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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
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The Social Truth of Schopenhauer's ‘Metaphysics of Pity’: Compassion and Critical Theory
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Taking Horkheimer and Adorno's account of pity in the Dialectic of Enlightenment as my starting point, I show that Schopenhauer's compassion‐based moral theory exemplifies key elements of this account. In particular, this moral theory will be shown to possess a social truth for Horkheimer and Adorno because it is an expression of a wrong ...
David James
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Chasing Fish: 130 Years of Innovation, Displacement and Depletion in Scottish Fisheries
Fish and Fisheries, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rebuilding the depleted fisheries of the 21st century requires an understanding of past drivers of their decline. Despite Scotland's central role in the commercial exploitation of North Sea fisheries for over a century, associations between technological innovations, regulatory introductions and fishery landings have not previously been ...
Zoe F. J. Heard +2 more
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Legacy and impact of the 1925 Geneva Protocol: one hundred years of treaties and debates on chemical and biological weapons. [PDF]
Front MicrobiolGrunden WE, Tuovinen OH.
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Living Weapons: Biological Warfare and International Security - By Gregory Koblentz [PDF]
, 2010 Kendall Hoyt
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The German Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Heinrich von Kleist's Die Verlobung in St. Domingo (1811) represents a unique work among contemporary colonial narratives that grapple with the world‐shattering events of the Haitian Revolution. This article contributes to the growing scholarship on the connections between German cultural production and the colonial world, as I reflect on how ...
Will Weihe
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Fight Like a Girl: Fitness Testing as Gendered Organizational Logic in the U.S. Army
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Organizational logics related to excellence and equity are changing rapidly in contemporary workplaces, yet limited research examines the impacts of specific policy initiatives, including why some fail—or even backfire. This study examines one such recent policy case: a temporary period of gender‐neutral fitness testing in the United States ...
Carrie Carter
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Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World
M. V. Supotnitskiy
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Near-Field Speech Intelligibility in Chemical-Biological Warfare Masks [PDF]
, 1999 Harry Hollien +3 more
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