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Please suggest the some methods to collect data from Internet or other sources through which I can collect data for Regional Research Study.
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Dear Mr. Rasheed!
This is an interesting and relevant point. I consider you refer to international scale of study. I am from Hungary, living in Finland so I looked up research focusing on Europe - I take a case-study approach: COVID-19 . Please see the methodology-sections:
1) Flaxman, S., Mishra, S., Gandy, A. et al. Estimating the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe. Nature 584, 257–261 (2020), Open Access © 2020 Springer Nature Limited Available at:
2) Engin Karadag (2020). Increase in COVID‐19 cases and case‐fatality and case‐recovery rates in Europe: A cross‐temporal meta‐analysis, Journal of Medical Virology, Volume 92, Issue 9 September 2020, Open Access © 2020 Wiley Periodicals LLC Available at:
This paper focuses on different levels at the same time:
Andrew Clark PhD et al. (2020). Global, regional, and national estimates of the population at increased risk of severe COVID-19 due to underlying health conditions in 2020: a modelling study, The Lancet Global Health, Volume 8, Issue 8, August 2020, Pages e1003-e1017 Open Access © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. Available at:
Yours sincerely, Bulcsu Szekely
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The major challenges to historical research revolve around the problems of sources, knowledge, explanation, objectivity, choice of subject, and the peculiar problems of contemporary history. Sources The problem of sources is a serious challenge to the historian in the task of reconstructing the past. Is there more?
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History is written by the victorious and for the victorious,therefore we depend on the victor’s honesty and truthfulness.
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Let's think, for example, in American and French films of the 50s. Do these countries, despite of the differences between them -political, economical, social- have common points during the same age? Let's compare, for instance, as an experiment if you hace free time, two characters like Ethan Edward (John Wayne, The searchers, John Ford, 1956) and Antoine Doinel (Jean Pierre Leaud, Les 400 coups, François Truffaut, 1959).
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Actually, I wanted to add something on the fundamental issues that literature and theater have addressed over centuries and were ultimately translated into cinematic narratives. The famous movie ”Rashomon” by Kurosawa gave birth to the so-called ”Rashomon effect” of contradictory truths, that is, plausible versions of a controversial and bloody event that can perfectly coexist. One of the best Romanian movies of the post-communist new wave is exactly about this. The movie ”Was it, or not”, 2006 (released internationally as 12.08 East of Bucharest) is about the Rashonom effect applied to the 1989 bloody regime change in Romania, and the question, of course, is whether it was a true revolution or not.
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Your task would consist in examining the rendering of the novel in your native language and provide a paper up to 6000 words, to be published as a chapter in a monograph.
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Thanks for your interest. However, the project is about investigating existing translations, not about making new translations. A French translation is there. Are you aware of this? Still interested?
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Can a film like, for example, "Star Wars", gives us as many information as a documentary like "Bowling for Columbine" about a society like American?
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Thank you for the link. I'll watch it.
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Very few specialists in history? very few
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Hi! I´m an historian. Working in Environmental History of Coastal Zones.
What do you need?
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I've checked Ingrid H. Tague's Dead Pets: Satire and Sentiment in British Elegies and Epitaphs for Animals and John. D. Blaisdell's A Most Convenient Relationship: The Rise of the Cat as a Valued Companion Animal already.
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Many thanks, Asim. Could you give me the source for this? 
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similar issues relating to res commuris have arisen in other fields of IL such as law of the sea and Antarctica; both share characteristics with outer space: such as vastness; share similar uses such as mining; and similar concerns such as exploitation.
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I've attached an article that may be of interest to you, Evaluation of non-native species policy development and implementation within the Antarctic Treaty area, Kevin A. Hughesa, Luis R. Pertierrab.
Extraterrestrial ecosystems (should there be any) may also come into play.  An asteroid for instance would most certainly be devoid of life.  It may just be a matter of who sets up shop first. 
Great topic!
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"Transnational history”, an exploration into, in David Thelen´s words, “how people and ideas and institutions and cultures moved above, below, through and around, as well as within the nation-state” (David THELEN, "The Nation and Beyond: Transnational Perspectives on United States History", Journal of American History 86:3 (Dec. 1999), 967): I toy with an idea that the experience of the WWII governments-in-exile contains some elements of the "definition" above.
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Dear Maria,
in mysterious ways I came back to this question today and I would like to ask you for some reading recommendations on Spanish government-in-exile. I have failed to find out much about its whereabouts during the Second World War and after. Feel free to recommend literature in Spanish if you do not know contributions in other major languages. Thanks!
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This relates to texts published in the last decade.
