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Class Struggle and Culture Wars in the Springtime of the French Revolution, Year II (1794)
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 209–235.
Published: 01 October 2020
... political community and civil war, even as they disagreed about what form the future republic should take. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 revolution political community civil society civil war Billaud-Varenne Robespierre Saint-Just Shades of autumn color suffuse...
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1793: The Neglected Legacy of Insurgent Universality
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 109–136.
Published: 01 October 2015
... himselfemphasized the difference between a constitutional government, whose goal is"to preserve the republic;' and the goal ofthe re volutionarygovernment,whichis that of"founding the republic:'27 Saint-Just stated: "What makes a Republic, is the total destruction ofall that is opposed to it:'28 In the name...
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“Moi seule” 1833: Feminist Subjectivity, Temporality, and Historical Interpretation
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 107–121.
Published: 01 October 2012
... of1830.6 Dis appointed, like many others, by the republicans' careless treatment of the "woman question;' she turned shortly thereafter to the version of utopian socialism advanced by the Saint-Simonians who, from 1831 on-and with deep ambivalence-had vocally proclaimed the "liberation of women" a central...
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A Letter to the Princes of Saxony, Concerning the Rebellious Spirit
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History of the Present (2025) 15 (1): 123–132.
Published: 01 April 2025
... on which he suffered. Satan, however carelessly and causelessly he might lie, just cannot hide himself. Now I find it a particular joy that it was not our people who began this sort of thing. And they boast themselves that they are not of the same opinions as us, they neither learned nor received...
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Digital Commemorations of Slave Revolt
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 October 2020
... reminds us in her study of plantation records, Accounting for Slavery (2018), that “so much was recorded and also so little: birth, death, output, and consumption were diligently noted, but the details of so many human lives are lost between the lines” (82–83). And just as language is an insufficient...
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Guinea Sam Nightingale and Magic Marx in Civil War Missouri: Provincializing Global History and Decolonizing Theory
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 140–176.
Published: 01 October 2018
... instancesofwhat anthropologist Stephan Palmie, in his study ofAfro Cuban religion, has termed "Atlantic modernity: For Palmie, modernity is not just, and not even primarily, the globalizing framework of empire and racial capitalism. Rather, and most importantly, modernity is the variety of plebeian movements...
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The Living Wage, “That Reproductive Ferment”
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 96–121.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Dana Simmons The Living Wage, "That Reproductive Ferment" Dana Simmons How much life is in the living wage? In recent months, a number of major American cities have enacted minimum wage ordinances, offering urban working families a promise ofbetter living conditions. Yet just as minimum wage laws...
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Plural: Mormon Polygamy and the Biopolitics of Secularism
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): 219–241.
Published: 01 October 2017
... nothing less than the flourishing oflife, ofliberty, ofimperial nationality. In the essay that follows I want to take up a few of the striking linkages suggested in the editorial-the swift folding-together of non-normative sex, misbegotten belief, and racialization-by tracing, through just a few of its...
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Antigone as Kurdish Politician: Gendered Dwellings in the Limit Between Freedom and Peace
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 113–141.
Published: 01 October 2019
... dwelling in zones where intimacy and alienation, protection and patronization, hospitality and hostility cannot be differentiated. It can be interpreted as an embrace ofbeing in exile in the home ofthose who welcome her. As far as normal life is concerned, Leyla Zana never lived one, just asAntigone never...
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In the Interest of History
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 80–102.
Published: 01 April 2022
... be the same either way” (96). The poignancy of loss is compounded here by Franklin’s uncharacteristically glum implication that the correction of an erratum may be just another erratum; even if he could have gone back in time to inoculate his son, the boy might still have died. Franklin’s own death...
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Historical Critique and Political Voice after the Ottoman Empire
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 119–139.
Published: 01 October 2013
... the ideological and legal foundations for what would become the Turkish nation-state.The early Turkish Republic overtly disavowed its ties to the Ottoman state it had just supplanted, promulgat ing narratives of the nation's heroic emergence only by silencing the often violent events that had shaped...
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Of Taming Carnal Desire: Imperial Roots of Legislating Sexual Practices in Contemporary Ethiopia
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 84–100.
Published: 01 April 2020
... from Allen Bérubé’s “Intellectual Desire.” The desire for history, according to Bérubé, is an escape route or strategy “to survive a difficult present by reminiscing about the past and dreaming about the future” (170). Just as much as fear and insecurity are prominent, contemporary discourses...
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Notes on the ‘Cellular Regime of Nationality’
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 April 2014
... at the time, numerous Communards, as well as a minority strain among subsequent historians ofthe Commune, knew this well. "It is the clubs and the associa tions that have done all the harm . . . I attribute all ofthe events which have just come to pass in Paris to the clubs and the reunions...
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History of the Present (2025) 15 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 April 2025
... to seize municipal power for the “elect.” Luther ( “Warning” ) accordingly attacked this “Satan of Allstedt” as “a false spirit and prophet, who goes around in sheep’s clothing yet is secretly a rapacious wolf,” and he urged the princes to “smite, slay, and stab, secretly or openly . . . a rebel . . . just...
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History as a Medical Category: Heredity, Positivism, and the Study of the Past in Nineteenth-Century France
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 140–159.
Published: 01 October 2013
... and object of study, medicine is and can only be an art; and history . . . imprints this art with scientific character:'19 Heredity was in many ways a scientific transformation ofthe aristocratic concept of genealogy, since it looked for the earliest blood antecedent, just as genealogy looked for the founder...
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Making Freedom Time
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 122–137.
Published: 01 April 2017
.... They sought to identify-in African, Antillean, and European traditions-residues of, and resources for, more just, human, and integrated ways ofliving together and organizing political formations. More generally, Cesaire and Senghor were dialectical thinkers; they regularly sought to identify possibilities...
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Occupy Wall Street: “Bartleby” Against the Humanities
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (1): 99–118.
Published: 01 April 2013
... on a life of its own. Just four days later, T he New Republic published an essay by Nina Martyris that argued for the relevance to the protestors in Zuccotti Park of Bartleby, "the patron saint of civil disobedience;' in her words.5 Referring to Bartleby's recurrent phrase, the memorable "I would prefer...
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Injury and Value: Black Mothering in Slavery and Its Afterlife
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 138–155.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of free people of African descent in the colony of Louisiana comprised just over 3 percent of the population ( Hanger 17 ). By 1805 it comprised 19 percent. Use of coartación shifted access to and the meaning of freedom along the Gulf Coast. Black women contested their value to their owners...
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Dying for a Living: Economic and Moral Restructuring in a French Factory
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 209–232.
Published: 01 October 2018
... be, women and men nev ertheless bring their morals and affects to work with them. Just like E. P. Thompson's impoverished masses who ask a fair price for bread, instead of taking it for free, workers usually find it important to get the job done properly.9 Historians and sociologists of work have shown...
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The Vexed Relationship of Emancipation and Equality
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 148–168.
Published: 01 October 2012
... then means not just the sameness conferred by abstraction, but the sameness established by identifiable psychological and behavioral patterns. The terminology of emancipation and equality is frequently bandied about in contemporary discussions of the place ofMuslims in the histori cally Christian/secular...
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