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History, EarlyView.Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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Folklore Studies, Fieldwork and the Making of a Domestic Anthropology in Fin‐de‐Siècle Britain
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article follows the ‘communities of knowledge‐making’ that formed around folklore collection at the end of the nineteenth century. Often regarded as eccentric or marginal figures in the history of human science, these collectors in fact engaged in lively and sophisticated discussions about the methodologies needed to study the mental ...
HARRY PARKER
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Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power
History, EarlyView.Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines an overlooked attempt to colonize the island of Trinidad during the English Revolution of the 1640s. This project was engineered by a consortium of radical puritans, seeking to create a protected enclave in the New World for separatists, anabaptists and other sectaries.
DAVID R. COMO
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State gun laws, gun ownership, and mass shootings in the US: cross sectional time series.
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Black Gun Ownership: Does Perceived Racial Threat Affect Black Americans' Gun Ownership?
Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2024Sociologists who study gun ownership in the United States have established that guns symbolize what material items and who deserve protection.
Burrell, Amber Kristin
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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
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TERRITORIAL VALORIZATION: How Positive Stereotypes Advance Suburban Water Insecurity in Detroit
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Suburbs historically enabled and protected white middle‐class wealth in the United States; however, their more recent diversification has included a rise in suburban poverty. This article examines these dynamics through the issue of household water access—a feature of rising suburban impoverishment that deserves greater attention.
Dana Kornberg, Mackenzie Taradalsky
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
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Guns in the heartland: examining firearm behaviors among Oklahoman adults. [PDF]
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