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Christine de Pizan’s Political Thought and Civil War
This chapter focuses on Christine de Pizan—active during the years leading up to and during the civil war between the Burgundians and the...
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Modern Western Astrology as Indigenous Thought and Practice
In recent decades there has been increasing concern with the concept of indigeneity, Indigenous thought and practice, and indigenous religion....
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Work and Idleness in Adam Contzen’s Political Oeuvre
German Jesuit Adam Contzen, one of the key authors of seventeenth-century Catholic political thought, includes a comprehensive discussion of the work...
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Scandinavianism in Political Practice
The end of the Crimean War was followed by a marked shift in Scandinavian foreign policy. Having incurred the wrath of Russia and secured a treaty of...
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Political Intelligence
The IDs played a crucial role in hel** to achieve the political objectives of the occupationOccupation. But they were also, perhaps more...
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Industry, Utility, and the Distribution of Wealth in Quattrocento Humanist Thought
This chapter explores how the Florentine humanist Matteo PalmieriPalmieri, Matteo (1406–75) conceptualised the relationship between citizen work,...
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Life in the hole: practices and emotions in the cultural political economy of mitigation deterrence
Negative emissions techniques (NETs) promise to capture greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and sequester them. Since decarbonisation efforts have...
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Political Crisis
We will therefore retrace the main stages of this journey, moving quickly through better-known events and more slowly through lesser-known ones. The...
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Daoism and Other Schools of Thought
We are now going to discuss another one of those broader classifications, one of those -isms that arose during the Period of the Hundred Schools and...
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Lady Jane Lumley’s Private Education and Its Political Resonances
In this chapter, Natália da Silva Perez focuses on Lady Jane LumleyJane Lumley, who lived in England in the middle of the sixteenth century. As a...
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Voluntary Associations and Political Participation
Voluntary associations played a role in processes of politicisation that are visible in Europe in the nineteenth century. This is not in itself a new...
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The Origins of Alexandre Koyré’s History of Scientific Thought
This chapter endeavors to reconstitute the set of conditions in the period between the two world wars that made Alexandre Koyré’s work on the history...
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The Origins of Alexandre Koyré’s History of Scientific Thought
This chapter endeavors to reconstitute the set of conditions in the period between the two world wars that made Alexandre Koyré’s work on the history...
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Ethnicity and Political Violence in Kenya
Ethnic factors in Kenya have influenced elections and thereby undermined democratic practice. This chapter looks at ethnicity in Kenya using...
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Individual, Free Association and Common Ownership: The British Co-operative Movement and Political Ideology
Cooperatism is a social movement whose political categorisation is still problematic. This is particularly true in Great Britain where it has long...
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The Transmission and Transformation of Thought and Religion
Since the 1990s, the rise of neonationalism and anti-Chinese sentiment in Japan has resulted in deliberate attempts to whitewash the influence of...
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Translation and Culture—in Five Currents of Thought
For the young, yet already well-established academic field of cultural studies, linking translation and culture is not a new task. Many social...
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Religion and the Consolidation of the Zanu-PF Political Ideology
Throughout history, religion has been no stranger to advancing political ideologies that are in tandem with its vision of a grand missional...
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The Labour Party’s International Thought from 1900 to 1918: Webs of British Liberal and Socialist Traditions
The role played by liberal figures joining the Labour Party has attracted some attention. While drawing upon this academic tradition, the present...
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Social Network Analysis—Identifying Women’s Socio-Political Roles
Strategic marriages were a key alliance formation tactic throughout the early modern world, and Algeria was no exception. Therefore, this chapter...