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J. C. Davis
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Goodbye to Utopia: Thomas More’s Utopian Conclusion
Chapter 9 offers a reading of the concluding paragraphs of More’s Utopia to illustrate how the work depicts his ideal world and Tudor society as two distinct theatres sha** and conditioning their members’ attit...
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Introduction
Chapter 1 outlines the focus of concern in this book and the standpoint from which it has been written. It identifies present-centred condescension as a major obstacle to our better understanding of early-mode...
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Reassessing Radicalism in a Traditional Society: Two Questions
Beginning with the problem of the appropriate language in which to discuss the aspiration to transform the nature of rule, Chapter 3 moves on to explore three aspects of the historiographical challenge. First,...
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Formal Utopia/Informal Millennium: The Struggle Between Form and Substance as a Context for Seventeenth-Century Utopianism
In the early-modern period, utopian thinking faced a much more pervasive approach to envisaging the transformation of politics and society—the belief in a coming, if not imminent, millennium. As this chapter e...
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James Harrington’s Utopian Radicalism: Oceana and the Narration of an Alternative World
Chapter 10 explores Harrington’s Oceana as a case study in the relationship between the radical, the utopian and narrative fiction. By the 1650s, prolonged civil conflict had undermined the legitimacy of existing...
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Religion and the Struggle for Freedom in the English Revolution
The thesis of Chapter 7 is that the language of freedom and liberty in the seventeenth century had markedly different connotations from its modern usage and that this has significant implications for a radical...
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Radicalism in a Traditional Society: The Evaluation of Radical Thought in the English Commonwealth 1649–1660
Chapter 2 examines the problems confronting late twentieth-century historiography in dealing with the exceptionalism of a significant body of English radical political thought emerging in the 1640s and continu...
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Conquering the Conquest: The Limits of Non-Violence in Gerrard Winstanley’s Thought
The importance of the Norman Yoke, consequent upon the Norman Conquest, in the thinking of Gerrard Winstanley has been widely acknowledged, following Christopher Hill’s seminal essay on that subject. It was fo...
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Against Formality: One Aspect of the English Revolution
This chapter continues the exploration of ideas of formality and its antithesis as contexts for mid-seventeenth-century radicalism and utopianism. The attack on formality reached a new intensity in the decades...
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Conclusion
This chapter returns to a consideration of the fictional element in present and past perceptions of reality. The illusory and imaginative construction of the status quo is evoked as central to More’s thinking in
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Thomas More’s Utopia: Sources, Legacy and Interpretation
Against a background of contested interpretative complexity, Chapter 8 explores More’s Utopia as an attempt to address the problems of the good life in both contemporary society and an imagined alternative and to...
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Spectroscopic Imaging STM: Atomic-Scale Visualization of Electronic Structure and Symmetry in Underdoped Cuprates
Atomically resolved spectroscopic imaging STM (SI-STM) has played a pivotal role in visualization of the electronic structure of cuprate high temperature superconductors. In both the d-wave superconducting (dSC) ...
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Validation of Sediment Accumulation Regions in Kansas, USA
Recognition of recurrent structural deformation and sedimentation in cratonic shelves is not new and these processes affect these areas worldwide (Merriam and Förster, submitted b). “Plains-type folds” have be...
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Additive Logratio Estimation of Regionalized Compositional Data: An Application to Calculation of Oil Reserves
To jointly estimate values of a coregionalization with spatially correlated components either cokriging or separate kriging of each component can be used. Cokriging is an attractive alternative, because it all...
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New Biomedical Applications of Radiocarbon
The development of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) and its rapid application to radiocarbon detection produced a revolution in archaeology, earth science and oceanography for two primary reasons: the sampl...
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Workshop on Spatial Statistics and Image Processing
Problems in the earth sciences are often spatial in nature, and many involve images either on a macroscopic scale (e.g., satellite imagery) or on a microscopic scale (e.g., electron micrographs). Many of the m...
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The trapped ovum — biochemical, ultrasonic and laparoscopic findings
The syndrome of the trapped ovum or luteinization of the unruptured follicle has been recognized for some time but has only recently begun to receive attention in the clinical context1,2.
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Serum progesterone levels as a criterion of ovulation
Follicle rupture is essential to fertility, and many attempts have been made to monitor this biochemically. Probably the commonest method is to measure plasma progesterone levels, but the literature gives diff...
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Science and Utopia: The History of a Dilemma
There is a widespread but fallacious insistence that the relationship between science and society only began to encounter difficulties around the beginning of this century (1). In fact it is a very old problem...
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Sedimentary Porous Materials as a Realization of a Stochastic Process
Statistical variation in the properties of porous materials, including sedimentary rocks, has been recognized for over half a century. In early studies, determinations were made of measures of central tendency...
