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Names, 1992 Coromuel and Pichilingue, established as minor placenames near La Paz, Baja California, derive from English and Dutch pirates and privateers who careened their ships in coves on the uninhabited peninsula in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ...
Homer Aschmann
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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The Spirit of Hoddesdon in Strasbourg
ВивліоѳикаReview of: Rodolphe Baudin, Alexeï Evstratov, Paul Keenan and Vladislav Rjéoutski, eds. Russia, Europe, and the World in the Long Eighteenth-Century: Proceedings of the Xth International Conference of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia ...
John Randolph
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Food and alcohol indulgence, along with tea‐drinking, gambling, and gossip, are integral to a characteristically Sichuanese ethos of ‘life enjoyment’ (xiangshou shenghuo). Beyond mere pleasure, sensory, ludic, and comic experiences temporarily strip participants of both their formal and subjective qualities.
Angel Nayden
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“A Lock of Thy Bright Hair”: The Enlightenment’s Milton and Our Auratic Material
Humanities, 2015 This article looks at how English critics, biographers, and poets once sported with the image, idea, and biomaterial of John Milton’s hair. Their play is contextualized within the materialist and instrumental values that were instituted in eighteenth ...
Jayne Lewis
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Eighteenth-Century Transplantations
This collection studies eighteenth-century British literature as enmeshed within a dynamic intercultural traffic, participating in the import and export of literary and cultural forms.
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Literacy in Eighteenth Century Spain
Historia de la Educación, 2013 This study is the result of a team research program elaborated from 1979 to 93 in 28 different Spanish cities, and bearing on the analysis of the signatures of some 49.000 men and women at various stages of the century.
Jacques SOUBEYROUX
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A History of ‘Religious History’
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
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Canhestro e deteriorado: as realidades do realismo
Literatura e Sociedade, 2010 Watt pronunciou esta palestra em uma sessão plenária durante o quarto encontro anual da Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, da University of Alabama, em Tuscaloosa, em 12 de março de 1978. Foi publicada em conjunto pela Stanford
Ian Watt
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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