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Victoria: The Girl Who Would Become Queen

open access: yes, 2019
This research reviews the early life of Queen Victoria and through analysis of her sequestered childhood and lack of parental figures explains her reliance later in life on mentors and advisors.
Richwine, Lindsay R
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Fritz Scheffer Under National Socialism: Assessing His Political Involvement

open access: yesJournal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aims This article examines the role of soil scientist Fritz Scheffer (1899–1979) under National Socialism and offers a critical assessment of his scientific, institutional, and political positioning between 1933 and 1945. It asks how Scheffer shaped his career within the tension between disciplinary specialization, political expectations, and ...
Jan Arend
wiley   +1 more source

The biographical consequences of protest and activism: a systematic review and a new typology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Most research on activist participation has aimed to explain motives to engage in protest and collective action or becoming an activist. The outcomes, for the individual, have been neglected.
Chiriac, E, Drury, J, Vestergren, SK
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Chronic Disease and Disability in an 18th‐Century Portuguese Nun: An Integrative Multisource Approach

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents an integrative approach to chronic disease and disability in a Portuguese nun who died in 1779. The aim is to interpret her condition by combining osteopathological and burial context evidence with written sources. It offers a concise example of how bringing these sources together can enhance pathological interpretation and
Nathalie Antunes‐Ferreira
wiley   +1 more source

Biographical Life Course Research

open access: yes, 2023
This open access book explores an approach that connects individual and societal processes throughout history and shifting trends in sociological perspectives, influenced by C. Wright Mills’ theories of time and temporality. It traces its origins from American pragmatist thought and Chicago qualitative sociology in the early 20th century to the revival
openaire   +3 more sources

The ideas of Thomas Jefferson in The Declaration of Independence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
2009. This minor thesis discussed about the ideas of Thomas Jefferson as included in The Declaration of Independence. This research took the form of library research utilizing the descriptive technique.
Kusmiyati , Diyah
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The Rationalities of Emotion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
I argue that emotions are not only rational in-themselves, strictly speaking, but they are also instrumentally rational, epistemically rational, and evaluatively rational.
Mun, Cecilea
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How digitisation of herbaria reveals the botanical legacy of the First World War

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Digitisation of herbarium collections is bringing greater understanding to bear on the complexity of narratives relating to the First World War and its aftermath – scientific and societal. Plant collecting during the First World War was more widespread than previously understood, contributed to the psychological well‐being of those involved and ...
Christopher Kreuzer, James A. Wearn
wiley   +1 more source

The Autobiographic-Narrative Interview: The Theoretical Implications and the Analysis Procedure of a Case Study About Cultural Changes Among the Otomi-"Indians" in Mexico

open access: yesForum: Qualitative Social Research, 2005
This paper introduces the methodology of autobiographic-narrative interview created by Fritz SCHÜTZE. The procedure of interview analysis is illustrated using a case study about a female "Indian" activist who is involved in religious and grass roots ...
Michael Appel
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Jan Snyman papers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Biographical history and context: Professor Jan Snyman spent most of his life researching the lesser known and marginalised San languages of Botswana and South West Africa (now Namibia). Together with O. Kohler, E. Westphal and A.
Snyman, Jan
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