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A History of ‘Religious History’

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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Workhouse or asylum? Accommodating pauper lunatics in nineteenth-century England. [PDF]

Med Hist, 2023
Ritch A.
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Bairoch revisited : tariff structure and growth in the late nineteenth century. [PDF]

This article revisits Bairoch’s hypothesis that in the late nineteenth century tariffs were positively associated with growth, as recently confirmed by a new generation of quantitative studies (see O’Rourke 2000; Jacks 2006; Clemens and Williamson 2002 ...
Tena Junguito, Antonio
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Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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From Flowers to Plants: Plant-Thinking in Nineteenth-Century Danish Flower Painting

Open Cultural Studies
In the nineteenth century, flower painters in Denmark shifted from depicting arranged, cut flowers to showing plants within their ecosystems. This article explores this shift by examining four paintings by the artists Christine Løvmand and Anthonore ...
Hedin Gry
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Industrial Property Institutions, Patenting, and Technology Investment in Spain and Mexico, c. 1820-1914. [PDF]

This paper explores the nature and implications of nineteenth century patent law in two late-industrializing countries: Spain and Mexico. Both inherited earlier ancien regime monopoly practices, both adopted aspects of modern, codified patent systems in ...
Beatty, Edward, Saiz, Patricio
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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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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
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'Hairy honours of their chins': whiskers and masculinity in early nineteenth-century Britain. [PDF]

Soc Hist, 2022
Withey A.
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