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Through its detailed analysis of three recent books on food, this article offers an overview of the rapidly growing field of food studies. It notes the field's promise for increasing the depth and broadening the reach of historical research. It argues that food represents a particularly important vehicle for comprehending changes in world history. Food intimately relates to every aspect of human life and existence, and as cuisines and individual foodstuffs it constantly crosses physical and cultural boundaries. Its broad appeal, however, also increases the difficulty for studies of food to become a coherent field of intellectual inquiry.

Le courant contemporain de la World History s'efforce d'établir des liens entre différentes régions séparées de notre planète. On peut constater que la zone balkanique est en général absente de ces grandes réflexions. Les causes en sont l'absence de synthèses intermédiaires et la diversité des langues utilisées dans l'historiographie balkanique. Des grands thèmesde la World History pourraient avantageusement être appliqués dans un cadre balkanique, que ce soit dans le domaine de l'histoire économique (circulation des métaux, traite esclavagiste, introduction d'espèces agricoles), de l'histoire médicale, de l'histoire environnementale, etc.

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The paper examines the production of secondary-school textbooks published between 1992 and 2019 that address the Soviet history of Kazakhstan. It argues that textbook authors exercise agency when discussing Kazakhstan's participation in the Second World War. While some authors focus squarely on the heroism of Kazakhs and the Kazakh nation's contribution to the final victory, others build upon this narrative by discussing the human losses incurred and the experiences of ordinary people. This article contributes to studies looking at portrayals of World War II in post-Soviet countries' history textbooks.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Particularizing Positivism -- The Promise and Perils of Global Intellectual History -- The Fabrication of Positivism: Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill in Context -- Rival Universalisms -- Brokerage -- Five Key Themes -- Scope of the Volume -- Part I Empires of Positivism -- Chapter 2 Striking a Chord: The Reception of Comte's Positivism in Colonial India -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Positivism, Revolution, and History in Brazil -- Reappraising the National Past -- Between Evolution and Revolution -- The "Cataclysmic" View of History -- The "Epic" View of Brazilian History -- Epilogue -- Chapter 4 Positivism in the Late Ottoman Empire: The "Young Turks" as Mediators and Multipliers -- Positivism as a Method: The Implementation of a New Political System -- The Durkheimian Moment in Turkish Positivism -- From Pluricultural Ottomanism to Turkish Nationalism -- The Fortunes of Positivism Among the Ottoman Elites -- Positivism Contested -- Conclusion -- Part II Positive Knowledge and the Making of Positivism -- Chapter 5 An Enlightened Path to Positivism? Reflections on the Institutionalization of Science in Bourbon Spain -- Spanish Novatores: Anti-Dogmatic Empiricism -- Empirical Desengaño and "Enlightened Catholicism" -- Anti-Encyclopédisme and the Caroline Enlightenment -- Krausopositivism and the Anti-Materialistic Imperative -- Chapter 6 Trading Epistemological Insults: "Positive Knowledge" and Natural Science in Germany, 1800–1850 -- Positive Knowledge and the Study of Nature -- Bildung, the Schools, and Positive Knowledge -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 The French Philosophical Crisis of the 1860s and the Invention of the "Positivist School" -- Introduction