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Obligation, Exemption and Remission: The Multi‐Layered Functioning of the Poll Tax (Cizye) in Ottoman Governance during the Long Eighteenth Century

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
wiley   +1 more source

CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
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From Digital Diplomatics to Digital Records Forensics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Fifteen years ago, Elizabeth Diamond described the archivist as a forensic scientist. In the past few years, several archival writers have referred to professionals responsible for keeping digital records as trusted keepers or custodians. Undoubtedly, in
Duranti, Luciana
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URBAN CLIMATE GOVERNANCE AND THE UNEVENNESS OF CITY NETWORKS: The Trajectory and Perspectives of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy in Chile

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Scholars have widely discussed integrating local administrations into climate governance networks, focusing on networks such as the Global Covenant of Mayors or C40, whose members are mostly in the European Union or countries of the global North and premium cities managed by engaged administrations. Relatively little is known about urban‐scale
Alejandra Irigoyen Rios, Rosa Lehmann
wiley   +1 more source

Diplomatics and literacy, gender and politics in the medieval law countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
DE HEMPTINNE Thérèse Intuitu fidelis servitii sui : Diplomatics and literacy, gender and politics in the medieval law countries Gent : Academia press, 2013, XXI-431 p.
Nordoc'Archéo
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ENVIRONMENTAL STATECRAFT AND CHANGING ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: Chengdu's Ecological Preservation and Eco‐development

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of environmental statecraft to study changing urban environmental politics in China and beyond. Our review of existing conceptions reveals a growing need to account for temporal and geographical complexity. Neoliberal conceptions of eco‐state restructuring are increasingly strained by contemporary geopolitical
Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Family Work Among the Astors

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
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Úřední praxe biskupské konzistorní kanceláře v Českých Budějovicích na přelomu 18. a 19. století při potvrzování a ověřování dokumentů

open access: yesStudia Historica Brunensia, 2015
Episcopal consistorial office in České Budějovice was created in 1784 and 1785. Since its origin it has been one of the most modern offices not only on the teritorry of Czech lands but also in the whole Habrburg monarchy.
Lenka Martínková
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