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L’art de gouverner : Les noces de sang parisiennes de Gottsched et l’Anti-Machiavel de Frédéric II

Etudes Epistémè
In his tragedy Die parisische Bluthochzeit König Heinrichs von Navarra / The Paris Blood Wedding of King Henry of Navarre (1745), Johann Christoph Gottsched takes up ideas he had set out twenty years earlier in an academic speech condemning religious ...
Gérard Laudin
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THE SPIRIT OF FEAR: ROME AND ABSOLUTISM

Heródoto, 2016
This article affirms that Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu produced a historical and political theory based on the history of Rome. The main focus of this text is the association contained in the idea of a similarity between the Roman Empire and ...
Adilton Luís Martins
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Alexis de Tocqueville; chronicler of the American democratic experiment [PDF]

, 2006
[Abstract]: The purpose of this work is to develop an interactive tool which helps botanists to extract the vein system with its hierarchical properties with as little user interaction as possible.
Chi, Zheru, Feng, David, Li, Yan
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Housing Since 1945: The Impact of Policy Change and Ideology

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Housing policy in England has undergone significant reform on several occasions since 1945. Consensus approaches in the late 1940s and 50s to build large numbers of council houses and new private homes gave way to more ideologically driven policies in the 1970s and 80s.
Tony Travers
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Despotismos y libertades en el Pacífico norte. Contribución a una genealogía del liberalismo autoritario entre China, Estados Unidos y México, 1895-1911

Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, between Asia and America, many enthusiastic defenders of “freedom” and “liberty”, inspired by political and economic liberalism, paradoxically demanded a strong, even “despotic” power, capable
Pablo A. Blitstein
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L’Empire ottoman, cœur de l’anti-utopie kadaréenne

Cahiers Balkaniques, 2008
For Ismail Kadare despotism and the East are synonymous. As the continuation of the tyrannical regimes of antiquity, the Ottoman Empire represents the spirit of blind and destructive conquest.
Jean-Paul Champseix
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Political specialization [PDF]

, 2017
This paper presents a theory of political specialization in which some countries uphold the rule of law while others consciously choose not to do so, even though they are ex ante identical.
Guimaraes, Bernardo, Sheedy, Kevin D.
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Voices: Silences and Sexuality in 19th-Century Women's Slave Narratives [PDF]

, 2020
In my paper, I look at the connections between silences and sexuality in 19th-century women's slave narratives, focusing on Mary Prince's The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a ...
Rahman, Sarah
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Nightmare egalitarianism: Commensuration, autonomy, and imagination Le cauchemar de l’égalitarisme : commensuration, autonomie et imagination

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Egalitarianism is often idealized, but many anthropologists have noted its potential for nightmare scenarios involving envy, mistrust, and violence. This introduction outlines a framework for understanding the negative emotions and violence associated with the forces of commensuration that are necessary to make people equal.
Natalia Buitron, Florian Mühlfried, Hans Steinmüller   +2 more
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Civil politics from Saadi's point of view [PDF]

تاریخ ادبیات, 2009
In Persian literature, Saadi is known as Afsah al-Muttakallamin, and this nickname is a sign that over time, the poet has been known for his eloquence. Meanwhile, Saadi, in addition to his eloquence, has lofty thoughts and excellent theories on the way ...
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