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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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Geographies of discontent: Public service deprivation and the rise of the far right in Italy
Abstract Electoral support for far‐right parties is often linked to geographies of discontent. We argue that public service deprivation, defined as reduced access to public services, plays an important role in explaining these patterns. By exploiting an Italian reform that reduced access to public services in municipalities with fewer than 5,000 ...
Simone Cremaschi +3 more
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ABSTRACT Researchers now understand that the Great Recession stemmed from a “systemic leadership failure,” involving various entities such as the government, financial institutions, investors, homeowners, and regulators. Consequently, traditional leadership approaches of the time came under intense scrutiny, necessitating a shift in leadership ...
Faidon Theofanidis +2 more
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The Digital Nuclear Reactor Initiative: First steps towards advanced applications [PDF]
A large-scale research and development project, the Digital Nuclear Reactor initiative, involving the major players in the French nuclear industry has started in 2020.
Cochet Sandrine +17 more
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Abstract William Shakespeare ascended to the status of English national poet over the course of the eighteenth century. His literary work entered the cultural imagination not only through theatrical performances and printed texts, but the playwright's corpus was also represented visually — in painted and printed media, and as or on material culture ...
Anna Myers
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Report on policy related aspects of the demonstrations
PERICLES is an EU-funded research and innovation project running from 2018-2021. PERICLES promotes sustainable, participatory governance of cultural heritage in European coastal and maritime regions, intending to develop and demonstrate a comprehensive ...
Hansen, Carsten Jahn; id_orcid +13 more
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La poderosa estirpe de los Alkmeónidas tiene una importancia primordial en la historia de Atenas. Es conocida su lucha contra Pisístrato y sus sucesores. Clístenes.
José Antonio Molina Gómez
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‘A Voice Amidst Mine Ears’: Silent Angels on the Early Modern Stage
Abstract Unlike the carts that crawled with angels in the medieval pageant plays, angels of the early modern stage were a rare breed. Eventually they disappeared from the stage altogether; they did not, however, disappear all at once in a puff of celestial smoke.
Caitlín Rankin‐McCabe
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre (nsh)
Data for non-Shakespearean portion of Pericles, Prince of ...
Christoffersen, Anna, Bruster, Douglas
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The first commentator to suggest that Pericles was not wholly Shakespeare's creation was Nicholas Rowe. The degree of Shakespeare's involvement in Pericles was the subject of a vigorous debate between George Steevens and Edmond Malone in 1780.
Brian Vickers
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