Historiography studies the history of the science of history itself. History, as a science, fulfills an important social function. The value of history lies in its achievements in understanding the laws of the historical process, since only the experience of world history as a whole permits the...
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used archival collections in Lisbon and Rome, this study presents a new vision of the Society of Jesus' Vice-Province of China that eschews the traditional themes of its historiography: the well-known “accommodation” policy, the Chinese Rites Controversy, or the science of the Peking Jesuits....
This chapter presents a synthesis of the diverse academic traditions in China and Europe to implement global history. Supremacy and exceptionalism have characterized the socio-economic and cultural development of European powers, mainly Great Britain, the Netherlands, France, and Germany, on one side, ...
In Soviet historiography the replacement of the slaveholding formation in China by the feudal system has been assigned to the fifth to third centuries B.C. (V. M. Shtein and others), the third century B.C. to the first century A.D. (L. I. Duman), and the third to fifth centuries...
Ricci was able to introduce Western theoretical and technical astronomy to China. This was, unfortunately, Ptolemaic rather thanCopernicanastronomy, but it nevertheless included methods that were better than had been used in China. This created a position of influence for the Jesuits at the Imperial...
Chinese historiography largely concludes that sages invented scripture and painting, thus enabling [End Page 998] elites to form identity through the recording of traditions. Carpentry, pottery and textile production, medicine, music, and archery all contributed to the building of social order and the...
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His textbooks on modern and world history, which exerted a great influence on French historiography, reveal his talent for broad historical generalization and an eclectic approach to philosophical and historical thought, combining G. Vice’s cyclical view of history with G. Hegel’s theory of ...
A considerable portion of Belgian capital was invested in Egypt, Iran, China, and South America. However, Belgian capitalists were most interested in Africa. In 1908 the territory of the Congo officially became a Belgian colony. After that, utilization of the natural resources and exploitation of...