‘Zionism as the Legacy of Cyrus’: (Online) Proxy Nationalism of Diasporic Iranians
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on examining the online activities of a group of diasporic Iranians who exhibit Israeli proxy nationalism online by openly expressing support for Israel and Zionism. By analysing posts, reposts and comments made on X after the Hamas‐led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 using the hashtag #IraniansStandWithIsrael, the paper ...
Ladan Rahbari
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Abstract In mid‐eighteenth‐century Europe, anonymous authors produced parodic satires masquerading as earnest exemplars of the chronicle form. Couched in an antiquated, quasi‐biblical register, these mock chronicles drew flimsily fictional portraits of modern life.
Zachary Garber
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Andres Bello and the Challenges of Spanish American Liberalism [PDF]
Andrés Bello (1781-1865) is generally reckoned to be the foremost intellectual amongst opponents of the Spanish empire in the Americas after the Napoleonic Wars.
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The Object Not of One's Desire: UK Service Club Membership Recruitment, Retention, and Public Image
ABSTRACT Membership organizations rely on maintaining and growing their membership base, both for financial stability and to allow them to increase their impact. UK service clubs are one such kind of membership organization that has suffered a decline in membership in more recent years and is seeking to address this to maintain their presence. However,
David Yates
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The Magistracy of Moses: The Old Testament in Local Government, 1689–1750
Abstract This article explores the popularity of Moses as a model for government in the early eighteenth century. It examines references to Moses in sermons preached at civic or political events such as assizes, elections of mayors, and meetings of reform societies.
Daniel Rignall
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A Dissenter in the Ranks: Barzillai Quaife's Mission to New Zealand
The arrival of the Congregationalist minister Barzillai Quaife in New Zealand in 1840 casts a new light on the established historiography on the role of missionaries in the colony at this time, revealing substantial (imported) divisions between Anglicans and Dissenting sects, resulting in a level of antipathy that (ironically) exceeded that which ...
Paul Moon
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Enlightened Declarations: Ottoman and Russian Proclamations in the Ottoman‐Russian War of 1768–1774
Abstract This article analyses the Ottoman and Russian proclamations during the Ottoman‐Russian War of 1768–1774 to understand their similarities and differences in discourse and their intended audiences, with a special focus on the elites of the Ottoman Empire.
Yusuf Ziya Karabıçak
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Freedom in community or freedom in solitude? Remarks on republicanism and liberalism [PDF]
A political thought is an area of legitimate contribution of competitive ideas. Liberalism is often considered as one of the most significant and influential paradigm of our times.
Bocheński, Tobiasz Adam
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Behind the veil of Russian rural ‘quietness’. [PDF]
Poverty, mass unemployment, social exclusion, and violation of small-holders’ land rights have become the scourge of Russian countryside after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Mamonova, N.V. (Natalia)
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Code vs. Code: Nationalist and Internationalist Images of the Code Civil in the French Resistance to a European Codification [PDF]
French academics reacted to announcements about a possible future European civil code ten years ago in the way in which Americans reacted to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 1940: first with shock, then with rearmament, finally with attempted ...
Michaels, Ralf
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