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Lithography (2020)
Book Chapter
Martin, J. D., & Mody, C. C. (in press). Lithography. In J. D. Martin, & C. C. Mody (Eds.), Between making and knowing : tools in the history of materials research (327-340). World Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811207631_0029

Lithography became an essential tool for materials research during the post–World War II computing revolution. Increasing computing power required shrinking circuits and packing transistors more tightly together. Lithography made it possible to write... Read More about Lithography.

Eunuch and Scholar - Two Ways to be ‘Indian’ Socio-Cultural Significances of the Category ‘al-Hindī ’ in the Late Mamlūk Period (2020)
Book Chapter
Bahl, C. D. (2020). Eunuch and Scholar - Two Ways to be ‘Indian’ Socio-Cultural Significances of the Category ‘al-Hindī ’ in the Late Mamlūk Period. In S. Kiyanrad, & et al. (Eds.), Islamische Selbstbilder: Festschrift für Susanne Enderwitz (25-37). Heidelberg University Publishing. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.531.c9251

From the late fourteenth to the fifteenth centuries an increased migration of ‘Indians’ (al-Hindīyūn) to the Hijaz is observable due to Jidda’s emergence as a major entrepôt in the ‘India trade’ between Mamlūk Egypt and various regions of South Asia.... Read More about Eunuch and Scholar - Two Ways to be ‘Indian’ Socio-Cultural Significances of the Category ‘al-Hindī ’ in the Late Mamlūk Period.

Patchwork States: the localization of state territoriality on the South Sudan-Uganda border, 1914-2014 (2020)
Journal Article
Leonardi, C. (2020). Patchwork States: the localization of state territoriality on the South Sudan-Uganda border, 1914-2014. Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies, 248(1), 209-258. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz052

This paper takes a localized conflict over a non-demarcated stretch of the Uganda–South Sudan boundary in 2014 as a starting point for examining the history of territorial state formation on either side of this border since its colonial creation in 1... Read More about Patchwork States: the localization of state territoriality on the South Sudan-Uganda border, 1914-2014.

La mondialisation de la Révolution française (vers 1930-1960) : origines et eclipse d'un paradigme historiographique (2020)
Journal Article
Stammers, T. (2020). La mondialisation de la Révolution française (vers 1930-1960) : origines et eclipse d'un paradigme historiographique. Annales (English ed. Online), 74(2), 297-335. https://doi.org/10.1017/ahss.2020.10

This article sketches an alternative narrative for the origins of global historiography on the French Revolution. It argues that the thesis of an “Atlantic Revolution” put forward by Robert Palmer and Jacques Godechot in the 1950s in fact grew out of... Read More about La mondialisation de la Révolution française (vers 1930-1960) : origines et eclipse d'un paradigme historiographique.

Transoceanic Arabic historiography: sharing the past of the sixteenth-century western Indian Ocean (2020)
Journal Article
Bahl, C. D. (2020). Transoceanic Arabic historiography: sharing the past of the sixteenth-century western Indian Ocean. Journal of Global History, 15(2), 203-223. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1740022820000017

The early modern western Indian Ocean constituted a dynamic space of human interaction. While scholarship has mostly concentrated on trade and commerce, recent studies have shifted the focus to social and cultural mobilities. This article argues for... Read More about Transoceanic Arabic historiography: sharing the past of the sixteenth-century western Indian Ocean.

Objects of safety and imprisonment: Breathless patients’ use of medical objects in a palliative setting (2020)
Journal Article
Binnie, K., McGuire, C., & Carel, H. (2021). Objects of safety and imprisonment: Breathless patients’ use of medical objects in a palliative setting. Journal of Material Culture, 26(2), 122-141. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183520931900

In this article, the authors consider breathless adults with advanced non-malignant lung disease and their relationship with health objects. This issue is especially relevant now during the Covid-19 pandemic, where the experiences of breathlessness a... Read More about Objects of safety and imprisonment: Breathless patients’ use of medical objects in a palliative setting.

Materials Science (2020)
Digital Artefact
Mody, C. C., & Martin, J. D. (2020). Materials Science. [[Media unknown]]

Materials are everywhere. Imagine a common morning routine in the industrialized world. We arise from the synthetic sheets covering our memory-foam mattresses to cook our eggs in Teflon-coated pans while sipping coffee from ceramic mugs. We peer at n... Read More about Materials Science.

Epilogue: from Herfsttij to Autumntide (2020)
Book Chapter
Small, G. (2020). Epilogue: from Herfsttij to Autumntide. In G. Small, A. van der Lem, & T. B. D. Webb (Eds.), in Autumntide of the Middle Ages. A study of forms of life and thought of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in France and the Low Countries. By Johan Huizinga (538-79). Leiden: Leiden University Press

Age Relations and Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century England (2020)
Book
Crosbie, B. (2020). Age Relations and Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century England. Boydell & Brewer

Interactions between age groups were central to major social and cultural developments in eighteenth-century England, and this book serves as a powerful reminder that people lived through not in the past. This book explores the links between age rela... Read More about Age Relations and Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century England.

National Prayers: Special Worship since the Reformation. Volume 3: Worship for national and royal occasions in the United Kingdom, 1871-2016 (2020)
Book
Williamson, P., Taylor, S., Raffe, A., & Mears, N. (2020). National Prayers: Special Worship since the Reformation. Volume 3: Worship for national and royal occasions in the United Kingdom, 1871-2016

The third of four volumes, containing the edited texts, commentaries and source notes for each of the nearly nine hundred occasions of special worship including the development of national days of prayer during the two world wars,and a proliferation... Read More about National Prayers: Special Worship since the Reformation. Volume 3: Worship for national and royal occasions in the United Kingdom, 1871-2016.