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Simón Rodríguez and the sentimental roots of social republicanism
Abstract In this article, I claim that Simón Rodríguez, a 19th‐century Venezuelan thinker, used and reconfigured Jean‐Jacques Rousseau's understanding of amour‐propre to construct a new political foundation for Latin America. He sought to channel it and other sentiments toward productive ends with a social education. In doing so, Rodríguez departs from
Alejandro Castrillón
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War Captivity as a Contact Zone: The Case of British Prisoners of War on Parole in Napoleonic France
Abstract The existing scholarship on Napoleonic captivity tends to focus on French prisoners of war held in Britain at the time. This article seeks to help redress this gap by drawing upon a range of English and French sources to investigate how British captives on parole experienced displacement in Napoleonic France during up to eleven years of their ...
ELODIE DUCHÉ
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Norman Gash: Political Historian
Abstract This article commemorates the 40th anniversary of the publication of Lord Liverpool by Norman Gash (1912–2009). It considers Gash as a historian who both wrote about 19th‐century politics and expressed political views of his own. These views became increasingly prominent in the 1980s, during Margaret Thatcher's period of office.
Richard A. Gaunt
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The last free traders? Interwar trade policy in the Netherlands and Netherlands East Indies
Abstract There has still been too little detailed work on the protectionism that emerged in the wake of the Great Depression. In this paper we explore the experiences of two countries that have been largely neglected in the literature, the Netherlands and Netherlands East Indies (NEI).
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Napoleonic theatre and the body
Society of Dix-neuviémistes annual conference, Paris April 2016 Three members of the French Theatre of the Napoleonic era ran a panel on Napoleonic theatre and the body at the SDN annual conference last week.
Katherine Astbury
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AbstractThe Battle of the Teutoburg Forest between the Germanic Cherusci chieftain Arminius, or Hermann, and the Roman armies under Varus (9 AD) had served as an analogy for German–French hereditary enmity since the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48). This analogy was particularly popular during the Napoleonic Wars as it symbolized the unity, independence ...
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Nationalism and the transformation of the state
Abstract While it is often assumed that the core debates about nationalism were settled by modernist scholars already in the 1980s, there are reasons to question this theoretical ‘consensus’, especially because it fails to anticipate the wave of nationalist geopolitics that is currently sweeping through the world.
Lars‐Erik Cederman
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The Place of the Napoleonic Myth in The Red and the Black
The problem contained in this study was Stendhal's use of the Napoleonic myth in his novel The Red and the Black. This study dealt primarily with Stendhal's purpose in using the myth as a basis for his novel and with the extent to which the principal ...
Kappel, Mary
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ParametricPress/01-the-myth-of-the-impartial-machine: Initial release
Source code for The Myth of the Impartial ...
shuyan-wu, Matthew Conlen, Alice Feng
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Zamoyski, Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth (William Collins, 2018)
Review of Adam Zamoyski, Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth (London: William Collins, 2018).
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