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For some of the ideological roots of this concept, see Alan Barnard, “Hunting-and-Gathering Society: an Eighteenth-Century Scottish Invention,” in idem, Hunter-Gatherers in History, Archaeology, and Anthropology New York: Berg, 2004, 31–43.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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And everyone will recognise the account of an evening in London in the early 1700s, also from Professor Shoemaker's excellent book, The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England.
We can't just leave it to the police – we must all tackle antisocial behaviour Henry Porter 2010
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For some of the ideological roots of this concept, see Alan Barnard, “Hunting-and-Gathering Society: an Eighteenth-Century Scottish Invention,” in idem, Hunter-Gatherers in History, Archaeology, and Anthropology New York: Berg, 2004, 31–43.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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For some of the ideological roots of this concept, see Alan Barnard, “Hunting-and-Gathering Society: an Eighteenth-Century Scottish Invention,” in idem, Hunter-Gatherers in History, Archaeology, and Anthropology New York: Berg, 2004, 31–43.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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For some of the ideological roots of this concept, see Alan Barnard, “Hunting-and-Gathering Society: an Eighteenth-Century Scottish Invention,” in idem, Hunter-Gatherers in History, Archaeology, and Anthropology New York: Berg, 2004, 31–43.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Ms. Ridley's 2005 book, "Clara's Grand Tour: Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-Century Europe," required her to speculate as well.
Incredible Voyage Gerard Helferich 2011
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For the frontier space for lawlessness, see Nigel Penn, "Fugitives on the Cape Frontier" and "Droster Gangs of the Bokkeveld and Roggeveld, 1770 – 1800," both in Rogues, Rebels and Runaways: Eighteenth-Century Cape Characters (Cape Town: David Philip, 1999), 73 – 100, 147 – 66. back
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Note 48: Nigel Penn, "Fugitives on the Cape Frontier" and "Droster Gangs of the Bokkeveld and Roggeveld," both in Rogues, Rebels and Runaways: Eighteenth-Century Cape Characters (Cape Town: David Philip, 1999), 73 – 100, 147 – 66. back
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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For an account of this case, see Nigel Penn, "The Wife, the Farmer, and the Farmer's Slaves: Adultery and Murder on a Frontier Farm in the Early Eighteenth-Century Cape," Kronos 28 (2002): 1 – 20. back
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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In "From Savages and Barbarians to Primitives: Africa, Social Typologies, and History in Eighteenth-Century French Philosophy," he makes a compelling argument for the need to consciously challenge the historical biases in approaches to African history that were finely etched into the current hegemonic episteme by late eighteenth-century French philosophers.
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