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Habitat Diversity Mitigates the Impacts of Human Pressure on Stream Biodiversity.
(2024-10)Recent decades have witnessed substantial changes in freshwater biodiversity worldwide. Although research has shown that freshwater biodiversity can be shaped by changes in habitat diversity and human-induced pressure, the ... -
Hannah Arendt
(Zed Books, 2016-11-15)Offering an insightful and thought-provoking guide to the work of many famous writers who continue to influence and inform contemporary political, philosophical, sociological, and cultural study, Histories of Violence is ... -
De Hemptinne, The Benedictines, and Catholic Assimilation on the Congolese Copperbelt, 1911-1960
This article explores the history of the Benedictines in south-eastern Congo. The Benedictine leader, Jean-Félix De Hemptinne, eschewed an adaptationist approach to his mission work in favour of an assimilationist one. ... -
"A hideous torture on himself": madness and self-mutilation in Victorian literature.
(2011-12)This paper suggests that late nineteenth-century definitions of self-mutilation, a new category of psychiatric symptomatology, were heavily influenced by the use of self-injury as a rhetorical device in the novel, for the ... -
History and Nature in Karl Marx: Marx’s Debt to German Idealism
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History in Pakistan and the Will to Architecture
(Duke University Press, 2019-05-01)This essay serves as both an introduction to a themed section and a provocation regarding a possible agenda for the anthropology of history in Pakistan. It considers the implications of Faisal Devji’s argument that unity ... -
Hobbes and the Social Control of Unsociability
(Oxford University Press, 2016-06-01)The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes collects twenty-six newly commissioned, original chapters on the philosophy of the English thinker Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). -
A Holy Relic of War: The Soviet Victory Banner as Artefact
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‘How do you live?’: experiments in revolutionary living after 1917
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‘I felt like a man’: West Indian troops under fire during the First World War
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"If they send him off, I think I shall not long be safe myself": Contesting Early American Citizenship in the Longchamps Affair, 1784–1786
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023-09)