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Taylor & Francis Les fins derniÃres selon OrigÃne
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Taylor & Francis The Golden Chain Studies in the Development of Platonism and Christianity 333 Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Latin and Vernacular Poets of the Middle Ages Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd China Under Mongol Rule Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Globe Encircled and the World Revealed An Expanding World The European Impact on World History 1450 to 1800
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Historiography of Europeans in Africa and Asia 14501800 An Expanding World The European Impact on World History 1450 to 1800
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Writing of History and the Study of Law 576 Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rights Laws and Infallibility in Medieval Thought 578 Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gographie et culture La reprsentation de lespace du VIe au XIIe sicle La Representation De LEspace Du VIe Au XIIe Siecle 592 Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ancients and Moderns in the Medical Sciences From Hippocrates to Harvey Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Music Science Philosophy Models in the Universe of Thought Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reenacting the Past Essays on the Evolution of Modern English Historiography Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Decline and Change in Late Antiquity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd National and Religious Ideologies in the
Book SynopsisDocumenting the reception of the pre-eminent Austrian school reformer Johann Ignaz Felbiger and his pedagogical thought in European histories of education in the nineteenth century, this volume demonstrates how national and religious ideological preferences have propelled the construction of fundamental biases in educational historiography. Covering more than 200 years and multiple national contexts, this book's case studies of France and Switzerland, as well as close analysis of historical documents and textbooks, reveal how a canon of glorified historical heroes have been promoted over and above other educational actors, with the aim of morally instructing future teachers according to national and religious values. Based on a strong array of historical sources, the author demonstrates how biased educational historiographies are utilized in gaining support for certain pedagogical and curricula models. Through the deep examination of textbooks used in teacher training Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Historicizing Educational Historiography 2. Investigating Educational Historiography Part I Historiographical Reception History 3. Literacy History: Books as Cultural Mediators 4. Felbiger in Educational Historiography Part II Historical Reception History 5. Method as a Way to Order 6. A Silesian Prelate Ordering an Empire 7. Crossing the Borders – The French Case 8. Crossing the Borders – The Swiss Case 9. Normál iskolai, Scuola Normale, Normal skole - Circulation and Reception Processes in Other Geographical Areas. Ideology Critique, Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Production of Locality in the Early Modern and
Book SynopsisThis book is a microhistory study of village settlements in early modern Northwest Italy that aims to expand the notion of place to include the process of producing a locality; that is, the production of native local subjects through practices, rituals and other forms of collective action.Undertaking a micro-analytical approach, the book examines the customs and practices associated with typically fragmented and polycentric Italian village settlements to analyze the territorial tensions between various segments of a village and its neighbors. The microspatial analysis reveals how these tensions are the expressions of conflictual relationships between lay, ecclesiastical and charitable bodies culminating in a culture of fragmentation that impacts local economic and political practices. The book also traces how the production of locality survived throughout the nineenth and twentieth century and is still observed today. In this light, the study of practices and policies Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I Matrices1. Community Building: Brotherhoods, Bodies and Municipalities2. The Eucharist and the Generation of Space3. Separate LandsPart II From Law to Culture4. Transit5. Possession and Fiscality6. Vindication and OblivionPart III After the Flood7. Tourism and Civic Uses8. Production of Locality TodayConclusions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Volume 7 Tome I
Book SynopsisThe period of Kierkegaard''s life corresponds to Denmark''s Golden Age, which is conventionally used to refer to the period covering roughly the first half of the nineteenth century, when Denmark''s most important writers, philosophers, theologians, poets, actors and artists flourished. Kierkegaard was often in dialogue with his fellow Danes on key issues of the day. His authorship would be unthinkable without reference to the Danish State Church, the Royal Theater, the University of Copenhagen or the various Danish newspapers and journals, such as The Corsair, FÃdrelandet, and KjÃbenhavns flyvende Post, which played an undeniable role in shaping his development. The present volume features articles that employ source-work research in order to explore the individual Danish sources of Kierkegaard''s thought. The volume is divided into three tomes in order to cover the different fields of influence. Tome I is dedicated to exploring the sources that fall under the rubrics, Philosophy, PTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Andreas Frederick Beck: a good dialectician and a bad reader, K. Brian Söderquist; Jens Finsteen Giødwad: an amiable friend and a despicable journalist, Andrea Scaramuccia; Johan Ludwig Heiberg: Kierkegaard's criticism of Hegel's Danish apologist, Jon Stewart; J.L.A. Kolderup-Rosenvinge: Kierkegaard on walking away from politics, J. Michael Tilley; Orla Lehmann: Kierkegaard's political alter-ego?, Julie K. Allen; Poul Martin Møller: Kierkegaard and the confidant of Socrates, Finn Gredal Jensen; Ditlev Gothard Monrad: Kierkegaard on politics, the liberal movement, and the Danish constitution, J. Michael Tilley; Rasmus Nielsen: from the object of 'prodigious concern' to a 'windbag', Jon Stewart; Hans Christian Ørsted: Søren Kierkegaard and The Spirit in Nature, Bjarne Troelsen; Frederick Christian Sibbern: 'the lovable, remarkable thinker, Councilor Sibbern' and 'the political Simple-Peter Sibbern', Carl Henrik Koch; Henrich Steffens: combining Danish romanticism with Christian orthodoxy, Andrew J. Burgess; Peter Michael Stilling: as successor? 'Undeniably a possibility', Carl Henrik Koch; Frederik Ludvig Zeuthen: 'I struck a light, lit a fire - now it is burning. And this "fire" Dr Zeuthen wants to extinguish - with an "enema syringe".', Carl Henrik Koch; Indexes.
