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Expanding alliance: ANZUS cooperation and Asia–Pacific security [PDF]
, 2014 Is an alliance conceived as a bulwark against a resurgence of Japanese militarism and which cut its military and intelligence teeth in the Cold War is still relevant to today’s strategic concerns?
Andrew Davies +3 more
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The new poor law and the health of the population of England and Wales
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We estimate the impact of reductions in poor law expenditure on rural life expectancy and mortality rates in England and Wales following the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. Given the scale of cuts imposed, our estimates imply 8–10 per cent increases in mortality at ages 1–4 years and 2–4 per cent falls in rural expectation of life at birth.
David Green +3 more
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Wealth inequality and epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400–1800)
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses wealth inequality in the Republic of Venice during 1400–1800. The availability of a large database of homogeneous inequality measurements allows us to produce the most in‐depth study of the factors affecting inequality at the local level available thus far for any preindustrial society.
Guido Alfani +2 more
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IEEE AccessHydroacoustic signature-based ship detection (HSD) involves identifying and classifying vessels by analyzing the underwater sound patterns they emit, including propeller noise, engine vibrations, and hull flow disturbances.
Rahul Anand +5 more
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Crowded waters: naval competition in the Asia–Pacific [PDF]
, 2015 Overview: This report analyses the regional trend of key nations investing in more capable naval and air platforms. In Northeast Asia, countries include China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
Sheryn Lee
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The Political Novel in the Age of its Impotence: On Recent German Right‐Wing Fiction
The German Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract While scholars have increasingly studied the German right's publishing strategies and literary politics, less attention has been paid to the literary texts as such. They are worth examining in detail, I argue here, because they reflect in exaggerated form a problem that troubles political novels more generally: the dwindling role of the novel ...
Sophie Salvo
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An enterprise-level naval shipbuilding plan [PDF]
Overview: This paper reviews the past performance of Australian naval shipbuilding, describes the pros and cons of a rolling production model, and unpicks the issues that the government will have to take into account.
Andrew Davies, Mark Thomson
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The Great Naval Battle of North Point: Myth or Reality? [PDF]
, 2012 Hollywood itself could hardly have scripted a better battle. According to eyewitnesses, a German U-boat lurking off the shores of North Point, Prince Edward Island, laid a trap for an unsuspecting convoy transitting the Northumberland Strait.
Mayne, Richard O.
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Agro‐Industrial Enclosures: Food Security, Land Consolidation and Rural Displacement in China
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines rural enclosures for industrialized agriculture as a window into the local political economy and territorial politics underlying projects of agricultural modernization. In recent years, agro‐industrial parks with ‘characteristic’ industries have proliferated in China as the government viewed it as a technical solution to ...
Karita Kan
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