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‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 74-82, January/March 2025.Abstract Women were identified as key targets in the 2024 British general election. There was much speculation as to whether ‘Whitby’ or ‘Waitrose’ women would swing the result for Labour. This interest in women voters stemmed, at least partially, from the fact that the 2017 and 2019 British general elections were the first where a modern gender gap—a ...
Rosie Campbell +3 more
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Behind the disappointment, as imagined in a well‐known poem by Constantine Cavafy, that the barbarians have failed to arrive, is a civilization closing upon itself and unable to envision an exit from its crisis.
Fabio Ciaramelli
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The Early Modern Intellectuals’ Attitude toward the Chinese and Barbarians [PDF]
, 2012 During the Ming-Qing transition, many Chinese intellectuals were forced to meditate the new relationship between Chinese and Manchus. Huang Zongxi (黄宗羲, 1610-1695) was one of such intellectuals.
陳 毅立
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Ed Davey's Tory Removals: The Liberal Democrats and the 2024 General Election
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 83-90, January/March 2025.Abstract The 2024 general election represented a remarkable comeback for the Liberal Democrats. Less than a decade on from the coalition and the 2015 election debacle, Sir Ed Davey's party reclaimed third‐party status in the House of Commons with seventy‐two MPs—the largest total for the Liberal Democrats or their Liberal Party predecessors since the ...
Peter Sloman
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The Militant Middle Ages. Contemporary Politics between New Barbarians and Modern Crusaders
Práticas da História, 2020 Recensão a Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri, The Militant Middle Ages. Contemporary Politics between New Barbarians and Modern Crusaders. Amsterdam: Brill, 2019, 282 pp.
Pedro Martins
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Red Lines in the Ocean: Sea Routes on Early Modern East Asian Maps. [PDF]
Imago Mundi, 2023 Papelitzky E.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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Southern barbarians? : a post-colonial critique of EUniversalism
, 2009 Published online: 29 June 2020In today’s Japan, one can eat a delicious noodle soup exhibiting a circle of meat swimming at its periphery. The dish is called ‘Southern Barbarians’, as is an elegant sixteenth-century painting attributed to Kano Sanraku ...
NICOLAÏDIS, Kalypso
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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