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Taylor & Francis From the Later Roman Empire to Late Antiquity and
Book SynopsisAveril Cameron is one of the leading historians of late antiquity and Byzantium. This collection (Cameron's third in the Variorum series) discusses the changing approach among historians of the later Roman empire from the 1960s to the present and the articles reproduced have been chosen to reflect both these wider changes in treatments of the subject as well as Cameron's own development as a historian over many decades. It provides a revealing and important survey of some profound historiographical changes. Her volume contains fundamental papers and reviews that tell a story in which she has played a leading part. They move from her early days as an ancient historian to her important contribution in the establishment of the field of late antiquity and point to her later work as a Byzantinist, a trajectory rivalled by few other scholars. The book will be important for scholars and students of the later Roman empire and late antiquity, and for anyone interested in the inTable of ContentsIntroduction: From the Later Roman Empire to Late Antiquity and Beyond / Gibbon and Justinian (McKitterick and Quinault, eds., Edward Gibbon and Empire, 1997) / Bury, Baynes and Toynbee (Cormack and Jeffreys, eds., Through the Looking Glass, Papers from the Twenty-ninth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, 2000) / Samuel Dill, the End of the Roman Empire, and the Uses of History (Dill Lecture, Queens University, Belfast, 2016, unpublished) / Introduction (Pirenne, Mohammed and Charlemagne, 2013) / A.H.M. Jones and the End of the Ancient World (Gwynn, ed., A.H.M. Jones and the Later Roman Empire, 2008) / Robert Browning (Proceedings of the British Academy 105 (2000) / Thoughts on the Introduction to The Conflict Between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century (Brown and Testa, eds., Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire: The Breaking of a Dialogue (IVth-VIth Century A.D.), Proceedings of the International Conference at the Monastery of Bose, 2011) / Momigliano and Christianity (Cornell and Murray, eds., The Legacy of Arnaldo Momigliano, 2014) / Late Antiquity: The Total View (Past and Present 88 (1980) / Redrawing the Map: Christian Territory After Foucault (Journal of Roman Studies 76 (1986) / Ascetic Closure and the End of Antiquity (Wimbush and Valantasis, eds., Asceticism, 1995) / On Defining the Holy Man (Howard-Johnston and Hayward, eds., The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 1999) / The Perception of Crisis (In Morfologie sociali e culturali in Europa fra tarda antichità e alto medioevo, 3–9 aprile 1997, 1, Settimane di Studio del Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo 45, 9–34. Spoleto: Fondazione Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo. 1998)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Juan Luis Vives
Book SynopsisBy looking at rhetoric and politics, this book offers a novel account of Juan Luis Vives' intellectual oeuvre. It argues that Vives adjusted rhetorical theory to a monarchical context in which direct speech was not a possibility, demonstrated how Erasmian languages of ethical self-government and political peace were actualised rhetorically and critically in a princely environment, and finally, rethought the cognitive and emotional foundations of humanist rhetoric in his late and famous De anima et vita (1538). Ultimately, towards the end of his life, Vives epitomised a distinctively cognitive view of politics; he maintained that political concord was not a direct outcome of institutional or legal reform or of the spiritual transformation of the Christian world (an optimistic Erasmian interpretation) but that concord could only be upheld once the dynamics of emotions that motivated political action were understood and controlled through responsible rhetoric that respectTable of ContentsIntroduction / 1. Becoming a Humanist: from Paris to Louvain (1514–1520) / 2. Conversation and the Rhetoric of Counsel (around 1520) / 3. Managing Discord: Vives on Politics (1523–1529) / 4. Redefining Rhetoric in De disciplinis (1530–1531) / 5. Rhetorical Decorum and the Functioning of the Soul (1532–1540) / Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain
Book SynopsisThis collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. Perhaps the most striking feature of nineteenth-century works on scientific method is the extent to which they were taken up by authors interested in writing large-scale, systemic works introducing, at one stroke, a philosophy of science, a view of what good scientific practice would look like, and investigations of logic, epistemology, and metaphysics. This volume presents the views laid out in the four largest and most important such treatises: Sir John F. W. Herschelâs Preliminary Discourse on Natural Philosophy, William Whewellâs History of the Inductive Sciences and Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, and John Stuart Millâs A System of Logic, as well as other contributors to the philosophy of science in this period. This title will be of great interest to students of the history of philosophy and the history of science.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Political Right and Equality
Book SynopsisMcManus presents an intellectual history of the conservative and reactionary tradition, stretching from Aristotle and Filmer to Alexander Dugin and Patrick Deneen. Providing a comprehensive critical genealogy of the intellectual political right, McManus traces its core to a nostalgia for the hierarchical cosmos of antiquarian and scholastic thinking. The yearning for a shared vision of the universe where each part of reality has its place maps onto the conservative admiration for orderly political and social stratification. It stamps even the more moderate forms of liberal conservatism which emerged in the aftermath of the revolutionary 18th century, as the political right struggled to accept and later master first the politics of liberal capitalism and later universal suffrage. In its most radical forms this nostalgia for an orderly and hierarchical existence can harden into a resentment at the perceived shallowness of liberal modernity. McManus argues for those who support Trade ReviewAn indispensable public resource in recent years, Matthew McManus has been tracing our everyday political controversies back to the intellectual traditions that help make sense of our times. Now he has turned in the most accessible and useful analysis of conservative thought there is. Incisive, learned, and up-to-date, The Political Right and Equality provides