Historians Without Borders: New Studies in Multidisciplinary History

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This text explores a variety of themes developed from successive years of the University of California, Davis, multidisciplinary graduate conference. It draws out connections on a wide array of topics among the arts, humanities, and sciences in history for multidisciplinary study. This text presents a rare forum for multidisciplinary connections researched and presented by junior specialists in their respective fields. It enables both creativity and flexibility in drawing out connections that are frequently overlooked by more specialized senior scholars. This book is a unique exercise in the promotion of junior scholarly achievement and multidisciplinary research. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Section 1 History and the other muses 1 The rubble of the other: Beethoven’s Ruins of Athens 2 “Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition”: propaganda music as a governmental marketing tool during the WWII era 3 Can the subaltern laugh? A study of humor, power, and resistance Section 2 Culture and cognition 4 Extended evolutionary synthesis: linking history and cognitive science 5 Common quest: the search for the everyday person in the Merovingian age Section 3 Altered and hostile environments 6 Geophysical agency in the Anthropocene: engineering a road and river to Rocky Mountain National Park 7 The politics of solitude: listening to environmental change in Rocky Mountain National Park, 1945–present 8 Hidden in plain sight: rethinking Saharan studies as a discipline Section 4 Contested places and spaces 9 Indigenous land ownership in the praying towns of the Southern New England borderlands 10 Forgotten: the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 11 Historical realities: voices from the war of Algerian decolonization Section 5 Movement and travel 12 Negotiating the sixteenth-century road: diplomacy and travel in early modern Europe 13 Going it alone: practical travel manuals and independent women travelers in the nineteenth century Index