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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Material Matters: The Transatlantic Trade in Photographic Materials during the Nineteenth Century

Panorama, 2020
Katherine Mintie
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Male bonds in nineteenth-century art

, 2022
Male bonds were omnipresent in nineteenth-century European artistic scenes, impacting the creation, presentation, and reception of art in decisive ways. Men’s lives and careers bore the marks of their relations with other men. Yet, such male bonds are seldom acknowledged for what they are: gendered and historically determined social constructs.
Dekeukeleire, Thijs, de Smaele, Henk, Sterckx, Marjan   +2 more
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Fairy painting in nineteenth century art and late twentieth century art: a comparative study [PDF]

, 2004
Plan BThe history of fairies has existed for centuries and will continue to exist as long as people remain who are fascinated by them and are compelled to put pen to paper and brush to canvas.
Mikl, Aimee Sue
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

Twenty‐First Century Butlers and the New Spirit of Service

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT More than 50 years ago, Lewis Coser argued that the “servant” had become obsolete, claiming that such a “premodern” occupation could not function within modernity without religious legitimations. However, with parts of the contemporary service sector exhibiting the very characteristics that Coser viewed as “premodern”—especially within ...
Bryan Boyle
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Resisting Chauvinist Stereotypes: The Impertinence of Russian Painting at London’s International Exhibition of 1862

Arts
The Russian empire’s displays of applied and decorative art at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and its immediate successors have long galvanised scholars for their semantic complexity.
Rosalind Polly Blakesley
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Rethinking Toleration: Wesley, Whitefield and Evangelical Collaboration in the Eighteenth Century

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract There is a growing body of scholarship on the history of religious toleration; nevertheless, historians have largely treated toleration as a matter of governmental policy and legal principle. This article broadens that account by examining John Wesley and George Whitefield's vision of evangelical unity across denominational lines.
Sarah Irving‐Stonebraker
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L’ornement aujourd’hui

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This introduction to Inactualité de l'ornement forms an attempt to understand, along a wide temporal range and in an European context, how ornament has been understood according to a moral scale and how, since approximately the second half of the ...
Thomas Golsenne
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Broadstairs in the nineteenth century

, 2020
Entry on Broadstairs in the nineteenth century for Kent Maps ...
Oulton, C.
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