desperately needed orientation for anyone who hopes to forge a progressive response.Samuel Moyn, Yale UniversityMatt McManus brilliantly surveys two millennia of political philosophy to uncover the oft-misunderstood roots of contemporary conservatism. A must-read for anyone who really wants to grasp the deeper historical and theoretical currents driving today’s authoritarian, post-liberal right.Greg Sargent, The Washington PostMcManus provides a highly readable, intellectual history of the 'political right' that underscores the present dangers of reactionary politics and offers a timely reminder about what is at stake for those interested in a better world.Igor Shoikhedbrod, Department of Political Science, St. Francis Xavier UniversityIt is accurate to say that an organizing principle on the Right is a hostility to democracy, but making this claim stick can be a challenge owing to the seeming heterogeneity of the conservative intellectual project: traditionalists, libertarians, post-liberals, neo-reactionaries, and a host of other bedfellows often give the impression that the modern (and postmodern) Right is more dazzling tapestry than dim cloth. In The Political Right and Equality, Matt McManus zooms in on the intellectual and historical roots of the Right’s antipathy to democracy, showing how their defense of hierarchy as a matter of principle explains widespread resentment on the Right of modern society, not because it is intrinsically egalitarian but simply because it could be. McManus marshals readings of key intellectual figures to make a case vital for any reader seeking to sense of what often feels like an illogical series of alliances between conservatives.Paul Elliott Johnson, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of PittsburghThat contradictory posture is more or less what mainstream Anglophone conservatism has amounted to for a very long time. The movement’s protagonists lament the demise of meaning and belonging and “little platoons,” while upholding grossly unjust inequalities in economic power that only accelerate the loss. There has always been an ugly alternative path for the right, of course: one that would simply ratify inequality on the basis of racial and/or I.Q.-based hierarchies, or else seek to reconstitute lost organic social order on the basis of racial solidarity, shifting the blame for antagonisms inherent to modern economic relations to ethnic minorities, most notably the Jews. Much of McManus’s book is devoted to exploring these darker paths.Sohrab Ahmari, The American ConservativeThe first three chapters of McManus’ account – stretching from Aristotle to the early twentieth century – are largely faultless....That McManus feels compelled to nuance his analysis even at this early stage of the book hints at its basic strength: teasing out – in a rather dialectical way – the contradictory tensions that inform the thinkers under discussion (an approach he also extends to literary figures, in superlative sections on T.S. Eliot and Dostoevsky).Conrad Hamilton, Phd Graduate From the University of Paris VIIITable of ContentsForeword by Ronald Beiner Introduction: What Does it Mean to be on the Political Right? Part I: A World Without Seam 1.The Danger of the Swinish Multitude 2.Preserving the Soul of the World Part II: Entering the Wasteland 3.Between God and Baal I-Culture Wars in the Early Twentieth Century4.Between God and Baal II-Culture Wars in the Late Twentieth Century5.The Far Right, War and Genocide Conclusion: The World Out of Joint
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires Volume II
Book SynopsisThis volume reproduces key historical texts concerning `colonial knowledges'. The use of the adjective ''colonial'' indicates that knowledge is shaped by power relationships, while the use of the plural form, 'knowledges' indicates the emphasis in this collection is on an interplay between different, often competing, cognitive systems. George Balandier's notion of the colonial situation is an organising principle that runs throughout the volume, and there are four sub-themes: language and texts, categorical knowledge, the circulation of knowledge and indigenous knowledge. The volume is designed to introduce students to a range of important interventions which speak to each other today, even if they were not intended to do so when first published. An introductory essay links the themes together and explains the significance of the individual articles.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I The Colonial Situation: The colonial situation: a theoretical approach, G. Balandier; Social theory and the study of Christian missions in Africa, T.O. Biedelman. Part II Language and Control: The command of language and the language of command, Bernard S. Cohn; Knowing the country: empire and information in India, C.A. Bayly; The prose of counter-insurgency, Ranajit Guha. Part III Categorical Knowledge: Two European images of non-European rule, Talal Asad; The ideology of ’tribalism’, Archie Mafeje; Race and the webs of empire: Aryanism from India to the Pacific, Tony Ballantyne. Part IV Measurement and Mapping: Number in the colonial imagination, Arjun Appadurai; ’Kafir time’: preindustrial temporal concepts and labour discipline in 19th-century colonial Natal, Keletso E. Atkins; Mapping an empire: cartographic and colonial rivalry in 17th-century Dutch and English North America, Benjamin Schmidt; Scientific exploration and empire, Robert A. Stafford. Part V Indigenous Knowledge: Environment, Medicine, Landscape: Introduction: disease, medicine and empire, David Arnold; Natural sciences, Patrick Harries; Colonial conservation, ecological hegemony and popular resistance: towards a global synthesis, Richard H. Grove; Beyond the colonial paradigm: African history and environmental history in large-scale perspective, William Beinart; Cars out of place: vampires, technology and labour in east and central Africa, Luise White. Part VI The Circulation of Knowledge: Global knowledge on the move: itineraries, Amerindian narratives, and deep histories of science, Neil Safier; A commonwealth of science: the British Association in South Africa, 1907 and 1929, Saul Dubow; Visible empire: scientific expeditions and visual culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment, Daniela Bleichmar; Name index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Sciences in Islamicate Societies in Context
