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This chapter provides an overview of dependent constitution-making under one-party regimes in Albania, Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, North Korea, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia during the first decade after the Second World War. Employing and further developing the concept of the informal Soviet empire, it…[Read more]

Over the course of the twentieth century, a broad array of parties as organizations of a new type took over state functions and replaced state institutions on the territories of the former Ottoman, Qing, Russian, and Habsburg Empires. In the context of roughly simultaneous imperial and postimperial transformations, organizations such as the…[Read more]

This book examines the political parties which emerged in the former Ottoman, Qing, Russian, and Habsburg empires and not only took over government power, but merged with government itself. It discusses how these parties, disillusioned with previous constitutional and parliamentary reforms, justified their takeovers with programs of controlled or…[Read more]

This study focuses on the Philippine artist Ricarte Puruganan’s reckoning with the ideas of “country,” “God,” and “the sublime.” It does so through a hermeneutic reading of the artist’s works as a cultural text. In order to fill the gaps in the historiographic record and to enrich the material on the artist that was already available, the…[Read more]

No creo que haya mejor ocasión que este homenaje alcalaíno al maestro Alberto Blecua para vencer las reticencias y dudas del neófito que, en palabras de Márquez Villanueva, ha de pisar por vez primera los “senderos de alto riesgo” por los que camina el Libro de buen amor. Por motivo de mi admiración y reconocimiento al homenajeado, voy a dejarme…[Read more]

Presentation about the divinatory texts in the Bairische Bild-Enzyklopädie.

Manuscripts:
Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek, MS.B 200, http://digital.bib-bvb.de/webclient/DeliveryManager?custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=5281832
Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Rkp. Przyb. 35/64, http://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=271106&from=FBC

Tal vez uno de los procesos más destacados de la historia de Europa en el siglo XIII sea la configuración de la primera época de esplendor de justas, torneos y todo tipo de espectáculos de riesgo. Aproximadamente entre los años 1170 y 1260, el Viejo Continente asistió a la explosión de estos encuentros, en los que brillaron con luz propia los no…[Read more]

How do people make sense of works of art? And how do they write to make others see the same way? There are many guides to looking at art, histories of art history and art criticism, and accounts of various ‘theories’ and ‘methods’, but this book offers something very unlike the normal search for difference and division: it examines the general…[Read more]

This chapter analyses Global Byzantium by situating the medieval empire of New Rome in the history of statehood’s generalisation worldwide. Arguing that statehood remains the implicit mental furniture of History at a macro-civilizational scale, and so more or less at the micro too, the chapter proposes the dual concepts of hegemony and c…[Read more]

Catalogo realizzato in occasione della serie di mostre dedicate, tra il 2021 e il 2022, dalla Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Jesi, dal Museo d’Arte Moderna e della Mail Art di Montecarotto (AN) e dal Museo Nori De’ Nobili di Trecastelli (AN), all’opera di Magdalo Mussio. Il testo prende in esame, in particolare, l’opera grafico-pittorica, oltre…[Read more]

Catalogo realizzato in occasione della serie di mostre dedicate, tra il 2021 e il 2022, dalla Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Jesi, dal Museo d’Arte Moderna e della Mail Art di Montecarotto (AN) e dal Museo Nori De’ Nobili di Trecastelli (AN), all’opera di Magdalo Mussio. Il testo prende in esame, in particolare, l’opera grafico-pittorica, oltre…[Read more]

Testo della mostra personale (a più voci), dell’artista Giovanni Gaggia, tenutasi a partire dal 27 dicembre 2020 presso il Museo Statale Tattile Omero di Ancona in cui è stato osteso uno splendido arazzo poi chiuso in tubo di metallo. La mostra e la conseguente performance hanno dato vita ad un archivio permanente ed in continua evoluzione che r…[Read more]

Testo della mostra personale (a più voci), dell’artista Giovanni Gaggia, tenutasi a partire dal 27 dicembre 2020 presso il Museo Statale Tattile Omero di Ancona in cui è stato osteso uno splendido arazzo poi chiuso in tubo di metallo. La mostra e la conseguente performance hanno dato vita ad un archivio permanente ed in continua evoluzione che r…[Read more]

El presente libro pretende establecer unas premisas básicas en el conocimiento que, desde la perspectiva historiográfica, puede realizarse del Cancionero de Baena, basándose en la inserción de gran parte de sus poemas en el contexto histórico en que fueron compuestos, además de acotar —hasta donde su autor le ha sido posible llegar— las biografía…[Read more]

This working paper presents in full translation four texts of the Uzbek early 20th-century jadid reformist Abdurrauf Fitrat. Identifying educational reform as the main key to progress, he advocated for the emancipation and nationalisation of the Chaghatay/Uzbek language as a tool to educate the masses rather than to serve the interests of a…[Read more]

The case in which Laloo has been convicted is popularly known as the Fodder Scam. A brief recapitulation of the scam would be in order. The scam first began unfolding in Bihar in 1975-76, when the state was under Congress rule and Jagannath Mishra was the chief minister. The scam continued to flourish for the entire decade. The scam continued even…[Read more]

जिस मामले में लालू प्रसाद को सजा हुई है, वह चारा घोटाले के नाम से जाना जाता है। इस घोटाले की संक्षिप्त कथा जानना आवश्यक है। सन् 1974-75 की शुरुआत में ही जब इस घोटाले की शुरुआत हुई, तब बिहार में कांग्रेस का शासन था और डॉ. जगन्नाथ मिश्र मुख्यमंत्री हुआ करते थे। अबाध गति से पूरे दो दशक यह घोटाला चलता रहा। 1990 में जब लालू प्रसाद मुख्यमंत्री बन…[Read more]

This article was written after Aam Aadmi Party formed the government for the first time in Delhi. The article discusses the concept of social justice of the Aam Aadmi Party. This article concludes that the party does not care about the interests of Dalits, Backwards.