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The application of digital technologies to historical newspapers have changed the research landscape historians were used to. An Eldorado? Despite undeniable advantages, the new digital affordance of historical newspapers also transforms research practices and confronts historians with new challenges. Drawing on a growing community of practices, the impresso project invited scholars experienced with digitised newspaper collections with the aim of encouraging a discussion on heuristics, source criticism and interpretation of digitized newspapers. This volume provides a snapshot of current research on the subject and offers three perspectives: how digitisation is transforming access to and exploration of historical newspaper collections; how automatic content processing allows for the creation of new layers of information; and, finally, what analyses this enhanced material opens up. 'impresso - Media Monitoring of the Past' is an interdisciplinary research project that applies text mining tools to digitised historical newspapers and integrates the resulting data into historical research workflows by means of a newly developed user interface. The question of how best to adapt text mining tools and their use by humanities researchers is at the heart of the impresso enterprise.

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The Shi'i Ismaili Muslims of Central Asia have a complex political history. This open access book is the first English-language study of the Ismaili Muslims in this region, based on analysis of the Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet scholarship about them. It sheds new light on their history and heritage, and also shows how the Ismailis of Central Asia have been understood and presented in the academic literature. Divided into three parts, the first covers the spread of the Ismaili da'wa (mission) throughout Central Asia - known as Khurasan - from the 3rd/9th century until modern times. This part examines the prominent poet da'i Nasir-i Khusraw, who played an instrumental role in the expansion and development of Ismailism in Badakhshan in the eleventh century and reveals the impact of his religio-philosophical legacy in the life of the contemporary community. The second part examines the initial interest in Ismaili Studies engendered by Russian imperial rule. It also shows how approaches to the study of Ismailism were affected by 70 years of Communist atheist rule and the demise of the Communist political and ideological system. The third part presents an annotated bibliography of books, articles, and published and unpublished materials, including documents and oral materials on the history, thought and practices of the Ismailis of Central Asia, most of which has not been hitherto easily accessible to Western scholarship. The comprehensive survey and rich bibliography aims to illuminate the history and historiography of the Ismailis in Central Asia and facilitate further study on the subject by experts around the world.

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Petit village au cœur d'une vallée fertile près de Bethléem, Artâs est l'observatoire par excellence des premiers temps de la présence européenne et américaine en Palestine ottomane et de la mémoire qui en perdure jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Ayant attiré l'attention des pèlerins, des explorateurs et des chercheurs bibliques dès le XVIe siècle en raison de son lien supposé avec l'héritage du roi Salomon, Artâs devient au milieu du XIXe siècle le lieu d'implantation privilégié de colons se réclamant de la mouvance millénariste protestante.0Le réseau millénariste multinational à Artâs ne constitue pas un bloc monolithique, mais se rejoint sur l'idée que les juifs doivent s'installer en Terre sainte pour préparer le " second avènement " du Christ. Au début du XXe siècle, la présence de ces colons a favorisé celle de chercheurs dont l'activité a eu par la suite une forte résonance, notamment parmi les habitants du village. L'appropriation dont fait l'objet le travail de ces chercheurs, et particulièrement celui de l'anthropologue finlandaise Hilma Granqvist, prend tout son sens dans le contexte de l'occupation israélienne.0Loin des lectures binaires des relations entre " Orient " et " Occident ", cet ouvrage analyse les rapports de force à l?œuvre à la fin de l'époque ottomane et pendant le mandat britannique à partir d'un corpus inédit et varié d'archives. Son croisement avec l'histoire orale dévoile la manière dont cette période est rappelée, interprétée ou vouée à l'oubli par les villageois et les Européens ayant vécu à Artâs.0Ces récits mettent en lumière la signification attribuée à l'histoire, à la fois dans la mémoire populaire et dans l'historiographie de la Palestine. Entre métahistoire et microstoria, le cas d'Artâs ouvre une nouvelle perspective sur une période charnière de l'histoire du Proche-Orient.

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The Shi'i Ismaili Muslims of Central Asia have a complex political history. This open access book is the first English-language study of the Ismaili Muslims in this region, based on analysis of the Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet scholarship about them. It sheds new light on their history and heritage, and also shows how the Ismailis of Central Asia have been understood and presented in the academic literature. Divided into three parts, the first covers the spread of the Ismaili da'wa (mission) throughout Central Asia - known as Khurasan - from the 3rd/9th century until modern times. This part examines the prominent poet da'i Nasir-i Khusraw, who played an instrumental role in the expansion and development of Ismailism in Badakhshan in the eleventh century and reveals the impact of his religio-philosophical legacy in the life of the contemporary community. The second part examines the initial interest in Ismaili Studies engendered by Russian imperial rule. It also shows how approaches to the study of Ismailism were affected by 70 years of Communist atheist rule and the demise of the Communist political and ideological system. The third part presents an annotated bibliography of books, articles, and published and unpublished materials, including documents and oral materials on the history, thought and practices of the Ismailis of Central Asia, most of which has not been hitherto easily accessible to Western scholarship. The comprehensive survey and rich bibliography aims to illuminate the history and historiography of the Ismailis in Central Asia and facilitate further study on the subject by experts around the world.

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In Europa wird intensiv über einen angemessenen Umgang mit afrikanischem Kulturgut debattiert - auch über historische Fotografien, die koloniale Afrikavorstellungen mitkonstruierten. In Tansania etablierten sich seit der Unabhängigkeit des Landes neue und eigenständige Praktiken in der Verwendung kolonialer Hinterlassenschaften. Ausgehend von den aktuellen Gebrauchsweisen dreier Fotografien aus dem späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert zeigt Eliane Kurmann, wie Tansanierinnen und Tansanier sich solche Bilder seit den 1960er Jahren aneignen und sie umdeuten, um sie in die postkoloniale Geschichtskultur einzubinden. Darin widerspiegeln sich die tiefgreifenden Verschiebungen, die tansanische Geschichtsbilder seit der Kolonialzeit erfahren haben. Das Buch geht auch den Entstehungskontexten dieser Fotografien und ihren früheren Verwendungen nach und entschlüsselt die medialen Konstellationen, in denen sie einst ihre kolonialen Bedeutungen erhielten. Die drei Fotogeschichten veranschaulichen, wie koloniale Fotografien zu Bildern der tansanischen Geschichte geworden sind.

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