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An End to Slavery in the Confederacy: One of the Civil War\u27s Greatest What-Ifs

open access: yes, 2016
A few weeks ago one of our readers posted a comment on one of our blog posts asking for a “best guess” as to when slavery would have ended in the South had the Confederacy been successful in winning its independence.
Lauck, Jeffrey L.
core  

Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden

open access: yesScandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding.
Henri Vogt, Mikko Värttö
wiley   +1 more source

University proceedings. Volga region. Humanities

open access: yesИзвестия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Гуманитарные науки
The article offers an analysis of one of the many peasant uprisings during the Civil War in Russia. The authors proceed from the fact that the peasant resistance to the system of Bolshevik power, on the one hand, was based on common prerequisites, on the
A.V. Posadsky, V.Yu. Rylov
doaj   +1 more source

Invisible frontlines: the overlooked health consequences of the war in Iran. [PDF]

open access: yesEur J Public Health
Correia T   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Democratic Jihad ? Military intervention and democracy [PDF]

open access: yes
Democracies rarely if ever fight one another, but they participate in wars as frequently as autocracies. They tend to win the wars in which they participate.
Christiansen, Lene Siljeholm   +2 more
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‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
wiley   +1 more source

‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
wiley   +1 more source

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