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Studies of the rise of the European state continue to evoke fascination and scholarly controversy. Drawing on theories of state formation, imperial administration, self-fashioning, and legal theory to approach state and personal archives in Bohemia, Moravia, Oxford and Jerusalem…

This dissertation concerns the role of urban spaces and political memories in revolutionary mobilization. The theoretical framework suggests that movements will use central urban spaces like streets and plazas to connect the contemporary movement with the memory of past politica…

This dissertation takes up the first truly Jewish homosexual identity, which Mordechai Jiří Langer (1894-1943) created in Prague during the 1920s. It is a study of the historical conditions--especially the exclusion of Jews by the masculinist wing of the German homosexual rights…