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War Captivity as a Contact Zone: The Case of British Prisoners of War on Parole in Napoleonic France
History, Volume 109, Issue 388, Page 488-520, December 2024.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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Law and Justice: Scott v. Canada and the History of the Social Covenant with Canadian Veterans [PDF]
, 2016 In October 2012, supported by veteran advocacy group Equitas, Canadian Forces veterans of the Afghanistan campaign filed a class action lawsuit against the Federal Government. The case, Scott v. Canada, is named after lead Plaintiff Daniel Scott.
Minnes, Jonathan
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The Australian Constitutional Framers and the Languages of Virtue
Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 70, Issue 4, Page 641-657, December 2024.The historiography of the political concept of virtue has been dominated by examinations of western European and North American sources. This article aims to widen the historical scope for our understanding of the influence of the concept of political virtue by examining how Anglophone conceptions of virtue were employed by the framers of the ...
Simon P. Kennedy, Benjamin B. Saunders
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(Re)purposing cadasters: When ecclesiastical archives advocate for Indigenous land rights
Canadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 306-322, Autumn / automne 2024.Abstract This paper reflects on the potential and limits of repatriating state‐sanctioned historical materials and repurposing them as “counter‐archives” for Indigenous communities. This proposal aligns itself with the epistemic shift in archival studies which promotes a processual approach to archiving (archive‐as‐subject) rather than an extractive ...
Léa Denieul‐Pinsky
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The Patriotic war of 1812 in the book collection of N. K. Shilder: books with autographs
Vìsnik Odesʹkogo Nacìonalʹnogo Unìversitetu: Bìblìotekoznavstvo, Bìblìografoznavstvo, Knigoznavstvo, 2014 Memorials of 1812 conserved in the stocks of the Scientific Library of the Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University are considered in the framework of the Jubilee events devoted to the 200th anniversary of the victory of Russian arms in the Patriotic ...
О. В. Полевщикова
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Invasive Species: Immunity and Community in Contemporary Outbreak Narratives
The Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 3, Page 399-413, July 2024.Abstract The word contagion, derived from Latin contagio, the combination of con (“together with”) and tagio (“touch”), suggests a close relationship between the human body and community. It stands to reason, then, that contagion narratives in one way or the other attempt to reflect upon one’s being in the world, with others, whether human or non‐human,
Julia Vaingurt
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The London Journal of Canadian Studies, 2021 The War of 1812 was a very expensive conflict for the United States. In 1813, three foreign-born investors, among them David Parish from Hamburg, Germany, saved the US government from bankruptcy by providing a sixteen-million dollar loan.
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Friends or Enemies? Spanish Captives in France, 1809-1814 [PDF]
, 2012 The Napoleonic wars in certain countries have created common stereotypes. Predominantly, that one between the Spanish and French Nation has spread an image of absolute enmity of the French. If we study some examples deeply, particularly that of the elite
Zozaya-Montes, Maria
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“Following Our Own Path”: Pavel Katenin’s Political Theater
The Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 2, Page 227-242, April 2024.Abstract The present article focuses on the tension arising from Pavel Katenin’s aesthetic and literary vision for the reception of Antiquity in Russian mythological drama: his avid support of Classical purism and his denunciation of dramatists, for whom ancient myths served merely as a resource of historical parallels, is challenging to reconcile with
Katherine New
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Parliamentary History, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 112-128, February 2024.Abstract This article pioneers a new methodological approach to the study of electoral politics by combining an analysis of the politics of reading, library association and the reading habits of electors in an English urban constituency in the early 19th century.
Joshua j. Smith
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