assumption is less widespread now because so much has since happened to show its absurdity. I had thought for some time that it is indeed an absurd presumption. If you know what democracy has been over time and space and you explore why it has spread as it
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Learning to Judge Politics
Professor John Dunn (Interviewed by Professor Lawrence Hamilton)
John Dunn and Lawrence Hamilton
Olusegun Steven Samuel and Ademola Kazeem Fayemi
this section, we shall discuss Metz's MR account of moral status. 4 However, it is important to discuss his ubuntu- inspired African ethical construct before examining the viability of his framing of it in the environmental ethical space. Metz traces
“To take a wyf”
Marriage, Status, and Moral Conduct in “The Merchant’s Tale”
Natalie Hanna
access to the space. Thus, when he finally uses the term “wyf” to directly refer to her, and does so repeatedly, it is to remind her of her role and duty to serve him as his spouse. However, now that Januarie is blind he is also at his weakest point
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2016
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- 61–74
Depictions of Women in the Works of Early Byzantine Historians and Chroniclers
Between Stereotype and Reality
Ecaterina Lung
, what was considered the correct model of women’s behavior. 39 Agathias, too, underlines the abnormality of women sharing the same public space with men after the earthquake of 557: “Large numbers of women, and not just the members of the lower classes
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A Fiction of the French Nation
The Émigré Novel, Nostalgia, and National Identity, 1797–1815
Mary Ashburn Miller
’s Eugénie et Mathilde (1811), François-René de Chateaubriand’s Atala (1801), and B. A. Picard’s Le Retour d’un émigré (1803), alongside several others. 5 These novels represent the initial space in which émigrés presented their stories to the nation as
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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Maša Mrovlje and Jennet Kirkpatrick
impossibility of separating the bloody moments of revolution from the constitution of the political community as a space of public freedom. Correm's paper thus not only offers innovative readings of the two most prominent twentieth-century theorists thinking the
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France’s Great War from the Edge
Susan B. Whitney
others have demonstrated, participation in the French war effort had a series of far-reaching consequences for colonial societies, peoples, and spaces. 13 In Tunisia, the final years of the war and the immediate postwar period saw numerous attacks on
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- Introduction
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Migration to the “First Large Suburban Ghetto” in America
Korean Immigrant Merchants in South Central Los Angeles in the 1980s
Chanhaeng Lee
much higher, to the extent that almost half of all African American males became members of the jobless poor. 28 Such multifaceted urban restructuring transformed South Central Los Angeles into a “negative space.” 29 The flight of large chain
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Solicitor Brown and His Boy
Love, Sex, and Scandal in Twentieth-Century Ireland
Averill Earls
Gustav-Wrathall has shown, youth-oriented fitness organizations like An Oige and the YMCA were common sites for same-sex and intergenerational sexual relationships to flourish. 10 Most An Oige hostels had spaces for both boys and girls, which were sex
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Neither Shadow nor Spectre
Populism as the Ideological Embodiment of the Democratic Paradox
Anthony Lawrence Borja
,decontested concepts (i.e. the people and popular sovereignty) are again subjected to contestation. The ambiguity of populist ideology leaves much space for the democratic paradox. In turn, populist ideologues could, with ease, re-raise or even assert distinct and even