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FEMINIST NETWORKS BEYOND THE SCIENCE WARS: THE 'FEMALE BRAIN' IN THE 1790S AND THE 1990S
This paper explores female networking practices by comparing cases two centuries apart, an experiment made possible by a history of science renewed by a mutually enriching dialogue with science, technology and society studies (STS).
Govoni, Paola, Paola Govoni
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Consequential ground: Memorials of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Romantic culture 1793-1877 [PDF]
As we mark the bicentenary of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars what memorials of the wars have we inherited? And who bequeathed that inheritance to posterity?
Sellers Jr., Edward Jordan
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Norman Gash: Political Historian
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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International audienceHalfway between history and fiction, the French modern novels in French and particularly those of the writer Claude Simon, La Route des Flandres, Les Géorgiques, La Bataille de Pharsale or L'Acacia, echoes a warrior tradition, and ...
Luzi, Christophe
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Tra desiderio e nostalgia. Declinazioni visive del culto napoleonico nell’Italia della Restaurazione [PDF]
L’articolo analizza la fortuna di declinazioni visive del culto napoleonico nella Restaurazione: mito seriale, caratterizzato da persistenze sotterranee ma soprattutto da revivals in corrispondenza di eventi emotivamente periodizzanti (l’esilio e la ...
Arisi Rota, Arianna, ARISI ROTA Arianna
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Zamoyski, Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth (William Collins, 2018)
Review of Adam Zamoyski, Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth (London: William Collins, 2018).
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The last free traders? Interwar trade policy in the Netherlands and Netherlands East Indies
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
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Nationalism and the transformation of the state
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
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Game theory has existed in the fields of mathematics and economics for over 60 years. This thesis assesses its viability for use in the field of history, and in particular, in the Napoleonic era.
Ranger, Gareth A.
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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 ...
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