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, 2015 The volume on 'History and philology' within Arcane project is an up-to-date presentation of the data and problems connected to the chronology of the third millenium of Mesopotamia and adjacent regions.Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-360 ...
Biga, Maria Giovanna(viaf)17344877 +3 more
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
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Sheldon Pollock: "Philology and Freedom"
, 2013 In his lecture Sheldon Pollock asks why, in a world of ever-diminishing resources and ever-expanding threats, do we have any need for philology. What is philology’s rightful place among the knowledge forms of the twenty-first century?
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Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Lost in the Language: Data Breaches and the Strategic Fog of Risk Disclosures
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines whether firms strategically adjust the readability of Item 1A (“Risk Factors”) disclosures following data breaches. Using U.S. firm‐year observations from 2006 to 2023, we find that data breaches are associated with a significant decline in Item 1A readability.
Ling Tuo, Shipeng Han
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Carl Schmitt's International Order: A Decolonial Reappraisal
Constellations, EarlyView.
Andrea Mura
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Mitigating policy uncertainty: What financial markets reveal about firm‐level lobbying
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Elections can lead to substantial policy changes and, thus, are a significant source of risk. Firms can respond to such policy uncertainty by lobbying, but it is hard to quantify whether they do so and, if so, how much lobbying benefits them. We construct a new dataset and leverage investors’ expectations of variability in stock returns in the
Kristy Buzard +2 more
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