Book SynopsisThis Variorum volume reprints ten papers on contextual elements of the so-called ancient sciences in Islamicate societies between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries. They address four major themes: the ancient sciences in educational institutions; courtly patronage of science; the role of the astral and other sciences in the Mamluk sultanate; and narratives about knowledge. The main arguments are directed against the then dominant historiographical claims about the exclusion of the ancient sciences from the madrasa and cognate educational institutes, the suppression of philosophy and other ancient sciences in Damascus after 1229, the limited role of the new experts for timekeeping in the educational and professional exercise of this science, and the marginal impact of astrology under Mamluk rule. It is shown that the muwaqqits (timekeepers) were important teachers at madrasas and Sufi convents, that Mamluk officers sought out astrologers for cTable of Contents‘The location of the Ancient or ‚rational’ sciences in Muslim educational landscapes (AH 500-1100),’ Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, 4(1), 2002: 47-71. / ‘Shams al-Dīn al-Sakhāwī on Muwaqqits, Mu’adhdhins, and the Teachers of Various Astronomical Disciplines in Mamluk Cities in the Fifteenth Century,’ in (eds.) Emilia Calvo, Mercè Comes, Roser Puig, Mònica Rius, A Shared Legacy, Islamic Science East and West, Homage to professor J.M. Millàs Vallicrosa, Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, Publicacions i Edicions, 2008, 129-150. / ‘Ayyubid Princes and their Scholarly Clients from the Ancient Sciences,’ in Albrecht Fuess, Jan-Peter Hartung (eds.), Court Cultures in the Muslim World: Seventh to Nineteenth Centuries, SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East, London: Routledge, 2010, 326-56. / ‘Patronage of the mathematical sciences in Islamic societies: structure and rhetoric, identities and outcomes,’ in Eleanor Robson, Jackie Stedall (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 301-28. / ‘Courtly Patronage of the Ancient Sciences in Post-Classical Islamic Societies,’ Al-Qanṭara: revista de estudios árabes, XXIX (2008), 403-436. / ‘The language of 'Patronage' in Islamic societies before 1700,’ Cuadernos del CEMYR 20 (2012), 11-22. / ‘The Study of Geometry According to al-Sakhāwī (Cairo, 15th c) and al-Muḥibbī (Damascus, 17th c),’ in J. W. Dauben, S. Kirschner, A. Kühne, P. Kunitzsch and R. Lorch eds., Mathematics Celestial and Terrestrial, Festschrift for Menso Folkerts zum 65. Geburtstag. Acta Historica Leopoldina 54 (2008), 323–341. Halle/Saale: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina. / ‘On Four Sciences and Their Audiences in Ayyubid and Mamluk Societies,’ in Syrinx von Hees ed. Inhitat -The Decline Paradigm: Its Influence and Persistence in Writing Arab Cultural History. Würzburg: Ergon, 2012, 139-172. / ‘Narratives of knowledge in Islamic societies: what do they tell us about scholars and their contexts?’ Almagest, 4(1), 2013: 74-95. / ‘Sanctioning knowledge,’ Al-Qanṭara: revista de estudios árabes, 35(1), 2014: 277-309.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Global Origins of Psychology
Book SynopsisThis book offers a historical introduction to the remote origins of psychology, and is the first book in a series on the history of the subject. Combining a deep history approach with the study of ancient civilisations, it places psychology in a historical and global context using rigorous academic research.This book begins by separating the Greek components of psychology psyche and logos in order to trace their histories, separate and together, through the global Neolithic and Bronze Ages. The author develops a toolkit by deconstructing the writing of history, modern psychology, and analysis of culture, and by introducing theories from neuroscience and cultural psychology that can be tested against the data. He then takes readers on a journey back in time, from the borders of our current climatic envelope (the Holocene) towards the present, through Ancient Iraq, Egypt, Israel, and China. Each chapter deepens the reader's understanding of psychology in its global conteTrade Review"Spellbinding, unique, and original, The Global Origins of Psychology stuns me with this fresh look into the ancient study of psyche. What is true of psyche is also true of logos: word, reason, argument, language, theory, the laws to be discovered, the human capacity for accessing experience and penetrating to its underlying laws – all the senses of logos – predate Greek philosophy. The journey of logos through the Fertile Crescent, Ancient Iraq, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Israel, and Ancient China delineates a new world map so that we understand how we reason in our mind in different areas of the world, historically, and cross-culturally." Ruyu Hung, Distinguished Professor, National Chiayi University, Taiwan."Valentine provides a readable, fascinating review of the psyche through time, a sweeping tapestry of cultural and historic shifts in understanding the laterality of the brain. He brings forward ancient views of the mind and offers a thought provoking and insightful perspective on the challenges humanity has encountered and still faces."Darcia Narvaez, University of Notre Dame, USA, and author of Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom. Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction Part 1: Toolkit1. History 2. Psychology 3. Culture Part 2: Workshop4. New stones, new cosmos 5. Ancient Iraq 6. Ancient Egypt 7. Ancient Israel 8. Ancient China Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Balkan Perspectives of Europe
Book SynopsisThrough the lens of the Balkan nations, this volume makes a valuable and significant contribution to the fields of European and Southeast European studies by reconsidering the East/West dichotomyâboth in terms of the OrientâOccident divide and the EasternâWestern Europe binary.Balkan Perspectives focuses on concepts of Europe as articulated in the Balkans from the nineteenth century to the presentâan area that remains largely underexplored, despite extensive research on national identity and the construction of the Other. The authors address this scholarly gap through meticulous bibliographic research, drawing on both published and unpublished sources in Balkan languages. A key strength of the collection is its inclusion of contributors from the Balkans as well as from wider European and American academic contexts, enabling a nuanced and comprehensive examination of the subject through internal and external perspectives. The authors argue that, in asserting their cultural identification with Europe, Balkan nations have developed concepts of Europe that resonate with Occidental discourses and offer a counter-narrative to dominant Western conceptualizations of the Balkans.Broadening access to these ideas, this bookâs approach allows scholars, students, and general readers to deepen their understanding of the Balkan region and its perspectives on identity and otherness.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Absolute Power Complex from Constantine to
