The manufacture of the Baskerville typographic punches: the versatile <i>chaîne opératoire</i> of an 18<sup>th</sup>-century printing workshop. [PDF]
NPJ Herit SciMontes-Landa J +5 more
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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract The rise of social media in the digital era poses unprecedented challenges to authoritarian regimes that aim to influence public attitudes and behaviors. To address these challenges, we argue that authoritarian regimes have adopted a decentralized approach to produce and disseminate propaganda on social media.
Yingdan Lu +3 more
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Movement beyond data: epistemic and pictorial challenges in understanding moving life. [PDF]
Front BioinformWellmann J.
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The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
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Francesco Torti (1658-1741) and his description on the therapeutic use of quinine: the first effective method of treating malaria based on an extract of the bark of the Peruvian cinchona tree. [PDF]
Malariaworld JArtico M +5 more
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Rulers on the road: Itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Itinerant rule, rule exercised through traveling, was a common yet insufficiently researched, premodern form of governance. Studying the determinants of ruler itineraries in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519, we argue that rulers' visits targeted “marginal” elites.
Carl Müller‐Crepon +3 more
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Competing bimetallic ratios: Amsterdam, London and bullion arbitrage in the 18th century [PDF]
This article analyses the stability of bimetallism in the mid-18th century for the case of two large centres that had different legal ratios and only one international market ratio.
Pilar Nogues-Marco
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Perfecting Exit: The Politics of Quitting Among Migrant Care Workers in the United States
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Quitting tends to be overlooked in studies of resistance and labor because of its individual and private character, its ineffectiveness in changing conditions of labor, and the difficulty of studying it, in favor of more organized and public protests and strikes.
Cati Coe
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Crossing paths: historical and philosophical perspectives on cancer and diabetes classifications. [PDF]
Hist Philos Life SciYvonnet S, Tybjerg K.
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