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The Jew's penis: circumcision and sexual pathology in eighteenth-century England. [PDF]

Med Humanit, 2023
Gallagher N.
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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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Native American geography shaped historical fire frequency in forests of eighteenth-century Pennsylvania, USA. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2023
Tulowiecki SJ, Hanberry BB, Abrams MD.
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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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Enslaved by the Uniform: Contemporary Descriptions of Eighteenth-Century Soldiering. [PDF]

War Hist, 2023
Hurl-Eamon J.
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Benjamin Robins's New Principles of Gunnery and the Response From the British Mathematical, Educational, and Military World of the Mid‐Eighteenth Century

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses to what degree Benjamin Robins's discoveries in his book New Principles of Gunnery, 1742, affected the British mathematical, military, and educational world of the mid‐eighteenth century. While it drew praise and critique from Europe, especially from the notable mathematician Leonhard Euler, his mathematical theories were
Samuel Dodson
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From politics to economics: The investigation of the determinants of local administrative hierarchy in the Tang–Song transition

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 39-78, March 2025.
Abstract This study collects original data to examine the determinants of classification criteria of county hierarchy and its rank variations during the Tang–Song period. The results reveal that the county hierarchy was affected by both economic and political situations, with more emphasis on politics in Tang and economics in Song.
Nan Li, Heqi Cai
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Amy Prendergast, Mere Bagatelles: Women’s Diaries from Ireland, 1760-1810

European Journal of Life Writing
Amy Prendergast’s archival study of women’s diaries from eighteenth-century Ireland demonstrates that recovery work in women’s literature is far from complete.
Colleen Taylor
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Johannes Nathanael Lieberkühn (1711-1756): luminary eighteenth century anatomist and his illuminating discovery of intestinal glands. [PDF]

Anat Cell Biol, 2023
Ghosh SK.
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