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ABSTRACT This article examines segregation through the lens of gender, intimacy, race and colonial rule by engaging with how the French colonial state controlled the marriages permitted between French women and Moroccan soldiers who had fought in France during the Second World War.
Catherine Phipps
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Enhanced Performance of Highly Activated Carbon and Surface-Treated Porous Polymers as Physical Adsorbents for Chemical Warfare Agents [PDF]
The use of chemical warfare agents (CWAs) in modern warfare cannot be disregarded due to their ease of use and potential for large-scale incapacitation. An effective countermeasure involves the physical adsorption of these agents, preventing their entry through the respiratory tract by non-specific adsorption. In this study, we investigate the physical
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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ABSTRACT Since the nineteenth century, struggles between state power and political prisoners' right to die have aroused considerable interest. State enforcement to ‘make live’ through force‐feeding also raises important questions concerning processes that inform government approaches, often through methods considered to be brutal, and how these actions
Stephen Vertigans+2 more
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What makes students strong? A student's voice study on resilience
Abstract In times of crisis, resilience—the ability to cope with challenges—has become crucial, especially for primary school students facing issues such as the climate crisis, the war in Ukraine, educational disadvantages, or family‐related struggles.
Tanja Ganotz‐Steinborn, Susanne Schwab
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Mapping the frontiers of private property in New South Wales, Australia
We discuss a mapping project developing a technique accounting for the alienation of each parcel of property from Crown lands in New South Wales. We argue a basis for representing the plot‐by‐plot creation of private property, when and where it occured, and its effects in colonial governance, violence, and disspossession.
Dallas Rogers+4 more
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Effects of lactoferrin derived peptides on simulants of biological warfare agents. [PDF]
Sijbrandij T+5 more
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Australian geography’s challenges and community‐based learned societies in its future
Geography remains more relevant than ever, yet it faces challenges in Australia. Voluntary, community‐based learned societies like the Royal Geographical Societies of South Australia and Queensland are crucial in promoting geography’s value, advocating for education, fostering research, and engaging the public.
Iain Hay
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On the basis of the 14th century manuscript by the Genoese Gabriele de’ Mussi many historians widely believe that plague called the Black Death had to have reached European continent from the port city of Kaffa (modern-day Theodosia) on the Crimea ...
Christensen Carsten Sander
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