Berfrois

Turmoil in 19th Century Spain

Turmoil in 19th Century Spain

The analysis begins judiciously with the war of 1793-95 and its aftermath...

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Struggle Sessions and Penal Reform

Struggle Sessions and Penal Reform

Political indoctrination became an important strategy alongside moral instruction...

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Was the Glorious Revolution illegal?

Was the Glorious Revolution illegal?

Was the Glorious Revolution even a revolution? Should it be understood as its own event or merely the final chapter in the seventeenth-century English conflict with the Stuarts?

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The Terror and Transitional Justice in the Twentieth Century

The Terror and Transitional Justice in the Twentieth Century

The same radicalizing dynamic, which was predicated on a complete break with the past, also made it very difficult, and perhaps even impossible, to leave certain pasts behind...

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The Grand Danger!

The Grand Danger!

Why was the family heir sent abroad, often when still a teenager, at a time when travel was indisputably and widely acknowledged to be dangerous?

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Liberia, Mexico and Racial Republicanism

Liberia, Mexico and Racial Republicanism

Colonizationism was not merely a part of the debate over wartime emancipation but rather reflected the United States’ race-based imperial ambitions...

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The Anarchy in England

The Anarchy in England

Recent excavations reveal much about the conduct of siege warfare during the Anarchy and its intersection with larger societal trends...

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Animal Trials by B. Alexandra Szerlip

Animal Trials by B. Alexandra Szerlip

Before writing off animal trials as irrational acts of an ignorant and superstitious past, consider some recent examples...

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German Africans or Germans Abroad?

German Africans or Germans Abroad?

Those in the African colonies, had created a new national identity for themselves as German Africans (Deutsch Afrikaners), rejecting the label of Germans abroad (Auslandsdeutsche) that the metropole used...

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Understudied Dimensions of Japan’s Imperial Project

Understudied Dimensions of Japan’s Imperial Project

Although it continued to live on in the memories of its former victims or enemies, in Japan itself memories of empire were excised from the public imagination through selective commemoration and emphasis on the victimhood of ordinary people...

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Ethical Capitalism in the 19th Century

Ethical Capitalism in the 19th Century

By narrowly defining slavery as limited to the U.S. South and the West Indies, ethical capitalists were able to argue that ‘nothing was a bad as white-owned plantation slavery, and therefore everything else could be described as ethical capitalism’...

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Wee Beleeve

Wee Beleeve

Atlantic news in the 1650s and its coverage of war and empire often underscored the impact of temporal and geographical distance...

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Energetic Architecture

Energetic Architecture

Consider the Georgian terrace, now a widely admired model of traditional city-building. Its most important material was not those of which it was ostensibly made, but coal...

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Thucydides and International Law

Thucydides and International Law

The ancient Greek world did not have an understanding of what is now understood by international law, but there were unwritten norms regarding warfare...

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How cultlike are cults?

How cultlike are cults?

How collaborative are ruler personality cults?

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Rhetoric, Law and the Formation of Asian American as a Racial Identity

Rhetoric, Law and the Formation of Asian American as a Racial Identity

Coulson establishes the broader historical context for the formation of “Asian” as a race in America by pointing to immigration patterns that created economic competition in places like California...

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Her Majesty’s Inspector of Explosives and the Dynamite Rascals

Her Majesty’s Inspector of Explosives and the Dynamite Rascals

It was an “infernal machine” comprised of a clock, a pistol trigger mechanism, moving cogs and bars of a soft, chemical-smelling material...

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Pirates could be civil…

Pirates could be civil…

What is the value of silver and gold in the middle of the ocean?

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Flipping-the-Script of Gender Politics

Flipping-the-Script of Gender Politics

The queer coding in magazines like Bachelor wasn’t just meant to wink at queer readers...

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