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Sociology and The Complexity of What Is Missing
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What is ‘missed’ by sociological literature underpinned by assumptions of presence that a missing approach can rectify? I appropriate a metaphysics of presence and an alternative focus on what is missing as ontological foci to revisit complexity studies in sociology.
Konstantinos Poulis
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Crise e Consciência : ensaio sobre a descristianização de Portugal no século XVII [PDF]
Via Spiritus, 2016 It is the purpose of this paper to understand unbelief and religious indifference in early modern Portugal, based on a retrospective analysis starting from the transition from XVIIth to XVIIIth century back to early seventeenth-century.
António Vitor Ribeiro
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Preserving Purity: Cultural Exchange and Contamination in Late Seventeenth Century Portuguese India
Ler História, 2010 This essay examines several measures taken to regulate Hindu marriages and bailadeiras in order to control cultural exchanges between Catholics and non-Christians in the late seventeenth century. Despite such regulations, Catholics continually interacted
Nandini Chaturvedula
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Natural law, natural philosophy, natural rights [PDF]
, 2008 Who or what is the creator (and how is that we can presume to read his mind and know his intentions) and how do we know there are inalienable rights? As will become clear in the pages below, the idea of the creator is a powerful concept that permeates ...
Stein, Joshua B.
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Improvement in the English Translations of Albrecht von Haller's Usong (1771)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The political novel Usong (1771), written by the Swiss physiologist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), is set in the fifteenth century and tells the story of a Mongolian prince who becomes the Emperor of Persia and redesigns the government of his empire to promote the happiness of his subjects.
Laura Tarkka
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Essays in Economic and Business History, 2001 This essay examines the silk trade in Southern Italy through a quantitative study of exports from the dry-customs port of Reggio Calabria. It traces the experience of Reggio’s silk industry from its heyday in the sixteenth century to its collapse in the ...
Antonio Calabria
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Dangerous Woman: Elizabeth Key\u27s Freedom Suit - Subjecthood and Racialized Identity in Seventheenth Century Colonial Virginia [PDF]
, 2008 Elizabeth Key, an African-Anglo woman living in seventeenth century colonial Virginia sued for her freedom after being classified as a negro by the overseers of her late master’s estate.
Banks, Taunya Lovell
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
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"Put a mark on the errors": Seventeenth-century medicine and science. [PDF]
Hist Sci, 2023 Leonard A, Parker SE.
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Banking as an emerging technology: Hoare's Bank, 1702-1742 [PDF]
London’s financial market underwent dramatic change after 1700. More limited than Paris or Amsterdam in the seventeenth century, London became the leading financial centre in Europe in the eighteenth century.
Joachim Voth, Peter Temin
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