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Here Be Monsters: Imperialism, Knowledge and the Limits of Empire [PDF]
, 2016 It has become a truism in discussions of Imperialist literature to state that the British empire was, in a very significant way, a textual exercise. Empire was simultaneously created and perpetuated through a proliferation of texts (governmental, legal ...
Macfarlane, Karen E.
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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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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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Empire, Cultures and Identities in Nineteenth‐ and Twentieth‐Century Britain [PDF]
, 2006 Simon J. Potter
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The narcissism of national solipsism:civic nationalism and sub-state formation processes in Scotland [PDF]
, 2017 This paper accounts for the lengthy emergence of sub-state nationalism in Scotland by locating it within British state formation processes. A spiral process of compromise and challenge characterises Scotland’s constantly evolving position within the ...
Law, Alex
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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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A Tale of Two Empires? The Earl's Court Spanish Exhibition (1889)
Modern Languages Open, 2014 This paper proposes that the forgotten Earl's Court Spanish Exhibition of 1889 provides a valuable window onto the complex relationship between the British and Spanish Empires at the moment of one's expansion and the other's fragmentation.
Kirsty Hooper
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Historical Amnesia: British and U.S. Intelligence, Past and Present [PDF]
, 2018 Many intelligence scandals in the news today seem unprecedented - from Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, to British and U.S. intelligence agencies monitoring activities of their citizens.
Walton, Calder
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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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