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Historical reflections on progress and tradition [PDF]
, 2014 Reflecting on the tension between progressives and traditionalists in present-day Egypt, the author surveys comparable conflicts in the European past.
van Caenegem, Raoul
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
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Royal Studies Journal, 2019 This article connects legal history with cultural and intellectual approaches to the history of late medieval England by focusing on the expression, ‘flowers of the crown.’ Believed to have originated in the early Stuart period, this article locates its ...
Edward William Cavanagh
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Masterclass: international law and constitutional development in 19th century Europe (Part II) [PDF]
, 2015 1. Today, Hungary is a small Central-Eastern-European country making headlines with its domestic political and constitutional controversies. Yet, throughout its 1000-year history, this country had many struggles and developments, which, when put into a ...
Beke-Martos, Judit
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Identity, enlightenment and political dissent in late colonial Spanish America [PDF]
, 1998 During the long crisis of the Spanish empire between 1810 and 1825, the Creole leaders of Spanish American independence asserted a new identity for the citizens of the states which they sought to establish, calling them 'Americanos'.
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The Aggrieved Subject: Culture Wars and Recognition Rights
Constellations, EarlyView.
Andrew Fagan
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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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, 2012 A survey of the WS Society's long relationship with the monarchy in honour of the Queen's Diamond ...
Baston, Karen
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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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The Habsburg Monarchy's Many-Languaged Soul: Translating and interpreting, 1848–1918
, 2015 In the years between 1848 and 1918, the Habsburg Empire was an intensely pluricultural space that brought together numerous “nationalities” under constantly changing – and contested – linguistic regimes.
Michaela Wolf
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