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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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De Computis, 2007 En la Real Cédula de 2-6-1782, fundando este Banco, y en los Reglamentos de 1783 y 1789 se reguló profusamente su actividad y su control interno. El objetivo de este trabajo es el análisis de los aspectos de dicho control que, directa o indirectamente ...
Francisco Mayordomo García-Chicote +1 more
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"This is Ghanaian territory!" Land conflicts in transnational localities on the Burkina Faso-Ghana border [PDF]
, 2006 Traditional land rights in Dagara and Sisala societies in Burkina Faso and Ghana which were stateless in pre-colonial times are closely connected with the concept of earth-shrine parishes under the protection of a local land god and ideally under the ...
Lentz, Carola
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Learning in Real-Time Search: A Unifying Framework
, 2011 Real-time search methods are suited for tasks in which the agent is interacting with an initially unknown environment in real time. In such simultaneous planning and learning problems, the agent has to select its actions in a limited amount of time ...
Bulitko, V., Lee, G.
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Improvement in the English Translations of Albrecht von Haller's Usong (1771)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The political novel Usong (1771), written by the Swiss physiologist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), is set in the fifteenth century and tells the story of a Mongolian prince who becomes the Emperor of Persia and redesigns the government of his empire to promote the happiness of his subjects.
Laura Tarkka
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About Enzo Traverso, Rivoluzione. 1789-1989: un’altra storia, Milan, Feltrinelli, 2021
Scienza & Politica, 2023 Maurizio Ricciardi
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, 2011 Born on 15 June 1718 in Cologne, Germany, Johann Breuer entered the Society of Jesus in 1713, being sent in 1741 as a missionary to Northeastern Brazil. Up to the year 1745 he accompanied Faher Gabriele Malagrida, S.J., during his preaching trips through
N. Papavero +2 more
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Smile asymmetries and reputation as reliable indicators of likelihood to cooperate: An evolutionary analysis [PDF]
, 2002 Cooperating with individuals whose altruism is not motivated by genuine prosocial emotions could have been costly in ancestral division of labour partnerships. How do humans ‘know’ whether or not an individual has the prosocial emotions committing future
Brown, WM, Moore, C
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Love, Class‐Crossing Courtship, and the Reading of English Novels in Late Eighteenth‐Century Sweden
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how novel reading influenced the courtship practices of Pehr Stenberg, a peasant who became a clergyman. Stenberg wrote a detailed account of his life in which his courtships of high‐born women are described in detail. These courtships took place during a transformative time when the ideal that marriage should be based on
Ina Lindblom
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Babel: Littératures Plurielles, 2018 Le gros demi-siècle qui précède la Grande Guerre voit fleurir toute une production de textes d’anticipation à plus ou moins grande portée qui fantasment des conflits ravageurs, internes et/ou externes, qui vont jusqu’à déchaîner l’apocalypse dans une ...
Laure Lévêque
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