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5041
The internal dynamics of Gaullism, 1958-1969
Published 2001“…Many of those who have written about Gaullism - historians, political scientists, journalists and politicians alike - have tended to focus too narrowly on the personality, beliefs and actions of Charles de Gaulle. …”
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5042
Germans or Jews? German-speaking Jews in post-war Europe: an introduction
Published 2017“…<p>Historians have devoted increasing attention in the past decade to the aftermath of the Shoah, focusing in particular on the Displaced Persons (DP) camps in the American, British, and French occupation zones of Germany and Austria. …”
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5043
Interrogating the World Bank’s role in global health knowledge production, governance, and finance
Published 2021“…<br> <strong>Main body</strong> As a group of historians, social scientists, and public health officials with experience studying the effects of the institution’s investment in health, we identify three challenges to this research. …”
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5044
The Encyclopedists as individuals
Published 2017“…They were not a sect of like-minded thinkers, even though contemporaries and later historians believed otherwise. Some of them met at such salons as the baron d’Holbach’s and madame d’Epinay’s or at such learned societies as the Paris Académie royale des sciences or the Académie française; but others did not know each other, and they certainly did not try to co-ordinate policies. …”
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5045
The experience of Roman legionary service from Augustus to Septimius Severus
Published 2024“…The primary group has dominated modern military sociology, leading some ancient historians to apply the concept to the ancient world; I attempt to test the evidence. …”
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5046
Performing barbers, surgeons and barber-surgeons in early modern English literature
Published 2011“…This study has a wide-ranging literary corpus, including early modern play texts, ballads, pamphlets, guild records, dictionaries, inventories, medical treatises and archaeological material, and contributes to the critical endeavours of the medical humanities, cultural materialists, theatre historians and linguists.…”
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5047
Beyond Reaganomics: the long economic crisis and the rebuilding of America, 1974-1988
Published 2019“…Yet a mere four years later, inflation and unemployment rates were falling, the country’s largest industrial corporations were reporting profits, and cities whose decline had once seemed inexorable appeared to be in the midst of a revival. </p> <p>Most historians place the federal government and the cocktail of <em>laissez-faire</em> economic policies known as ‘Reaganomics’ at the center of their narratives when they talk about this period of U.S. history. …”
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5048
Elegaic materialism: the poetry and art of Susan Howe
Published 2014“…If “history is the record of the winners,” as Howe says, then one way of rescuing marginalized perspectives is by regarding manuscripts as drawings, thereby rescuing the concrete particulars deemed irrelevant by editors and historians. As Howe's late work turned increasingly toward elegy, her early aesthetic contributed to a nuanced poetics of personal loss and to a series of astonishing new formal tropes.…”
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5049
Irish protestant travel to Europe, 1660-1727
Published 2013“…<p>This thesis examines travel to continental Europe as undertaken by several generations of Irish Protestants between 1660 and 1727. Historians draw parallels between the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland and other polities in <em>ancien régime</em> Europe, but these demand an exploration of contemporary encounters. …”
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5050
Representing private lives of the Enlightenment
Published 2017“…<br/><br/> Andrew Kahn, Introduction: The problem of private life<br/> Sarah Maza, Historians and eighteenth-century private life: an overview<br/> Caroline Warman, Intimate, deprived, uncivilised: Diderot and the publication of the private moment<br/> Olivier Ferret, Inventing private lives: the representation of private lives in French <em>Vies privées</em><br/> Lise Andries, The private life of criminals<br/> Alison Oliver, <em>La Nouvelle Héloïse</em> and Wolmar’s project: transforming passion into ‘familiarité fraternelle’<br/> Larry Wolff, Private life, personal liberty and sexual crime in eighteenth-century Venice: the case of Gaetano Franceschini<br/> Viktor Zhivov, Handling sin in eighteenth-century Russia<br/> Irina Reyfman, Writing, ranks and the eighteenth-century Russian gentry experience<br/> Andreas Schönle, Private walks and public gazes: Enlightenment and the use of gardens in eighteenth-century Russia<br/> Mark Ledbury, Embracing and escaping the material: genre painting, objects and private life in eighteenth-century France<br/> Shearer West, Eccentricity and the self: private character in English public portraiture<br/> Adam Sutcliffe, Friendship and materialism in the French Enlightenment<br/> M.O. …”
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5051
Shape-shifters: Romantic-era representations of the child in the Wollstonecraft-Godwin family circle
Published 2008“…The thesis situates these representations of childhood against the backdrop of the Romantic-era cultural celebration of childhood as established in works by historians and critics such as Philippe Ariés and James McGavran, Jr. …”
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5052
Getting everybody back on the same team
Published 1979“…<p>The final chapters examine other means by which management aimed to outflank and undermine unions, and to restore its own power and prestige - methods which .have usually been neglected by business and labour historians alike. The objectives and rationales of personnel administration, 'welfare capitalism' , in-plant propaganda, and public relations are analysed.…”
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5053
The logic of the nation: nationalism, formal logic, and interwar Poland
Published 2018“…Competitive nationalist attitudes were common among interwar scientists – a stance historians have called “Olympic internationalism,” in which nationalism and internationalism interacted as complementary rather than conflicting impulses. …”
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5054
Regulating the Académie
Published 2017“…<br/> Offering new insights into the tensions between art and state throughout the <em>ancien régime</em> and beyond, <em>Regulating the Académie</em> is an invaluable reference not only for art historians, but also for those working in cultural or legal history. …”
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5055
Model presswomen: ‘high-minded’ female journalism in the mid-Victorian era
Published 2016“…Although women's campaigning journalism has attracted some attention, especially from historians of feminism, its role in the professionalization of women writers has gone largely unexamined. …”
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5056
Disraeli and Religion
Published 2016“…<p>This thesis offers a new understanding of Benjamin Disraeli’s religious thought. Historians remember Disraeli as a mercurial self-fashioner, who adopted various personae throughout his public life. …”
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5057
A bioanthropological perspective on the Punic period in Ibiza (Spain) as evidenced by human skeletal remains
Published 2006“…<p>The Punic period (6th - 2nd century BC) in the island of Ibiza (Spain) has been regarded by historians and archaeologists as a time of flourishing economic wealth and prosperity, as evidenced by its coin production, demographic growth, agricultural exploitation, intensive product manufacturing and its overall importance to Punic trading routes.…”
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5058
Utopia and civilisation in the Arab Nahda
Published 2015“…An initial chapter offers a definition of the social classes and groups which contributed to the Nahda in these years – such as the Beiruti bourgeoisie and the Egyptian-Ottoman official class – drawing on the work of Arab Marxists such as Mahd&imacr; '&Amacr;mil and social historians such as Bruce Masters. The following chapters deal in detail with writings produced by three distinct cultural formations within the Nahda movement, and with different aspects of their social imagination. …”
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5059
Sarpi, Micanzio and Bedell. A new source for the Anglo-Venetian encounter at Santa Maria dei Servi (1607-1611)
Published 2023“…The fruitful intellectual exchange that ensued has long been a source of great fascination to historians. However, one intriguing document – a short treatise on Christian doctrine, written by Bedell just after he returned from Venice – has not been discussed in any previous scholarship. …”
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5060
Anticommunism in French society and politics, 1945-1953
Published 2021“…<p>This thesis examines the role of anticommunism in French politics and society from the end of the Second World War to 1953. While previous historians have analysed anticommunism among politicians and intellectuals, few have addressed its wider social ramifications. …”
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