Book SynopsisIn The Absolute Power Complex from Constantine to Stalin: The Collective Unconscious of Catholic and Orthodox Countries Mino Vianello advances a new hermeneutical paradigm in analyzing why liberal-democratic institutions and ways of life do not flourish in Catholic and Orthodox countries.Vianello maintains that the breaking point is not the Reform, as Weber stated in the wake of de Tocqueville, but the events of the fourth century, with the Nicene Council, convoked by Constantine for the purely political purpose of giving a psychological cement to the crumbling empire, and Theodosius the Great's decision to proclaim the Trinitarian Doctrine State Religion. These events left an indelible mark in the collective unconscious of the peoples who happened to fall into this mesh studded with neo-platonic philosophical categories and legal concepts derived from Roman Law. This book demonstrates the inception and effects of the Absolute Power Complex by linking the theological-pTrade Review"The Absolute Power Complex from Constantine to Stalin is one of those concentrated essays which can really open our eyes more than entire treaties. It points to profound, ‘hard’ archetypes which can penetrate cultures and determine history. Why, for instance, during the Cold War era in Europe was the Italian left monopolized by the Communist Party and not a Western-style socialist one? Mino Vianello explains how unconscious, ‘monopolistic’ patterns of thought, inherited during millennia from the Church, might have played a role deeper than the existence of the Soviet Union." – Luigi Zoja, former president of the International Association of Analytical Psychology and author"Mino Vianello’s new book explains cultural and political differences among European countries, with a basic assumption that the differences are rooted in religion. Unlike Weber in the case of the birth of Protestantism in Western Europe, Vianello argues that the sources of differences among European countries are in a deep past, in the fourth century. As he writes on looking for roots of political systems in non-Protestant parts of Europe: ‘Constantine promoted a theological-political construction imbued with Neoplatonic concepts and Roman Law categories that led to a dogmatic, state-imposed doctrine totally alien to the Gospels and ignored in the Christian world up to the end of the second century, a doctrine that in the course of time shaped psychologically the peoples’ mind to submission and lack of responsibility. The heritage of the fourth century is the main hub of the Collective Unconscious that characterizes both the Catholic and the Orthodox worlds.’ "Vianello analyzes political and cultural traits in the part of Europe where Catholic and Orthodox religions are still predominant. He traces developments over centuries, arguing that Jung’s theories help to explain the propensity of the mentality of societies living in these countries. The Collective Unconscious born there was a good ground for the creation of ideologies which justified later authoritarian political systems and control over the lives of people in private and public spheres. The close relations between religious institutions and state institutions over centuries gave way in the twentieth century to the birth of fascism and communism, systems in which religious institutions were replaced by non-religious ones and expected public support because they represented the ‘truth’. In this way, they resembled religious institutions. The author describes in detail the deconstruction of Marx’s theory: the theory created in Western ideological, social, and political contexts was deconstructed by Lenin, Stalin, and others to adapt its tenets to Russian cultural, social, political, and economic context, taking it far from its original version. I believe that readers will find the book interesting and a good starting point for discussion and further studies of historical trajectories." – Renata Siemieńska, Professor at the R.B. Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, and the Institute of Social Applied Sciences, M.Grzegorzewska University, Warsaw, PolandThe new book by Professor Mino Vianello on the historical legacy and the political culture tradition inherited from the transformation of Catholicism in 325 ce under the Roman Emperor Constantine, has the meaning of a monumental revision of the roots of the concept of the Absolute Power Complex, whose influence on the countries between the Iberian Peninsula and the Urals left authoritarian marks deep in the practices of their political elites and their populations. In reality, it left undemocratic marks because of the requirement of complete subordination of individuals to the powers derived from the tradition, despite the fact that these countries claimed to be democracies."However perhaps the most revolutionary theoretical contribution of this book is the author´s hypothesis around the psychological roots of the concept of absolute power. Vianello recurs to Jung’s theory of the 'Collective Unconscious' to explain the existing difference in the West between, on one hand, societies where the value of freedom has become a central component of the political tradition as demonstrated by the nature of their democratic institutions, the Rule of Law, and the proclamation of human rights; and on the other hand, societies where this simply did not happen, due to the imposition – as a mere political motivated decision – of Christianity as the State Religion. After this, for a long period of time, the Church and the State operated together, according to a conception of the subordination of the members of the political community to the absolute power. Vianello links this conception to central features of Jung’s notion of the Collective Unconscious, which in the final analysis would explain why it is so difficult for some societies to evolve in a radical democratic term."My impression is that this book opens a completely new theoretical avenue for the understanding of some contemporary political tendencies, which are related to the undemocratic features of emerging neo-populist and right-wing governments. In this sense, the book is an enormous contribution to new areas of interests for political science and political sociology." – José Álvaro Moisés, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Senior Professor of the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo, BrazilTable of ContentsPreface; Hermeneutic Premise: from Marx to Jung; Introduction: Arius and the Enclave from the Iberian Peninsula to the Urals; Chapter 1: Constantine: the context; Chapter 2: The birth of the 'Absolute Power Complex'; Chapter 3: Corollaries of the 'Absolute Power Complex'; Chapter 4: Consequences on Intellectual and Political Life; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science Issues and
