International Conference – call for papers

Matters of State: Bildung and Literary-Intellectual Discourse in the Nineteenth Century
Leuven, April 23-25 2009
The American and French Revolutions are generally considered as decisive episodes in the emergence of what we have come to know as modern democracy. Their displacement of time-honored models of hereditary rule and of monotheistic conceptions of sovereignty inaugurated Western modernity. The [...]

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Crowds & Crime readings for Wednesday June 6

Here are the first readings for next week’s meeting:
Briony’s readings:

‘Criminal Anthropology: Its Reception in the United States’ from Criminals and their Scientists: the history of criminology in international perspective, edited by Peter Becker, Richard F. Wetzell.

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