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The article offers an overview of the development of translation history during the past decade. It focuses on recent debates, research areas and methodological avenues in translation history with special emphasis on interdisciplinarity. Driven by a move away from a Euro-centric view of translation, researchers have become interested in producing connected and comparative histories of translation. The dialogue with the general field of history has led to the adoption of new methods and forms of analysis, such as microhistory, histoire croisée, archival research, oral history and digital translation history, and to the birth of new areas of research such as the role of translation in conflict and war.

Shamil (1797-1871) was the third most prominent leader of the Muslim resistance to Russian occupation in the northeastern Caucasus during the mid-nineteenth century. In Russian history, Shamil was glorified as a "noble savage." Soviet scholars, ignoring Shamil until the 1950s, moved from an initial positive depiction of him to extreme negative attitudes. The portrayal of Shamil in Soviet historiography since the 1950s is also examined.

Vergleichende Rezension zur Geschichte der Gewerkschaftsbewegung in Venezuela, Peru und Chile in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Bei Anerkennung der Leistung der rezensierten Autoren wird der Forschungsstand als insgesamt unbefriedigend angesehen. Hinweis auf die Schwächung der Arbeiterbewegung durch den Ausschluß kommunistischer Gewerkschafter im Zuge des Kalten Krieges seit Ende der 40er Jahre

Medieval Arabic Historiography is concerned with social contexts and narrative structures of pre-modern Islamic historiography written in Arabic in seventh and thirteenth-century Syria and Eygpt. Taking up recent theoretical reflections on historical writing in the European Middle Ages, this extraordinary study combines approaches drawn from social sciences and literary studies, with a particular focus on two well-known texts: Abu Shama's The Book of the Two Gardens, and Ibn Wasil's The Dissipater of Anxieties. These texts describe events during the life of the sultans Nur-al-Din and Salah al-Din, who are primarily known in modern times as the champions of the anti-Crusade movement. Hirschler shows that these two authors were active interpreters of their society and has considerable room for manoeuvre in both their social environment and the shaping of their texts. Through the use of a fresh and original theoretical approach to pre-modern Arabic historiography, Hirschler presents a new understanding of these texts which have before been relatively neglected, thus providing a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of historiographical studies.