Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
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Sensing Heat, Finding Cool: The Search for Water in Summertime Paris, New York, and London, 1880-1930. [PDF]
J Soc HistWinder J +3 more
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Literary Journalism on Trial: Janet Malcolm, Criminal Character and the Legacy of New Journalism
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Jess Cotton
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“A minimum of domination”—the overt normative orientation of Foucault's work
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Answering the charge of ‘crypto‐normativity’ that has long overshadowed Michel Foucault's work, I argue that this work is animated by an overt normative orientation to keep domination to a minimum. This orientation operates both at the level of content and form.
Fabian Freyenhagen
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Curating the Health Humanities: Perspectives from Literary Studies. [PDF]
J Med HumanitFrench J, Read S.
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Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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Curatorial Ways of Making Cities and Navigating Futures Through Urban Experiments
The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.Short Abstract Contemporary curation is profoundly relational, emphasising the importance of the interrelations amongst objects and the enhanced meanings generated through their dialogues with each other and with various publics. In this contribution, we outline a curatorial approach founded in relational geography to inform the co‐construction and ...
Miguel Valdez, Matthew Cook
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<i>FIAT LUX</i>: The Mullein's (<i>Verbascum</i> sp.) Image and Its Symbology Through History Within the Euro-Mediterranean Culture. [PDF]
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