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Serving Colony, Christ, and Country: The Political Career of Levinus Keuchenius*

open access: yesParliamentary History, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 126-145, February 2025.
Abstract This article explores the career of Levinus Keuchenius to elaborate on how democratic governance lay at the heart of negotiating imperial power, as well as who belonged in the Dutch political community. Throughout his career, Keuchenius balanced being a colonial expert with his faith as orthodox Calvinist.
Lauren Lauret
wiley   +1 more source

War Captivity as a Contact Zone: The Case of British Prisoners of War on Parole in Napoleonic France

open access: yesHistory, 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
wiley   +1 more source

L´EXOTISME LITTÉRARIE: RELECTURE DU CONTE DE VATHEK DE WILLIAM BECKFORD

open access: yesAnales de Filología Francesa, 2007
Cuando se recorre la mayor parte de los trabajos críticos publicados acerca de Vathek de William Beckford, escritor de nacionalidad inglesa –que, no obstante, decidió publicar este cuento en lengua francesa- , quedamos sorprendidos, en tanto que lectores
Françoise Morcillo
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On the Origins and Legacies of Really Existing Capitalism: In Conversation with Kari Polanyi Levitt

open access: yes, 2019
Development and Change, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 542-572, March 2019.
Andrew M. Fischer
wiley   +1 more source

Ludovico Mazzolino alla prova del mercato d’arte, novecentesco e non solo

open access: yesRicerche di S/Confine, 2017
The main subject of the present study is the commercial fortune of the paintings by Ludovico Mazzolino with particular attention towards the period embracing 19th and 20th centuries.
Andrei Bliznukov
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The Consummate Collector : William Beckford\u27s Letters to His Bookseller

open access: yes, 2000
By William Beckford. Edited with introduction and notes by Robert J. Gemmett, College at Brockport Faculty emeritus. This collection of over 350 letters written by William Beckford to his bookseller George Clarke over the years 1830 to 1834, gives a ...
Beckford, William, 1760-1844   +1 more
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Post‐War Sociology of Religion 1945–2024 in Britain and America

open access: yes
Religious Studies Review, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 69-75, March 2024.
Bryan S. Turner
wiley   +1 more source

The Virtual Infernal: Philippe de Loutherbourg, William Beckford and the Spectacle of the Sublime

open access: yes, 2007
In the autumn of 1781, shortly after being elected to the British Academy of Art as a landscape painter, Alsatian-born artist Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg was hired by the wealthy young aesthete William Beckford to prepare a private birthday ...
McCalman, Iain, Iain McCalman
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Conférence de M. James A. Beckford

open access: yes, 2003
Beckford James A. Conférence de M. James A. Beckford. In: École pratique des hautes études, Section des sciences religieuses. Annuaire. Tome 112, 2003-2004. 2003. pp.
Beckford, James Arthur
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William Beckford, Vathek - Bibliographie sommaire et sélective

open access: yes, 1976
Parreaux André. William Beckford, Vathek - Bibliographie sommaire et sélective. In: XVII-XVIII. Bulletin de la société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. N°3, 1976. pp.
Parreaux, André
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