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Locke, Toleration and Political Participation – A New Manuscript
- 04 November 2021,
- Locke’s arguments for toleration are well-known and immensely influential. Less well-known, but of equal import to his worldview, are the exceptions he made...
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The First Earl of Shaftesbury’s Aristocratic Constitutionalism in Protectorate and Restoration England
- 08 September 2021,
- It is shown that Shaftesbury’s opposition to both Cromwell during the Protectorate and Charles II in the Restoration was guided by a resolute ‘conscience’.
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What does Mátyás Rákosi, a Stalinist Hungarian dictator, have to do with the Ottomans?
- 09 August 2021,
- The existence of this institution invites a number of questions about the early 20th century relations between the Austro-Hungarian and the Ottoman empires, from economy to politics....