Volume: 33 Issue: 7
Contents of History Today, July 1983 |
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The defeat of the Ottoman Army outside the gates of Vienna 300 years ago is usually regarded as the beginning of the decline of the Ottoman Empire. But Walter... |
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In this month's round-up of news from the history world: The Wiener Library under threat, Ruskin art works on tour, celebrating Bolivar, and the University of... |
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The English philanthropist was born on August 24th, 1759. Ian Bradley explains how his reputation as a champion of the abolition of slavery, evangelical and... |
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Douglas Johnson considers whether anecdotes are a mark of the self-indulgent historian. |
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Coffee from Ethiopia to Brazil, rubber from Brazil to Malaya... Lucile Brockway shows how the transfer of seeds and plants across continents has had enormous... |
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Paul Cartledge surveys the historiographical treatment of the ancient Greeks. |
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Martin Stanton shows that to take a dip in the sea at Margate is to take part in a long historical process with cultural, sexual, medical, economic and social... |
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What role did Simon Bolivar play in the history of Venezuela's declaration of independence from Spain? Here John Lynch argues that the history of Spanish American... |
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Chris Cook continues our special feature on the Work Ethic. |
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Anthony Sutcliffe considers the contribution which urban history has made to our understanding of the past – and its likely use in the future. |
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Roger Opie begins our special feature on the work ethic, including a bibliography by Patrick Joyce |
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150 years ago this month, William Wilberforce died. As Ian Bradley showshere, in those years, his reputation as champion of the abolition of slavery, evangelical... |
