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This book enters new territory by moving toward a new conceptual framework for comparative For the 21st century, the often-quoted citation ‘past Historic Mortars and interdisciplinary research on transcultural state is prologue’ reads the other way around: The global formation. Once more, statehood and governance present lacks a historical narrative for the global Characterisation, Assessment and Repair are highly discussed topics, whereby modern state past. Focussing on a transcultural history, this book building is often considered to be a genuinely questions the territoriality of historical concepts and This volume focuses on research and practical issues European characteristic, despite the fact that early offers a narrative, which aims to overcome cultural connected with mortars on historic structures. The modern Europeans knew of, experienced and essentialism by focussing on crossing borders of all book is divided into four sections: Characterisation grappled with highly developed states in Asia. The kinds. Transcultural History reflects critically on of Historic Mortars, Repair Mortars and Design articles collected in this book discuss how strategies the way history is constructed, asking who formed Issues, Experimental Research into Properties of governance were part of transcultural transfers history in the past and who succeeded in shaping of Repair Mortars, and Assessment and Testing. between the two continents. The first part presents what we call the master narrative. Although trained The papers present the latest work of researchers and discusses concepts of statehood in order to European historians, the authors aim to present a in their field. The individual contributions were provide a set of conceptual tools for analyzing useful approach to global history, showing first of selected from the contributions to the 2nd Historic the transcultural appropriation of governmental all how a Eurocentric but universal historiography Mortars Conference, which took place in Prague, strategies. The second part is concerned with case removed or essentialised certain topics in Asian September, 22-24, 2010. All papers were reviewed studies that examine the transcultural perception history. As an empirical discipline, history is based and improved as necessary before publication. This of governance, and the third and final part gathers on source material, analysed according to rules peer review process by the editors resulted in the 34 perspectives on political practice in transcultural resulting from a strong methodological background. individual contributions included in here. One extra encounters (e.g. military, administration, and This book accesses the global past after World War I, paper reviewing and summarising State-of-the-Art diplomacy) looking at the well known[..] knowledge covered by this publication was added as a starting and navigational point for the reader. The Features Features editors believe that having these papers in print is This book enters new territory by moving toward For the 21st century, the often-quoted citation ‘past important and they hope that it will stimulate further a new conceptual framework for comparative is prologue’ reads the other way around: The global research into historic mortars and related[..] and interdisciplinary research on transcultural state present lacks a historical narrative for the global formation. Once more, statehood and governance past. 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Methodological Key papers present the latest work of researchers in their History; Regional and Cultural Studies; Sociology, Elements of Transcultural History.- Combining field. The individual contributions were [..] general Culture and Border Crossing. Contents Target groups Fields of interest Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Historic Mortars: Research History; Regional and Cultural Studies Characterisation, Assessment and Repair. A State of the Art Summary, by Jan Válek, John J. Type of publication Target groups Hughes and Caspar J.W.P. Groot.- Chapter I : Monograph Research Characterisation of historic mortars: Historic Type of publication documents in understanding and evaluation of Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days. Monograph historic lime mortars, by Cornelia Marinowitz, Claudia Neuwald-Burg and Matthias Pfeifer.- The earliest use of lime and gypsum mortars in 2012. VIII, 285 p. 9 illus., 5 in color. (Transcultural Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days. 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