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The Crucible of Sexual Orientation: Sexual theories and identities in nineteenth-century Germany’ (2025)
Book Chapter
Pretsell, D. (2025). The Crucible of Sexual Orientation: Sexual theories and identities in nineteenth-century Germany’. In The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity 1869-1939 (38-43). Monacelli Press

Late-nineteenth-century Germany was a powerhouse of modern sexual theorization. It was then and there that the various terminologies and parameters of the sexual categories we have today started to be negotiated and described. In the 1860s, the Hano... Read More about The Crucible of Sexual Orientation: Sexual theories and identities in nineteenth-century Germany’.

The Knowledge Economy: Promise, Reality and Future (2025)
Book Chapter
O’Donovan, N. (2025). The Knowledge Economy: Promise, Reality and Future. . Springer Nature [academic journals on nature.com]. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-80618-6_2

The “knowledge economy”, as it was understood in economic policy circles in the 1990s, was characterised by a dematerialisation of production processes and rapid growth in demand for skills. Under these conditions, governments with the foresight to i... Read More about The Knowledge Economy: Promise, Reality and Future.

Global Business and Gamification: An Introduction (2025)
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Sampat, B., Pereira, V., & Behl, A. Global Business and Gamification: An Introduction. In Gamification and Global Business Management (1-9). World Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789819801541_0001

The term “gamification” is increasingly and widely used in business. Globally, businesses are adopting gamification as the primary method in transforming business operations. Gamification incorporates game concepts into non-game environments, such as... Read More about Global Business and Gamification: An Introduction.

A ‘Print Revolution’ in Business? (2025)
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Talbott, S. (2025). A ‘Print Revolution’ in Business?. In Knowledge, Information and Business Education in the British Atlantic World, 1620 - 1760 (24-49). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198926825.003.0002

The ‘print revolution’ underpinned the emergence and growth of a variety of conduits of business information, including printed prices current, commercial newspapers, exchange rates current, and advice books, as there was an expansion in the producti... Read More about A ‘Print Revolution’ in Business?.

Decolonizing Research in Comparative and International Education: Promises and Perils (2025)
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jules, T., & Mohamed Anuar, A. (in press). Decolonizing Research in Comparative and International Education: Promises and Perils. In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Method in Comparative and International Education (70-88). Bloomsbury Publishing

Decolonizing research in Comparative and International Education (CIE) is an ongoing project that entails interrogating the legacies of colonialism in the process of knowledge production, and the associated political and material redresses in terms o... Read More about Decolonizing Research in Comparative and International Education: Promises and Perils.

Misinformation (2025)
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Talbott, S. (2025). Misinformation. In Knowledge, Information, and Business Education in the British Atlantic World, 1620–1760 (203-234). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198926825.003.0007

While honesty was a desirable quality in business, sometimes information was shared which was—or later became—false. Occasionally this resulted from a deliberate intent to deceive, but false information more commonly arose from genuine misunderstandi... Read More about Misinformation.

Knowledge and Use of Legal Processes (2025)
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Talbott, S. (2025). Knowledge and Use of Legal Processes. In Knowledge, Information, and Business Education in the British Atlantic World, 1620–1760 (121-156). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198926825.003.0005

Commercial agents operated in peculiarly complex legal landscapes in the early modern British Atlantic world. As commercial worlds expanded, this complexity increased. This chapter explores how merchants educated themselves about legal processes and... Read More about Knowledge and Use of Legal Processes.

Commercial Education (2025)
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Talbott, S. (2025). Commercial Education. In Knowledge, Information, and Business Education in the British Atlantic World, 1620–1760 (79-120). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198926825.003.0004

Commerce in the early modern period was a highly skilled profession. We know much about the increase in formal commercial education, the role of apprenticeships, and the publication of printed didactic texts such as advice books, but we know less abo... Read More about Commercial Education.

Business Letters and the Oral Exchange of Information (2025)
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Talbott, S. (2025). Business Letters and the Oral Exchange of Information. In Knowledge, Information, and Business Education in the British Atlantic World, 1620–1760 (50-78). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198926825.003.0003

Verbal exchange of information was commonplace, but many of these oral exchanges were immediately lost from record as they were not committed to paper. Drawing on merchants’ correspondence and letter-books, this chapter pieces together the role of or... Read More about Business Letters and the Oral Exchange of Information.

The Magic of Plants and Animals (2025)
Book Chapter
Parish, J., & Lowell, J. (in press). The Magic of Plants and Animals. In Cultural History of Magic (20). Bloomsbury

Dissenting Writing (2025)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. Dissenting Writing. In The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714 (230-249). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198746843.013.15

Dissenters contributed to religio-political controversy, publicly debating doctrinal, ecclesiological, and constitutional topics. They wrote in private genres intended for limited circulation, including diaries and letters. Their instructional writin... Read More about Dissenting Writing.

Gertrude Stein's Curatorial Impressionism (2025)
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Bowler, R. Gertrude Stein's Curatorial Impressionism. In The Edinburgh Companion to Women's Experimental Literature since 1900. Edinburgh University Press. Manuscript submitted for publication

Gertrude Stein’s early work, those short and abstract ‘portraits’ of friends and of ‘types’, has been often described as impressionist, post-impressionist, and even cubist. The word ‘portraits’, of course, invites a painterly comparison. Key to both... Read More about Gertrude Stein's Curatorial Impressionism.

Escaping the Net: May Sinclair's The Three Sisters and Mary Olivier: A Life (2025)
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Bowler, R. Escaping the Net: May Sinclair's The Three Sisters and Mary Olivier: A Life. In British Women's Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1900-1919. Vol IV. Palgrave Macmillan. Manuscript submitted for publication

Abstract: In May Sinclair’s novels The Three Sisters (1914) and Mary Olivier: A Life (1919) the heroines struggle with the constraints of family, religion and stifling morality; they feel both heredity and tradition to be a ‘net’ they are unable to g... Read More about Escaping the Net: May Sinclair's The Three Sisters and Mary Olivier: A Life.

Philosophy as an Instrument of Anti-Authoritarianism: On Ramberg’s Dialogical Metaphilosophy (2025)
Book Chapter
Tartaglia, J. Philosophy as an Instrument of Anti-Authoritarianism: On Ramberg’s Dialogical Metaphilosophy. In Pragmatism, Metaphysics and Method: Essays for Bjørn Ramberg, edited by Yvonne Hütter-Almerigi and Robert Sinclair. Nordic Studies in Pragmatism

This paper centres on an analysis of Ramberg’s early paper, “Rorty and the Instruments of Philosophy”, which I see as presenting Ramberg’s own original and explicitly Platonic dialogical metaphilosophy, one which I have been greatly influenced by. Th... Read More about Philosophy as an Instrument of Anti-Authoritarianism: On Ramberg’s Dialogical Metaphilosophy.