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Dear Prof. Kruze,
I saw your query. If you are intending to visit Japan, you may wish to visit 国立教育政策研究所 教育図書館 https://www.nier.go.jp/library/gaibuannai.html
They store all textbooks that went through the approval process in Japan - from primary to high school.
In the past I published works on how Japanese Ministry of Education screen History textbooks. My hunch from my past research is that there is not much written about it. If any, it would be in in-lay boxes and towards the end of the books. I would be happy to send you more info on the screening process and the political economy of the textbook publishing in Japan - not exactly what you are after, but you may get some background info.
Hope this helps.
Ryota
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Dear colleagues! Could you tell me, please, if the world in reality had a rather vague idea of Nazi atrocities inside Germany (concentration camps etc.) BEFORE the World War II? Could one say that before the war and especially before the entry of the allies into the Nazi-occupied parts of Europe the information was scarce and the international community (to use a later term) did not quite know what was happening there? 
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Camps came in to existence in Germany shortly after the Nazis took power. Initially they were for segregation and punishment of political enemies. As time passed more Jews were sent to these camps, but as part of the elimination of civil rights after the Munich Laws, Kristalnacht etc. Conditions were harsh, and deaths not infrequent but death was not the purpose of the camps. The system evolved after the war started and especially after the Wansee Conference. The system was bifurcated with camps that were specifically for extermination, like Sobibor, and camps with sections more for labor. Auschwitz-Birkenau is an example of this, where while the primary purpose was extermination, there were factory sections using slave labor.
The vast majority of those exterminated in the camps were Jews, with the Roma being the other targeted group. Slavs, particularly Poles, were primarily used for labor and tended to be drawn from elements of Polish society the Germans considered dangerous or resisters. The civilians of Eastern Europe, other than Jews and Roma, who died in areas of Nazi occupation were victims of reprisals, casual violence, collateral damage of military operations, or starvation. While a large percentage of non-aryans in the areas the Nazis expected to rule were slated for death under Generalplan Ost, the systematic extermination of these populations was not going to start until the camps ran short of Jewish and Roma "customers".
The prewar KZL were known to the world, and as the war went on information about the death camps did reach the western allies. As has been noted, attempts to try and slow the flow to these camps were not made for many reasons, some practical (the camps were located in regions far from allied air bases), some political (don't divert efforts from beating Hitler), and many people in positions of power who simply did not care what happened to the Jews.
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Garrett Mattingly, in Renaissance Diplomacy, considered it as a unifying factor in Western Europe.
However there has been some criticism lately of how much religion was a unifying factor and that Mattingly and others were ‘ignoring the historical contingency of their sources.’, as John Watkins put it, in his article ‘Towards a New Diplomatic History’. Watkins dates the term Res publica Christiana to the first crusade yet fails to acknowledge who coined the term or when it was said. Another author, Bjorn Weiler, cited by Watkins, seems to imply that the term came later, during the latter half of the thirteenth century, when political discourse concerning the concept of crusading was becoming more sophisticated (The "Negotium Terrae Sanctae" in the Political Discourse of Latin Christendom, 1215-1311).
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Thank you very much. May I cite your name as well, stating that this information was passed on to me through social network by your goodself? Thanks again for this.
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Help: finding statistics about pre-1990 Chinese immigrants in South Korea, which regions have most intense concentration?
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This would have been funded by the Prague YMCA, for a trip for Slovaks from Tótkomlós (Slovenský Komlóš) and elsewhere around Békéscsaba (Békešská Čaba) in southern Hungary (possibly also for Slovaks in Yugoslavia then). My guess is that fundraising was done in 1927. Information on anything at all on this, in any language, would be wonderful.
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Still trying to help Eric :-)
This is not exactly what you are looking for but could be a paper that offers to you the great picture about the relations between the Czechoslovaks and the ethnic Hungarians this state inherited after Trianon.
Botlik, József. "Czechoslovakia’s ethnic policy in Subcarpathia."
Regards
Tom
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The WWII co-operation of exiled political representations assembled in London counts to my research subjects. Hardly a revelation: the picture is complicated, probably little more disappointing than one is likely to expect when entering the ground. In a manuscript which I hope to publish soon I conclude:
"The story sketched in this article documents how difficult it was for small European nations, despite a common enemy and a shared meeting-place, to find solid ground for mutual understanding. ...The activities of the exiles were first and foremost directed to the preservation of their threatened nationsʼ identity, state, cultural or other. Thus, much of the communication between them was condemned to fail or to get lost ʻin translationʼ of cultural codes."
