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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

open access: yesGender &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
wiley   +1 more source

A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article draws on the largely unexplored epistolary archive of dozens of women who were born or married into military families in northern Italy around the time of the first phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). Building on recent work on early modern agency, patriarchy, networks and emotional communities, the article reconstructs and ...
Stephen Bowd
wiley   +1 more source

Fleeting Feminism: The Singapore Women's Federation, Singapore Chinese Left‐Wing Feminism and Anti‐Colonial Nationalism, c. 1950s

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
wiley   +1 more source

All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines chronicle accounts of the so‐called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt was partly the consequence of failed economic and political reforms which put pressure on the countryside, but was provoked by the command issued ...
Jamie Page
wiley   +1 more source

Delaware City Main Street

open access: yes, 1907
Post card depicting the Main Street in Delaware ...
G. L. Thompson Pub., NY
core   +2 more sources

Cities, states and the pandemic: challenges and opportunities for transnational city networks

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
The growing role of cities in today’s globalized world is well known. As a result of their central position in many positive and negative global dynamics, cities are receiving more and more attention in various fields of study, including international ...
M. Valeriani   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
wiley   +1 more source

Crisis Diplomacy from Below: Subnational Legitimacy, Legal Pluralism, and Global Multilevel Governance Dynamics

open access: yesJurnal Media Hukum
This Study analyzes how subnational governments in Surabaya (Indonesia), Cebu (Philippines), and Chiang Mai (Thailand) Practice diplomacy amid crises.
Lukman Hakim   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source

Indonesian public diplomacy on education in Vietnam

open access: yesJurnal Inovasi Ilmu Sosial dan Politik
Based on BPS RI records in 2022, the number of Vietnamese visiting Indonesia have increased but still relatively low at 68,067 people. Therefore, public diplomacy is needed by Indonesia for the Vietnamese. Public diplomacy can be carried out from various
Lusianti, Nur Azizah
doaj   +1 more source

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