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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

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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Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome: The Rise of the Resident Ambassador

, 2015
"Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome is an investigation of Renaissance diplomacy in practice. Presenting the first book-length study of this subject for sixty years, Catherine Fletcher substantially enhances our understanding of the envoy's role during this ...
Catherine Fletcher, Fletcher, Catherine
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Hospitaller Revenues, Bourbon Regalism: The Financial Administration of the Grand Priory of Castile and León under an American Parvenu

History, EarlyView.
Abstract After the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), the consolidation of the Bourbon Monarchy in early eighteenth‐century Spain allowed Philip V's ministry to implement the so‐called Nueva Planta in his various kingdoms and lordships of the Crown of Aragon, but also in Castile.
Roberto Quirós Rosado
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Propaganda, Diplomacy and Ideological Crisis: Sonic Cultures and Italian Fascism During the Early 1940s

International audienceItalian participation in the WWII was not a simple subordination to Hitler’s imperialism. For the fascists, the war was a means to strengthen the autonomy and prestige of the regime following the military successes in Ethiopia (1935-
Palazzetti, Nicolò, Thomas, Jonathan
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Tempering the king’s anger. Beatrice of Aragon’s role in foreign relations

En la España Medieval
The wedding of Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary and Bohemia, and Beatrice of Aragon in 1476 marked a high point of diplomatic relations between Central Europe and Italy, which strengthened an already strong interest of King Matthias in Italian matters.
Patrik Pastrnak
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‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
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READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
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Monica Azzolini, Isabella Lazzarini (éd.), "Italian Renaissance Diplomacy. A Sourcebook", Brepols, 2017

, 2017
Italian Renaissance Diplomacy. A Sourcebook Diplomacy has never been a politically neutral field of historical research, even when it was confined to merely reconstructing the context of wars and revolutions.
E. Sallé de Chou
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Luces y sombras en la Europa de la Ilustración: la burla en las cartas entre José Nicolás de Azara y Giambattista Bodoni

Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo, 2019
This work raises a new approach to the mordant style of José Nicolás de Azara practiced in the private correspondence with his typographer friend Giambattista Bodoni, which is developed in an Italian sociocultural context.
Noelia López Souto
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