Mis-illustrated Histories of the British EmpireHistorians often include images in their books, whether monographs or textbooks, based on the illustrative quality of those particular visual records—the implicit narrative merit of the image being usually described succinctly in captions indicative of what the historian knew or assumed to be the historic... (De-Illustrating the History of the British Empire:Preliminary Perspectives)Needs, Seeds, and Solutions Around Medical Imaging: History and PerspectivesNeeds in Medical Education and Clinical Practice From the Viewpoint of Medical Education Sakon Noriki Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Eiheiji-cho, Fukui, 910-1193, Japan e-mail: noriki@u-fukui.ac.jp Medical education needs to be highly structured to impart the enormous... (Computational Anatomy Based on Whole Body Imaging: Basic Principles of Computer-Assisted Diagnosis and Therapy)Literary history in long-term perspectiveAs mentioned above, the most spectacular and enduring achievement of Bahar’s work is the periodization and the observation of long-term literary developments, presented as the first Persian literary history of modern times. As the text had a specific function in the nation-consolidating context, “Bahar’s... (Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah: The Pahlavi State, New Bourgeoisie and the Creation of a Modern Society in Iran)Changing Perspectives on Using and Reading History TextbooksMajor Trends in Textbook Research As the dominant teaching tool, history textbooks invited research early on. The main question of earlier studies was whether the content of the textbook appropriately accommodated the results of historians’ research on the related topics. This, of course, is... (Palgrave Handbook of Research in Historical Culture and Education)On Visual Rhetoric and British Imperial HistoryAnnamaria Motrescu-Mayes This chapter explores a few instances in which images documenting popular narratives and key events in the history of the British Empire have been used across various monographs, anthologies, research projects, and pedagogical programmes. It aims to map some of the conventional... (De-Illustrating the History of the British Empire:Preliminary Perspectives)A Visual History of a Hidden Exploration of Mid-nineteenth-century Tibet: The British Library’s Wise CollectionDiana Lange The Wise Collection: A Search for Traces In the year 1857, a travelling lama from Lhasa came to the Kullu district of the Western Himalaya, and hearing of the Indian Mutiny was afraid to proceed further. Major William Edmund Hay, who was the British Political Officer responsible... (De-Illustrating the History of the British Empire:Preliminary Perspectives)Systemic Racism: A Brief History of British ImperialismThe large-scale slaughter, colonization, and enslavement of Indigenous peoples is central to the emergence of Britain’s systemic racism, in its onshore and offshore variations. Consider the famous admiral Sir John Hawkins (1532—1595). He appears to have been the first English colonizer to get rich... (Revealing Britain’s Systemic Racism: The Case of Meghan Markle and the Royal Family)Analysis of British perspective (The Economist)Macro-rules Table 2A.2 in the Appendix shows the prevailing topics of the 20 headlines about China in the year 2010 based on Van Dijk’s macro-rules to yield the macro-structure. There are 19 topics (95%) of the 20 headlines that are derived from the application of the ‘generalisation’ macro-rule,... (China’s Contemporary Image and Rhetoric Practice)THE MILITARY REVOLUTION IN GLOBAL HISTORY East Asian perspectivesTonio Andrade Introduction Is the military revolution a useful paradigm for global history? The model was developed primarily in a European context, and scholars have suggested that it’s an “artificial construct” that “expresses Eurocentric assumptions as opposed to being based in historical... (The First World Empire: Portugal, War and Military Revolution)East and West: British perspectives on international coaching cultures and careersBritish sport underwent fundamental change over the second half of the twentieth century, increasingly moving away from its nineteenth-century amateur foundations towards more professional and less exclusionary models.6 Sports such as rowing were forced to adapt to changes in governmental policy, to... (Sports Coaching in Europe: Cultural Histories) |