The New Regional History: Rethinking the History of the Outaouais

For constructing the medieval political history of Cooch Behar, also known as Koch Bihar, the Persian manuscript of BahÂ ristÂ n-i-Ghaybī, discovered in 1919 by Jadunath Sarkar in the Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris, is very significant. This text facilitates our understanding of important historical events in eastern India during the time of Mughal Emperor Jahangir (1601–27). The text also provides important details of peasants’ revolts during the Mughal occupation, with remarkable implications until recent times regarding border relations between India and Bangladesh. The article examines the historical facts presented in this important text and corroborates them with other sources to argue that this text should be read as a chronicle for the history of warfare, society and peasants’ life in the region throughout the seventeenth century, with significant implications for later historical developments in Cooch Behar.

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For a comparative history of Alsace and Transylvania

Diacronia ◽

10.17684/i1a10en ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Valentin Trifescu

Keyword(s):

Comparative History ◽

National History ◽

History Of ◽

Regional History ◽

The Relationship ◽

Scientific Endeavour

Alsace and Transylvania are two historical border provinces which have been intensely debated throughout history and which have always been interrelated with each other in discourses of politicians as well as of intellectuals and of historians. By our study we would like to set forth a plea for a comparative history of Alsace and Transylvania (as two border provinces) and to yield a first set of arguments in favour of such a scientific endeavour. Once established the advantages and the methods upon which an inquiry of comparative history rests, we could better understand the particular identity and the ways in which these two sideline provinces have related to their centres of power. Thus the monolithic and exclusive national history may be replaced by a fragmentary and/or peripheral standpoint which would bring to light different aspects concerning local or regional history, regionalism or the relationship between the centre and its periphery.

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“NEW” REGIONAL PARADIGM AND THE DISCOURSE OF COLONIZATION

Ural Historical Journal ◽

10.30759/1728-9718-2021-4(73)-71-78 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 73 (4) ◽

pp. 71-78

Author(s):

Konstantin I. Zubkov ◽

Keyword(s):

Structural Analysis ◽

Social Interactions ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Economic History ◽

Settler Colonialism ◽

New Regionalism ◽

Ethnic History ◽

History Of ◽

Colonization Process ◽

Regional History

The article analyzes the conceptual novelties in the regional history studies, which in the 1980s led to the formation of a “new” regional paradigm in historical researches, and later, in the 1990–2000s, — the concept of “settler colonialism” as one of its applications to the study of colonization processes. A regional “turn” in historiography associated with the use of descriptions of regional situations as a model for analyzing larger levels of historical reality (including region-oriented institutionalism in economic history), as well as with changes in the thematic focus of regional history studies (environmentalism, structures of everyday life, ethnic history, history of mentality), formed — mostly on the materials of the colonized regions of the U.S. West — the paradigm of “new” regional history. In line with the criticism of the shortcomings inherent in F. J. Turner’s “frontier” concept, the “new” regionalism offers as a research paradigm a deeper and multidimensional view of the natural basis of the region and its typical everyday life structures, identifying the unique specifics of each region, structural analysis of the region’s societal composition, emphasizing the multicultural and multi-actor nature of the colonization process, the multiplicity of development strategies and the “nodal” character of social interactions. In turn, these methodological ideas formed the basis of the “settler colonialism” concept focused on the structural analysis of “societies” arising in the process of colonization, and their characteristic array of complicated socio-institutional and interethnic interactions. This allows us to characterize the “new” regionalism and its application to the analysis of the colonization phenomenon as an important stage in a more in-depth and multifaceted study of colonization problems.

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The historical writing of the Monography in contemporary Morocco: a contribution to the study of backgrounds, subject and methodology: الكتابة التاريخية المونوغرافية بالمغرب المعاصر: إسهام في دراسة الخلفيات والموضوع والمنهج

Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences - مجلة العلوم الإنسانية و الإجتماعية ◽

10.26389/b070319 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (10) ◽

Author(s):

Elbachir Abarzak

Keyword(s):

Historical Research ◽

Historical Writing ◽

Historical Material ◽

Starting Point ◽

History Of ◽

Regional History ◽

The Rich

Form of requirement to rewrite the history of Morocco, end and destined for historical writing since the dawn of contemporary Moroccan independence to today. To achieve this endeavor went searching at first with the pioneers of traditional historical writing about writing encyclopedic local dates for various parts of the country, leaving archival sources and the rich historical material, formed an indispensable starting point for subsequent generations of researchers. Has contributed to those pioneers in founding the transformation of historical research in Morocco beginning in the 1970s, crystallized modern path generated in regional history, formed in some respects a continuation of historical writing traditional regional hand and open to Thematic issues and new methodology.

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