Intercultural communication is no doubt the issue I address here. Unfortunately, most literature I came across studies communication between "Great Cultures". This is still useful but my issue - intercultural communication within one (European, Western) culture - seems to lay pretty below the prevalent level of analysis.
Any reading suggestions? 1900-1950 scope will be appreciated.
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Figuring out foreigners by Craig Storti.
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These items were supposed to be 'liquidated' under Allied Control Council Directive No. 30 but is there any surviving evidence as to how this was carried out in practice?  Any correspondence, memos, photos etc would be of great interest!  My research project explores burial practices and commemorative culture during and after the Third Reich. 
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Great topic! I know a lot of Nazi monuments that remained untouched, but there are some prominent examples that were torn down or repurposed: Nuremberg rally grounds & the "Ehrentempel" in Munich next to the Braunes Haus for instance. Others lasted for decades: one in Wuppertal (I think)--a bulky male statue that was cut off at the ankles one night in the 1980s, the famous 76er monument in Hamburg that was bombed and paint-bombed in the early 1980s before receiving a 'Gegendenkmal'. Bismark tower in Weimar-Buchenwald replaced by the camp memorial bell tower. Do you read German? If so, there's a bibliography on this page: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/publications/sda/pages/steine00cov3.htm. Check out esp. Nicolai and Pollack, but also Lurz, who published a monograph Kriegerdenkmaeler in 1987. Helmut Scharf's Kleine Kunstgeschichte des dt. Denkmals (1984) has a chapter on Nazi monuments whose fate you could track down. The Nazis didn't have that much time to build stuff, and the Allies weren't that keen on tearing them down unless they were very prominent. "Gegendenkmal" and Demontage are two terms associated with what you're looking for (the latter used more for post-1989 though).
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Given the fact that music historiographies still today deals almost entirely with “dead subjects” (i.e. music of the last centuries which in many cases represents discourses not active anymore), is it possible to draft a non-linear concept of a contemporary history of music that focuses on the “effectiveness” of the past in the present (perhaps in the sense of Warburg´s pathos formula-idea)?
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You could also try to put your question into the context of media archeology, starting with Foucault's Archeology of Knowldege this would mean to consider music as a special discourse or a  number of discourses and as a media. This way music, its form and function also has to be seen within the context of other media. In the end history is not about dead things, it's just another (and helpful) way to see the present.
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I am studying the role of Brazilian , Chileans and Argentines intellectuals in transition to democracy processes.
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Hi Claudia,
For Brazil, F.H. Cardoso is clearly one of them. I remember that Bolivar Lamounier was also active at the beginning of the 80s. You will find a lot of brazilians intellectuals who were active at this time since the transition process has been slow in this country. In Argentina, they were less (not ??) tolerated and the transition has been very rapid.   
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Browsing international press of the later 1940s, I found out there were fears/rumours about the Soviets about to mobilize substantial number of German PoWs in their custody in some kind of a Red Wehrmacht.
Any research/reading available? How much or how little substance was there? Where did the news originate?
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Have a look on these:
DECAUX, A. "THE RED WEHRMACHT+ GERMAN PRISONERS-OF-WAR COOPERATING WITH RUSSIA." <i>HISTORIA</i> 470 (1986): 4-15.
Biess, Frank. Homecomings: Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany. Princeton University Press, 2006.
Ginsburgs, George. "Light Shed on the Story of Wehrmacht Generals in Soviet Captivity." Criminal Law Forum. Vol. 11. No. 1. Springer Netherlands, 2000.
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Numerous authors In philosophy, literature, and sociology write about contemporary world crisis. In your opinion, what does such crisis mean? What impact does it have on daily living? Above all, who are the best writers (and artists) to consult about crisis?
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Interesting question, Nelson. Even if I do not want to believe that "the people" are easy to manipulate, I think, the topic of crisis is simply to strong. For instance, in the somewhat more then 10 years I do care about this, I lived two crisis (one around 2000, the other one is that which is still going on). And I had the impression with the people around me (and with myself, by the way), that crisis is seen as some kind of natural disaster: you can only hide. So I came to the idea that crisis is a central mechanism of political domination - as there is almost always a crisis, you should better work hard and not demand too much, or you loose your job.
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Sports and politics have a close relation in Contemporary History, mostly in the 20th century in Europe.
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There can be found manifold traces of politics in sports, definitely from the early 19th. Century on (f.ex. German "Turners", see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turners, different working-class sports clubs). In many European countries sport was an object in the political landscape as it offers moments of (pre)-military physical education, prestige/propanda via international representation, mass mobilization and in some cases identity/nation-building.