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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
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Utility and Justice: French Liberal Economists in the 19th Century. [PDF]
French liberal economists share a very surprising reading of Bentham's theory. In this paper, we underline the method according to which these French liberal economists in the nineteenth century economists understand Bentham's utilitarianism: they ...
Nathalie Sigot
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The politics of historical economics: Wilhelm Roscher on democracy, socialism and Caesarism [PDF]
, 2016 Wilhelm Friedrich Georg Roscher (1817-94) is generally remembered as a significant nineteenth-century German political economist and a contributor to the “German Historical School of Economics.” His work is usually placed in the context of a larger ...
McDaniel, Iain
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores baby farming in the western regions of late imperial Russia, framing it as a childcare practice of the lower‐classes – a form of crèche for working mothers. The article delves into the public discourse surrounding baby farming among the educated strata and contrasts it with how this practice was viewed by the lower ...
Ekaterina Oleshkevich
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Travessias, 2009 This article analyzes the construction of the concepts of civility and provincial in the popular imagination of bidos, Par, in the nineteenth century, examining the characters of the work of English de Sousa in the belle epoque.
Raquel Ripari Neger
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Names, 1995 A description of the traditional structure of Creek and Seminole formal names (appellations) and nicknames illuminates the forms and frequencies of names appearing on historical censuses since the seventeenth century.
John H. Moore
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Sounding the Archival Silence: Searching for Music in the Nineteenth-Century English Asylum. [PDF]
Soc Hist Med, 2022 Golding R.
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Slaves out of context: domestic slavery and the Anglo-Indian family, c. 1780–1830 [PDF]
, 2009 This paper explores the place of domestic slaves in British families resident in India, c. 1780–1830, and the ways in which the presence of slaves within these Anglo-Indian households challenged British understandings of slavery as a practice.
Finn, Margot C.
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Edad de Oro, 2018 : English opinions about Lope de Vega during the last quarter of the eighteenth century are extremely important to understand not only how Lope’s image in this country evolved, but also to appreciate to what extent Lope became a battlefield in the ...
Mercedes Comellas +1 more
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