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Why “Real men don't speak French”: Deconstructing cultural attitudes to a language by historicizing their discursive formations

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Simón Rodríguez and the sentimental roots of social republicanism

open access: yesAmerican 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
wiley   +1 more source

War Captivity as a Contact Zone: The Case of British Prisoners of War on Parole in Napoleonic France

open access: yesHistory, 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
wiley   +1 more source

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 ...
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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

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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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

10 Variations of an Architectural Design Theme Analogy between Compositional Principle and Musical Theme in the Design of the “Napoleon and the Myth of Rome” Exhibition Project

open access: yesAthens Journal of Architecture, 2022
The essay “10 variations of an architectural design theme” use comparative analysis to analogize the morphological development of an architectural compositional principle with the variations of a musical theme. The case study is the design of the temporary exhibition “Napoleon and the myth of Rome” in the archaeological complex of Trajan’s Markets
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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

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