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History, EarlyView.Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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Law and justice in the later Roman Empire
, 2007 Book synopsis: The appearance in 1964 of A.H.M. Jones’ The Later Roman Empire 284–602: A Social, Economic, and Administrative Survey transformed the study of the Late Antique world. In this volume a number of leading scholars reassess the impact of Jones’
Humfress, Caroline
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The Monetary Reforms of the Romans and the Finds of Roman Denarii in Eastern and Northern Europe
Current Swedish Archaeology, 1993 Monetary measures undertaken inside the Roman Empire might be responsible for the composition of finds of Roman coins made ontside the Empire. A possible link between the composition of the denarius finds in Barbarian Europe, on the one hand, and the ...
Lennart Lind
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School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?
History, EarlyView.Abstract The 1870 Elementary Education Act enabled the creation of school boards in England and Wales. Members were directly elected by the cumulative vote. This method gave each individual voter as many votes as there were seats on a school board, in some cases up to fifteen.
ED GREEN
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One-man rule vanquished the pluralistic and competitive system of the Roman Republic in the first century BCE. The first emperor was Augustus Caesar (r. 31 BCE–14 CE), and the empire was originally established as hereditary in the Julio-Claudian dynasty he founded.
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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain
History, EarlyView.Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
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Book Review: Pfeil und Bogen in der Römischen Kaiserzeit, by Holger Riesch
EXARC Journal, 2019 This book closes a gap both in the documentation of the history of the Roman army as well as the history of archery in that it provides a very comprehensive overview on the use of bow and arrow in the Roman Empire.
Antje Wilton
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Vox Patrum, 2018 The reign of Emperor Marcian came at the turning point in the history of the Late Roman Empire. The Empire struggled against the Hun and Vandal menace and an internal political crisis.
Łukasz Pigoński
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
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Amphorae ex Aegysso. Fragments from Older Excavations [PDF]
Peuce, 2018 This paper presents a sample of early and late Roman amphorae fragments discovered during several excavations performed at Aegyssus–Tulcea-Colnicul Hora in the 1959-1996 period, with the purpose of bringing a small contribution to the study of the ...
Radu-Octavian STĂNESCU
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