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Prophets With Enchantment: Framing Christian Climate Activism

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues for a re‐enchantment of studies of contemporary climate change activism. It focuses upon Christian climate activists in the UK and how they are reinterpreting their theological beliefs in ways that mobilise religious communities.
Gemma Edwards, Finlay Malcolm
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Supply of the Roman legionaries in the II–III century AD at Novae (Moesia Inferior) and Chersonesos in Taurica

Античная древность и средние века, 2019
Supply of the army along the frontiers of the Roman Empire is a subject of interest of many historians. Emperor and government officials formed strategy of supply of the Roman army. To maintain efficiency of the army and loyalty to authorities, the Roman
Yelena Yur'yevna Klenina
doaj  

Les auxiliaires militaires de l’armée d’Afrique héritiers de l’exercitus Africae ?

Antiquités Africaines, 2020
The link between the French colonial army in North Africa and the Roman exercitus Africae has often been drawn. This article explores whether the same connection can be established between the Roman auxiliaries and the 19th-century auxiliaries from ...
Monique Dondin-Payre
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Images of Music and Musicians as Indicators of Status, Wealth and Political Power on Roman Funerary Monuments [PDF]

, 2019
Untersuchungen bildlicher Darstellungen von Musikinstrumenten sowie Musikantinnen und Musikanten haben ergeben, dass sie in Grabkontexten benutzt wurden, um auf den Wohlstand sowie den politischen oder sozialen Status der verstorbenen Person oder ihrer ...
Alexandrescu, Cristina-Georgeta
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Love, Class‐Crossing Courtship, and the Reading of English Novels in Late Eighteenth‐Century Sweden

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how novel reading influenced the courtship practices of Pehr Stenberg, a peasant who became a clergyman. Stenberg wrote a detailed account of his life in which his courtships of high‐born women are described in detail. These courtships took place during a transformative time when the ideal that marriage should be based on
Ina Lindblom
wiley   +1 more source

Caste criminalisation in South India and permanent migration to Fiji, 1903–1927

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Does the official criminalisation of a group lead to permanent out‐migration? In the early 20th century, British officials in south India designated multiple castes as inherently criminal under the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA). The CTA required police registration and could force entire groups into special settlements.
Alexander Persaud
wiley   +1 more source

Centurions in roman epigraphy of Hispania : social relationships

Gladius, 2018
The centurion was the backbone of the Roman army. The article aims at analysing the centurion social relationships during the High Roman Empire through the epigraphic sources in Hispania.
Roberto López Casado
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The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
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The Roman Army

, 2006
This wide-ranging study of the Roman army covers its political, historical, and social aspects as well as its peacetime occupations and its operation in war. The Roman Army: A Social and Institutional Historyoffers a revealing portrait of a legendary fighting force in peacetime and at war from a soldier's-eye view.
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From Teamchef Arminius to Hermann Junior: glocalised discourse about a national foundation myth [PDF]

, 2012
If for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the ‘Battle of the Teutoburg Forest’, fought in 9 CE between Roman armies and Germanic tribes, was predominantly a reference point for nationalist and chauvinist discourses in Germany, the first ...
Andreas Musolff, Aßkamp R, Bendikowski T., Berke S, Brockmann R, Charteris-Black J., Clunn A., Derks H, Fauconnier G., Halle U, Heine H, Hille-Priebe N, Husemann D, Hutten U. von, Hutter P, Kammerer I., Krebs C.B., Lippe Landesverband, Mellies D, Mellies D, Multhaupt H., Musolff A., Musolff A., Münkler H., Niebuhr H, Niebuhr H, Oergel M., Ottomeyer H, Pape E.-W, Pape E.-W, Pfaff H, Pleyter R., Raidt M., Reitemeier J., Roloff H.G., Seewald B, Seewald B, Spiegel F, Tacitus P.C., Tacitus P.C., Tourismus Lippe, Weber F.W., Wodak R, Wodak R., Wolters R.   +44 more
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