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Sacred to the Memory: Relicization and the Cataloging of Franklin Expedition Objects in Museums

Museum Anthropology, Volume 48, Issue 2, Fall 2025.
ABSTRACT Between 1818 and 1845, the British Navy sent expeditions to Inuit Nunangat (Canadian Arctic) in search of a passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. In 1845, the Franklin Expedition, consisting of 129 officers, crew, and marines, ended in disaster with all 129 lives lost.
Ashley Smith
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« Resurgi des cendres et de la poussière ». Versailles à travers les écrits des voyageurs russes au xixe siècle

Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles
The aim of this research is to analyze the ways in which the accounts by Russian travellers who visited Versailles between 1813 and 1862 contributed to their compatriots being able to discover the historical, artistic and landscape heritage of the famous
Ekaterina Bulgakova
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Through the prism of aesthetics. Napoleonic myth in the works of Goethe and Nietzsche

Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature, 2023
The reception of Napoleon in Germany was carried out under the sign of an aesthetic myth. The aesthetic myth is understood as a set of theories, concepts and texts of culture based on the idea of transforming the world through artistic creativity. Starting with romanticism, the aesthetic myth determines the specifics of the German discourse of culture.
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Provincialising Early Feminism: A View from the Middle East

Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 591-605, July 2025.
Abstract ‘Provincializing Europe’, derived from Dipesh Chakrabarty's work of that name, argued that an imagined ‘Europe’ was a founding myth for modernity. While not mentioning feminism, this analysis is a valuable starting point for tracing the path of the term ‘féminism’ from France to Britain to the Ottoman Empire and from the USA to the Arab world –
Ruth Roded
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"Hispania, la leyenda": The Myth of Viriatus’ Struggle Transfigured for Television

Communication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad), 2013
“Hispania, la leyenda” is the first Spanish attempt to represent on screen the Roman occupation of the Iberian Peninsula and the resistance led by Viriatus.
Elena Cueto-Asín, David R. George Jr,
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Stavropol Kalmyks in the Swedish Campaign and on Russia’s Western Borders, 1790–1792

Oriental Studies
Introduction. In 1790–1792, Stavropol Kalmyk Host participated in the Russo-Swedish War and patrolled the Belarusian border. The reasons behind the long deployment remain somewhat debatable. Materials and methods.
Ramil N. Rakhimov
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Why “Real men don't speak French”: Deconstructing cultural attitudes to a language by historicizing their discursive formations

The Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 2, Page 389-406, Summer 2025.
Abstract Guided by Foucault's concept of “discursive formations,” the study reported here draws on primary archival and secondary source material to examine how French has been discursively shaped in England and in relation to English. Unpacking sociohistorical constructions of sameness–difference offers a productive frame to explore ideological ...
Simon Coffey
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Zamoyski, Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth (William Collins, 2018)

Royal Studies Journal, 2019
Review of Adam Zamoyski, Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth (London: William Collins, 2018).
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Simón Rodríguez and the sentimental roots of social republicanism

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 69, Issue 2, Page 471-482, April 2025.
Abstract In this article, I claim that Simón Rodríguez, a 19th‐century Venezuelan thinker, used and reconfigured Jean‐Jacques Rousseau's understanding of amour‐propre to construct a new political foundation for Latin America. He sought to channel it and other sentiments toward productive ends with a social education. In doing so, Rodríguez departs from
Alejandro Castrillón
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War Captivity as a Contact Zone: The Case of British Prisoners of War on Parole in Napoleonic France

History, Volume 109, Issue 388, Page 488-520, December 2024.
Abstract The existing scholarship on Napoleonic captivity tends to focus on French prisoners of war held in Britain at the time. This article seeks to help redress this gap by drawing upon a range of English and French sources to investigate how British captives on parole experienced displacement in Napoleonic France during up to eleven years of their ...
ELODIE DUCHÉ
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