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Norman and Nietzsche: The Political Project of Lindsay's The Magic Pudding

Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 2, Page 256-268, June 2026.
Australian artist and writer Norman Lindsay (1879–1969) wrote 11 novels and two children's books, one of which—The Magic Pudding first published in 1918—remains a national classic. This article argues that readers and critics have long misunderstood Lindsay's intention in writing this lengthy cartoon‐story about the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum in ...
John Uhr
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Clientelas, relaciones internacionales e imperialismo en la expansión de la República Romana. Algunas consideraciones sobre «Friendship and Empire. Roman Diplomacy and Imperialism in the Middle Republic (353-146 BC)» de p. J. Burton

Studia Historica: Historia Antigua, 2013
El auge de las teorías de relaciones internacionales en el marco de los estudios antiguos se puede constatar en la publicación del trabajo de Burton Friendship and Empire. Roman Diplomacy and Imperialism in the Middle Republic (353-146 BC).
Pau VALDÉS MATÍAS
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Toward the lslamization of History

American Journal of Islam and Society, 2000
History, or more properly the writing of history, had been during the times of the ancient Greeks and Romans an elitist activity, meant for glorifying the class of power, position, and birth. Parts of these histories were fabulous in nature. The Muslims (
M.M.M. Mahroof
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Mapping Language: Names, Speakers and Voices

Area, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract In this conversational piece, we reflect on our experience of working with and on maps and map‐makers that have shaped linguistic conventions and ideas, suggesting geographers have much to contribute by engaging with such mapping. It illuminates how maps rendered the unpredictable geography of speakers and the naming of places as ...
Beth Williamson, Philip Jagessar
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The Beauty of the Oikumene Has Two Edges: Nurturing Roman Imperialism in the “Glocalizing” Traditions of the East [PDF]

, 2020
The contemporary research of the Roman oikumene has been incrementally moving away from the traditionally dominant paradigms of authority and power, and leaning towards diversity, flux of identities and connectivity.
Tevdovski, Ljuben
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Roman Centurions as Agents of Imperial Power: Delegated Authority and Judicial Functions

Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки
This article explores the influential role of the Roman centurions in the provincial government of the Roman Empire by analyzing their judicial and administrative powers. The results of modern historiographical research show that the military institution
Е. S. Ivanova
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Exiled From Their Own Lands: Indigenist Policies, Oil, and Colonial Plunder in 20th Century Venezuela

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the historical displacement of Indigenous peoples in Venezuela, focusing on the links between indigenist policies and the exploitation of natural resources, particularly oil, throughout the 20th century. Using a combined historical and ethnographic approach, it demonstrates how the formation of the Venezuelan nation‐state
Gabriel Tardelli
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Concept of Romanization in Archaeology: Rise and Fall of a Paradigm

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016
From the foundation of the discipline of archaeology, the study of the Roman provinces has been under the decisive influence of the concept of Romanization, itself developed under the specific social conditions of Europe by the end of the 19th and ...
Vladimir D. Mihajlović
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Cancer and Capitalism: Towards a Critical Sociological Agenda

Sociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 249-262, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article considers the relationship between cancer and capitalism from the perspective of political economy. It argues that this perspective is crucial for producing a critical agenda in the sociological study of cancer, which has otherwise and traditionally neglected the question of capital as social totality.
Faisal Al‐Asaad
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Dexter Hoyos: A Companion to Roman Imperialism, Leiden, Brill, 2013 (History of Warfare 81)

, 2016
Reseña de la obra Dexter HOYOS: A Companion to Roman Imperialism, Leiden, Brill, 2013 (History of Warfare 81) (ISSN: 1385-7827).
Cabezas Guzmán, Gerard
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