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The government–robber comparison: A long‐standing tradition beyond avowed libertarianism
Economic Affairs, EarlyView.Abstract A government differs from a robber, but they share the common feature of initiating coercion. This similarity has been noticed by libertarians as well as within a distinct scholarly tradition and as a recurring theme throughout Western philosophy.
Brian Mandeville
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Cahiers Balkaniques, 2008 Over three centuries, some Croatian regions were in the geopolitical situation which could be qualified as between “the devil and the deep sea”, as far as they were under Venetian and Ottoman domination.
Sineva Bene-Katunarić
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"Rusticall chymistry": Alchemy, saltpeter projects, and experimental fertilizers in seventeenth-century English agriculture. [PDF]
Hist Sci, 2022 Niermeier-Dohoney J.
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Sermon on Saint Thomas, the Beloved Apostle: A Syriac Catholic Panegyric from Seventeenth Century Malabar, written by Radu Mustaţă [PDF]
, 2020 Robert John Clines
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Educational Theory, EarlyView.Abstract The tendency to silence higher education teachers and students around the globe who express opinions that others regard as wrong is increasing. This lack of interest in listening to, and at times silencing, people with opposing views raises the question of what makes higher education unique and worth protecting.
Silvia Edling
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Baroque Flair: Seventeenth-century European Sapphic Poetry
Humanist Studies & The Digital Age, 2011 Early modern women poets across Europe and at least one colony enlisted Petrarchist terms, often with a self-aware, parodic twist. Some examples, considered here, include (first) self-portrait poems that serve to critique not only the lyric speaker ...
Amanda Powell
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The Noctambuli: tales of sleepwalkers and secrets of the body in seventeenth-century England. [PDF]
Seventeenth Century, 2022 Hunter E.
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Boston University Wind Ensemble, November 20, 2014 [PDF]
, 2014 This is the concert program of the Boston University Wind Ensemble performance on Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 8:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Fanfares Liturgiques by Henri
School of Music, Boston University
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China inside out: Explaining silver flows in the triangular trade, c. 1820s‒70s
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper analyses a new large dataset of silver prices, as well as silver and merchandise trade flows in and out of China in the crucial decades of the mid‐nineteenth century when the Empire was opened to world trade. Silver flows were associated with the interaction between heterogeneous monetary preferences and availability of specific ...
Alejandra Irigoin +2 more
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Napis, 2021 The article focuses on the experience of isolation and evidence thereof in personal document literature (journals, diaries, letters, among others), as well as on the traces of prison experiences in poetic texts (such as by Zbigniew Morsztyn).
Marcin Pliszka
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