Book SynopsisLandmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Issues and Methods compiles the essential readings of the vibrant field of rhetoric of science, tracing the growth and core concerns of the field since its development in the 1970s.A companion to Randy Allen Harris's foundational Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies, this volume includes essays by such luminaries as Carolyn R. Miller, Jeanne Fahnestock, and Alan G. Gross, along with an early prophetic article by Charles Sanders Pierce. Harris's detailed introduction puts the field into its social and intellectual context, and frames the important contributions of each essay, which range from reimagining classical concepts like rhetorical figures and topical invention to Modal Materialism and the Neomodern hybridization of Actor Network Theory with Genre Studies. Race, revolution, and Daoism come up along the way, and the empirical recalcitrance of the moon.This collection serves as a textbook for graTable of ContentsPart 1: Issues 1. Ideas, Stray or Stolen, About Scientific Writing, No. 1 2. The Personae of Scientific Discourse3. The Rhetoric of Science 4. Are Scientists Rhetors in Disguise? 5. Rhetorical Criticism and the Rhetoric of Science 6. Some Cautionary Strictures on the Writing of the Rhetoric of Science 7. Rhetoric of Science Without Constraints 8. Reclaiming Rhetoric of Science and Technology: Knowing In and About the World 9. The Productivity of Scientific Rhetoric 10.When We Can’t Wait on Truth: The Nature of Rhetoric in The Rhetoric of Science Part 2: Methods 11. Rhetoric, Topoi, and Scientific Revolutions 12. Kairos in the Rhetoric of Science 13. Figures of Argument 14.Switch-Side Debating Meets Demand-Driven Rhetoric of Science 15. Uncertainty, Spheres of Argument, and the Transgressive Ethos of the Science Adviser 16. The 1923 Scientistic Campaign and Dao-Discourse: A Cross-Cultural Study of the Rhetoric of Science 17. Race and Genetics from a Modal Materialist Perspective 18. Socioscientific Controversies: A Theoretical and Methodological Framework 19. Presence as a Consequence of Verbal-Visual Interaction: A Theoretical Approach 20. Networks, Genres, and Complex Wholes: Citizen Science and How We Act Together through Typified Text
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Writing About Byzantium
Book SynopsisNiketas Choniates was in Constantinople when it was burnt and looted by the soldiers of the Fourth Crusade and he wrote a history which has always been the mainstay for anyone wishing to learn about the Comnene dynasty and the Byzantine Empire of the twelfth century. Yet it is a very difficult and puzzling text and, given its significance for the period, is understudied. The author says at the start that he wrote his work hoping that even workers and women would be able to profit from it, yet he wrote those words, and the rest of the history, in a highly convoluted, literary and at times opaque style and language. This examination is an introduction to the history of Niketas, and to the author's views of why this period saw such catastrophe for the Byzantines. It looks at Niketas' thoughts about history-writing, the emperors, and the Comnene dynasty in particular, about the presence of God in man's affairs, and the historian's attitudes to the women of the imperial family. Table of Contents1. The puzzle of the History of Niketas Choniates 2. ‘A history for workers and women’: Statements of intent in the Preface 3. The world of Byzantine women 4. Hellenism and Classicism in the History 5. The influence of the Old Testament 6. Niketas on the emperors 7. Conclusion Appendix 1 Appendix 2
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources
Book SynopsisUnderstanding Early Modern Primary Sources is an introduction to the rich treasury of source material available to students of early modern history. During this period, political development, economic and social change, rising literacy levels, and the success of the printing press, ensured that the State, the Church and the people generated texts and objects on an unprecedented scale. This book introduces students to the sources that survived to become indispensable primary material studied by historians. After a wide-ranging introductory essay, part I of the book, Sources', takes the reader through seven key categories of primary material, including governmental, ecclesiastical and legal records, diaries and literary works, print, and visual and material sources. Each chapter addresses how different types of material were produced, whilst also pointing readers towards the most important and accessible physical and digital source collections. Part II, HistorieTrade Review"Anyone interested in (what the editors call) ‘the stuff’ of the early modern past will want to read this book. Each well-focused chapter is written in an engaging style that makes this introduction to primary sources essential reading for any student of the period."David Dean, Carleton University, Canada"Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources is indispensable for courses on early modern England or Europe. It enables students to conduct high-quality research on a wide range of topics. It guides them through the wealth of primary sources available in English online or in modern editions, and it lays out the main secondary literature and approaches."Jacob D. Melish, University of Northern Colorado, USATable of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors Introduction: Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources Laura Sangha and Jonathan Willis PART I: SOURCES 1 State Papers and related collections Natalie Mears 2 Legal and Judicial Sources Henry French 3 Ecclesiastical Sources Jonathan Willis 4 Print Ian Green 5 Literary Sources Ceri Sullivan 6 Personal Documents Laura Sangha 7 Visual and Material Culture Tara Hamling PART II: HISTORIES 8 Gender Merry Wiesner-Hanks 9 Religion and Religious Change Alec Ryrie 10 Political Cultures Janet Dickinson 11 Popular Culture Mark Hailwood 12 Economic Life Brodie Waddell 13 Warfare Neil Younger 14 Early Modern Science Helen Cowie 15 The Wider World Margaret Small Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Landmark Essays on Historiographies of Rhetorics
