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Milk and Bondage: Enslaved Wet Nurses in the Eighteenth‐Century Cape Colony
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the social history of enslaved wet nurses in the eighteenth‐century Cape Colony, arguing that the romanticised depiction of these women within settler households was not a softening of the system of slavery but an integral part of how it functioned.
Eva Marie Lehner
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
History, EarlyView.Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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Melito of Sardis on Tyranny and the Reign of Marcus Aurelius
ReligionsThe article examines perceptions of tyranny in Melito’s On Pascha and Apology, both written under Marcus Aurelius (161–180). This is the first systematic treatment of a key theme in Melito, approached not only from a theological perspective but also in ...
Chrysovalantis Kyriacou
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Publication — "Roman Sculpture in Asia Minor"
, 2012 Fr. d'Andria, Il. Romeo (ed.), Roman Sculpture in Asia Minor. Proceedings of the International Conference to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Italian excavations at Hierapolis in Phrygia, held on May 24-26, 2007, in Cavallino (Lecce).
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The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN
History, EarlyView.Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
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The Ladies’ Alpine Club, Embattled Collaboration and International Communities of Knowledge, 1907–39
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article considers the development of the Ladies’ Alpine Club from its inception until the Second World War through its Yearbooks, articles and lectures, as part of a community of knowledge which was devoted to international mountaineering.
James Watts
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Heritage, 2019 Determining the provenance of the stones used for ancient architectures is very important in order to reconstruct many social and economic questions linked to the life of a city.
Giuseppe Scardozzi
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Poseidon as a God of Earthquake in Roman Asia Minor
, 2015 Even though the typology of civic coins is one of the most important means of obtaining information about the political, economic, social and cultural life of ancient cities, it is not so easy to obtain this kind of information, as coins do not always ...
Hale Güney
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
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Gender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among the One‐Child Generation
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Prior literature on gender and wealth accumulation largely examines the role of families in reproducing inequalities. However, less attention has been paid to families without sons, a significant demographic, particularly within China's one‐child generation, that challenges conventional understandings of familial wealth dynamics.
Ye Liu
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