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Cultural history

Historians who might be grouped under this umbrella are Roger Chartier, Robert Darnton, Patrice Higonnet, Lynn Hunt, Keith Baker, Joan Landes, Mona Ozouf and Sarah Maza.


Ged Quinn

He specialises in allegorical paintings that include contemporary images (generally on controversial topics in Western cultural history) in idyllic scenes based on classical paintings such as the pastoral works of Claude Lorrain and Caspar David Friedrich.

Jaan Eilart

Jaan Eilart (24 June 1933 in Pala, Kirna Parish, Järva County – 18 May 2006 in Tartu) was an Estonian phytogeographer, landscape ecologist, cultural historian and conservationist.

Nina Auerbach

She has published, lectured, and reviewed widely in the fields of Victorian literature, theater, cultural history, and horror fiction and film.


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Bambi Harper

María Ana "Bambi" L. Harper is a Filipino cultural writer and socialite who was a former President of the Heritage Conservation Society of the Philippines, and a columnist for the Philippine Daily Inquirer with "Sense and Sensibility", which focuses on Philippine cultural history.

Birrguu Matya

Birrguu Matya is marketed as belonging to the cultural history of the Wiradjuri People who are considered the first inhabitants of the Bathurst district and have been living there for at least 40,000 years.

Chemung County Historical Society

It is dedicated to the collection, preservation, and presentation of the cultural history of the Chemung River Valley region.

Colin Masica

At the University of Chicago, he taught Hindi at all levels, and occasionally other South Asian languages, along with North Indian cultural history and literature, for three decades, and published on both Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages.

Cumberland Island National Seashore

Exhibits focus on the island's natural and cultural history, including the Timucua Indians, cotton plantations that were established by American Revolutionary hero General Nathaniel Greene and cotton-gin inventor Eli Whitney, the history of the ruined mansion Dungeness and the Plum Orchard estate, and area activities during the War of 1812.

Cynthia Neville

Neville's primary research interests are the social, political and cultural history of medieval Scotland, 1000-1500, specifically legal history, Gaelic-Norman interactions and Gaelic lordship.

Daiwie Fu

His areas of research are gender and sexuality related to modern medicine in Taiwan and biji and the cultural history of science in the Song Dynasty.

David Dumville

He has previously taught or held posts at Swansea University (Fellow, 1975-77), the University of Pennsylvania (assistant professor of English, 1977-78), the University of Cambridge, (lecturer in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, 1977-91; reader in early Mediaeval history and culture of British Isles, 1991-95; professor of palaeography and cultural history, 1995-2005), and University of California, Berkeley (1997).

Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween

Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween is a non-fiction book by David J. Skal.

Eurolinguistics

The internet platform EuroLinguistiX (ELiX) (edited by Joachim Grzega) offers a bibliography of Eurolinguistic publications as well as a wiki, a discussion forum, an academic internet journal in order to address also aspects of "linguistic and cultural history", "sociology of languages", "language politics" and "intercultural communication".

Fascist symbolism

Other symbols used by the Italian Fascists included the aquila, the Capitoline Wolf, and the SPQR motto, each related to Italy's ancient Roman cultural history, which the Fascists attempted to resurrect.

Flatulist

Jim Dawson; Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cultural History of the Fart (Ten Speed Press, 1999)

Follum

Many antiquities are now located in the collection of ancient artifacts of the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo.

Guy Stern

He was later head of the German and Slavic Studies department at the University of Maryland, then until his retirement served as a distinguished professor of German Literature and Cultural History at Wayne State University and intermittently as senior vice president and provost.

Gyula Germanus

He accepted invitations from the Scientific Academy of Cairo, other universities in Alexandria, Cairo, Damascus, and eight Indian universities to give lectures about Islamic cultural history in English and Arabic.

History of mentalities

Roger Chartier, 'Cultural History: Between Practices and Representations', trans.

Hollis Robbins

"A Menstrual Lesson for Girls: Maria Edgeworth's "The Purple Jar," in Menstruation A Cultural History edited by Andrew Shail and Gillian Howie.

Hugh Edward Richardson

He was an advocate of the right of Tibetans to a separate political existence, a case he made in two books, Tibet and Its History (1962) and A Cultural History of Tibet (1968), and at the United Nations when the issue of Chinese oppression of Tibet was raised by the Irish Republic, represented by Frank Aiken, during the 1959 UN General Assembly debate on Tibet.

Itzig

The Itzig family, famous for its contribution to Jewish and German cultural history

Judith T. Zeitlin

Her areas of interest are Ming-Qing literary and cultural history, with specialties in the classical tale and drama.

Keijo Virtanen

In 1970 Virtanen was affiliated with Turku University, where he became professor 1990 in cultural history.

Kennell Jackson Jr.

Kennell Jackson (born on March 19, 1941, in Farmville, Virginia - died November 21, 2005) was an African American expert in East Africa and African American cultural history.

Landesmuseum Württemberg

history of art and cultural history: modern era glass, Württemberg crown jewels, medieval art, art chamber of the Württemberg rulers, modern glass painting, musical instruments (located in the granary), clocks and scientific instruments

Leo Braudy

Braudy frequently appears as a commentator on popular culture, cultural history, and films on a variety of television shows, including Crossfire, World of Wonder, The Maria Shriver Show, and The South Bank Show.

M. G. Sheftall

He is a professor of modern Japanese cultural history and communication in the Faculty of Informatics at Shizuoka University, a branch campus of the Japanese national university system.

Paul Tschackert

Vortrag, 1876 - Anna Maria van Schurman, "the star of Utrecht", the disciple Labadie; a picture of cultural history in the 17th Century; Lecture.

Raymond Ramcharitar

Ramcharitar was educated at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, where he was awarded three degrees: a Bachelor's in Economics (1991), a Master's in Literatures in English (2002), and a Doctorate in Cultural History (2007).

Robin Cormack

His current research interests include the cultural history of Saint Catherine's Monastery from Late Antiquity onwards.

Russian Symphony Concerts

Antonina W. Bouis, St. Petersburg: A Cultural History (New York: The Free Press, 1995).

Stefan Lehmann

Stefan Lehmann studied classical archaeology, ancient history, art history and cultural history in Berlin and at the University of Bonn.

Universal library

A similar idea was a planet called Memory Alpha, (from the Star Trek episode "The Lights of Zetar") which was the Federation's "storehouse of computer databases containing all cultural history and scientific data it has acquired.".

Waiting for Snow in Havana

Professor Eire, who received his PhD from Yale University in 1979, specializes in the social, intellectual, religious, and cultural history of late medieval and early modern Europe.

Wetaskiwin and District Heritage Museum

The museum provides for the acquisition, exhibition, and preservation of artefacts to interpret the natural, human, and cultural history of Wetaskiwin, the Cree Four Band Reserve, and the surrounding rural area.

Wie die Schlesier Christen wurden, waren und sind: Ein Beitrag zur schlesischen Kulturgeschichte

Wie die Schlesier Christen wurden, waren und sind: Ein Beitrag zur schlesischen Kulturgeschichte (How the Silesians became, were and are Christians: a contribution to Silesian cultural history) is a 2011 book by German theologian Wolfgang Nastainczyk published by Schnell & Steiner.

Zorica Jevremović Munitić

As an advocate of a common Yugoslav cultural milieu she has undertaken research into the cultural history and theological common law in multinational and/or multiconfessional regions of Croatia, Slovenia and Kosovo within former Yugoslavia: Dubrovnik (1976-1980), Perast (1981), Dečani (1985-1989), Tacen (1982-1985), Povlja (1985), Poljica (1986-1990), Zjum (1990).