public affairs, implicating cleverness, factitiousness, and selfishness. Politique sometimes attains a very disrespectful meaning, associated with pretension and audacity. For the moment, it does not carry any reference to democracy or participation
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In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Lest We Forget (Matter)
Posthumanism, Memory, and Exclusion
Matthew Howard
(or can threaten) services ( WA , 21 April Anon 1936d: 13)—or when dawn services were canceled because of potential airstrikes during World War II ( KM , 19 March Anon 1942b: 2) —the specific temporality of dawn enacted as it was by the participation
Cècile Mathieu
Translator : Matthew Roy
illustrations of Annamite and Senegalese infantrymen, thereby recognizing their participation in the conflict, the engravings of groups of military men differ from other illustrated ethnonyms in that the theme of war excludes all others. It is particularly
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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Art to Table
The Power of Aesthetics in Women’s Cookbooks of the Belle Époque
Samantha Presnal
open to all. In so doing, they helped pull French cuisine out of a patrilineal past and into a new democratic era. Participation in the elite eating culture of France now depended on acquiring, rather than inheriting, discriminating taste
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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Christina Oesterheld
Islamic novel makes use of the themes of romantic love and love marriage, but safely situated outside the respectable middle-class domestic sphere. However, while Sharar portrays romantic love as a driving force for the hero’s participation in jihād
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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The Return of N'Guyen Van Binh
Exile and Injustice in the French Empire, 1866–1876
Geoff Read
departure from Saigon, Van Binh could finally go home to his family. But once again: fortune did not favor the unhappy exile, for Couturier wrote that Van Binh had been found guilty in May 1874 of “participation in a conspiracy” by the Assizes Court in Point
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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The Battle of El Herri in Morocco
Narratives of Colonial Conquest during World War I
Caroline Campbell
Archinard, who wrote its preface and praised Mangin for advocating for the increased use of “magnificent black troops.” 87 The two men had bonded over their colonial military experiences, including their full participation in slavery, one of the most
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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Representative Government in the Dutch Provinces
The Controversy over the Stadtholderate (1705–1707) and Simon van Slingelandt
Bert Drejer
towns had no right to speak for themselves. Van Slingelandt's pivotal claim is that the represented members of the States are excluded from participation in its meetings. He first introduces this claim in speaking of a declaration of the nobility of 1555
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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Dealing with an Ocean of Meaninglessness
Reinhart Koselleck's Lava Memories and Conceptual History
Margrit Pernau and Sébastien Tremblay
the role of the Wehrmacht in turning the war into a war of extermination and on their knowledge of and participation in the organization of the so-called Final Solution and the Holocaust. Unlike earlier controversies, this could not be contained in an
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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Observations on the Semantic Trajectory of Pluralism in Scholarly Discourse
A Study of Two Argumentative Tropes
Jean Terrier
corollaries of the development of modern society, or as vehicles of democratic participation, whether within or beyond the nation-state. 89 From Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Max Weber and Hannah Arendt, many social and political thinkers, some of
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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