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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 59–95.
Published: 01 April 2017
..., by the mathematician and schoolmaster Frederich Ludwig Holberg Arentz.11 The book contains a table, twenty-four pages long, divided into columns that are filled with names and short fragments oftexts that offer information about these names or that include them in a kind of narrative. At the top of the table...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 32–62.
Published: 01 April 2016
... and diffusion oftheological, scientific, and journalistic writing.Generally dated to the 1848 discovery of thephenomenon ofspirit rapping-communicating with "spirits" by tapping on a table or the like-by a pair ofsisters from the industrializing hinterlands of upstate New York, spiritualism would become over...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 122–128.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., and historical imagination. Given Familiar Stranger ’s ambiguous authorship, I can’t help but wonder: To whose memory—of what, and when—does the memory of the “splendid” dining-table battle between his reportedly formidable mother (Sycorax?) and his very young wife (Ariel?), and that of Catherine’s much...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 208–215.
Published: 01 October 2016
..., the death table, the actuarial chart, the autopsy report, the tally ofpolice killings? How is the chronicle ofdeath foretold, expectant and always looming on a slave ship, dissimilar to the threat of death that hangs over the head ofapopulationthatremainsthetarget ofthe state'smilitarizedviolence? The point...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 138–140.
Published: 01 April 2017
... List, Alan P. M e rria m , Bruno N ett i , David Pruett, Adelaida Reyes, Timothy Rice, Jesse D. Ruskin, Kay Ka ufman Shelemay, G a bri­ el Solis, Jeff Todd Titon, J. Lawrence Witzl eben, and Deborah Won g . Examine the fu l l table of contents at htt p www. p ress. u i l I i nois.edu/common_t h re a d...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): 242–246.
Published: 01 October 2017
... a wide au dience of scholars and interested readers. Examine the fu l l tables of contents or purchase books at htt p www. p ress. u i 1 1 i n oi s .edu/c o m m o n_threads. htm I U N IV E RSITY O F I LL I N O I S PR ESS Women, Gend, and Families , Edited by J e n n ife r H a m e r Women, Gender, a n d...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 170–193.
Published: 01 October 2011
... carefully controlled by the attending scientists, Eusapia shattered drinking glasses with­ out touching them, caused curtains and strips offabric to billow and bulge, produced luminescent wisps oflight, materialized"spirit" hands and arms, and caused tables tolift from the floor and fly about the room...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 271–282.
Published: 01 October 2022
... “rational” or “irrational” about the ways that humans act within particular configurations of capitalism, only logics. In Marx’s world of dancing chairs and talking tables, Mickey’s army of mops would have felt at home. Like the sorcerer’s apprentice, Marx’s individuals conjure, create, and manipulate...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 176–182.
Published: 01 April 2020
... to transcend mere modeling. The end goal, in other words, is prophecy. To not only predict but to generate the future . The dream of communicating with the dead and their letters, of telling their story on their own terms has only intensified since the nineteenth century. Indeed, the séance table...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 113–129.
Published: 01 April 2011
... theory is in no 115 INTERVENTION Brown position to abolish or colonize the other subfields Gust as Taylor's suggestion that we organize our research and teaching according to problems rather than disciplines does not guarantee humanists a seat at any table while it fairly assures science seats at all...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2013
... the 38th parallel, the US delegate representing the United Nations Command (UNC) put a new proposal on the negotiation table. The Korean and Chinese POWs under UNC custody would be free to choose whether or not they wanted to return to their homeland, and the US military interrogation room, as both the US...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 29–56.
Published: 01 April 2018
... dietary laws are a familiar phenomenon in Christi­ anity as well as in other religions, the sociological account ofJewish dietary customs seems to have special resonance.9 Since the Middle Ages, if not long before, and up to the nineteenth century, observant Jews rarely dined at the table ofnon-Jews...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 80–105.
Published: 01 April 2021
... brothers are represented, or so it would seem in the first two acts of the film. Midway through their string of bank heists, the brothers travel across the Oklahoma line to a Comanche casino where they hope to launder the cash they’ve stolen. Tanner encounters a Comanche man across a poker table. “You...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 75–96.
Published: 01 April 2014
... was familiar with the Bobadilla, Gloster responded, "Yes, I have seen it lying upon the table before the Council. It is a practical book:' Asked ifhe "likewise know[s] the Elisondo and the CureaPhilippica;' he responded, "Yes, I have seen them also:'28 It becomes clear that Gloster did 82 HISTORY ofthe PRESENT...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 184–207.
Published: 01 October 2016
... 35.0 j., 32.5 30.0 27.5 25.0 22.5 20.0 17.5 15.0 12.5 10.0 7.5 5.0 2.5 0.0 I I it;; 0 ; 0 e: 0 § 0 V, 8 Year arrived with slaves (5 year period s ) I IPerc entage children Percentage women* Table derived from Voyages Database. 2009. Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 183–206.
Published: 01 October 2022
... vivons nous . Paris : La Fabrique , 2017 . Rancière Jacques . Hatred of Democracy , translated by Corcoran Steve . New York : Verso , 2006 . Rancière Jacques . “ Jacques Rancière: Quelle égalité de la parole en démocratie? ” La grande table (podcast), produced by Olivia...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 April 2019
... progressive, though slow, unfolding ofits predispositions. Thus marriages, and the births and deaths arising.from them, seem, as the.free willofmen has so great an influence on them, to besubjected to no rule, according to which their number can be previously determinedby reckoning;and yet the yearly tables...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 177–208.
Published: 01 October 2018
.... In ethnic Chinese funeral rituals, moreover, a photographic portrait of the deceased traditionally accompanies the coffin, and is later hung above an altar (meja abu, literally, ash table) as the locus for memorial rituals conducted in the home. When family members light incense and pray b efore...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 107–118.
Published: 01 April 2021
... alone some unfortunate researcher, would find nothing useful in quotes I had jotted down, family reconstitution tables I had created, and notes to myself I had scribbled in the course of figuring out how to tell the story of the glassworkers of Carmaux. But aside from that small clean up, no culling had...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 203–219.
Published: 01 October 2014
...' down over it. 'No, ' comes the next reply, 'it's a crime against humanity: In the end, the genocide wild card is played. Genocide has become a kind ofwild card.36 Of course, this game has already begun, though Vladimir Putin's Russia refuses to sit down at the table and is even doing all it can...