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A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article draws on the largely unexplored epistolary archive of dozens of women who were born or married into military families in northern Italy around the time of the first phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). Building on recent work on early modern agency, patriarchy, networks and emotional communities, the article reconstructs and ...
Stephen Bowd
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the 1956 Semenyih strip–search scandal in British colonial Malaya during the Malayan Emergency, a counterinsurgency campaign shaped by Cold War politics in Southeast Asia, to explore how non‐elite Chinese women navigated surveillance, humiliation, and limited opportunities to have their grievances recognized.
Alison Fong
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Zephyrus, 2013 In this paper, we try to assess the importance of textile production in the societies of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Iberian Peninsula. We have tried to characterize each of the crafts, weaving textiles, cordage and basketry, mainly.
Francisco Javier JOVER MAESTRE +1 more
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Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2019 Textile use of the cotton fibres from the Old World species Gossypium arboreum (Tree Cotton) and G. herbaceum (Levant Cotton) started around eight thousand years ago and possibly earlier. During the third millennium before the present, cotton cultivation,
Christopher Viot
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La culture du coton en région désertique
Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2020 Modern cotton constitutes a major economic and environmental issue. Its long history, involving four species domesticated on three continents at different times, is an eloquent example of diffusion dynamics and integration of novelty.
Charlène Bouchaud
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
History, EarlyView.Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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Alberta Archaeological Review (January, 1997)
, 2016 Newsletter - Alberta Archaeological Newsletter, no.
Alberta Archaeological Society
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SEM in Archaeological Textile Research
, 2021 Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) is a very useful method for textile fibre identification and morphology analysis. It can be used in a broad range of diverse scientific research fields. Archaeological textile, as one of them, proved to be a specific challenge because of sample size, its age and state of preservation.
Fileš Kramberger, Julia Katarina +1 more
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Archaeological textiles from ancient Macedonia
Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 2023 This paper reviews the published evidence for archaeological textiles from ancient Macedonia and explores what they reveal about the region’s history. One textile is made by felting and the rest are woven in plain tabby, weft-faced tabby, and tapestry weave, typically from single yarns with z twist.
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PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
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