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The Empire is dead, long live the Empire! Long-run persistence of trust and corruption in the bureaucracy [PDF]
, 2011 Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens’ trust in local public services.
Woessmann , Ludger +5 more
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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'Pearls' of the nineteenth-century: from therapeutic actors to global commodities medicinal leeches in the Ottoman Empire. [PDF]
Med Hist, 2023 Arabacı B.
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores Russia's genocidal discourses on Ukrainians, focusing on the predominant narrative that frames cultural genocide as the ‘liberation’ of Ukrainians through the erasure of their cultural identity. Existing literature tends to overlook this form of genocidal discourse, which diverges from typical ‘othering’ by instead ...
Martin Laryš
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Orphans and destitute children in the late Ottoman empire
, 2014 History books often weave tales of rising and falling empires, royal dynasties, and wars among powerful nations. Here, Maksudyan succeeds in making those who are farthest removed from power the lead actors in this history.
Maksudyan, Nazan
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Empire, Islam and the postcolonial [PDF]
, 2012 One of the most persistent criticisms of postcolonialism is that it promotes an antipathy to imperialism that tends to focus on the experience of European colonial empires and neglects other, non-western instances of imperial hubris.
S. Sayyid
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The Ethnic Groups Military Recruitment Data
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Military conscription affects how countries expand political rights and fight wars, as well as their citizens' view of the state and socioeconomic outcomes. Until recently, conscription was studied in a simplified fashion, missing cases where it only applies to specific societal groups. We introduce the Ethnic Military Recruitment (EGMR) data,
Markéta Odlová, Marius Mehrl
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Legitimizing the order : the Ottoman rhetoric of state power
, 2005 Inhalt basiert teilw. auf Vorträgen gehalten anläßlich eines Symposiums der Bogaziçi Univ., Istanbul, 6 - 7 Juli 2001 zum Thema "Authority and legitimacy in the Ottoman ...
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Russian Military Historical Society (RMHS) was founded in 2012 on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the society's members have not only published propaganda to support the ‘special military operation’ but have discussed the need for a proper ‘state ideology’.
Kati Parppei
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A Polymath Translator Flourishing In The Nursery of Ottoman Statesmen: Mehmed Tahir Munif Effendi
, 2023 Although it is known that translation activities in the Ottoman Empire have existed since the establishment of the Empire in 1299, it was only in the 18th century that written translation activities gained importance and pace.
Erkul Yagci, Ahu Selin, Izci, Hilal
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