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...David Konstan Robinson Eric W. , Democracy Beyond Athens: Popular Government in the Greek Classical Age . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 ), 275 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

...Colin Richmond Cohn Samuel K. Jr. , with assistance from Aiton Douglas , Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 ), 375 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

... in the rest of the world, but also into more lastingly important events in popular culture, especially popular music. He concludes by memorializing what now appears to him the most important event of all, certain records broken that year in sports. Duke University Press 2009...

... process for many of the Warburg scholars. The popular belief in the cultural ties between England and Italy fed into the positive reception for the exhibition and into acceptance of the work of the Warburg Institute. The exhibition was published in a large format catalog in 1948, further adding...

... Republic were then governed by powers perceived to be alien and distant, with the result that popular sentiment was diffident about most varieties of governance and political practice. State power indeed was mostly regarded as illegitimate. More recently, especially since World War II, that diffidence...

...Alberto Corsín Jiménez; Adolfo Estalella This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies” reports on the rise of the “popular assemblies” movement that swept the streets of Madrid in the wake of the May 15, 2011, occupation of Puerta del Sol. Assemblies have since taken...

... that scholars identify retrospectively as the first French novels. This essay focuses on two of the most popular and influential of these novels, César Vichard de Saint-Réal's Dom Carlos (1672) and the Countess of La Fayette's La Princesse de Clèves (1678), as responses to the devaluation of the marriage...

... popular and unsupported claim that the humanities have practical relevance and, instead, to offer ruminative descriptions of what happens when teachers and students meet to discuss texts and objects. She explains that the essays report in detail on five individual classes in five very different academic...

.... The reviewer argues that Crone's sense of an unruly proliferation of popular beliefs is confirmed by the latest archaeology, and then he closes with an extended meditation on the relevance of this early Arab-Persian divide to the contemporary political situation of Islam and the Middle East. Crone...

... the best known and even the most popular thinker in Poland of the half-century following World War II. Adam Michnik 2010 Translated by Jennifer Croft COLUMNS THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER In Strange Communion...

..., and Mendelssohn). Many of the “other” composers came from Italy, France, or Britain and became famous for opera selections and songs, some termed “popular,” and a substantial number of their pieces were performed throughout the nineteenth century. The present-day narrative of music history has canonic blind spots...

... of Lamarck. In writing on evolution, Butler was not presenting science for a popular audience but deliberately intervening in the scientific argument about Darwinism. Surprised by the success of his first venture in philosophical biology, Life and Habit , Butler committed himself to the project of developing...

... fortunate has raised some troubling questions about democracy itself. Despite its small size, classical Athens offers valuable guidance for tempering current difficulties in both the United States and elsewhere by adopting and adapting the selection of some officials by sortition, direct election by popular...

... in tandem with a close inspection of historical fascism in the German case. The course coincided with the first months of the Trump presidency, inviting discussion not only of ideology and popular appeal, but also of specific developments in the young administration. Students were challenged to think...

... persuaded by the popular and largely unexamined goal of efficiency; and second, that the Library indeed requires its own space but that that space must now be reconceived. In line with Aby Warburg's belief that the past should engage the present by expanding and refreshing it, the Warburg Institute...

... to be popular in peninsular India between the thirteenth and the eighteenth centuries in vernacular languages such as Telugu, Kannada, and Marathi. Secular and this-worldly in orientation, it can be broadly contrasted to the far better known body of texts on dharma , which are concerned to preserve a normative...

... in the American suburbs of the 1950s, and its popular and cultural manifestations. Taking Levittown as a starting point, modernist architectural principles have since its construction radiated into the mass-housing market and materialized in housing development projects that have led to the rise of suburbia...

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..., the dominant political persona of the period, whose name remains synonymous with the Terror. Historians have too often regarded this seismic shift as a coup from above that sounded the death knell of the popular movement in Paris. Drawing inspiration from contemporaries, especially Louis-Sébastien Mercier...

... Davis, “Against Formality,” 276n 51. 10. Braddick, “John Lilburne, the People, and the English Revolution.” See also Lee, Popular Sovereignty . 11. Lilburne, Innocent Man's Second Proffer . 12. For a detailed account of Lilburne's career and this interpretation of its...