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Napoleon and British Song, 1797-1822
(Springer, 2015-10-12)
This study offers a radical reassessment of a crucial period of political and cultural history.
JEWISHNESS AND THE PROBLEM OF NATIONALISM: A GENEALOGY OF ARENDT'S EARLY POLITICAL THOUGHT
(Cambridge University Press, 2015-08-03)
'The Black Lines of Damnation': Double Predestination and the Causes of Despair in Timothy Bright's A Treatise of Melancholie
(Institut du Monde Anglophone, 2015-12-08)
The relationship between melancholy and religious enthusiasm in England has been the subject of a number of historical studies. This article examines a lesser-known type of religious melancholy, the fear that one was among ...
‘Between the bridge and the brook’: suicide and salvation in England c. 1550-1650
(2015-04-21)
That suicide was a damnable sin in Reformation England has been emphasized so far in the historiography of self-killing, but in practice the clergy were equivocal over the question of whether all self-killers were damned. ...
The Bright Young People of the late 1920s: How the Great War’s Armistice influenced those too young to fight
(2015-01-01)
© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. The Bright Young People were a much publicized aristocratic coterie and a fragment of the generation that had been old enough to remember the Great War, yet too young to have fought in it. ...
Square-Eyed Farmers and Gloomy Ethnographers: The Advent of Television in the West German Village
(SAGE Publications (UK and US), 2015-08-07)
Ken Loach and the Save the Children Film: Humanitarianism, Imperialism, and the Changing Role of Charity in Postward Britain
(The University of Chicago, 2015-06-01)