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Greek love, orientalism and race : intersections in Classical reception [PDF]
Classics has been characterised as both a radical and a conservative discipline. Classical reception studies has enjoyed exploring this paradox: antiquity has provided an erotic example for modern homosexual counter-culture as well as a model for running
Orrells, Daniel
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State of Nationalism (SoN): Nationalism and Empire
Works on nations and nationalism often include an introductory chapter on empires before more substantive matters are examined. Conversely, books on empires typically conclude with summary reflections on the rise of nations.
Yesim Bayar
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The Empire Writes Back (to Michael Ignatieff) [PDF]
This article critiques the re-legitimisation of empire evident in recent writing by Michael Ignatieff. It begins by locating his work within the larger debate on empire emerging today.
Rao, Rahul
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Territorial shock: Toward a Theory of Change
This article tries to explain territoriality as a social assemblage linked to a geographic base which is restructured during crucial (axial) periods in history.
Gertjan Dijkink
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The history of Eurasia has ignited historian's void for many years.The history of a huge continent is a pretext to consider the interactions between individual empires that have functioned in its various parts for centuries.The empires of antiquity and ...
Tomasz Sińczak
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Denmark and Russia: What can we learn from the historical comparison of two great Arctic agricultural empires? [PDF]
We propose that the “historically relevant” comparison of the Danish and Russian Empires from the early eighteenth century until the First World War presents a useful starting point for a promising research agenda.
Elena S. Korchmina, Paul Sharp
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Global Law as Intercontextuality and as Interlegality [PDF]
Since the 1990s the effects of globalization on law and legal developments has been a central topic of scholarly debate. To date, the debate is however marked by three substantial deficiencies which this chapter seeks to remedy through a ...
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Mediations: Science and Translation in The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Mediations are a central theme in David Mitchell’s ‘house of fiction’, a set of five novels featuring a complex web of recurring characters, obsessions and literary patterns.
Claire Larsonneur, Hélène Machinal
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Sacred Texts Produced under the Shadows of Empires
The Hebrew Bible is a complex of sacred texts shaped and reshaped by Israelites, Judaeans and later Jews under the shadows of empires, which threatened, oppressed, dominated and at times provided protection to them.
Hulisani Ramantswana
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