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Jonathan Valk deposited Crime and Punishment: Deportation in the Levant in the Age of Assyrian Hegemony in the group
History on Humanities Commons 13 hours, 37 minutes ago
Assyrian imperialism is closely associated with the practice of mass deportation. This practice has been explained by recourse to many different motivations. But can we hope to pinpoint the logic informing deportation rather than merely identifying its advantages? This paper surveys the evidence of deportation in the Levant in the period 745–620 B…[Read more]
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Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 4 (2022) Foreword in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 week ago
The foreword of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 4 (2022)
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Joachim Berger deposited Repräsentationsstrategien deutscher Fürstinnen in der Spätaufklärung in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 week, 3 days ago
After the Seven Years War German petty courts increasingly felt obliged to justify their very existence. Therefor members of the reigning dynasties developped strategies to represent themselves as ›enlightened‹ rulers. Especially for non-reigning princesses, practice and patronage of the fine arts – theatre, music, landscape gardening, liter…[Read more]
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Paul Hagouel deposited 2023_Η Διδασκαλία του Ολοκαυτώματος στο Σχολείο: Ιστορικά Στοιχεία και Γιατί [Teaching the Holocaust in School: Historical Data and the Why _ in Greek with full citations in GRE, ENG, DEU, FRA] in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 week, 5 days ago
Teaching the Holocaust in School. Greek particularities. The Why
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Peter Paccione deposited Parliament and Taxation, 1604-1689 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 4 days ago
In the medieval period, Parliament acquired the right of consent to taxation. In the seventeenth century, the early Stuart monarchs, James I and Charles I, pressed for money, resorted to a number of financial expedients which involved the collection of revenue without parliamentary consent, actions which many members of Parliament considered as…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited भगाणा की निर्भयाएं: दलित उत्पीड़न के अनवरत सिलसिले का दृष्टांत in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 5 days ago
21 मई 2012 को हरियाणा के भगाना (भगाणा) गांव में दबंग जाति के लोगों से विवाद के बाद दलित-पिछड़े परिवारों के 52 से ज्यादा परिवारों को अपना गांव छोड़ने पर मजबूर होना पड़ा था। विवाद की शुरूआत शामलात जमीन पर कब्जा हटवाने को लेकर हुई थी। दबंग समुदाय ने उनका हुक्का पानी बंद कर दिया था। इस घटना के 2 साल बाद 23 मार्च 2014 को भगाना गांव की धानुक समुदाय क…[Read more]
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Peter Paccione deposited The French constitution of 1958 and the Russian constitution of 1993: a comparison in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 weeks ago
In December 1993, the Russian Federation adopted a new constitution. This was seen by many in the West as a development that would lead to a new, democratic, law-based political order in Russia. Instead, it resulted in the establishment of the dictatorship of Vladimir Putin. I will attempt to explain some of the reasons I believe this happened. I…[Read more]
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Peter Paccione deposited Absolutism and representative government in early modern France and Austria in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 weeks ago
This paper considers the question of absolutism. I have done this by comparing the early modern French and Austrian monarchies, with an emphasis on representative bodies and other institutions which imposed limits on the respective monarchies.
