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EIGENSINN AND DOMINATION IN LIBERAL AND ILLIBERAL SOCIETIES
ABSTRACT This article is a posthumously published text that was written by Alf Lüdtke and Alexandra Oeser but was left unfinished when Lüdtke died in February 2019. It examines two central notions—and their articulations—that Lüdtke and Oeser use differently in their work: domination and Eigensinn. On domination, it focuses on perspectives of Max Weber'
Alf Lüdtke, Alexandra Oeser
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Le coup d’œil du scarabée : Charles Nordmann ou pourquoi la guerre est l’affaire des savants
This article explores the role of scientists in understanding armed conflict. The author focuses on the figure of Charles Nordmann, a French physicist who, during the First World War, used his scientific knowledge to contribute to the war effort.
David Aubin
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Prestige at Play: University Hierarchies and the Reproduction of Funding Inequalities
ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between university prestige, disciplinary cultures, and the (re)production of funding inequalities in the humanities and social sciences. We combine qualitative and quantitative methods by analyzing: (1) data on 56,680 successful and unsuccessful grant applications submitted to the Canadian Social ...
Julien Larregue, Alice Pavie
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Elsa Clavé. 2022. Les sultanats du Sud philippin. Une histoire sociale et culturelle de l’islamisation (XVᵉ-XXᵉ siècles). París: École française d’Extrême-Orient. 295 pp.
Paulina Machuca
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Mills and society in early medieval northern Italy
Drawing on the extensive documentary record of northern Italy, available archaeological evidence, and comparative case studies from early medieval Europe, this study demonstrates that mill‐based landscapes in the Po and Friuli‐Venetian plains were shaped by society as a whole.
Marco Panato
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Intellectuels, militants et travailleurs: la construction de la gauche en Égypte, 1870-1914
À la fin du xixe siècle, un certain nombre d’idées radicales de gauche commencèrent à circuler dans l’est de la Méditerranée, et plus spécifiquement en Égypte.
Ilham Khuri-Makdisi
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The date and context of the Astronomer's Life of Louis the Pious
The Astronomer's Life of the emperor Louis the Pious (814–40) is a canonical source for scholars of Frankish history. It sits at the centre of recent debates about the nature and tone of Carolingian political discourse, and about the crisis of the empire in the 830s.
Simon MacLean
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Salt and Power: Making Sense of Loss in a Changing Climate through Scalar Politics
Abstract The question of what gets to be sustained or what disappears on the land under conditions of climate change is a process of “future‐making” that is deeply social and political. As changes in monsoon patterns and more erratic rainfall threaten Cambodia's only salt production, which relies on labour‐intensive sun‐drying, the spectre of loss ...
Kelly Dorkenoo
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The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome
Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
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The rulership of Pippin I of Aquitaine
This article uses the reign of Pippin I of Aquitaine (d. 838) as a case study for the historiographical concept of ‘sub‐rulership’ in Carolingian Francia. It unpicks how Pippin’s status varied over time, arguing that Pippin’s rulership represents well the tension between kingship as an office and as a dynastic status.
Eddie Meehan
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