Robert B Irwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5628004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert B Irwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert B |
| FAMILY NAME | Irwin |
| SIGNATURE | IRWIN R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5328-6343 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sparing the doctor’s blushes
The general reluctance of medical practitioners in postwar Britain to 'speak of sex' during healthcare consultations increasingly became a matter of professional concern in the wake of legal reforms and social changes during the 1960s affecting sexual expression and reproductive health, and a growing optimism in the early 1970s concerning the treatment of sexual difficulties. In the mid-1970s, largely as a result of the work of Dr Elizabeth Stanl…
Syria in Crusader Times
This is a compilation of papers from a conference held in St. Andrews in 2016. The papers are, with the exception of Thomas F. Madden’s ‘The war of the towers: Venice and Genoa at war in Crusader Syria, 1256-8’ and Angus Stewart’s ‘Hülegü: the new Constantine?’ devoted to twelfth-century Syria. Their kaleidoscopic coverage reflects the political and social reality of a region whose many principalities were dynastically and confessionally divided.…
Assembling Sovereignty
Recent Canadian legal scholarship has emphasised the centrality of treaties between the colonial state and First Nations in the assertion of Canadian sovereignty over Indigenous lands. Historical interpretations, meanwhile, would suggest that sovereignty, rather than asserted, is assembled over time. Historically, sovereignty is understood to be contingent and layered; it is assembled through a series of ‘detours, improvisations and tinkering.’ T…
Gobineau, the Would-be Orientalist
The poet, traveller, Arabist and campaigning anti-imperialist Wilfrid Blunt, who visited Gobineau in 1871, described him in his diary as follows: “Gobineau is a man of about 55, with grey hair and moustache, dark rather prominent eyes, sallow complexion, and tall figure with brisk almost jerky gait. In temperament he is nervous, energetic in manner, observant, but distrait, passing rapidly from thought to thought, a good talker but a bad listener…
Canada, Aboriginal Sealing, and the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has described the 1911 North Pacific Fur Seal Convention as one of the ten most important events in environmental history. Article IV of this Convention provided First Nation sealers with harvest rights provided they conducted the hunt as practiced previously, without the use of firearms and not under contract to a commercial interest. While historians have studied the diplomatic and environment…
Broken Treaties
Jill St. Germaine, Broken Treaties: United States and Canadian Relations with the Lakotas and the Plains Cree, 1868–1885. Lincoln NB and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. Pp. xxvi, 450. $
Futuwwa
Futuwwa
Founded by Oleg Grabar in 1983, Muqarnas is the first academic journal devoted to art, architectural history, archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary. Full-length articles are accompanied by shorter submissions grouped under a separate section titled “Notes and Sources,” for which we particularly welcome studies that introduce textual and visual primary sources. Muqarnas is sponsore…
The Mongol Empire and its Legacy
The Mongol empire was founded early in the 13th century by Chinggis Khan and within the span of two generations embraced most of Asia, becoming the largest land-based state in history. The united empire lasted only until around 1260, but the major successor states continued on in the Middle East, present day Russia, Central Asia and China for generations, leaving a lasting impact - much of which was far from negative - on these areas and their pe…
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BRITAIN'S TWO WARS WITH IRAQ 1941, 1991. By Raghid El‐Solh. Reading, Ithaca Press, 1996. 289 pp. £35.00 (hb). FIGHTING WORLD WAR THREE FROM THE MIDDLE EAST: ALLIED CONTINGENCY PLANS, 1945–1954. By Michael J. Cohen. London, Frank Cass Publishers, 1997. 349 pp. 5 maps. £37.50 (hb). VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE IN SOUTHERN YEMEN A YEMEN REALITY. ARCHITECTURE SCULPTURED IN MUD AND STONE. By Salma Samar Damluji. Reading, Garnet Publishing Limited. 1991. 35…