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Pramod Ranjan deposited बाढ़: अनकही कहानी in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 3 days ago
इस पुस्तिका में बिहार की कोसी नदी में वर्ष 2008 में आई प्रलयंकारी बाढ़ का आंखों देखा वर्णन है। बाढ़ में हजारों लोग मारे गए थे, लेकिन बिहार में सत्ता पर काबिज पार्टी ने इस त्रासदी काे एक जाति विशेष को सबक सिखाने के अवसर के रूप में लिया था। इसका तथ्यात्मक ब्यौरा इसमें है। साथ ही इसमें बेघर हुए लोगों की मर्मांतक पीड़ा का भी चित्रण है।…[Read more]
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Joachim Berger deposited Festarbeit, Tafelloge, Zeremonial. Freimaurerei und höfische Gesellschaft in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 3 days ago
Freemasonry has traditionally been seen as a key influence in the rise of the Bourgeoisie, since it allegedly subdued social boundaries and behavioural norms of the Ancien Régime. This paper, however, argues that the masonic lodges at least in the smaller German court towns, adopted various elements of court society – organizational structures, my…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited बहुजन राजनीति की नई उम्मीद: जीतनराम मांझी in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 4 days ago
जीतन राम मांझी, एक भारतीय राजनेता और बिहार के पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री हैं। वो राजनीतिक पार्टी जनता दल (यूनाइटेड) के नेता के तौर पर 23वें मुख्यमंत्री रहे। मांझी बिहार राज्य में दलित समुदाय के तीसरे मुख्यमंत्री रहे। 20 फरवरी 2015 को उन्होनें मुख्यमंत्री पद से इस्तीफ़ा दे दिया। यह पुस्तक उनके व्यक्तित्व और उनके कार्यों पर आधारित है।
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Pramod Ranjan deposited धर्म और विश्वदृष्टि- पेरियार ई. वी. रामासामी in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 4 days ago
यह किताब ई.वी. रामासामी नायकर ‘पेरियार’ (17 सितम्बर, 1879—24 दिसम्बर, 1973) के दार्शनिक व्यक्तित्व से परिचित कराती है। धर्म, ईश्वर और मानव समाज का भविष्य उनके दार्शनिक चिन्तन का केन्द्रीय पहलू रहा है। उन्होंने मानव समाज के सन्दर्भ में धर्म और ईश्वर की भूमिका पर गहन चिन्तन-मनन किया है। इस चिन्तन-मनन के निष्कर्षों को इस किताब के विविध लेखों मे…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited महिषासुर एक जननायक in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 4 days ago
प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा संपादित पुस्तक “महिषासुर एक जननायक” का उद्देश्य यह स्पष्ट करना है कि आखिर महिषासुर नाम से शुरू किया गया यह आन्दोलन है क्या? इसकी आवश्यकता क्यों पड़ी? इसके निहितार्थ क्या हैं? इस पुस्तक में प्रश्न उठाया गया है कि जब असुर एक प्रजाति है तो उसकी हार या उसके नायक की ह्त्या का उत्सव किस सांस्कृतिक मनोवृत्ति का परिचायक…[Read more]
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Joachim Berger deposited Regimes of territoriality. Overseas conflicts and inner-European relations, c. 1870–1930 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 weeks, 1 day ago
This essay focuses on territorial conflicts between European masonic bodies outside Europe, and on the impact of these conflicts on inner-European masonic relations. The period between c. 1870 and c. 1930 marks the height of the European expansion respectively the age of ‘high imperialism’. It also marks the first wave of decolonization. The tid…[Read more]
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Joachim Berger deposited Between universal values and national ties: Western European freemasonries face the challenge of ‘Europe’, 1850–1930 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 weeks, 1 day ago
How did (Western) European freemasonries on a transnational level came to terms with the idea of a closer union of the European peoples? Concepts of “Europe” and “Europeanness” were the background music of the formation of masonic pan-European networks, building on transnational encounters either by individual freemasons (in the Universala Framaso…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Cowpastures in monuments, memorials and murals in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
Any memorials, monuments, historic sites, and other public facilities commemorate, celebrate and generally remind us about the landscape of the Cowpastures. In recent decades there has been a nostalgia turn in recovering the memory of the Cowpastures landscape. This is cast in terms of the pioneers and the legacy of the European settlement.
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Ian Willis deposited A Camden Link to the First Railway in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
One of the first directors of the Sydney Railway Company was colonial identity Thomas Barker who established Maryland at Bringelly in the 1850s. He developed the farm Maryland as a Sydney gentleman’s retreat and starting building his hilltop homestead in 1854. Barker was a successful Sydney businessman and philanthropist who was one of the…[Read more]
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Joachim Berger deposited Herkules in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Heracles/Hercules is a particularly striking example of how European societies have received, appropriated and reshaped classical heroic myths into the early 21st century. Is the ancient hero thus also a European site of memory? It will be shown that it was a specific aspect of the myth that was evoked particularly frequently and became a topos by…[Read more]
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Joachim Berger deposited The great divide: transatlantic brothering and masonic internationalism, c. 1870–c. 1930 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
This article demonstrates the interplay between national, international and transatlantic dimensions within fraternalism. From the late nineteenth century, masonic lodges took part in the broader push towards the formation of transnational organisations and institutions. They were mainly based in western and southwestern Europe. However,…[Read more]
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Tiago Queimada e Silva deposited The Good Noblemen Who Conquered the Kingdom: Islam, Historiography, and Aristocratic Legitimation in Late- Medieval Portugal in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
This dissertation deals with aristocratic historiography and political legitimation in late-medieval Portugal (late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries). It offers a perspective into the historical imaginary of the late-medieval Portuguese aristocracy; an imaginary that underlay the argumentation of members of this social class in defence of their…[Read more]
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