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A ‘Military Rule’ as a specific (occidental) type of despotism in Montesquieu’s Theory
Političke Perspektive, 2015 Montesquieu writes about “military rule” in all of his three main works: in the Persian Letters, in Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Decadence of the Romans, as well as his magnum opus On the Spirit of the Laws.
Aleksandar Molnar
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The Journal of Classics Teaching, 2016 Book Seven of Herodotus’ Histories contains his account of the Persian expedition against Greece led by King Xerxes in 480 BCE. This campaign followed from the one undertaken ten years earlier on the orders of his father, King Darius.
B.C. Knowlton
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Where Only One Is Free: The Roots of 'Oriental Despotism' in the Middle East [PDF]
, 2012 This is an article prepared for an unpublished volume on freedom.
Lindholm, Charles
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Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 919-930, October 2025.ABSTRACT This article examines segregation through the lens of gender, intimacy, race and colonial rule by engaging with how the French colonial state controlled the marriages permitted between French women and Moroccan soldiers who had fought in France during the Second World War.
Catherine Phipps
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‘Did a Dzungar Khanate Really Exist?’: Criticism of the Article by Junko Miyawaki
Oriental Studies, 2018 The paper analyzes the concept about the status and type of the Dzungar Khanate developed by the famous Orientalist, Junko Miyawaki-Okada. According to the scholar, the Dzungar Khanate never existed though she does acknowledge its status of a nomadic ...
Utash Ochirov
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A “Documentary Turn” in the Medieval History of Egypt and Syria?
History Compass, Volume 23, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.ABSTRACT The field of medieval Middle East history has seen a renewed attention to the use of documentary sources in recent years. These sources have long seen some neglect, and their interpretation has suffered from a stubborn narrative of paucity that has tended to relegate them to the fringe of this history. With the impact of other scholarly trends
Daisy Livingston
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EARLY STATE: ASIATIC MODE OF PRODUCTION [PDF]
Banber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti, 2019 The article discusses a theory of Asiatic mode of production. This theory had a great influence on the development of historiographic and sociological science thoughts of the 19th-20th centuries.
MARIAM KHANZADYAN
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 233-257, September 2025.Abstract In mid‐eighteenth‐century Europe, anonymous authors produced parodic satires masquerading as earnest exemplars of the chronicle form. Couched in an antiquated, quasi‐biblical register, these mock chronicles drew flimsily fictional portraits of modern life.
Zachary Garber
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Water, infrastructure and political rule: Introduction to the special issue
Water Alternatives, 2016 This introductory article sets the scene for this special issue on water, infrastructure and political rule. It makes the case for revisiting the complex relationships between these three dimensions which have fascinated scholars since Wittfogel’s ...
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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 550-570, September 2025.Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
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