Book SynopsisThis reader presents essays that editor Victor Vitanza describes as efforts at revisionary histories that are either quasi-traditional histories or radical subversive histories. They are influential works published over the past four decades by major rhetoricians and historians with radically different presumptions and challenges to the status quo of history. Their discussions present a full array of possible histories in terms of originations, classicisms, scientific objectivities, temporalities, literary criticisms, feminisms, modernity/post-modernity, aesthetics, and perpetually more and more contestations. Providing a forum for scholars' original voices as the discussions have developed over the decades, this collection is a unique and valuable text for advanced study on the history of rhetoric.Table of ContentsEnos, Richard Leo. "Notions, Presumptions, and Presuppositions in Hellenic Discourse: Rhetorical Theory as Philological Evidence." Philosophy and Rhetoric, 14.3 (1981): 173-84.Murphy, James J. "The Historiography of Rhetoric: Challenges and Opportunities." Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric. 1.1 (1983): 1-8. Blair, Carole. "Contested Histories of Rhetoric: The Politics of Preservation, Progress, and Change." Quarterly Journal of Speech 78.4 (November 1992). 403-28. Ballif, Michelle. "Re/dressing Histories; Or, On Re/Covering Figures Who Have Been Laid Bare By Our Gaze." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 22.1 (1992): 91-98. Farenga, Vincent. "Periphrasis on the Origin of Rhetoric." Modern Language Notes 94.5 (1979): 1033-55. Foucault, Michel. "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History." Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1980: 139-65.Poulakos, John. "Testing and Contesting Classical Rhetorics." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 36 (2006): 171-79.Struever, Nancy S. "The Classical Background." Rhetoric, Modality, Modernity. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2009: 1-8. DuBois, Page. "Prologue." Out of Athens: The New Ancient Greeks. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2010: 1-26. Berlin, James, Robert J. Connors, Sharon Crowley, Richard Leo Enos, Victor J. Vitanza, Susan C. Jarratt, Nan Johnson, Jan Swearingen, James J. Murphy. "Octalog: The Politics of Historiography." Rhetoric Review 7.1 (1988): 5-49. Lois Agnew, James J. Murphy, Cheryl Glenn, Nan Johnson, Jan Swearingen, Richard Leo Enos, Jasper Neel, Linda Ferreira-Buckley, Janice Lauer Rice, Janet M. Atwill, Kathleen Ethel Welch, Roxanne Mountford, Thomas Miller, Victor J. Vitanza. "Octalog: A Retrospective. Rhetorical Historiography and the Octalogs." Rhetoric Review, 30.3 (2011): 237-57. Kennedy, George A. "A Hoot in the Dark: The Evolution of General Rhetoric." Philosophy and Rhetoric. 25.1 (1992): 1-21. Appendix
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Narrative History of the American Press
Book SynopsisBeginning with the American Revolution and spanning over two hundred years of American journalism, A Narrative History of the American Press provides an overview of the events, institutions, and people who have shaped the press, from the creation of the First Amendment to today. Gregory A. Borchard's introductory text helps readers develop an understanding of the role of the press in both the U.S. and world history, and how American culture has shapedand been shaped bythe role of journalism in everyday life. The text, along with a rich array of supplemental materials available online, provides students with the tools used by both reporters and historians to understand the present through the past, allowing readers to use the history of journalism as a lens for implementing their own storytelling, reporting, and critical analysis skills.Trade Review"The history of this country is the history of journalism. No one tells this story with more care, skill, and elegance than Gregory Borchard." –William McKeen, Boston University, USA"At last: a Zenger-to-Twitter history of the American press, covering the vast subject from the perspective of journalists and their critics alike, with breathtakingly advancing technologies and the guarantees of the First Amendment as constant subtexts. Gregory Borchard, a leading scholar in this field, has done an outstanding job. This book should at once become—and remain—the standard reference on the subject." –Harold Holzer, Hunter College, USATable of ContentsIntroductionCh. 1, Pre-Revolution Print: The Colonial Origins of the American PressCh. 2, Thomas Paine, the Partisan Press, and "The Dark Ages of American Journalism"Ch. 3, The Penny Press: Sensationalism, Populism, and ProgressCh. 4, Nineteenth-Century Publishing Innovations in Content and TechnologyCh. 5, The Press in the Civil War Era: Pioneers in Print and PhotographyCh. 6, The Press in Transition: From Reconstruction to the Gilded Age Ch. 7, Muckraking: Reporters and ReformCh. 8, Yellow Journalism: Pulitzer and Hearst Battle for ReadersCh. 9, Public Relations: How the Press Launched an Agency of Its OwnCh. 10, Early Infotainment in Broadcast and FilmCh. 11, The Press at War: Propaganda in Print and FilmCh. 12, The Press in the Cold War: Murrow, McCarthy, and ShakespeareCh. 13, New Journalism and the Counterculture: Watchdogs and Watergate Ch. 14, The Press and the Making of Modern Media ConclusionAfterword
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge History of Medieval Magic
Book SynopsisThe Routledge History of Medieval Magic brings together the work of scholars from across Europe and North America to provide extensive insights into recent developments in the study of medieval magic between c.1100 and c.1500. This book covers a wide range of topics, including the magical texts which circulated in medieval Europe, the attitudes of intellectuals and churchmen to magic, the ways in which magic intersected with other aspects of medieval culture, and the early witch trials of the fifteenth century. In doing so, it offers the reader a detailed look at the impact that magic had within medieval society, such as its relationship to gender roles, natural philosophy, and courtly culture. This is furthered by the book's interdisciplinary approach, containing chapters dedicated to archaeology, literature, music, and visual culture, as well as texts and manuscripts. The Routledge History of Medieval Magic also outlines how research on Trade Review"The breadth of this volume – geographical, linguistic, chronological and disciplinary – is a huge feat, and The Routledge History of Medieval Magic is an important addition to existing scholarship. The sections entitled ‘Future directions’ are perhaps the book’s most important component, providing a way forward for future research in a field that offers so much, standing as it does, in