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La función de defensa del privilegio entre el antiguo y el nuevo régimen
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2003 This article analyses the legal principle of privilege as expressed in its most important function —the judicial defence of the subject— as generally understood in the legal and political order of the ancien regime. This was a natural defence apparent in
Beatriz Cárceles de Gea
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Legitimacy and Persuasion in the Anglo‐Scottish Wars of the 1540s
History, EarlyView.Abstract The considerable efforts of the invading English to justify their activities and garner support during the Anglo‐Scottish wars of the 1540s are well known. Recent welcome attention to Scottish texts produced during the conflict has begun to correct a previous historiographical imbalance towards English materials.
Amy Blakeway
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
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Las guerras civiles contrarrevolucionarias europeas en el siglo XIX
Amnis, 2015 The French Revolution not only opened a new cycle of politics in the Western world but also a new cycle of internal conflicts. The counterrevolutionary civil wars emerged of resistance to change in privileged sectors of the Ancien Régime and their ...
Pedro Rújula
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Cache‐Cache: Dans les souffles du Grand Fleuve…
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between ventriloquism and divination, devotion and consecration, an old and sublime marine game unfolds each day, with living breaths shared in the waters of the great river. In Tadoussac, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence Estuary, at the mouth of the Saguenay, the rumor of whales has long resonated.
David Jaclin +3 more
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Os limites do Asolutismo: Tributação e Representatividade no Ancien Régime.
Política & Sociedade, 2013 Entre 1500 e 1788, os Estados Gerais da França só foram convocados quatro vezes. Neste artigo, argumentamos que a ausência de uma instituição representativa permanente – que facilitasse a barganha política entre coroa e elite – impediu que os ...
Tiago Nasser Appel, Armando Dalla Costa
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Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 487-496, July 2026.ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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Historia Crítica, 2008 The main goal of this article is to explain the central role that municipalities played in the Hispano-American world throughout the nineteenth century. Although in recent years the importance of the frst Spanish liberal regime has rightly been stressed ...
Federica Morelli
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F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’
German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 311-322, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 412-433, June 2026.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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