C. Reviews
THE ADVENTURES OF SAYF BEN DHI YAZAN: AN ARAB FOLK EPIC. Translated and edited by Lena Jayyusi. Introduced by Harry Norris. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1996. xxvi, 308 pp
Décrire le Caire
Décrire le Caire: Fusṭāṭ-Miṣr d'après Ibn Duqmāq et Maqrīzī. L'histoire d'une partie de la ville du Caire d'après deux historiens Égypttens des xive-xve siècles. By Sylvie Denoix. (Études urbaines, III.) pp. xii, 163, 11 sketch-maps, 1 plan. Cairo, Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1992. - Volume 5 Issue 1
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MIDDLE EAST STUDIES IN DENMARK. Edited by LARS ERSLEV ANDERSEN. Odense, Odense University Press, 1994. 215pp. DKK 200. APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST: INTERVIEWS WITH LEADING MIDDLE EAST HISTORIANS. By NANCY ELIZABETH GALLAGHER. Reading, Garnet Publishing, 1994. viii, 197pp. A HISTORY OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST. By WILLIAM L. CLEVELAND. Boulder and Oxford, Westview Press, 1994. 503pp. Tables, maps, photographs, glossary, select bibli…
The image of the Byzantine and the frank in Arab popular literature of the late middle ages
The Mongol Empire and its Legacy
The Mongol empire was founded early in the 13th century by Chinggis Khan and within the span of two generations embraced most of Asia, becoming the largest land-based state in history. The united empire lasted only until around 1260, but the major successor states continued on in the Middle East, present day Russia, Central Asia and China for generations, leaving a lasting impact - much of which was far from negative - on these areas and their pe…
Assembling Sovereignty
Recent Canadian legal scholarship has emphasised the centrality of treaties between the colonial state and First Nations in the assertion of Canadian sovereignty over Indigenous lands. Historical interpretations, meanwhile, would suggest that sovereignty, rather than asserted, is assembled over time. Historically, sovereignty is understood to be contingent and layered; it is assembled through a series of ‘detours, improvisations and tinkering.’ T…
Gobineau, the Would-be Orientalist
The poet, traveller, Arabist and campaigning anti-imperialist Wilfrid Blunt, who visited Gobineau in 1871, described him in his diary as follows: “Gobineau is a man of about 55, with grey hair and moustache, dark rather prominent eyes, sallow complexion, and tall figure with brisk almost jerky gait. In temperament he is nervous, energetic in manner, observant, but distrait, passing rapidly from thought to thought, a good talker but a bad listener…
Canada, Aboriginal Sealing, and the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has described the 1911 North Pacific Fur Seal Convention as one of the ten most important events in environmental history. Article IV of this Convention provided First Nation sealers with harvest rights provided they conducted the hunt as practiced previously, without the use of firearms and not under contract to a commercial interest. While historians have studied the diplomatic and environment…
The image of the Byzantine and the frank in Arab popular literature of the late middle ages
The image of the Byzantine and the frank in Arab popular literature of the late middle ages
Décrire le Caire
Décrire le Caire: Fusṭāṭ-Miṣr d'après Ibn Duqmāq et Maqrīzī. L'histoire d'une partie de la ville du Caire d'après deux historiens Égypttens des xive-xve siècles. By Sylvie Denoix. (Études urbaines, III.) pp. xii, 163, 11 sketch-maps, 1 plan. Cairo, Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1992. - Volume 5 Issue 1
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MIDDLE EAST STUDIES IN DENMARK. Edited by LARS ERSLEV ANDERSEN. Odense, Odense University Press, 1994. 215pp. DKK 200. APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST: INTERVIEWS WITH LEADING MIDDLE EAST HISTORIANS. By NANCY ELIZABETH GALLAGHER. Reading, Garnet Publishing, 1994. viii, 197pp. A HISTORY OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST. By WILLIAM L. CLEVELAND. Boulder and Oxford, Westview Press, 1994. 503pp. Tables, maps, photographs, glossary, select bibli…
