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Epochs of Ecology: The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
<p>The transition from feudalism to capitalism has undoubtedly been one of the most fruitful and complicated debates amongst economic historians in the 20th and 21st centuries. With the advent of global ecological collapse, there is a necessity to examine and theorize the movement from feudalism to …
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The Origin and Development of Feudalism in Iran: 300-1600 a.d
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Sakamoto Ryoma: the Nietzschean hero of the Meiji Restoration
… social and political systems under Tokugawa feudalism as threatening to Japan’s sovereignty in an age of Western imperialism, and that through a Nietzschean “will to power” and resolve to “live dangerously” he helped overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate. The paper compares Sakamoto’s rejection of …
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Feudal politics in Yorkshire 1066 - 1154.
… of Yorkshire in the first century of English feudalism. It begins by providing a new and more precise chronology for the Norman conquest of Yorkshire and illustrates the importance of castleries and hundreds in the process of take-over. In Chapter 2 the thesis reveals that in the fifty years …
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The Honour of Wallingford, 1066-1300
… important recent challenges to the concepts of ’feudalism’ and ’feudal society’, as well as work on the origins of ’bastard feudalism’, this study allows a re-examination of the ways in which post-Conquest political, social, legal and tenurial relations actually operated in society. This allows …
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Kant’s Universalism in Historical Context: Repoliticising the Foundations of a Seminal Political Philosophy
… the political polarisations between absolutism, feudalism, and liberalism in the Prussian context? This research endeavours to reevaluate Kant's universalist political philosophy by examining its connection to the protracted crisis of German feudalism, its influence on social and political …
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Western Media use of the Third World Construct: A Framing Analysis of its Validity.
… perceived definition, which is linked, first to feudalism and then to the socio-politico conditions that existed during the period leading up to and immediately after the cold war means that its conceptual metamorphosis should have ceased once these periods were relegated to the annals of …
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The Marxist interpretation of law : with special reference to property law
… with the law of the slave owning society and of feudalism. In connection with this, Marx describes the genesis of law in its present day manifestation i.e. in relation to the exchange of commodities, which gradually comes about with the growth of towns and achieves its full development in the …
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What causes a cabinet to change its mind? the British farmer and the state 1818-2004
… in contrast to the 'rotten boroughs' and virtual feudalism of the pre- 1832 unreformed Parliaments. The changes are mirrored in the role given to agriculture within society, and in particular the amount and type of economic rent transferred from the consumer and the taxpayer to the farmer. This …
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Comparative Analysis of <i>Al-Ard</i> by ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi and the Film by Youssef Chahine: Prison Literature and Collective Memory
… literature by al-Sharqawi that critiques the feudalism in the 1930s and 1940s, mass imprisonment of political dissidents in the 1930s and alludes to the possibilities of further repression in the 1950s; and (2) that Chahine’s adaptation of the novel portrays different themes to depict the …
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The politics and identity of fashion changes in early-twentieth century China
… body formed an integral part of the attack on feudalism and Chinese tradition. The Chinese approach to modernization created a discourse of liberal conservatism that fuses modernity appearance with a tradition core. Although women’s emancipation was much eulogized during the revolutionary …
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“Quisiera ver los que suelen componer estos libros de pastores donde todo es primavera”: campo literario y literatura del campo en España y la América colonial (1516-1808)
… developments that enabled the transition from feudalism to capitalism and the subsequent changes in the ideological sphere. I hypothesize that the countryside and its marginalized peoples lay at the center of policymaking and, therefore, determine the socioeconomic agenda. In chapters two and …
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Men as individuals, women as mothers : women's delayed achievement of individualism
… as developed in Western Society since the end of feudalism to present day has largely been reserved as a luxury for men at the expense of women. Equality between men was created for a large part by the equal position that all men shared over women with men having state-enforced domination within …
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Aspects of the Jewish Experience in Northern Europe, 800 to 1096
… obstacle to the development of Jewish culture. Feudalism embodied Christian values, utilized an oath heavily laced with Christian symbolism, and granted landed estates to officials of the feudal hierarchy. These elements of the feudal system excluded non-Christians. Jews presented an exceptional …
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The Lancashire Gentry in the Early Fourteenth Century, c. 1300 – 1360
… study does not find the structures of bastard feudalism so familiar from the fifteenth and late fourteenth centuries, where a lord relied on his affinity not only for military recruitment, but also for control of the localities through official work and influence on the judiciary. Yet the …
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Church reform, reconquest, and the Christian society in Castile-Leon, at the time of the Gregorian reform (1050-1135)
… not homologous with the main types of European feudalism. This basic fact set Castile-Leon apart from other European countries early on, with a profound impact on church-state relations. The first chapter concentrates on the geographic and socio-economic structure of the Reconquest movement, and …
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Cross-border Investigative Journalism: a critical perspective
… investigative networks are in the data feudalism realm. Combined with the standardising of the field to be platform ready, CBIJ becomes also ready for its own colonisations. This research makes an original contribution to existing literature, especially in the global media studies, more …
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Court in the Market: The 'Business' of a Princely Court in the Burgundian Netherlands, 1467-1503
This dissertation examines the relations between court and commerce in Europe at the onset of the modern era. Focusing on one of the most powerful princely courts of the period, the court of Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, which ruled over one of the most advanced economic regions in Europe, …
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The Dissonant History of Tristan and Isolde
<p>This essay traces the historical evolution of the story of Tristan and Isolde through three distinct phases, highlighting the transformation of the story from a feudal version to a post-feudal rendition infused with courtly love doctrines and notions of Christian love. It examines the early …
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The Winchester chronicle
… that thet they represented a force akin to the feudalism of the Continent. From the Chronicle it can be gatherer that the Anglo-Saxons were a hard-living, hard-dying people. They were warlike, sturdy, at times cruel. They were not a thinking or talking people, but an acting people.
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