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Hazardousness of place : a new comparative approach to the Filipino past [PDF]
, 2016 © Ateneo de Manila University. The historiography of the Philippines has been largely bounded by the nation-state, which has defined how its past has been conceived and to whom its peoples are mainly compared.
Bankoff, Greg
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FROM TRASH TO TREASURE: RILKE AND VENICE REVISITED
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 127-193, April 2025.ABSTRACT Rilke loved Venice and visited or passed through a dozen times between 1897 and 1920. He wrote extensively about the city in prose and verse between 1898 and 1908, including a cycle of poems in the Neue Gedichte and a polemical ‘Aufzeichnung’ in Malte Laurids Brigge.
Robert Vilain
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The Protestant Revolution or Wider die falsche Gelassenheit [PDF]
, 2010 This contribution was prompted by events in East Germany that ultimately led to German unification. Many forces contributed to the collapse of the GDR as a separate state, the final and most visible was the mass exodus via Hungary and Czechoslovakia. The
Deinert, Herbert
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Norman Gash: Political Historian
Parliamentary History, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 338-358, October 2024.Abstract This article commemorates the 40th anniversary of the publication of Lord Liverpool by Norman Gash (1912–2009). It considers Gash as a historian who both wrote about 19th‐century politics and expressed political views of his own. These views became increasingly prominent in the 1980s, during Margaret Thatcher's period of office.
Richard A. Gaunt
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Conrad and the First World War [PDF]
, 2009 During the First World War, Conrad believed himself peripheral to a transitional historical moment. In November 1914, he wrote: 'the thoughts of this war sit on one's chest like a nightmare. I am painfully aware of being crippled, of being idle, of being
Niland, Richard
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, 2010 Eckermann reports a conversation with Goethe on January 29, 1827: Es kam sodann zur Sprache, welchen Titel man der Novelle geben sollte; wir taten manche Vorschlaege, einige waren gut fuer den Anfang, andere gut fuer das Ende, doch fand sich keiner, der ...
Deinert, Herbert
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Walter Scott and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. [PDF]
, 2016 Walter Scott proclaimed Ariosto his favourite Romance poet and Orlando Furioso his preferred epic. Byron subsequently called him the "Ariosto of the North" (and Ariosto "the southern Scott").
Oliver, S
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Prophets and Priests of the Nation: Naguib Mahfouz’s Karnak Café and the 1967 Crisis in Egypt [PDF]
, 2009 Similarities between religion and nationalism are well known but not well understood. They can be explained by drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's sociological theory in order to consider symbolic interests and the strategies employed to advance them.
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Writing the History of the Papacy in the 21st Century
Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 376-387, September 2025.
Simone Maghenzani
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The Remains of the Jew: Imperial Christian Identity in the Late Ancient Holy Land [PDF]
, 2005 The Remains of the Jew: Imperial Christian Identity in the Late Ancient Holy ...
Andrew Jacobs
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