The problem with the ocean is that we do not see what is below the surface. When we clear land for urban development, when we change agricultural practices, when we cut the trees or kill off the wolves, we see the changes. ...

This article examines and edits an anonymous text from the late 1330s (Quesitum fuit utrum per interrogationes …), which was written to refute the arguments presented in a lost quaestio disputata by an unknown Parisian ...

A common aspect of the practice-oriented side of pre- and early modern mathematical astronomy was the computation of ephemerides, that is, tables that displayed the daily positions of the planets in a synoptic and calendrical ...

This thesis is a study of a particular dimension of American political and historical thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During this period American writers and intellectuals acknowledged, ...

From 1912 to 1949, especially under the administration of the Nanjing Government from 1927 to 1937, Shanghai witnessed drastic changes in its political structure, medical culture and social lifestyles through the construction ...

This thesis investigates the development and establishment of a distinctive commemorative culture by British popular radicalism, and in particular by Chartism, in the nineteenth century. At the intersection of memory ...

The reign of Henry VIII was a watershed in Irish history. Historians, however, have underestimated the impact of the Henrician Reformation. Exploring the making of Tudor political theology against the North Atlantic and ...

This thesis illuminates the history of Irish fisheries from 1500 to 1603 by utilising a range of digital research methods. Previous monographs on the history of Irish fisheries have been unfocused and anecdotal. In contrast, ...