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Norman Gash: Political Historian

open access: yesParliamentary 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
wiley   +1 more source

TECHNOLOGY AND EMPIRE: Comparing Dutch and British Maritime Technologies During the Napoleonic Era (1792–1815)

open access: yes, 2023
The two ships, Bato (1806) and Brunswick (1805) wrecked in Simons Bay, South Africa, provide an opportunity to compare British and Dutch maritime technologies during the Napoleonic Era (1792–1815).
Mollema, Ivor   +1 more
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“Floating Mind”: Art, Nature and Myth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
During my three years of this doctorate programme, I have explored the notion of the ‘floating mind’. In Art Anthropology, Japanese philosopher Nakazawa Shinichi describes the term ‘floating mind’ as something that does not have any specific form, colour
Kang, Eem Yun
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The last free traders? Interwar trade policy in the Netherlands and Netherlands East Indies

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 1057-1085, August 2024.
Abstract There has still been too little detailed work on the protectionism that emerged in the wake of the Great Depression. In this paper we explore the experiences of two countries that have been largely neglected in the literature, the Netherlands and Netherlands East Indies (NEI).
Pim de Zwart   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Napoleonic theatre and the body

open access: yes, 2016
Society of Dix-neuviémistes annual conference, Paris April 2016 Three members of the French Theatre of the Napoleonic era ran a panel on Napoleonic theatre and the body at the SDN annual conference last week.
Katherine Astbury
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Hermann Versus Varus at the Battle of Nations in Leipzig (1813): The Reception of the Hermann Myth during and after the Napoleonic Wars in Austria

open access: yesAustrian History Yearbook, 2022
AbstractThe Battle of the Teutoburg Forest between the Germanic Cherusci chieftain Arminius, or Hermann, and the Roman armies under Varus (9 AD) had served as an analogy for German–French hereditary enmity since the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48). This analogy was particularly popular during the Napoleonic Wars as it symbolized the unity, independence ...
openaire   +1 more source

Nationalism and the transformation of the state

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 380-396, July 2024.
Abstract While it is often assumed that the core debates about nationalism were settled by modernist scholars already in the 1980s, there are reasons to question this theoretical ‘consensus’, especially because it fails to anticipate the wave of nationalist geopolitics that is currently sweeping through the world.
Lars‐Erik Cederman
wiley   +1 more source

Zamoyski, Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth (William Collins, 2018)

open access: yesRoyal Studies Journal, 2019
Review of Adam Zamoyski, Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth (London: William Collins, 2018).
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Writing the History of the Papacy in the 21st Century

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Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 376-387, September 2025.
Simone Maghenzani
wiley   +1 more source

The Guardian State: Strengthening the public service against democratic backsliding

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 414-425, May/June 2024.
Abstract Liberal democracy has become vulnerable to illiberal political movements and the gradual erosion of democratic institutions. To safeguard liberal democracy, we propose the concept of the Guardian State, which embraces liberal principles while acting as a defensive barrier against illiberal tendencies. We need strong administrative institutions
Kutsal Yesilkagit   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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