C. Reviews
THE ADVENTURES OF SAYF BEN DHI YAZAN: AN ARAB FOLK EPIC. Translated and edited by Lena Jayyusi. Introduced by Harry Norris. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1996. xxvi, 308 pp
C
BRITAIN'S TWO WARS WITH IRAQ 1941, 1991. By Raghid El‐Solh. Reading, Ithaca Press, 1996. 289 pp. £35.00 (hb). FIGHTING WORLD WAR THREE FROM THE MIDDLE EAST: ALLIED CONTINGENCY PLANS, 1945–1954. By Michael J. Cohen. London, Frank Cass Publishers, 1997. 349 pp. 5 maps. £37.50 (hb). VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE IN SOUTHERN YEMEN A YEMEN REALITY. ARCHITECTURE SCULPTURED IN MUD AND STONE. By Salma Samar Damluji. Reading, Garnet Publishing Limited. 1991. 35…
The Mongol Empire and its Legacy
The Mongol empire was founded early in the 13th century by Chinggis Khan and within the span of two generations embraced most of Asia, becoming the largest land-based state in history. The united empire lasted only until around 1260, but the major successor states continued on in the Middle East, present day Russia, Central Asia and China for generations, leaving a lasting impact - much of which was far from negative - on these areas and their pe…
Futuwwa
Futuwwa
Founded by Oleg Grabar in 1983, Muqarnas is the first academic journal devoted to art, architectural history, archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary. Full-length articles are accompanied by shorter submissions grouped under a separate section titled “Notes and Sources,” for which we particularly welcome studies that introduce textual and visual primary sources. Muqarnas is sponsore…
Broken Treaties
Jill St. Germaine, Broken Treaties: United States and Canadian Relations with the Lakotas and the Plains Cree, 1868–1885. Lincoln NB and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. Pp. xxvi, 450. $
Canada, Aboriginal Sealing, and the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has described the 1911 North Pacific Fur Seal Convention as one of the ten most important events in environmental history. Article IV of this Convention provided First Nation sealers with harvest rights provided they conducted the hunt as practiced previously, without the use of firearms and not under contract to a commercial interest. While historians have studied the diplomatic and environment…
Gobineau, the Would-be Orientalist
The poet, traveller, Arabist and campaigning anti-imperialist Wilfrid Blunt, who visited Gobineau in 1871, described him in his diary as follows: “Gobineau is a man of about 55, with grey hair and moustache, dark rather prominent eyes, sallow complexion, and tall figure with brisk almost jerky gait. In temperament he is nervous, energetic in manner, observant, but distrait, passing rapidly from thought to thought, a good talker but a bad listener…
Assembling Sovereignty
Recent Canadian legal scholarship has emphasised the centrality of treaties between the colonial state and First Nations in the assertion of Canadian sovereignty over Indigenous lands. Historical interpretations, meanwhile, would suggest that sovereignty, rather than asserted, is assembled over time. Historically, sovereignty is understood to be contingent and layered; it is assembled through a series of ‘detours, improvisations and tinkering.’ T…
Syria in Crusader Times
This is a compilation of papers from a conference held in St. Andrews in 2016. The papers are, with the exception of Thomas F. Madden’s ‘The war of the towers: Venice and Genoa at war in Crusader Syria, 1256-8’ and Angus Stewart’s ‘Hülegü: the new Constantine?’ devoted to twelfth-century Syria. Their kaleidoscopic coverage reflects the political and social reality of a region whose many principalities were dynastically and confessionally divided.…
Sparing the doctor’s blushes
The general reluctance of medical practitioners in postwar Britain to 'speak of sex' during healthcare consultations increasingly became a matter of professional concern in the wake of legal reforms and social changes during the 1960s affecting sexual expression and reproductive health, and a growing optimism in the early 1970s concerning the treatment of sexual difficulties. In the mid-1970s, largely as a result of the work of Dr Elizabeth Stanl…
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