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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

Unbalanced social-ecological acceleration led to state formation failure in early medieval Poland. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Izdebski A   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“The Growth of Interest”. Richard Wollheim on F. H. Bradley's Moral Psychology

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper aims to reconstruct two key stages of Richard Wollheim's engagement with the moral psychology of F. H. Bradley—first in his 1959/1969 book on Bradley, and later in his 1993 collection of essays, The Mind and its Depths—and to connect them to Wollheim's own account of a dynamic moral psychology, as detailed in The Thread of Life ...
Paolo Babbiotti
wiley   +1 more source

The Dialectic of Backsliding: Thinking with Habermas About Democratic Progress and Regression

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract There is widespread agreement that we are living in an age of “democratic backsliding,” in which a growing number of formally democratic countries are falling behind previously achieved levels of democratization. But on what grounds can we claim that one level of democratic development is “higher” or “lower” than another?
Fabio Wolkenstein
wiley   +1 more source

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