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“Sons Of Adam”: Text, Context, And The Early Modern African Subject, Herman L. Bennett Nov 2005

“Sons Of Adam”: Text, Context, And The Early Modern African Subject, Herman L. Bennett

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Seeking to dislodge the prism that a singular political practice—represented as the story from savage to slave—informed the slave trade, this essay points to a distinct genealogy shaping the earliest encounters between Europeans and Africans.


La Invención De Los Clásicos: Nacionalismo, Filología Y Políticas Culturales En Argentina, Fernando Degiovanni Sep 2005

La Invención De Los Clásicos: Nacionalismo, Filología Y Políticas Culturales En Argentina, Fernando Degiovanni

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Este artículo estudia el lugar que tuvo el discurso filológico en las disputas por la consagración de una versión legítima del canon argentino a comienzos del siglo XX. A través del análisis del modo en que algunos críticos utilizaron argumentos y estrategias de fijación discursiva derivados de la crítica textual para legitimar una versión anti-jacobina y anti-socialista de los orígenes de la nacionalidad en un momento crucial de la vida política del país (la sanción de la Ley Sáenz Peña y las primeras elecciones presidenciales limpias), el trabajo se propone indicar las estrechas relaciones entre legitimación crítica y legitimación política …


Review Of The Book Historical Dictionary Of Turkmenistan, John A. Drobnicki Jun 2005

Review Of The Book Historical Dictionary Of Turkmenistan, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the book Historical dictionary of Turkmenistan.


Review Of The Book Dictionary Of Literary Biography, Vol. 299: Holocaust Novelists, John A. Drobnicki Mar 2005

Review Of The Book Dictionary Of Literary Biography, Vol. 299: Holocaust Novelists, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the book Dictionary of literary biography, Vol. 299: Holocaust novelists.


Sacco And Vanzetti: The Italian American Legacy, Fred L. Gardaphé Jan 2005

Sacco And Vanzetti: The Italian American Legacy, Fred L. Gardaphé

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Scientists Seeking To Identify Skull As That Of Copernicus, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Andrew T. Sustich Jan 2005

Scientists Seeking To Identify Skull As That Of Copernicus, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Andrew T. Sustich

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No abstract provided.


Two Liberals On Religion: Constant And Tocqueville Compared, Helena Rosenblatt Jan 2005

Two Liberals On Religion: Constant And Tocqueville Compared, Helena Rosenblatt

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As founding fathers of modern liberalism, Benjamin Constant and Alexis de Tocqueville shared a common sensibility as well as a number of key concerns. Of central importance to both men was the need to protect individual rights and freedoms against what they saw as an encroaching social power. Having learned the lessons of the French Revolution, they knew that power, whether concentrated in the hands of one man, or executed in the name of the "people", was a dangerous thing. Thus they worked throughout their lives to establish and defend a representative system with constitutional guarantees that would protect fundamental …


On White Fish And Black Men: Did Stephen Bishop Really Discover The Blind Cave Fish Of Mammoth Cave?, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Jonathan S. Woodward Jan 2005

On White Fish And Black Men: Did Stephen Bishop Really Discover The Blind Cave Fish Of Mammoth Cave?, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Jonathan S. Woodward

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No abstract provided.