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Rethinking Toleration: Wesley, Whitefield and Evangelical Collaboration in the Eighteenth Century

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract There is a growing body of scholarship on the history of religious toleration; nevertheless, historians have largely treated toleration as a matter of governmental policy and legal principle. This article broadens that account by examining John Wesley and George Whitefield's vision of evangelical unity across denominational lines.
Sarah Irving‐Stonebraker
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Human dissection and comparative anatomy: Archaeological evidence for nineteenth‐century anatomical practice at University College London

Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
Excavation at University College London revealed more than 8700 human skeletal fragments representing at least 38 individuals, alongside over 800 animal remains. Features consistent with dissection, specimen preparation and curation provide evidence for the use of human and animal material in nineteenth‐century anatomical education, offering rare ...
Wendy Birch, Tania Kausmally
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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
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The Powers of the Exploited and the Social Ontology of Praxis

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2018
This contribution is the first part of a debate between Michael Hardt/Toni Negri and David Harvey on the occasion of Marx’s bicentenary. The discussion focuses on the question of what capitalism looks like today and how it can best be challenged.
Michael Hardt, Toni Negri
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Introduction

19, 2020
This issue of 19, celebrating the bicentenary of the woman who became known as George Eliot, revisits the woman of letters, discovers new connections between novels and artistic form, and reassesses the extraordinary achievements of the late work.
Carolyn Burdett, Isobel Armstrong
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Memory, Presidential Meaning‐Making, and the Role of the US Bicentennial in Gerald Ford's 1976 Presidential Campaign

Presidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article provides the first extensive investigation of President Gerald Ford's commemoration of the 1976 United States Bicentennial. Drawing on internal correspondence and Ford's public addresses, it highlights how his administration leveraged Bicentennial commemorations to situate Ford's Presidency as a reconciling and stabilizing force ...
Thomas Cryer
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The Prospects of Radical Change Today

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2018
In this contribution, Slavoj Žižek takes the occasion of Marx’s bicentenary for reflecting on the prospects of radical change today. First, it is shown that under Stalinism, Lenin’s works were quoted out of context in an arbitrary way in order to ...
Slavoj Žižek
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La politización del pasado: contexto y organización de los festejos de la Independencia de México (2006-2009)

Caravelle, 2023
This article provides a view on the tensions and political quarrels which emerged around the organization of the festivities celebrating the Indepence Bicentenary in 2010, identifying political practices and transformations of the National Holiday ...
César Iván Vilchis Ortega, Gina Catherine León Cabrera   +1 more
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Meta‐analysis on the effects of composition and configuration of landscape on the functional diversity of tropical mammals

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 5, May 2026.
Our findings demonstrate that mammal functional richness in tropical regions requires integrating habitat amount and landscape configuration into land‐use planning. Conservation strategies should move beyond setting targets for total habitat area and explicitly incorporate configuration metrics that promote heterogeneity and functional connectivity. In
Julio J. Chacón‐Pacheco, J. Nicolás Urbina‐Cardona, Jairo Pérez‐Torres   +2 more
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‘Man’s inhumanity to man’ and other platitudes of avoidance and misrecognition: an analysis of visitor responses to exhibitions marking the 1807 bicentenary

Museum & Society, 2010
2007 marked the bicentenary of Britain’s abolition of its slave trade. This paper outlines the findings of interviews undertaken with 1498 visitors to eight museum exhibitions marking the bicentenary.
Laurajane Smith
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