the words of Kieckhefer, at a ‘kind of crossroads where different pathways in medieval culture converge’." Joanne Edge Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern StudiesTable of ContentsIntroductionSophie Page and Catherine RiderPart I: Conceptualizing magic1 Rethinking how to define magicRichard Kieckhefer2 For magic: Against methodClaire Fanger3 A discourse historical approach towards medievallearned magicBernd-Christian Otto4 The concept of magicDavid. L. d’Avray5 ResponsesRichard Kieckhefer, David. L. d’Avray, Bernd-Christian Ott o, and Claire FangerPart I I: Languages and dissemination6 Arabic magic: The impetus for translating texts and theirreceptionCharles Burnett7 The Latin encounter with Hebrew magic: Problemsand approachesKatelyn Mesler8 Magic in Romance languagesSebastia Giralt9 Central and Eastern EuropeBenedek Lang10 Magic in Celtic landsMark Williams11 ScandinaviaStephen A. MitchellPart I I I: Key genres and figures12 From Hermetic magic to the magic of marvelsAntonella Sannino13 The notion of properties: Tensions betweenScientia and Ars in medieval natural philosophyand magicIsabelle Draelants14 Solomonic magicJulien Veronese15 NecromancyFrank Klaassen16 John of MorignyClaire Fanger and Nicholas Watson17 Cecco d’Ascoli and Antonio da Montolmo: The buildingof a “nigromantical” cosmology and the birth of theauthor-magicianNicolas Weill-Parot18 Beringarius Ganellus and the Summa sacre magice: Magicas the promotion of God’s KingshipDamaris Aschera Gehr19 Jerome Torrella and “Astrological Images”Nicolas Weill-Parot20 Peter of ZealandJean-Marc MandosioPart IV: Themes (magic and…)21 Magic and natural philosophySt even P. Marrone22 Medicine and magicPeter Murray Jones and Lea T. Olsan23 IllusionRobert Goulding24 Magic at courtJean-Patrice Boudet25 Magic and genderCatherine Rider26 Magic in literature: Romance transformationsCorinne Saunders27 MusicJohn Haines28 Magic and archaeology: Ritual residues and“odd” depositsRoberta Gilchrist29 The visual culture of magic in the Middle AgesAlejandro Garcia Aviles30 Medieval magical figures: Between image and textSophie PagePart V: Anti-magical discourse in the later Middle Ages31 Scholasticism and high medieval opposition to magicDavid J. Collins32 Pastoral literature and preaching Kathleen Kamerick33 Superstition and sorceryMichael D. Bailey34 WitchcraftMart ine Ostorero35 Epilogue: Cosmology and magic – The angel of Marsin the Libro de astromagiaAlejandro Garcia AvilesFurther readingIndex
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Cambridge University Press Making History Count
Book SynopsisThis authoritative guide to quantitative methods is designed to be used as the basic text for taught graduate courses, and upper-level students working on their own. Illustrated with tables, graphs and diagrams, it introduces key topics, and supported by five specific historical data-sets, available electronically in downloadable and manipulatable form.Trade Review'This is an excellent book which serves two purposes. It fills a much needed gap in the literature for the historian who isn't particularly happy in handling numerical data. it also benefits other students who require a passing knowledge of statistics. nothing to my knowledge, has come on the market since Maroney's Facts from Figures in the 1950s provides such an extensive insight into statistical methodology.' Open History'No competitor text is as effective … I wish this text had been available when I was trying to teach quantitative methods.' The Times Higher Education Supplement'… this is a very impressive, an d very welcome, book. Feinstein and Thomas are to be congratulated for producing a comprehensive, nontechnical introduction to quantitative methods for historians which I am sure will soon be compulsory reading on every course catering to such an audience.' Business History'… no competitor text is, to my knowledge, as effective in taking the student from the basics of descriptive statistics through to the intricacies of multiple linear regression … I wish this text had been available when I was trying to teach quantitative methods to numerically challenged historians…'. The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsPart I. Elementary Statistical Analysis: 1. Introduction; 2. Descriptive statistics; 3. Correlation; 4. Simple linear regression; Part II. Samples and Inductive Statistics: 5. Standard errors and confidence intervals; 6. Hypothesis testing; 7. Non-parametric tests; Part III. Multiple Linear Regression: 8. Multiple relationships; 9. The classical linear regression model; 10. Dummy variables and lagged values; Part IV. Further Topics in Regression Analysis: 11. Violating the assumptions of the classical model; 12. Non-linear models and functional forms; 13. Logit, probit, and tobit models; Part V. Specifying and Interpreting Models: Four Case Studies: 14. Case studies 1 and 2: unemployment in Britain and emigration from Ireland; 15. Case studies 3 and 4: the Old Poor Law in England and leaving home in the United States, 1850–60; Appendix A. The four data sets; Appendix B. Index numbers; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The History Written on the Classical Greek Body
Book SynopsisThis book challenges historians to come to terms with the distortions that they systematically introduce into their work by their reliance on what has been written on paper without looking at what was and was not written on the body. This book is concerned with the ways in which texts relating to classical Greece, and in particular to classical Athens, classified people and with the extent to which those classifications could be seen by the eye. It compares the qualities distinguished in texts to those distinguished in sculpture and painted pottery, and emphasises the frequent invisibility of the categories upon which historians have laid most stress the citizen, the free person, the foreigner, even the god. The frequent impossibility of seeing who belonged to which category has major political, social and theological implications which are explored here, as well as potentially revolutionary implications for all future historical writing.Trade Review"His aim is not to produce a history of the Greek body, but rather to use the body as a lens to bring into focus the biases and distortions inherent in more traditional text-centered histories." -- Zachary Biles, New England Classical JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Writing history on the classical body; 2. The appearance of the classical Greek body; 3. The distinguished body; 4. The citizen body; 5. Foreign bodies; 6. Dirty bodies; 7. Godsbodies; 8. Telling bodies.
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