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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century, American agricultural fairs often featured ladies’ equestrian exhibitions. At these events, women constructed an athletic femininity based on skill and competitiveness that challenged traditional ideals of womanhood.
Gabrielle McCoy
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Business and the Robinson-Patman Act: The First Year [PDF]
, 1937 George, Edwin B.
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Portugal's Growth Paradox, 1870-1950 [PDF]
From 1870 to 1913, the Portuguese economy expanded slowly and diverged from the European core. Contrarily, in the interwar period, Portugal achieved higher growth and partially caught-up to the levels of productivity of Western Europe.
Pedro Lains
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Text and Topos: British Travellers to Real‐and‐Imagined Classical Sites, c. 1560–1820
History, EarlyView.Abstract Early‐modern British travellers to the Mediterranean often understood their journeys through the lens of classical texts and culture. Historians sometimes explain this as an imaginative phenomenon: travellers’ preconceptions shaped by classical knowledge guided their subsequent comprehension and activity.
Paul Stock
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III.List of Field Clubs, being a continuation of the Address delivered December 1870 [PDF]
, 1873 Walter Elliot
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The Kuznets Curve of Education: A Global Perspective on Education Inequalities [PDF]
This paper describes global trends in average educational attainment and in education inequality since 1870, improving the database released by Morrisson-Murtin (2009).
Christian Morrisson, Fabrice Murtin
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Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century
History, EarlyView.Abstract Influential sociologists of social control, including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and others, conceived of the modern state as progressively moving towards the humanization of its penal programme. This article highlights developments that do not easily fit this progressivist model, drawing attention to the region that today is often referred to ...
Olga Kantokoski
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State of the Field: The History of Masculinities
History, EarlyView.Abstract This State of the Field article discusses how, when and why the history of masculinities has emerged since the 1980s, and why it continues to be an important research field today. The article begins with the field's multiple origin stories and then discusses its expansion in chronology, geography and theme, as well as newer directions for ...
ERICA L. FRASER
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