The “Spanish influenza” pandemic that struck Egypt in fall 1918 resulted in the death of eleven out of every one thousand people. Despite the mass suffering caused by the pandemic, it has been largely ignored by historians. I describe how the Egyptian public health service was unprepared for a major health crisis because resources were red…[Read more]

This course provides a survey of sculptural forms in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds from the
time of Alexander the Great to Late Antiquity. Key sculptural media will be considered from
chronological and thematic perspectives. Attention will be given to contextual analysis, social
history, form, technique, commemoration, regionalism, the…[Read more]

This article provides a short history of the methods and tools developed by the Pelagios initiative: a series of seven projects dedicated to linking digital historical resources based on the geographic places to which they relate and refer. The first section of the article situates the work within the wider field of semantic and geospatial…[Read more]

This chapter works with a mixture of discourse analysis, cultural anthropological empiricism, integration of behavioural research, and not al least conceptual argumentation. It integrates different, but corresponding strands of discussion and controversies from German-speaking politics and culture, from academic discourse, research, and art to…[Read more]

Das Buch beschreibt die Lebensgeschichten einer Gruppe von kommunistischen deutschen Überlebenden des Frauen-Konzentrationslagers Ravensbrück bei Berlin. Diese gründeten unmittelbar nach ihrer Befreiung und dem Ende des Nationalsozialismus ihre Lagergemeinschaft als gemeinsamen sozialen und politischen Verband. Ausgehend von der biografischen Pr…[Read more]

La presencia de virreyes en Sicilia se originó a partir de un pacto entre los habitantes de la isla y la Corona de Aragón. Los sicilianos se comprometieron a pagar donaciones fijadas periódicamente por su Parlamento a cambio de protección contra el enemigo externo. Sicilia por sí sola no podía evitar una invasión musulmana, como la que tuvo lugar…[Read more]

The Father of Modern India, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Nationalism

Ambedkarite Culture and Cultural Symbols after Accepting Dhamma

Changes and continuity in the religious life of Dhammadikshit Buddhists

Buddha Ambedkar’s philanthropic Dhamma

Farmer suicide and Dr. Ambedkar’s views on Agriculture of the relevance

Hindu religious continuity among Buddhists: 2056 The Challenges

Mahatma Gandhi-led untouchability movement in Wardha district

Untouchability: Horrible history of Inequality

The next challenges to the Ambedkar Dhamma Movement

Relevance of Ambedkarite Buddha Dhamma

Revival of Buddhist Dhamma in modern India

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and the question of Kashmir

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Buddha Dhamma