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Appearances of Dawla and Political Order in late medieval Syro-Egypt. The state, social theory, and the political history of the Cairo Sultanate (thirteenth-sixteenth centuries) Ghent University
This paper is a reflexive essay that re-imagines the historical agency of what traditionally tends to be subsumed under the phenomenon of the Mamluk state. It is argued that the notions of state in modern research and of dawla in contemporary texts remain an issue of related analytical confusion. Engaging with this confusion in the generalising fashion of a historical sociology of late medieval Syro-Egyptian political action, this essay proposes ...
A forgotten link in the history of the Chinese newspaper political cartoon : the cartoon album of the world of E-king Yen Ghent University
Forgotten transnational connections and national contexts: an 'entangled history' of the political transfers that shaped Belgian feminism, 1890-1914 Ghent University
Political ideology and the rewriting of history in fifteenth-century Flanders Ghent University
Medieval views on rulers from the past were often politically instrumentalised in the service of contemporary interests. In the recent historiography on medieval Flanders, the reconstruction of how 'historical truth' changed over time to cater for topical needs has primarily been examined from the perspective of 'social' or 'communicative' memories, which were orally transmitted over a short period of time. This line of research followed the ...
A Political History of the World Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States has spent over one hundred years at war. The dream of peace has been universal in the history of humanity. So why have we so rarely been able to achieve it?
In A Political History of the World, Jonathan Holslag has produced a sweeping history ...
In A Political History of the World, Jonathan Holslag has produced a sweeping history ...
The political and economic history of vineyard planting rights in Europe: from Montesquieu to the European Union KU Leuven
In 2008, the EU voted to liberalize its system of planting rights which has strictly regulated vine plantings in the EU. However, after an intense lobbying campaign the liberalization of the planting right system was overturned in 2013 and new regulations could create an even more restrictive system. European wine associations have complained about the detrimental effects of the new regulations. There is a precedent in history. In 1726, the ...
The political and economic history of vineyard planting rights in Europe: from Montesquieu to the European Union KU Leuven
In 2008, the EU voted to liberalize its system of planting rights which has strictly regulated vine plantings in the EU. However, after an intense lobbying campaign the liberalization of the planting right system was overturned in 2013 and new regulations could create an even more restrictive system. European wine associations have complained about the detrimental effects of the new regulations. There is a precedent in history. In 1726, the ...