... In this chapter, Boucher argues that Slavoj Žižek’s theory of the traumatic kernel of the Real at the center of social antagonism provides the key to understanding what is for contemporary critics Shakespeare’s most problematic play, The Merchant of Venice . Homing in on the disturbing affect...

... dames Le Journal de Paris Le Mercure galant . Geneva and Paris: Slatkine Reprints, 1982. d 4b6—dossiers of merchants who filed faillite (with the date of initial filing) c. 68 d. 445 Allain, Jacques (June 5, 1778) c. 94 d. 6573 Alleaume, Cécile Sophie (November 23, 1785...

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... Slavoj Žižek ideology social antagonism anti-Semitism The Merchant of Venice ...

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... of goods into, out of, and around Venice; it reveals the ways in which Venetian waterways aided not only in the movement of goods but also in trade and networks; and it lays out the built fabric of the city and how that built fabric fostered interconnections between merchants, goods, and families...

... of these materials reflects and engineers a conception of transcorporeal personhood well suited to the political interests of merchant monarchs, diasporic communities that rely on clientelism, and, more generally, to the cosmopolitan context of these religions' genesis. beads vessels Brazilian Candomblé...

... This chapter brings together the geopolitical visions of Jamaican planters and merchants, British loyalists defeated in the American Revolution, and a sector of New Granada’s colonial authorities to argue that, in the aftermath of the American Revolution, their disparate interests converged...

...—captains of Spanish merchant vessels engaged in interimperial trade and ordinary sailors working on board insurgent corsairs—this section stresses the mechanisms of information transmission to show how social interactions resulted in the creation of a region that historians can use as a coherent unit...