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THE BOER WAR- ARMY-NATION AND EMPIRE
Scientia Militaria, 2012 As could be expected, the proliferation of publications on the Anglo-Boer, 1899-1902, in the centenary period continues unabated. The advantage of the providence of hindsight after a hundred years is that recently the experiences of a wide variety of ...
C.J. Jacobs
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The art of tropical travel, 1768-1830 [PDF]
, 2004 Book synopsis: Georgian Geographies provides an innovative interdisciplinary examination of the geographical nature of culture and society in eighteenth-century Britain and the British world.
Martins, Luciana
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Caribbean slavery, British abolition and the cultural politics of venereal disease in the Atlantic world [PDF]
, 2012 Venereal disease was commonplace among free and enslaved populations in colonial Caribbean societies. This article considers how contemporaries (both in the empire and metropole) viewed venereal infection and how they associated it with gendered notions ...
Burnard, Trevor, Follett, Richard
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Prenatal Diagnosis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To develop and evaluate an animation for parents about prenatal sequencing. Methods A total of 428 participants who had been pregnant, or whose partner had been pregnant, in the past 24 months. Parents, patient organisation representatives and clinicians co‐designed the animation describing prenatal sequencing (pS). Participants were
Morgan Daniel +12 more
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No. 05: The Urban Food System of Bangalore, India [PDF]
, 2017 Bangalore (officially Bangaluru) is one of India’s fastest-growing cities. It is now the fifth-largest urban agglomeration in India, and the capital and primate city of the state of Karnataka in terms of area, population and economic output.
Sami, Neha, Surie, Aditi
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How digitisation of herbaria reveals the botanical legacy of the First World War
PLANTS, 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
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«Imperial consensus»: the last attempt of England to prevent disintegration of the British Empire
RUDN Journal of World History, 2012 The article deals with the last period of the British Empire well known by the term «imperialism». After the Boer war Britain undertakes serious attempts to reform the failing Empire and to strengthen it by new and more attractive ideas of «imperial ...
V Mitrofanovich Zabolotny
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The fight of William Denton for the Christian's position improvement in the Balkan, and Osman's empire at the beginning of the second half of the 19th century [PDF]
Baština, 2013 William Denton (1815-1888), the priest of Anglican's Church, vicar of the Church of St. Vartolomey in London, came in the spring of 1862 in Serbia with the aim to be acquainted with this country little known to the British's.
Zarković Vesna
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British fair play: sport across diasporas at the BBC World Service [PDF]
, 2011 This chapter uses archive material to explore the role of sports broadcasting on the BBC World Service in the twentieth century.Whereas the service's early audiences were expatriate British listeners, the BBC WS recruited different diasporic audiences ...
Goldblatt, David +2 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Widespread museum digitization initiatives have made the world's herbaria more accessible than ever, launching a renaissance of specimen use. We highlight the value of digitization to bolster both scientific and historical research using the specimens from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884) to the Canadian arctic, remembered for its tragedy ...
J. Mason Heberling, Jackson P. Wright
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