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The Civil War in Russia – Definition, Causes, and Periodization

Tractus Aevorum, 2018
A century has passed since the beginning of the tragic events of the deadly Civil War in Russia in the early twentieth century, which not only dramatically changed the country, but also affected (albeit to a lesser degree) nearly all regions of the world. It is obvious that the debates among historians and scholars of neighboring disciplines on various
openaire   +2 more sources

Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
wiley   +1 more source

Climate and Civil War: Is the Relationship Robust? [PDF]

A recent paper by Burke et al. (henceforth “we”) finds a strong historical relationship between warmer- than-average temperatures and the incidence of civil war in Africa (Burke et al. 2009).
Shanker Satyanath, John Dykema, David Lobell, Edward Miguel, Marshall Burke   +4 more
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The politicization of academic collaborations threatens to harm international science. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Cadotte MW.
europepmc   +1 more source

US Life Expectancy and Increasing Mortality Rates: An Analysis of the Crisis

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points US life expectancy is shorter than in other high‐income countries and the gap has widened dramatically over time, driven in particular by rising mortality rates that threaten the probability that youth can survive to middle age, or even adulthood.
STEVEN H. WOOLF
wiley   +1 more source

Childhood Famine Exposure and Late-Life Edentulism: Evidence From Natural Experiments. [PDF]

J Clin Periodontol
Baumeister SE, McGrath C, Kocher T, Nascimento GG.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

Gender differences in the long-term impact of early-life exposure to war on physical and mental health: Evidence from China. [PDF]

SSM Popul Health
Zhang Z, Tang D, Wang X, Bu T, Feng Q.
europepmc   +1 more source

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

Gender &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

Differential approach for the management of femoral post-traumatic combat-related osteomyelitis in the war in Ukraine: a clinical case series. [PDF]

Int J Emerg Med
Lurin I, Burianov O, Yarmolyuk Y, Sapa S, Rudenko I, Gorobeiko M, Maliuga A, Dinets A.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source