History papers

Pofolia’s corpus holds 87 papers from History (2012–2026), each with a short summary. Below, the 20 most-cited, then the most recently added.

At a glance

• Most cited: The Silent Revolution: Changing Values and Political Styles Among Western Publics (2015, 3,737 citations).
• The 20 papers listed have 25,206 citations between them.
• 3 of the 4 with a known journal quartile appeared in a Q1 journal.
• 1 have a free full text (open access).
• Most frequent journals: Zone Books, Cambridge University Press eBooks, Choice Reviews Online.
• Published between 2012 and 2023.

Most cited

Ranked by citation count. Because citations accumulate over time, this list naturally leans towards work published a few years ago; for where the field is now, see “recently added”. How to read the signals

• The Silent Revolution: Changing Values and Political Styles Among Western Publics

  Princeton University Press eBooks · 2015 · FWCI 364.97 · 3,737 citations

  A "silent revolution" has been fundamentally altering Western political life by shifting public emphasis from material security to quality-of-life concerns and increasing citizens' political engagement skills.

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• Strangers in their own land : anger and mourning on the American right

  2016 · FWCI 3241.92 · 2,642 citations

  Sociologist Arlie Hochschild explores the lives of conservatives in Louisiana, finding their political views stem from economic hardship and a desire for community, not just being misled.

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• The Society of the Spectacle

  Zone Books · 2020 · FWCI 59.27 · 1,510 citations

  This is the first definitive English translation of Guy Debord's 1967 work, which introduced radical propositions on contemporary capitalism and modern culture.

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• Introduction: Inventing Traditions

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2012 · FWCI 2238.49 · 1,352 citations

  Public ceremonies of the British monarchy, often perceived as ancient, are largely recent inventions from the late 19th and 20th centuries.

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• Worldmaking after empire: the rise and fall of self-determination

  International Affairs · 2020 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 2543.68 · 1,290 citations

  This book reconstructs forgotten anti-colonial attempts to reshape the international order after WWII, arguing that the struggle for self-determination challenged the nation-state's universality.

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• Empire of humanity: a history of humanitarianism

  Choice Reviews Online · 2012 · 1,247 citations

  This book traces the historical evolution of humanitarianism, examining its co-dependence with global power structures and its transformation through distinct eras.

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• Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.D. 990–1990

  2017 · FWCI 979.96 · 1,194 citations

  European state formation trajectories diverged significantly based on the interplay of coercion, capital, and power-holder organization, but eventually converged due to war and mutual influence.

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• ARE EMOTIONS A KIND OF PRACTICE (AND IS THAT WHAT MAKES THEM HAVE A HISTORY)? A BOURDIEUIAN APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING EMOTION

  History and Theory · 2012 · Q1 · FWCI 450.54 · 1,144 citations

  This essay proposes viewing emotions not as internal states but as 'practices'—learned, embodied engagements with the world shaped by social context and habituation.

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• The Civil Contract of Photography

  Zone Books · 2021 · FWCI 538.54 · 1,140 citations

  This paper explores the concept of the 'civil contract of photography,' arguing that photographs create a social agreement between the viewer, the subject, and the photographer.

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• The Open Society and its Enemies

  2012 · FWCI 135.47 · 1,122 citations

  Published in 1945, Karl Popper's 'The Open Society and its Enemies' is a seminal defense of democracy and a critique of totalitarian philosophies.

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• A critical assessment of the “sterile womb” and “in utero colonization” hypotheses: implications for research on the pioneer infant microbiome

  Microbiome · 2017 · Q1 · SJR 4.00 · FWCI 1673.34 · 1,101 citations · Open access

  Current evidence does not support the hypothesis that the fetal environment is colonized by microbes in utero, challenging the "in utero colonization" idea.

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• Schwartz’s PRINCIPLES OF SURGERY

  2023 · FWCI 97.57 · 1,037 citations

  This is the first Russian translation of the 11th edition of Schwartz's Principles of Surgery, a comprehensive surgical textbook with a 50-year history.

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• 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

  Wolfram Research Data Repository · 2017 · 1,036 citations

  This abstract describes the functionality of the Destiny library management system, not a research paper.

