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p. 20 Sophie was the youngest child of William Gomm Jr and Marie Jeanne Poggenpohl. Gomm’s father was a prosperous cabinetmaker in London whose rococo designs remain of interest to art historia...

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By Yevgeby Zamyatin, translated by Sophie Fuller and Julian Sacchi from the introductionp. 10 “Zamyatin saw the world in terms of an eternal struggle between forces of energy and forces of entr...

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p. 232 No culture except that of the West has used nature to organise its political life. Traditional societies do not live in harmony with nature; they are unacquainted with it. Thanks to the so...

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Jewish merchant woman in Hamburg, Glikl Bas Judah Leibp. 19 Glikl began to write the book of her life “with an aching heart” after the death of her husnand Haim “to help against the melanch...

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p. 90 Burke’s prosecution of Hastings was not the anti-imperial stance that some later took it to be. Burke was an advocate of empire his whole life. The loss of Britain’s 13 American colonie...

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p. 34-6 “The Six-spot Burnet is Britain’s most widespread burnet moth … Their bodies are packed with poisons that deter even the hungriest of predators. These poisons are accumulated by the...

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p. 19 In 512, in the same year that princess Anicia Juliana, in the city of Constantinople, received her beautiful copy of Dioscorides De materia medica, the Byzantine physician Anthimus worked a...

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p. 255 “Public choice theory, a key theoretical aspiration for redesigning economic institutions from the 1970s on, was quite explicit about its goal to strip elected politicians of the power t...

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p. 64 “Sensing victory, Taliban deputy leader Sirajuddin Haqqani penned an opinion piece that – of all places – found space on the editorial page of The New York Times on February 20, 2020....

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Written after the election of Trump p. 36 For the first time, a large-scale movement no longer claims to address geopolitical realities seriously, but purports to put itself explicitly outside of...

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France p. 23 “The survey indicates there are two plausible modes of wild wolf attacks on humans (a) those that are rabies related and (b) more difficult to explain predatory attacks by apparent...

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p. 48 “Women not protected in the higher reaches of society met secretly in restaurants and bars, travelled by train and hired cans, and frequently risked exposure, if not legal punishment, sho...

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p. x The decline of organized religion and social integration in the 20th century left many Americans bereft of any sense of spiritual progress in their lives. For some, work rose to fill the voi...

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p. 10 Put simply then, nationalisation means making the state more national… The concept developed in this book has two inspirations. The first is in the historical and sociological scholarship...

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