The article discusses the first attempt at a racial classification of the world's population,
framed by the seventeenth-century French traveller, physician and Gassendist philosopher …

For much of history, strangers were routinely classified as barbarians and inferiors, seldom
as fellow human beings. The notion of a common humanity was counterintuitive and thus had …

Beyond the Canon Page 1 Beyond the Canon History for the Twenty-first Century Maria Grever
and Siep Stuurman Edited by Page 2 Beyond the Canon Page 3 Also by Maria Grever With Kees …

This article presents a comparative investigation of Herodotus and Sima Qian with a focus
on their ethnographies of nomadic peoples. Both historians included geography and …

In the first century BC the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus observed that there were kings
before the discovery of writing. 1 Diodorus was right: the shared reflection about the human …

The Dutch merchant vessel Gertrude sailed from Batavia in the first week of 1848. Winds were
intermittent and, at best, weak, so the voyage around Africa took a long time and the ship …

Over the past decades many politicians and pundits have blamed new trends in historical
research and teaching for the weakening of national identity in the Western world. In the …

We gained insight into ideas and beliefs on testing of students who finished an introductory
course on programming without any formal education on testing. We asked students to fill in …

In de Europese cultuurgeschiedenis wordt het fin-de-siècle in de regel omschreven als het
einde van de negentiende-eeuwse zekerheden, als schemering van het bourgeois-…

Higher Education in South Africa has been in crisis over recent years. University systems in
many parts of South Africa have witnessed student protest, as well as ongoing violence, …