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Strategic materials and state capacity in Renaissance Italy. The economic policies of ‘Roman saltpetre’ procurement

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
wiley   +1 more source

Is Pierre Michon's <i>The Eleven</i> a political novel? [PDF]

Open Res Eur
Ivić N.
europepmc   +1 more source

Book Review: Projecting tomorrow: science fiction and popular cinema [PDF]

, 2014
Geraghty, Lincoln
core   +1 more source

Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
wiley   +1 more source

Practice as research as a decolonial praxis: Yoruba culture retrieval. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Rose L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Hegel and Utopia

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT G.W.F. Hegel is usually held to be anti‐utopian in his political philosophy. I aim to challenge that standard reading, outlining and defending a more positive account of his relation to utopianism. The rational state described in Hegel's Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts (1820) is shown to fit an uncontroversial account of utopia without ...
David Leopold
wiley   +1 more source

Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega (eds), Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature

Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2015
Sylvie Maurel
doaj  

Listening in the Silence: The Art of Abstraction. [PDF]

JACC Case Rep
Daly MJ.
europepmc   +1 more source

Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Francesca Gardner
wiley   +1 more source

White (inter)nationalism, Europe and the ‘distribution of the sensible’

The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This intervention approaches the Southport tragedy from the perspective of a protest in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the wake of the killings. Like many major towns and cities across the UK, Belfast witnessed anti‐immigrant demonstrations and violence, alongside counterdemonstrations in the aftermath of the events in Southport.
Niall Cunningham
wiley   +1 more source