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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 209–235.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Sophie Wahnich; Alexander Dunlop; Sylvia Schafer Abstract In the spring of Year II (1794), the future of French society was uncertain. This article looks at the response to the uncertainty of three members of the Committee on Public Safety, who discussed the need to choose between a revolutionary...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 281–304.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Sara Edenheim Abstract Contemporary society believes itself to be in dire need of tolerance, and tolerance is perceived as an aim in itself and as a virtue that should emanate from within all (good) citizens. The state’s role is to explain how tolerance is the solution to all our problems. To do so...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 156–173.
Published: 01 April 2024
... remarkable presence. By centering the details of Cecilia’s life, this article helps recast the threat of marronage in colonial Louisiana from simply one of male-led armed rebellion to one of reproduction, thorny kinship networks, and a potential maroon society. Works Cited Adamson Christopher R...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 198–204.
Published: 01 October 2013
..., back in the seventeenth century, was a radical break both with the conception of society as derived from relationships of natural subordination and with the conception of po­ litical authority as mirroring the natural dependence of family members on paternal power. Thus, following from the equality...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 127–132.
Published: 01 April 2023
...://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/india-news-j-k-govts-new-order-stops-oxygen-supply-to-ngos-without-admin-approval/382238 . Indiankanoon . “ Section 144 in the Indian Penal Code .” https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1196530/ (accessed October 24 , 2022 ). Krishnankutty Pia . “ Civil Society Is New...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 52–70.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Mohamed Nachi Copyright © 2012 University of Illinois Press 2012 Thinking about lkhtilaf: The Political Construction ofDifference in the Islamic Context Mohamed Nach i This is an inquiry into the question ofdifference, ofthe right to difference in Islamic societies. How is difference treated...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 April 2022
... father’s capitulation. Schorske’s conclusion is that the Interpretation of Dreams provided Freud a substitute language to understand his fraught relationship with the social and political realities of Austrian society. “As scientist and Jew, as citizen and son,” Freud gave priority to fantasy...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2011
... as himself;' dwelled in a cave by the sea, where their family was "begotten in incest;' entirely secluded from society.6 The family preyed on passersby, whom they assailed on the road outside their cave, which was sufficiently far enough from any towns so as not to be easily known, but close enough to ensure...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 96–121.
Published: 01 April 2017
... socialists from the Saint-Simonians to Pierre Leroux. The Saint-Simonians, a group of industrial romantics who played acentralrole in France's nineteenth-century industrialization, sought to "increase their society's state of 'organization; and its control over its milieu. The goal was to progressively...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 237–255.
Published: 01 October 2020
... of the sixties. Former radicals had abandoned their previous revolutionary goals, and the Right had succeeded in reshaping society. Gitlin’s move was to empty the sixties mobilizations of their revolutionary content. The memory of the early New Left of “universalist hope,” he argued, had been displaced...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 274–296.
Published: 01 October 2024
... all his friends, the protagonist Idris commits to “return to the present” rather than remain in the distant exile of his youthful hopes, even though the Moroccan present in 1970 is an authoritarian and repressive regime rather than the ideal progressive society they had dreamed of as a group ( al...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 193–202.
Published: 01 October 2019
... clinics in working-class neighborhoods across Europe.An energetic organizer, Reichfounded, in 1922, the Sex-Hygiene Clinics forWorkers and Employees in Vienna; in 1929, also in Vienna, the Socialist Society for SexualAdvice and Sexual Research; in 1931, in Berlin, the German Society for Proletarian Sexual...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 1–3.
Published: 01 April 2018
... and Sylvia Schafer Like culture and society, law often serves as the subject matter or object of history. Historians working from outside law recognize that formal or positive human-made laws and legal institutions themselves turn the stuff of the world into objects, subjecting them to legal regulation...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 241–269.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and between us moderns and those we have denigrated with the attribute of pre-modernity. In doing so, we might develop a “nonmodern” methodology for studying how “natures-cultures” are constructed and construed differently among different societies or “collectives” ( Latour , Modern 91–129 ). Instead...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 71–86.
Published: 01 April 2023
... in the Indian Ocean . Oakland : University of California Press , 2019 . Erami Narges , and Keshavarzian Arang . “ When Ties Don’t Bind: Smuggling Effects, Bazaars and Regulatory Regimes in Postrevolutionary Iran .” Economy and Society 44 , no. 1 ( 2015 ): 110 – 39 . Ho Engseng...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 184–199.
Published: 01 October 2012
... society, but also the integration of the community to which they belong.Women are in this perspective regarded as the "vectors of integra­ tion;' in a way that can often seem close to the supposedly different model of "assimilation:'11 It is necessary, however, to analyze the specific ways in which calls...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 216–220.
Published: 01 October 2016
... Critical Historical Studies Editors: Moishe Postone, And,·ew Sartori, and William H. Sewell, Jr. Society: The Chicago Cen terJoi· Contemporary Theory (3CT) Visit joumals. uchicago.edu/chs to sample con tent, subscribe, and contribute. His ory of Philosophy Quarterly , -Edited by .Aaron G a r rett...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 183–206.
Published: 01 October 2022
... to meet at roundabouts in the evenings and to stop traffic on Saturdays. Impeding the movement of people and goods in a consumer society predicated on globalization of production, as well as the occupation of the parking lots of big-box stores, were potent forms of action. The Gilets jaunes also prevented...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 275–283.
Published: 01 October 2023
... as to methods and theories of research would not hit the headlines, were it not that the very notion of a research project is now a troubled one. . . . The wider social role of the University as an institution is now up for grabs. It is no longer clear what the place of the University is within society nor what...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 140–176.
Published: 01 October 2018
... slave who came from Santo Domingo to transform a slave society. The type of explosive anti-slavery gunpowder magic characteristic of the Petwo spirits had already played a role in the African American fight against slavery in Missouri by the time Nightingale arrived in Boonville in 1856. In 1849, Lin...