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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Early Modern State"”.
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The devil's poor and the invisible city charity, order and agency in early modern England
… and practices of charity and poor relief in early modern England in order to characterize changing views of the relation between the individual and the basis of social order. The first part proposes a genealogy of idleness, drawing on Weber's analysis of Protestant worldly asceticism, which …
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Deviant bodies and the reordering of desire: Heterosexuality and nation-building in early modern England
… national boundaries inform--and are informed by--early modern discourses on sexual deviance. Focusing on works by John Bale, John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, James I, Thomas Carew, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton, my study argues that the disruptive presence of queer desire plays an integral role in …
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Punishment, frontier, and ethnicity in the making of the Qing Empire (1636-1912)
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Gods, kvinnor och stickning : tidigindustriell verksamhet i Höks härad i södra Halland ca 1750–1870
… the knitting industry in southern Halland during early modern times. This proto-industrial enterprise was conducted primarily via a putting-out system in the goods districts. Wallen's estate in Våxtorp parish played an active role in the enterprise already from an early stage. During the latter …
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The office of stadhouder and the preservation of unity in the Dutch Republic, 1559 - 1672
… also known as the Dutch Republic, was a compound state in which sovereignty was shared between towns, provinces, and the States General. The Union of Utrecht of 1579 was one of the Republic’s principal founding documents, yet paradoxically grounded the state in the diverging values of provincial …