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Eighteenth-century Quakerism and the rehabilitation of James Nayler, seventeenth-century radical [PDF]
, 2008 Although the first Quakers aligned with history superfluous tradition, detrimental to true appreciation of the inward voice of God, by the early eighteenth century they had produced their first histories as a defence against Anglican allegations of ...
ERIN BELL, Greenwood, Knott, Mullett
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The Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility Internationally—History, Systems and the Future
Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background In most countries, a criminal conviction requires evidence that the individual committed the act and that they had the mental capacity to understand what they were doing and that it was wrong. Youth, as an indicator of brain development, is one factor affecting criminal capacity.
Enys Delmage +18 more
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The art of tropical travel, 1768-1830 [PDF]
, 2004 Book synopsis: Georgian Geographies provides an innovative interdisciplinary examination of the geographical nature of culture and society in eighteenth-century Britain and the British world.
Martins, Luciana
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Impact of Geography on Institutions in Agricultural and Nomadic Societies
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How geography affects the choice of institutions is studied in a theoretical model. In this model, nations are located around a circle. Rulers compete through choosing tax rates, the level of military spending, and the degree of formality of institutions. Geographic condition is captured by population density.
Haiwen Zhou
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The Republic of Pemberley: Politeness and Citizenship in Digital Sociability
19, 2008 Early theorists of online networks likened the ideals underpinning emerging cyber-communities to Jürgen Habermas's conception of the bourgeois public sphere. This association is evoked by the online Jane Austen community, The Republic of Pemberley, which
Fiona Brideoake
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"The apple at the glass": Halloween and Scottish poetry [PDF]
, 2009 This paper explores Halloween observances in eighteenth century Scotland, as represented in Robert Fergusson's 'Hallow Fair' and in the two 'Halloween' poems by Robert Burns and Janet Little.
Bold, V.
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, 2012 At the end of the eighteenth century, a large-scale map of the Austrian Netherlands and the Prince-Bishopric of Liege was manufactured, covering more or less the current territory of Belgium.
Bracke, Wouter +5 more
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Ultimate Questions: Relational Stakeholder Theory and the Good Life
Leader to Leader, EarlyView.Abstract The author was a professor at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia who passed away in October 2025. Earlier that year, in February, he retired from Darden after eight years of living with a progressive, terminal neurodegenerative disease.
Andrew C. Wicks
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An eighteenth century travelling theodolite
História, Ciências, Saúde: ManguinhosAn old topographic compass displayed in a showroom of the Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins (MAST), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, took our curiosity namely because of its resemblance to a theodolite, described by J.H. de Magellan.
Isabel Malaquias
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Music and Narrative in the Eighteenth Century: Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide as Dramatic Tableau
Open Library of Humanities, 2019 This article puts forward a new theory for discussing eighteenth-century music as narrative by combining literary theories of narrative with an analytical and historical exploration of the eighteenth-century opera overture. Through a consideration of how
Kieran Fenby-Hulse
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