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The Dangers with Dogmas in Higher Education: Revisiting Dewey's Relationship between Purpose, Academic Freedom, Science, and Faith

open access: yesEducational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract The tendency to silence higher education teachers and students around the globe who express opinions that others regard as wrong is increasing. This lack of interest in listening to, and at times silencing, people with opposing views raises the question of what makes higher education unique and worth protecting.
Silvia Edling
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic materials and state capacity in Renaissance Italy. The economic policies of ‘Roman saltpetre’ procurement

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
wiley   +1 more source

5. The Rise of National Feeling

open access: yes, 1958
In the centuries under review in this chapter the self-sufficient manor, the feudal aristocracy, and the cultural isolation of Europe fell before the forces of economic change.
Bloom, Robert L.   +6 more
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Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
wiley   +1 more source

The Japanese feudalism

open access: yesPortes: Revista mexicana de estudios sobre la Cuenca del Pacífico, 2012
This paper explores some peculiarities of Japanese feudalism following postwar theoretical debate that came out of academic circles in Japan as well in Europe and the United States.
Martha Loaiza Becerra
doaj  

The slow emergence of the rational investor: Grain markets and grain storage of rural estates in western Germany, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We develop new datasets of monthly grain prices in 14 urban markets and of the storage and marketing of grain by 5 rural estates located in western Germany between the late seventeenth century and c. 1860. We explore whether observed patterns of monthly prices, sales, and storage of grain are consistent with the rational competitive storage ...
Matthias Hartermann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Response to Sean Wilentz, Against Exceptionalism: Class Consciousness and the American Labor Movement, 1790-1920 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1984
[Excerpt] Wilentz\u27s critique of the exceptionalist theme in American historiography is to the point. Whether one applauded the absence of feudalism, and therefore class conflict, in America with the historians of the 1950s or bemoaned that liberal ...
Salvatore, Nick
core   +1 more source

Leopoldo Zea on the role of Hegel's Master–Slave Dialectic in the philosophy of Latin American history

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract In one of the most influential works in 20th‐century Latin America, Leopoldo Zea draws on Hegel's Master–Slave Dialectic to construct a philosophy of Latin American History from colonialism to the present. Yet his motives for organizing his work around these brief but suggestive passages from Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit have not been well ...
Pavel Reichl
wiley   +1 more source

The discussion about the development of the Byzantine city (M. Syuzyumov – A. Kazhdan)

open access: yesRUDN Journal of World History, 2013
The article is about the fait of the Byzantine cities during the «dark ages». Two major Russian Byzantine scientists spent years discussing on the continuity of the Byzantine city. M.
M Cmilyanich
doaj  

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