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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
wiley   +1 more source

HOUSING QUESTION OLD AND NEW: Mapping Crowding, Tenure, Rents and Segregation in the Neighborhoods of Major European Cities around 1900 and Today

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In a context of unprecedented urbanization, nineteenth‐century European cities faced the ‘housing question’, i.e. precarious housing standards and affordability problems. While existing research has well described these historical housing problems in single‐city studies or in national urbanization histories, to our knowledge, there are hardly ...
Sebastian Kohl   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

The Last Crimean khans according to the documents of Russian military leaders [PDF]

open access: yesКрымское историческое обозрение
The article is an analysis of information on the last rulers of the Crimean Khanate – Shakhbaz Geray and Baht Geray contained in the documents of Russian commanders participated in the Russian-Turkish war of 1787–1791.
Roman Pochekaev
doaj   +1 more source

The Terrestrialization of Amphibious Life in a Danube Delta \u27Town on Water\u27 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Visitors to the Danube Delta town of Vylkove, known as the “Ukrainian Venice,” are often disappointed by the condition its 40 kilometers of canals, which frequently resemble over-grown ditches that are often impassible by boat.
Richardson, Tanya
core   +1 more source

Family Work Among the Astors

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

ЕКСПОРТ ЦУКРУ З УКРАЇНСЬКИХ ЗЕМЕЛЬ РОСІЙСЬКОЇ ІМПЕРІЇ ДО ПЕРСІЇ НАПЕРЕДОДНІ Й У РОКИ ПЕРШОЇ СВІТОВОЇ ВІЙНИ [PDF]

open access: yesStorìnki Istorìï, 2013
In scientific article author research problem of history economics relation-ships between Ukraine and Persian country in Russian empire period. Main attention is paid to an analyze of sugar export to this country. External economic relations of Ukrainian
О. Є. Пилипенко
doaj  

Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
wiley   +1 more source

A Meeting at the Duc's: On Eighteenth-Century Russian Empire Studies after 2022

open access: yesВивліоѳика
This article examines the stakes of the 2023 renaming of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association to the Eighteenth-Century Russian Empire Studies Association. It argues that this renaming helps us to re-envision the stakes of the field and to
Gregory Afingenov
doaj   +1 more source

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