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Tocqueville on Democracy and Revolution
Daniel Gordon discusses Tocqueville’s major writings on democracy and revolution as well as his lesser- known writings on colonies, prisons and minorities
War and Genocide
Doris L. Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Bergen speaks on…
From commodity to money
The reasons why the Western Mediterranean, especially Carthage and Rome, resisted monetization relative to the Eastern Mediterranean are…
Commemorating Augustus
Tom Stevenson reviews a collection of papers delivered at the Commemorating Augustus conference held in Leeds on 19…
The History of Inebriation and Reason from Plato to the Latin Middle Ages
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides discusses the undetected but pervasive dichotomy between spiritual inebriation and physical drunkenness from antiquity to the…
In the Footsteps of Flora Tristan
Máire Cross discusses Jules Puech’s work on feminist and socialist Flora Tristan. Beginning with an examination of newly…
National indifference and the return of Alsace to France
Alison Carrol examines French policies to reintegrate the recovered region of Alsace into France after the First World…
Exile, Imprisonment, or Death
Julian Swann discusses the ‘politics of disgrace’ in Ancien Régime France, which led elite subjects to submit to imprisonment or…
1917: War, Peace, and Revolution
1917 was a year of calamitous events, and one of pivotal importance in the development of the First…
Clergy in English minsters c.800-c.1100
Julia Barrow discusses the late Anglo-Saxon clergy and in particular at the question of royal patronage of churches.
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