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Pallas, 2019 As a result of the exceptional diversity of coin types (many of which depicting deities) in the Roman coinage from the 130s B.C. onwards, coin iconography is a privileged source for studying the references to the religious sphere in the “political ...
Pierre Assenmaker
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The Canary Down the Coalmine: Dagenham, London and Labour Politics
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The history of Dagenham offers unique insights into both the changing composition of the working class and the forces that have reshaped domestic politics throughout the last 100 years, particularly the politics of the British labour movement.
Jon Cruddas
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Les Romains et la Grèce égéenne du ier s. av. J.-C. au ier s. apr. J.-C. : un monde en transition ?
Pallas, 2014 We owe to Horace the famous verse on conquered Greece (Graecia capta) “which took captive her savage conqueror and brought arts into rustic Latium”.
Christel Müller
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Honouring the wound: war and performance in the lives of Hannah Snell, Deborah Sampson and Pauline Cushman [PDF]
, 2011 This essay investigates three women’s cross-dressed service in the military. Hannah Snell (1723-92) served as a British marine and fought the French in India.
Lock, G
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Dangerous Deference: What the British Public Think about Civil‐Military Relations
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Accepted norms of democratic civil‐military relations aver, regarding the use of force, that military officers may not substitute civilians’ judgement with their own and that civilians should not follow their guidance blindly. These theories often rest on the presumption that three critical actors—government, armed forces, and the public ...
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External Intervention and the Duration of Civil Wars [PDF]
, 2020 This paper examines the effect of external intervention on civil war duration from the years 1946-2002. Based on the logic that intervention causes a distortion of the bargaining process in civil wars, it is hypothesized that intervention leads to ...
Mouritsen, Sofia E.
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Indirect Interventions in Civil Wars: The Use of States as Proxies in Military Interventions
Czech Journal of International Relations, 2019 Current research on motivational sources of military interventions in civil wars frequently assumes that states intervene due to direct interests in the civil war country.
Klosek, Kamil
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The dominant hypothesis in the literature that studies conflict is that poverty is the main cause of civil wars. The authors instead analyze the effect of institutions on civil war, controlling for income per capita.
Djankov, Simeon, Reynal-Querol, Marta
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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