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May, 2006

Published by the American Historical Association, Perspectives Online (ISSN: 1556-8563) is the electronic version of Perspectives (ISSN: 0743-7021).


For the past 40 years, Perspectives has been the principal source for news and information about the historical profession. Published monthly during the academic year, Perspectives offers articles and commentary on teaching, computers and software, history in the media, museum exhibitions, and archives and research. Also includes the most comprehensive current listings of employment openings and historical activities, both within and outside academia.

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Call for Papers:

“Imperial Models in the Early Modern World”

The interdisciplinary Ahmanson-Getty Fellowship Program for 2006—07 (of the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library will focus on the empires of the 17th- and 18th-centuries, while looking both to their antecedents and their legacies. The program will address both synchronic and diachronic issues, to further a conversation between scholars of different parts of the world who work on the period between the 1600 and 1800. The co-directors’ (Anthony Pagden and Sanjay Subrahmanyam) interests range broadly, from the Iberians and the Mughals, to the Ottomans, the Dutch, and the British, however scholars interested in China or Africa during this period are welcome and also are encouraged to apply.
 
Scholars in any field who have received a PhD in the last six years and whose research pertains to the announced theme.
 
Awards: Three consecutive quarters in residence at the Clark Library. Stipend is $27,600 for the three-quarter period.
 
Deadline for applications is February 1, 2006.
 
For more information, contact UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, Box 951404, Los Angeles, CA 90095–1404. (310) 206-8552.  Fax: (310) 206-8577. http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs.



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Editor: Pillarisetti Sudhir

Web Production: Christian A. Hale

Web Programming: Vernon Horn

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