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Waste and historicity in the Anthropocene 人类世的浪费与历史性

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Rethinking History Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2022.2103620

Zachary Riebeling

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History in politics: a “battle” of identity historical narratives between Chinese and Anglophone academia 政治中的历史:中国和英语国家学术界之间的身份历史叙事“战斗”

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Rethinking History Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2022.2066307

Nagatomi Hirayama

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Visualising memory: filmmaking as research method to engage with China’s wartime past 视觉化记忆:电影制作作为研究中国战时历史的方法

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Rethinking History Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2022.2066286

Yang Zhao

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A buried river, an emerging crisis, a cumulative tale 一条被掩埋的河流，一场新出现的危机，一个累积的故事

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Rethinking History Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2022.2040130

Melanie A. Kiechle

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The notes, the markings: along the margins of the years 音符，标记：沿着岁月的边缘

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Rethinking History Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2022.2087016

C. Steedman

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Fall of a tyrant, or heroic last stand? Tipu Sultan and the moral undercurrent in historiography 暴君的堕落，还是英雄的最后一站？提普苏丹与史学中的道德暗流

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Rethinking History Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2022.2079892

Sameer Ahmed

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Metamorphoses of the past: a study of Primo Levi´s The Periodic Table 过去的变形——普里莫·李维《元素周期表》研究

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Rethinking History Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2022.2085012

P. Caldas

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Beyond truth: an epistemic normativity for historiography 超越真理：史学的认识规范

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Rethinking History Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2022.2087015

Mariana Imaz-Sheinbaum

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Rethinking medieval margins and marginality 重新思考中世纪的边缘和边缘性

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Rethinking History Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2022.2033908

Georgi Asatryan, Jack V. Kalpakian

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War, transgenerational memory and documentary film: mediated and institutional memory in historical culture 战争、跨代记忆与纪录片:历史文化中的中介记忆与制度性记忆

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Rethinking History Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2022.2042649

Jukka Kortti

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