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The Survival Problem: Early French and British Settlement on the North Atlantic Seaboard, 1600–1635, in Comparative Perspective

Posted on October 2, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary The settlements commemorated as the first lasting French and British footholds in North America after Saint Augustine (Port-Royal in Acadia in 1605, Jamestown in Virginia in 1607, Quebec in 1608, and Cupids in Newfoundland in 1610) are usually … Continue reading →

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The Long Bargain: Tlaxcala from Independent Polity to Mexican State

Posted on September 11, 2026 by nathanalbright

Introduction In the autumn of 1520, Hernán Cortés sent Charles V a long letter. In it he stopped his account of the march inland to describe a city he judged larger and stronger than Granada, with busier markets and more … Continue reading →

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Paper 12: Nineveh Repented: Jonah 3, Daniel 4:34–37, and the Availability of the Imperial Repentance Option

Posted on September 10, 2026 by nathanalbright

The Bounds of Their Habitation, Tier 1, Cluster D Abstract The eleven preceding papers describe a structure, its proportions, its speech, its economy, and its end. This paper supplies what the framework requires to be complete and what it would … Continue reading →

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Paper 11: The Stone Cut Without Hands: Daniel 2 and 7, the Temporariness of Imperial Order, and the Inversion of Daniel by Translatio Imperii

Posted on September 10, 2026 by nathanalbright

The Bounds of Their Habitation, Tier 1, Cluster D Abstract Paper 10 gave the economic anatomy of empire. This paper gives the account of its end. It reads Daniel 2 and 7 as making three claims: that imperial orders are … Continue reading →

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Paper 10: The Merchandise of Souls: Revelation 18:11–13 and the Economic Anatomy of Empire

Posted on September 10, 2026 by nathanalbright

The Bounds of Their Habitation, Tier 1, Cluster D Abstract Clusters A through C treated the imperial configuration, its proportions, and its speech. Cluster D turns to anatomy and end. This paper takes the cargo list of Revelation 18:11–13 as … Continue reading →

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Paper 9: My River Is Mine Own: The Imperial First Person and the Instrument Metaphor

Posted on September 9, 2026 by nathanalbright

The Bounds of Their Habitation, Tier 1, Cluster C Abstract Paper 7 examined the timing of the imperial declaration; Paper 8 examined the empire’s address to a subject population, and left one of the Rabshakeh’s seven moves standing — the … Continue reading →

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Paper 8: Rabshakeh at the Wall: 2 Kings 18:19–35 as a Complete Specimen of Imperial Address to a Subject Population

Posted on September 9, 2026 by nathanalbright

The Bounds of Their Habitation, Tier 1, Cluster C Abstract Paper 7 examined the imperial ruler speaking about himself. This paper examines the empire speaking to someone else. Its subject is the speech delivered by the Rabshakeh at the wall … Continue reading →

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Paper 7: The Loudest Night Is the Last Night: Daniel 5, Daniel 4:30, Acts 12:21–23, and the Boast as Terminal Symptom

Posted on September 9, 2026 by nathanalbright

The Bounds of Their Habitation, Tier 1, Cluster C Abstract Clusters A and B concerned structure and proportion. Cluster C concerns speech, and specifically the relation between the volume of an imperial claim and the strength remaining behind it. This … Continue reading →

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Paper 4: By Little and Little: Exodus 23:29–30, Deuteronomy 7:22, and the Legislated Land-to-People Ceiling

Posted on September 8, 2026 by nathanalbright

The Bounds of Their Habitation, Tier 1, Cluster B Abstract Cluster A established the imperial configuration, the device by which Scripture names it across regimes, and the positive doctrine of plural, bounded peoples that stands behind both. Cluster B turns … Continue reading →

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Paper 3: Bounds of Their Habitation: Acts 17:26, Deuteronomy 32:8, and the Positive Doctrine of Plural, Bounded Nations

Posted on September 7, 2026 by nathanalbright

The Bounds of Their Habitation, Tier 1, Cluster A Abstract Papers 1 and 2 established the imperial configuration and the canon’s device for naming it across discontinuous regimes. Both were negative: they described what the text is against. This paper … Continue reading →

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