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El Imperio de Brasil, los estados platinos en el prólogo de la guerra de 1865

Caravelle, 2017
This article discusses about the diplomatic actions and military operations of the Brazilian Empire towards Uruguay during the period previous to war against Paraguay in 1865.
Johny Santana de Araújo
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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O LIVRO DIDÁTICO DE HISTÓRIA NO BRASIL OITOCENTISTA: o instituto histórico e geográfico brasileiro e a formação da identidade nacionalTHE DIDACTIC HISTORY BOOK OF BRAZIL IN THE 19th CENTURY

Revista PerCursos, 2010
Este artigo pretende discutir a produção de livros didáticos de História do Brasil no período imperial brasileiro e sua ligação com a inventividade do sentimento nacional.
Andre Mendes Salles
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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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Guerra aos franceses: a política externa de Dom João VI e a ocupação de Caiena [PDF]

Navigator, 2010
This paper examines the intricate construction of Portuguese foreign policy concerning Cayenne, and the meaning of its political achievement at the time. For D.
Lúcia Maria Bastos P. Neves
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Tradições cartográficas e fixação de fronteiras na independência brasileira

Terra Brasilis, 2015
At the time of independence, all available maps in Brazil were used to support the traditional argument of the “uti possedetis” in order to deal with the many frontier conflicts emerging from the creation of new countries in South America.
Enali De Biaggi
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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

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Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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O teatro das contradições: o negro nas atividades musicais nos palcos da corte imperial durante o século XIX

Opus, 2008
This article draws a connection between black culture and the musical activities of theaters at the Brazilian Imperial Court during the nineteenth century, showing how performances mirrored the social reality of slavery.
Luiz Costa-Lima Neto
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