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‘Off With Their Heads’: British Prime Ministers and the Power to Dismiss [PDF]
, 2010 The British prime minister’s power to appoint and dismiss ministers is probably his most important single power. This article explores how prime ministers from Macmillan to Blair have used that power.
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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The typology of memoirs and autobiographical editions: dynamic aspects
Библиосфера, 2015 The article considers types of memoirs and autobiographical books actual for the contemporary practice. It refines typological characteristics associated with new information technologies and, as a consequence, communication methods.
M. A. Lappo
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
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Библиосфера, 2011 The article is devoted to the problems of history of St-Petersburg merchants' memoirs and diaries (the late XVIII - early XX century) studying in modern Russian historiography The basic research on the history of entrepreneurship and merchants of Russia,
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Mary S. Woodside and Neal Johnson, ed. and trans. 2008. The Russian Life of R.-Aloys Mooser, Music Critic to the Tsars: Memoirs and Selected Writings. Lewiston, NY: Mellen. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-7734-5215-2 [PDF]
, 2010 Anna A. Berman
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Prisoner Experiences: Memoirs of Libby Prison
, 2014 Numerous books have been written on the contested topic of Civil War prisons and prisoners of war. Scholars struggle with who to blame for the outrageous and horrible conditions of the prisons.
Sutter, Megan A.
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Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores how accounting ideas travel to unfamiliar environments and instigate new modes of calculation therein. The empirical focus is on the food balance sheet, a key calculative technology in the realm of food security. Drawing on Said's four‐stage schema for analyzing the movement of theories and ideas, this investigation ...
Stephen P. Walker, Massimo Sargiacomo
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Charlotte Werbe, Assistant Professor of French
, 2019 In this Next Page column, Charlotte Werbe, Assistant Professor of French, shares her love of cinema and the films you should watch next, as well as the text that first inspired her research on the Holocaust and the challenging but important work of ...
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