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Historical Note: The Capricious Nature Of Privanzas In Habsburg Spain: 1556-1665, Nathan Harkey 2025 University of Arkansas

Historical Note: The Capricious Nature Of Privanzas In Habsburg Spain: 1556-1665, Nathan Harkey

The Ozark Historical Review

The vast reaches of the Spanish Habsburg empire necessitated a change in court politics in order to manage day-to-day issues for the king. The answer to this problem in Spain, as in other European kingdoms, was the emergence of the privado or court favorite as a legitimate official who would ideally manage the influx of state affairs, limiting access to the king that would have been previously attainable through audiences. While the original purpose of the privado was to alleviate the countless duties of an overburdened monarch, early modern privanzas became a form of art in the expression of absolute …


Access Denied: The Poor's One-Hundred Year Long Fight For Judicial Equality, Austin Jones 2025 University of Arkansas

Access Denied: The Poor's One-Hundred Year Long Fight For Judicial Equality, Austin Jones

The Ozark Historical Review

This work discusses Reginald Heber Smith's Justice and the Poor and the framework that is described within to provide equal access to the judicial system. The writer posits that this goal has yet to be reached.


Consumptive Vampires: Notes On Nineteenth-Century Blood-Drinkers, Rachel Widmer 2025 University of Arkansas

Consumptive Vampires: Notes On Nineteenth-Century Blood-Drinkers, Rachel Widmer

The Ozark Historical Review

From the late 19th century, newspapers reported of incidences where blood-drinking was used as a potential cure for disease. This paper explores this report and investigates this behavior among consumptives at the time.


Fires And Protests Of Peace: The Catholic Anti-War Movement In Sixties America, Casey Self 2025 University of Arkansas

Fires And Protests Of Peace: The Catholic Anti-War Movement In Sixties America, Casey Self

The Ozark Historical Review

This study reviews the history of the Catholic Peace Movement and the impact of the publication, Catholic Worker, and individuals such as Thomas Merton, Phillip and Daniel Berrigan, and Dorothy Day on the anti-war movement against the Vietnam War.


Editor's Note, 2025 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Editor's Note

The Ozark Historical Review

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Contents, 2025 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Contents

The Ozark Historical Review

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Title Page, 2025 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

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The Ozark Historical Review

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The Ozark Historical Review, V.47, 2019, 2025 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

The Ozark Historical Review, V.47, 2019

The Ozark Historical Review

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Contributors, 2025 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Contributors

The Ozark Historical Review

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Out Of Orbit? European Space Collaboration In Post-Brexit Europe, Colin Doege 2025 University of Arkansas

Out Of Orbit? European Space Collaboration In Post-Brexit Europe, Colin Doege

The Ozark Historical Review

This paper explores the historical role of the UK within the European Space Agency in light of the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union.


Talking With Dragons: How Dragons Reveal The Hero's Heart, Anne Elise Crafton 2025 University of Arkansas

Talking With Dragons: How Dragons Reveal The Hero's Heart, Anne Elise Crafton

The Ozark Historical Review

The author shines a light onto the transformation Dragons over time and their relationships with heroes in European narrative and art. The study provides primary source analysis as well as a review of the secondary literature as represented through the works for Frazer, Dundes, and Tolkien.


Contents, 2025 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Contents

The Ozark Historical Review

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Title Page, 2025 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Title Page

The Ozark Historical Review

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The Ozark Historical Review, V. 46, 2018, 2025 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

The Ozark Historical Review, V. 46, 2018

The Ozark Historical Review

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Contributors, 2025 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Contributors

The Ozark Historical Review

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The Onnagata: A Note Regarding The Male Actor Of Female Roles In Japanese Theatre, John M. Metcalf 2025 University of Arkansas

The Onnagata: A Note Regarding The Male Actor Of Female Roles In Japanese Theatre, John M. Metcalf

The Ozark Historical Review

This paper discusses the influence of the Kabuki onnagata, male actors portraying female characters, on Japanese culture.


Encountering The Sublime: Early Hermit Lifeways, Visual-Spatial Worlds, And The Global Recluse, James Brown 2025 University of Arkansas

Encountering The Sublime: Early Hermit Lifeways, Visual-Spatial Worlds, And The Global Recluse, James Brown

The Ozark Historical Review

This paper will assess the degree to which reclusion in the early period can be labeled a global phenomenon and will examine three key areas, the institutional ambits of reclusion, the visual-spatial world of the eremite, and the enduring cultural canon associated with eremitisms across both geographical and temporal distances. In addition, the author will perform an epistemological and phenomenological exercise in deriving humanistic insight from the experiences of recluses, as gleaned through deep consideration of their environments and cultural products.


Reflections Of The Veil: Tracing Blurred Boundaries Of Politics And Desire In Vienna's Saturn-Films, Beth Withey 2025 University of Arkansas

Reflections Of The Veil: Tracing Blurred Boundaries Of Politics And Desire In Vienna's Saturn-Films, Beth Withey

The Ozark Historical Review

This article considers the Saturn-Film Company founded in 1906 in Vienna. Their films often contained comic plot devices intermingled with erotic images which expressed the culture of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century.


Divinity And Royalty In The Writings Of Motoori Norinaga, Chad Totty 2025 University of Arkansas

Divinity And Royalty In The Writings Of Motoori Norinaga, Chad Totty

The Ozark Historical Review

This paper concerns the kokugaku movement as seen through the philosophy of Motoori Norinaga. Specifically, it looks at Norinaga’s view of the divine and its connection to his philosophy regarding Japanese royalty, the emperor, and the imperial line. It will examine the qualities of Norinaga’s thought that linked his philosophy of the divine with his views of the emperor, served to formulate his world view, and his idea of Japan’s place in the world.


Fashioning A Political Identity: French Women And The White Neoclassical Dress, Michele Dobbins 2025 University of Arkansas

Fashioning A Political Identity: French Women And The White Neoclassical Dress, Michele Dobbins

The Ozark Historical Review

This essay seeks to probe the question of women’s neoclassical dress – how was it represented in art, why did it maintain longevity, and what did it mean for the hundreds of women who decided to wear the ideals of Greek and Rome upon their very bodies?


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