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Apartheid South Africa and Israel: Cold War Outposts of US Empire

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This essay demonstrates how both Apartheid South Africa and Israel operated as outposts of US imperialism during the Cold War in related, connected, and changing ways. In addition, heightening conflicts with their respective liberation movements in the 1980s played directly into the negotiations of the Oslo Accords and the transition from ...
Gillian Hart
wiley   +1 more source

Variability of English Language from the Standpoint of Naive Sociolinguistics (by Example of Novel “Fifty Shades of Grey” by E. L. James)

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2019
The article is devoted to the problem of linguistic variability from the standpoint of naive sociolinguistics. The material is the controversy of American readers about language and cultural contradictions, which are found in the popular novel by British
E. V. Lartseva
doaj   +1 more source

Americanism and Religion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
In this paper, I examine the relationship between the American national identity and religion. I begin by analyzing what constitutes “Americanism,” namely, the American Spirit, the American Mind, the American Creed, and so forth.
安酸, 敏眞   +2 more
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Speaker Perceptions of Americanisms in Nigerian English

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 426-438, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the perceptions of Americanisms among three generations of Nigerians. While prior research has provided quantitative evidence for American influence in contemporary Nigerian English, the role of language beliefs and ideologies in mediating such changes remains underexplored.
Temitayo Olatoye
wiley   +1 more source

L’anthropologie française au miroir de l’américanisme : politiques, savoirs, altérités

open access: yesCaravelle, 2013
This article questions the transformations of Americanist anthropology and analyzes concrete examples situated in Mexico and Colombia. More than a reference to the French «founding fathers» of Americanism, it deals with differences and misunderstandings ...
Elisabeth Cunin
doaj   +1 more source

‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 707-717, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

Les évolutions de l’américanisme toulousain depuis les années 1980

open access: yesCaravelle, 2013
Americanism appears to be a strong scholarly tradition at Toulouse 2 University. Indeed, both the different formations offered through the IPEALT recently transformed into IPEAT, and the dynamic investigations represented by the PhD thesis defended in ...
Soizic Croguennec
doaj   +1 more source

Americanism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Americanism. This is not a new word to me; in fact, it is one with which I have been familiar for several years.
Eaton, Herbert
core   +1 more source

Anti‐Protestantism in the Global Catholic Mission, c. 1918–1960*

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 141-146, June 2026.
This introduction is divided into three sections. First, it examines the existing historiography on Catholic anti‐Protestantism, arguing that, unlike anti‐Catholicism, anti‐Protestantism has not undergone a transnational turn. Second, it explores the new perspectives opened up by taking a global approach to Catholic anti‐Protestantism.
Sante Lesti
wiley   +1 more source

Differences in Iris Thickness Among African Americans, Caucasian Americans, Hispanic Americans, Chinese Americans, and Filipino-Americans [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Glaucoma, 2013
To evaluate the capability of iris thickness parameters to explain the difference in primary angle-closure glaucoma prevalence among the different racial groups.In this prospective study, 436 patients with open and narrow angles that met inclusion criteria were consecutively recruited from the UCSF general ophthalmology and glaucoma clinics to receive ...
Lee, Roland Y   +5 more
openaire   +4 more sources

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