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History, EarlyView.Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
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La costituzione mista in Polibio [PDF]
, 2011 This paper examines the theory of mixed constitution and the sociological doctrine of anacyclosis in Book VI of Polybius’ Histories. The ideal of a mixed government was popularized by Polybius, who saw the Roman Republic as a manifestation of Aristotle ...
John Thornton
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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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RECONSTRUCTING WHAT ROMAN REPUBLIC?
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 2011 Abstract The article, in discussing Karl Hoelkeskamp's Reconstructing the Roman Republic, argues that the relationship(s) between the role of theory and an analysis of the last generation of the Roman Republic is much more complex that H.
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Publica aut peri! The Releasing and Distribution of Roman Books [PDF]
, 2007 This outline of our knowledge of the process of releasing literature in late republican and early imperial Rome addresses the nature of the recitations, the question of ‘publishing’ and distribution of books, from Atticus to Pliny the Younger.
Jon Wikene Iddeng
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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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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
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La influencia del modelo de Alejandro Magno en la tradición escipiónica
Gerión, 2003 The archetype of the conqueror built from the historical figure of Alexander the Great exerted a remarkable influence on the historiography about the Cornelil Scipiones who, this way, turned into Roman versions of the kosmókrotor.
Elena Torrecarav Pagola
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Selection, counterselection, and conditional gene expression for genetic biocontrol of insects
Insect Science, EarlyView.Selection, counterselection, and conditional expression can be used for sex separation. Selection (S) and counterselection (CS) genes are linked to the sex chromosomes (e.g., the X and Y chromosomes) to confer sex‐specific selection or counterselection based on the presence or absence of the S or CS genes.
Melanie Hempel, Zhijian Tu
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The Roman Democracy of Fergus Millar
Revista de HistoriografíaIn his The Roman Republic in Political Thought (his Jerusalem Lectures in History, delivered in memory of Menahem Stern), Millar refers to the reforms implemented in 1980s by Thatcher’s government as the historical context in which he first conceived his
Valentina Arena
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