The question at the heart of Ireland and Postcolonial Theory was Ireland a colony? is a simple one. How it is answered, however, has enormous repercussions for understanding just about every aspect of Irish history and society: culture, economics, politics, demographics and a whole array of everyday rituals, ranging from patterns of speech through the inhabiting of physical space to daily praye...

ion. Th ey aspire toward the universal and have no regard for the particular. In this sense, they are simply yet another form of representation of mobility alongside choreography charts or time-lapse photography. Unlike these other forms of representation, however, rights play a central role in the formation of liberal democracy. Th e right to mobility is central to the list of rights considere...

The treatment with señor, a possible Germanism? aim of the present study is to show origin almost pan-romanic honorific developed from SENIORE ‘older’ (Spanish señor). Its use, closely linked imposition new social model Germanic origin, feudalism, and data extracted wide range Medieval Latin texts those that provide first documentation on Iberian soil radiable evidence it may be treated as Germ...

THE development of anesthesia in general and local anesthetics, in particular, required a cultural change. The concept of pain (especially obstetric pain) was linked to the concept of original sin, and the ability to endure pain was regarded as a sign of character and, in men, was even associated with virility. The change that took place in Western Europe between 1750 and 1850, encompassing the...

[This article argues that it is time for the complete abolition of feudal tenure in Australian land law and its replacement with an allodial model better able to promote proprietary independence, equality and cultural neutrality. The article considers the questionable constitutional legitimacy of adopting strict feudal tenets in a territory already inhabited by indigenous occupants. It goes on ...

The aim of this paper is to explore the reactions to the Bolshevik Revolution of one group of critics from the left: those who saw it as ushering in a new form of capitalism. The controversy over state capitalism had both theoretical and practical significance. At the analytical level it presented an important test of Marx’s conception of historical materialism, which had been formulated in a l...

This paper examines the economics of patronage in the production of knowledge and its influence upon the historical formation of key elements in the ethos and organizational structure of publicly funded open science. The emergence during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries of the idea and practice of “open science" was a distinctive and vital organizational aspect of the Scientif...