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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Religious and Political Authority in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [PDF]
, 2017 Alfred Stepan’s “twin-tolerations” thesis (2000) is a model for explaining different ways that religious and political authority come to be reconciled.
Alboaouh, Kamel, Mahoney, Jon
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Beefeaters, British History and the Empire in Asia and Australasia since 1826 [PDF]
, 2012 The Yeoman Warders at the Tower of London (colloquially known as ‘Beefeaters’) have been represented as a quintessential part of British history. Their distinctive Tudor costumes and their highly visible role at the Tower made them iconic symbols of ...
Ward, Paul
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The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1739)
, 2016 In The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1739), Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso analyzes the politics behind the most salient Bourbon reform introduced in Spanish America during the early eighteenth century.
Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
History, EarlyView.Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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Opriçnina Teşkilatı ve Rus Merkezileşmesine Etkileri
Vakanüvis Uluslararası Tarih Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2018 Rus Devleti, XVI. yy da yaşadığı dönüşüm ve geçiş sürecine bağlı olarak iç ve dış politikada tüm tehditlere karşı İvan Groznıy kimliğinin izlerini taşıyan bir teşkilatlanma oluşturmuştur.
Tuğrul ÇAMAŞ
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Corporate brands, the British Monarchy, and the resource-based view of the firm [PDF]
, 2008 Drawing on the nascent literature on corporate brands, the economic theory of the resourced-based view of the firm and the extensive literature on the British Monarchy, this article examines the branding credentials of the British Crown.
Balmer, JMT
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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Duindam, Dynasties: A Global History of Power, 1300-1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Royal Studies Journal, 2017 Review of Jeroen Duindam, Dynasties: A Global History of Power, 1300-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Derek R Whaley
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The Old Regime (of Mutualisation) and the Revolution (of Big Data)
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In his classic work L'ancien régime et la révolution, Alexis de Tocqueville proposes a reinterpretation of the French Revolution: behind the spectacular ruptures associated with the event, profound continuities are at play. Beyond the specific case of the French Revolution, Tocqueville calls for vigilance in mobilizing the notion of revolution
Pierre Francois
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