politics
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The late Anglo-Saxon state: a maximum propaganda view from magistra 149 days old
[ ... ] part of politics: persuasive images are vital, even if they don't match reality. There might not have been uniformity in institutions, for ...
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Motherhood, apple pie and five Carolingians fighting in a sack from magistra 361 days old
Two fairly well-known facts about Carolingian politics in the ninth century seem to have an obvious connection. Firstly, the century was marked by an ...
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Anti-intellectualism in cross-cultural perspective 2: the genealogy of the hippy from magistra 402 days old
In my first post on this topic, I talked about two long enduring anti-intellectual attitudes: the populist resentment of the upwardly mobile scholar ...
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Birkbeck 4: the political uses of gender history from magistra 545 days old
[ ... ] roots in the politics of the New Men’s movements, and political engagement was also one theme of an extra lecture associated with the conference: ...
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Should historians be public intellectuals? from magistra 589 days old
[ ... ] arguments in politics, just consider all the leaders since 1945 described as being a ‘second Hitler’ (from Nasser to Saddam and Bush to ...
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Politics and morality from magistra 973 days old
[ ... ] taking the politics out of morality, concentrating on the broad sweep of norms, rather than seeing particular moral campaigns as being ...
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The preconditions for democracy from magistra 1258 days old
I stumbled across two bizarre articles by right-wing ‘thinkers’ last week, which shared a common thread, although they had very different main themes. ...
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Europe’s Muslims (1): the new Eurabia? from magistra 1291 days old
There seem to be a spate of articles by right-wingers and Islamophobes at the moment (mainly American, but including the Italian Orin Falucci) going ...
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Who can we hate? from magistra 1613 days old
There’s a lot of discussion in the Guardian at the moment about the government’s proposed law against inciting religious hatred. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,1510829,00.html, ...
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