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
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Representative Government in the Dutch Provinces
The Controversy over the Stadtholderate (1705–1707) and Simon van Slingelandt
Bert Drejer
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
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
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
The Specter of Communism
Denmark, 1848
Bertel Nygaard
qualifications as a condition for suffrage—instead of the age limit of thirty years supported by the left and center politicians. He argued, characteristically, that the personal independence required for political participation did not appear at a certain age
Eugenia Gay, Philipp Nielsen, Emanuel Richter, and Gregor Feindt
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
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
Translating the Concept of Experiment in the Late Eighteenth Century
From the English Philosophical Context to the Greek-Speaking Regions of the Ottoman Empire
Eirini Goudarouli and Dimitris Petakos
existence of God. It was considered an expression of religiosity. The experimental philosophers expressed their religious (Protestant) devotion through labor and active participation. In the Protestant context, the rewards of the afterlife would come only
From Schmitt to Foucault
Inquiring the Relationship between Exception and Democracy
Sara Raimondi
these debates, however, it appears less so in regard to the democratic space left to collective participation and popular choice. Against this closure, the article tries to test a “new economy” of power relations as resistance within the structure of the
Jules Vallès and Séverine
Romantic Socialism and the Afterlife of a Cross-Sex Friendship in French Political Culture, 1880–1929
Michael Mulvey
existed in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world, and the textual remnants of those friendships in correspondence evidence the boundaries of women’s political participation as well as gendered concepts of citizenship. 22 Similarly, nineteenth- and