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“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
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Consideration Without Economic Duress: Reframing the Analysis of Contractual Modifications

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Prevailing approaches to the contractual enforceability of modifications revise or dispense with the requirement of consideration and invoke economic duress to rule out unfair, inequitable, or bad faith modifications. Enforceability turns effectively on the absence of economic duress. But economic duress is a doctrine of avoidance.
Peter Benson
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[Cedars of Lebanon, ca. 1941] [picture] : [Lebanon, World War II] /

open access: yes, 1941
Part of the Hurley negative collection.; Condition: silvering.; Amongst other filming enterprises in 1941, Hurley documented a ski school-high up among the snows of the Cedars-where the AIF had established a training ground for the white-clad members of ...
Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962.
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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General -- 1941 -- Correspondence, Polio -- letter, 1941-05

open access: yes, 1941
Sabin Collection Fair Use PolicyLetter from Sabin, Albert B. to Aycock, W. Lloyd dated 1941-05-??
Sabin, Albert B. (Albert Bruce), 1906-1993
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Arthur Tange and wife Marjorie, Fiji, October 1941 [picture] /

open access: yes, 1941
Part of collection: Collection of photographs of Arthur Tange, family, friends and politicians, 1915-1977.; This photograph is in private ownership.; Title from inscription on verso and information supplied by donor.; "October 1941"--Handwritten on verso.

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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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