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• Depression: A Public Feeling

  2012 · FWCI 484.95 · 990 citations

  This book argues that depression can be understood as a cultural and political phenomenon, offering an alternative to purely medical models by examining its lived experience within neoliberal capitalism.

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• Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present

  European Review of History Revue européenne d histoire · 2012 · Q2 · 843 citations

  This book examines the complex and often contradictory nature of humanitarianism, tracing its evolution as a moral and political force.

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• Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation

  2017 · FWCI 844.05 · 835 citations

  This abstract discusses Gilles Deleuze's "Logique de la sensation," highlighting its overlooked status and its exploration of the tension between verbal and visual art forms.

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• Cambridge University Press, 1696-1712

  2016 · 807 citations

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• A new paradigm for the sociology of childhood?

  2015 · FWCI 1403.67 · 763 citations

  This chapter proposes an 'emergent paradigm' to understand childhood not just as a biological stage but as a culturally constructed social institution, varying across time and context.

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• Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

  2017 · FWCI 1196.53 · 719 citations

  This book reveals James McGill Buchanan, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, as the architect of a decades-long plan by the capitalist radical right to fundamentally alter democratic governance and disempower the majority.

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• Transitional Justice Genealogy

  2017 · FWCI 1339.94 · 697 citations

  A genealogy of transitional justice reveals its evolution over the last half-century, demonstrating a direct correlation between the type of justice pursued and prevailing political conditions.

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Recently added

• Counting in the Caquetá-Putumayo Region of Northwest Amazonia

  International Journal of American Linguistics · 2026 · Q2

  Languages in Northwest Amazonia's Caquetá-Putumayo region use shared strategies for numbers above two, including body-part terms up to twenty, due to long-term multilingualism.

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• Mutual Suspicion: Race, Corruption and Humanitarianism in Eastern DR Congo

  Ethnos · 2026 · Q1 · Open access

  Suspicion of corruption in humanitarian aid in eastern DRC is deeply racialized, with Western NGOs suspecting Congolese employees based on racialized imaginaries, and locals suspecting foreign and Congolese humanitarians of profiteering through racialized lenses of imperial extraction.

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• Growing up as a Girl in Edgeworthstown House, c.1782–1807: the Experiences of Elizabeth and Charlotte Edgeworth

  Women s Writing · 2026 · Q2

  Manuscript writings from Elizabeth and Charlotte Edgeworth reveal their education was largely gender-neutral, with boys and girls learning together and sharing subjects.

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• Orificially Olaudah: Eschatological Feasting, Gastronomical Rhetoric, and Abolitionism in Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative

  Religions · 2026 · Q1

  Olaudah Equiano's autobiography uses food and feasting metaphors, particularly the Methodist 'love feast,' to critique the British slave trade's 'cannibalistic desires' and present abolitionism as a future, divinely ordained, interracial kingdom.

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• Reading Rebellion: The 1916 Easter Rising in the Catalan-language Press

  Journal of War and Culture Studies · 2026 · Q2

  The 1916 Easter Rising was quickly appropriated by diverse political factions in the Catalan-speaking world to advance their own agendas, as revealed by an analysis of contemporaneous Catalan-language press.

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• Fire history alters ecosystem services provided by tree species across forest and savanna landscapes in the Xingu Indigenous Territory

  Biodiversity and Conservation · 2026 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · Open access

  Increased fire frequency in Amazonian forests reduces the availability of tree species used for construction/handicraft and medicinal purposes by the Kuikuro people, while in savannas, food-related species decline.

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• Tribute to Wolfgang Schleidt

  Ethology · 2026 · Q2

  This article is a tribute to Wolfgang Schleidt, a notable figure in the field of ethology, highlighting his contributions and legacy.

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• Meningeal inflammation (Serpens endocrania) and intrathoracic chronic disease in 1st century A.D. Roman Near-East (Qumran): From paleopathology to clinical practice

  Infectious Diseases Now · 2026 · Q2

  Seven cases (13.46%) of Serpens endocrania, a condition linked to chronic respiratory disease, were found in 52 individuals from 1st century AD Qumran, a higher prevalence than in other ancient populations.

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