In late 1949 city officials stretched a banner that read 'SEVASTOPOLIANS! What have you done for the restoration of your hometown ' across one of the most heavily travelled streets in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol. It...
For more information on the published version, visit Rowman & Littlefield's Website., Baliani, Marco. Body of State: The Moro Affair, A Nation Divided. Translated by Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Ellen Nerenberg, and Thomas Simpson....
For more information on the published version, visit Project Muse's Website., In a short, unpublished text, On the Art of Writing , the French Enlightenment natural historian Buffon described the process of translating...
Published as: Karl D. Qualls, The Crimean War’s Long Shadow: Urban Biography and the Reconstruction of Sevastopol after World War II, in Russia beyond the Traditional Boundaries: Essays in Honor of David M. Goldfrank, ed....
...Passando [Dante] per porta San Piero, battendo ferro uno fabbro su la 'ncudine, cantava il Dante come si canta uno cantare a tramestava e versi suoi, smozzicando e appiccando, che parea a Dante ricever di quello grandissima...
Qualls, Karl D. De 'Niños de la Guerra' a Jóvenes Soviéticos: Educación, Aculturación y Paternalismo, 1939-1945. Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea 38 (2016): 77-101., En este artículo se aborda la huida de la guerra civil...
During their 400-mile walk from Málaga to Valencia, the five Molinas children, ages six to thirteen, endured lethal attack from land and air. Having already lost one of her children to the war, their mother decided to send her...
Gray, Lila Ellen. Fado's City. Anthropology & Humanism 36, no. 2 (2011): 141-163., Ellen Gray is a professor of Music at Dickinson College., For more information on the published version, visit Wiley's Website., and 'Fado's...
“If I must not, because of my Sex, have this freedom, but that you will usurp all to your selves, I lay down my Quill,” wrote Aphra Behn in the Preface to The Luckey Chance (1686). Behn’s defense of her gender and work as a...
Published as: Qualls, Karl D. From Hooligans to Disciplined Students: Displacement, Resettlement, and Role Modelling of Spanish Civil War Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-51. In Displaced Children in Russia and Eastern...
In 1937 and 1938, as the bombing of Guernica and northern Spain increased in frequency and intensity, thousands of children boarded ships to safer residences in foreign countries. About 3,000 children, with teachers and...
Published as: Qualls, Karl D. Imagining Sevastopol: History and Postwar Community Construction, 1942–1953. National Identities 5, no. 2 (2003): 123-139. This author pre-print is made available on Dickinson Scholar with...
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Why is the capital of the United States named in part after Christopher Columbus, a Genoese explorer commissioned by Spain who never set foot on what would become the nation's mainland? Why did Spanish American nationalists in...
Roman, Hanna. The Logic of the Invisible: Perceiving the Submarine World in French Enlightenment Geography. In The Aesthetics of the Undersea, edited by Margaret Cohen and Killian Quigley, 42-53. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge,...
During the 1760s, after decades of strong economic and population growth in Britain’s American colonies, the notion that the capital of the imperial state would move from London to some American city became increasingly common....
Published as: Qualls, Karl D. The Russian Revolutions: The Impact and Limitations of Western Influence. In Russia and Western Civilization: Cultural and Historical Encounters , edited by Russell Bova, 113-41. Armonk, N.Y:...
In 1805, a young Simón Bolívar had been in Europe for about five years, solidifying his education and making social connections. After Napoleon’s coronation in Paris as emperor of France in December 1804, a ceremony that...
For more information on the published version, visit Harvard University Press's Website., The sixty year period of Medici de facto rule during the fifteenth century can be framed by two musical monuments that, appropriately,...
Stalin’s Niños examines how the Soviet Union raised and educated nearly 3,000 child refugees of the Spanish Civil War. An analysis of the archival record and numerous letters, oral histories, and memoirs reveals that this...
Walking along Soviet Street on the high central hill in Sevastopol, the visitor confronts spray-painted graffiti on the yellowed wall of a building that reads: Sevastopol is Russia. While graffiti is a common form of...
Sevastopol-City of Glory and Hero-City Sevastopol adorn books, posters, buses and trolleys in the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine. The ubiquitous image of heroism and glory is neither new nor passively remembered. During two...
Published as: Qualls, Karl D. Who Makes Local Memories?: The Case of Sevastopol after World War II. Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 38, no. 2 (2011): 130-148....
This author pre-print is made available on Dickinson Scholar with the permission of the publisher. For more information on the published version, visit Brill's Website., With the approval of Admiral Oktriabrskii (Commander of...
Qualls, Karl D. Агитировать и создавать условия: перепланировка города-героя Севастополя, 1944–1953 гг. [To Agitate and to Render Service: Replanning the Hero-City Sevastopol, 1944-1953]. Новейшая история Росии [Modern...
“Создание и реконструкция памяти города-героя: Севастополь, 1944–2004” in Поздний Сталинизм и эпоха Н.С Хрущева в Советском Союзе (St. Petersburg, Russia: St. Petersburg State University, 2010).
Qualls, Karl D. “Історія, міське планування та творення повоєнного Севастополя.” [History, Urban Planning and the Making of Postwar Sevastopol] Схiд/Захiд 15, (2011): 111-124.
In order to sustain dictatorship, achieve totalitarian governance, and actualize massive demographic and imperialist goals such as a population increase of twenty million people and the creation of a new Roman Empire,...