拉和埃尔顿·克雷纳克

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Rethinking History Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2022.2145062

Taynna M. Marino

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George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo: semiotic explorations of Abraham Lincoln in American cultural memory 乔治·桑德斯的《中阴中的林肯:美国文化记忆中亚伯拉罕·林肯的符号学探索》

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Rethinking History Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2022.2135818

Marleen Hiltrop, S. Polak

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