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A bibliographical autobiography
PSL Quarterly Review, 2013 The paper is a contribution to a series of recollections and reflections on the professional experiences of distinguished economists which the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review started in 1979. In it, Kenneth E.
K.E. BOULDING
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The West Wind Blows: The Autobiography of Edward Everett Dale
, 2017 Autobiography of Edward Everett Dale covering his life from his birth in 1879 until his death in 1972; the book includes stories dealing with Indian affairs, schooling, and his becoming a professor at the University of Oklahoma.
Dale, Edward Everett, 1879-1972
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Partitioned Desires: Female Agency and Interfaith Relationships Around the Partition of India
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Through an examination of the phenomenon of abduction, I suggest that the preoccupation with women's violation during the 1947 Partition of India has obfuscated a history of female desire. Considering accusations of kidnapping made by women's families against men belonging to a different religion in instances of interfaith desire, I ...
Angad Singh
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The West Wind Blows: The Autobiography of Edward Everett Dale
, 1984 Autobiography of Edward Everett Dale covering his life from his birth in 1879 until his death in 1972; the book includes stories dealing with Indian affairs, schooling, and his becoming a professor at the University of Oklahoma.
Dale, Edward Everett, 1879-1972
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article, we ‘think with care’ about gender in Scotland in the early twentieth century, undertaking an ethnographic approach to the archive of OneKind, formerly the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection (SSPV), which has only recently been catalogued.
Elizabeth Vander Meer, Alette Willis
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Autobiography in early modern England
, 2010 How did individuals write about their lives before a modern tradition of diaries and autobiographies was established? Adam Smyth examines the kinds of texts that sixteenth- or seventeenth-century individuals produced to register their life, in the ...
Smyth, Adam
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
History, 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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History, EarlyView.Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain
History, EarlyView.Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
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