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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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La política religiosa del Imperio Romano y la cristiandad hispánica durante el siglo V

Antigüedad y Cristianismo, 1990
In the fifth century Hispanic Catholic ecclesiastics —some of whom fled from the Peninsula due to the irruption of the barbarians— continued to depend from the Roman Empire to defend their political and religious orthodoxy, which at this moment ...
J. Vilella Masana
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Searching for Frontiers of Civilization: J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for Barbarians [PDF]

, 2006
BożenaKucała Searching for Frontiers of Civilization: J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for Barbarians Following the titular threat of approaching barbarity the article explores the ambiguous concept of the Empire perceived in terms of a mental ...
Kucała, Bożena
core  

‘Brave, Armed and Watchful’: Domestic Militarization and Contested Femininities During the Kenyan Emergency

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the militarization of white settler women during the Kenya Emergency (1952–1960), analyzing how their armed participation disrupted and reconfigured colonial gender norms. Drawing on visual and textual archival and newspaper sources, this article explores representations of settler women as maternal guardians of the ...
Lauren Brown
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W poszukiwaniu granic cywilizacji: "Czekając na barbarzyńców" J.M. Coetzee'go

Er(r)go, 2006
BożenaKucała Searching for Frontiers of Civilization: J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for Barbarians Following the titular threat of approaching barbarity the article explores the ambiguous concept of the Empire perceived in terms of a mental construct of its ...
Bożena Kucała
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All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines chronicle accounts of the so‐called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt was partly the consequence of failed economic and political reforms which put pressure on the countryside, but was provoked by the command issued ...
Jamie Page
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Editorial

Amauta, 2019
Editorial: The Invasion of the "Barbarians."
María Dora Coley
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Gender and Obstetric Violence in Britain, ca. 1750–1830

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Obstetric violence is a form of gendered violence experienced by pregnant and birthing people, particularly women, during medical care provided in the hospital, clinic or home. Recent scholarship has explored how obstetric violence and obstetric racism manifested historically, from post‐war Canada to colonial and postcolonial Mexico.
Paige Donaghy
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Carl Schmitt's International Order: A Decolonial Reappraisal

Constellations, EarlyView.
Andrea Mura
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
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