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Stosunki MiędzynarodoweBackground The article examines the construction of imperial mythology, its structure and its significance for political activity within Benjamin Disraeli’s political thought.
Tomasz Madras
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Misaligned hope and conviction in health care. [PDF]
BioethicsAbstract It is often said that it is important for patients to possess hope that their treatment will be successful. We agree, but a widely appealed to type of hope—hope based on conviction (religious or otherwise), renders this assertion problematic.
Clarke S, Oakley J, Pugh J, Wilkinson D.
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A neglected legacy: Massenpsychologie und ich‐analyse in the era of nations and nationalism
Psychotherapy and Politics International, Volume 19, Issue 3, October 2021., 2021 Abstract This paper discusses the influence of Sigmund Freud, in particular that of his book Massenpsychologie und ich‐analyse, on the academic representation of nationalism. Written after World War I, just before the rise of the fascist regimes that would lead to World War II and the Nazi Holocaust, Massenpsychologie very quickly became a work of ...
Juan García‐García
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Criminal Law at the Limit: Countering False Claims in Elections and Referendums
The Modern Law Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 429-455, May 2021., 2021 Abstract When should the criminal law intervene to deter and punish the promulgation of falsehoods that are intended to influence political – electoral or referendum ‐ campaigns? I will scrutinise the protection that UK criminal law provides for the interests of candidates, referendum campaigners and voters, from the (potential) effects of damaging ...
Jeremy Horder
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History, Volume 106, Issue 370, Page 221-243, March 2021., 2021 Abstract Over the course of the long nineteenth century, people in the United Kingdom signed a wide variety of petitions, addresses, testimonials, and related documents. Though many forms of subscriptional culture had medieval and early modern origins, their transformations across this period reveal the shifting perceptions of the crown, parliament ...
RICHARD HUZZEY, HENRY J. MILLER
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The curious case of charles darwin and homeopathy. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2010 In 1849, Charles Darwin was so ill that he was unable to work one out of every 3 days, and after having various troubling symptoms for 2–12 years, he wrote to a friend that he was ‘going the way of all flesh’. He sought treatment from Dr James Manby Gully, a medical doctor who used water cure and homeopathic medicines. Despite being highly skeptical of
Ullman D.
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Semiconductor Materials for Future Display Devices
Active and Passive Electronic Components, Volume 3, Issue 2, Page 67-75, 1976., 1976 The large majority of solid state lamps currently available take advantage of the phenomenon of electroluminescent recombination at forward biased p–n junctions (homojunctions) in III–V compound semiconductors or related derivatives (GaP, GaAsP, etc.). The range of colours, sizes and luminous efficiencies likely to become available are subject, however,
T. L. Tansley, S. J. T. Owen
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Queen Victoria's cooperation with the premiers Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladston [PDF]
, 2021 The bachelor's thesis will examine the cooperation of the British Queen Victoria with the two biggest political rivals on the British political scene in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Procházka, Jakub
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Disraeli, Gladstone, and the Royal Titles Bill, 1876: Part 1
Parliamentary History, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 240-265, June 2026.Abstract The Royal Titles Bill (1876) proved to be contentious because it raised fraught issues of royal prerogative, constitutional legality, political perspective, parliamentary strategy, journalistic practice, and public opinion. Disraeli insisted that Queen Victoria could choose the supplementary title, empress of India, while Gladstone and his ...
Robert O'Kell
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Winston Churchill and South Africa: An Enduring, yet Debatable Connection, 1899–1955
History, Volume 111, Issue 395, Page 168-182, March 2026.Abstract The article traces Churchill's engagement with South Africa, from his time as a newspaper correspondent during the Anglo‐Boer War to his services in both Liberal and Conservative cabinets as well as, ultimately, his premiership. The discussion highlights three phases in this relationship.
LUVUYO WOTSHELA
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