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Chronological Tables for Caesar’s Wars (58–45 BCE)

open access: yesHistos, 2018
This chronological outline of Julius Caesar's campaigns in Gaul and during the civil wars is the first of its kind in coverage and depth. Never before have the years 58-50 BCE been parsed in such detail.
John T. Ramsey, Kurt A. Raaflaub
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source

‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of the Irish Civil War 1922-1923 on suicide rates in Ireland: a retrospective investigation of the archives of the registrar-general for Saorstát Éireann

open access: yesEpidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health, 2022
Introduction: Emile Durkheim differentiated between two types of wars: National and Civil Wars in terms of effect on suicide mortality. This study investigates Durkheim’s assertion by examining the effect of Irish Civil War on the 1882-1928 suicide ...
Mugtaba Osman   +2 more
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Soulèvements arabes : la « révolution » dans ses crises

open access: yesRevue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2016
Four years after the beginning of the “Arab uprisings”, a certain pessimism is gaining ground: researchers, analysts, political actors previously involved in the social contestations of the spring 2011, have reasons to doubt the possibility of “Arab ...
Nicolas Dot-Pouillard
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Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
wiley   +1 more source

Indirect Interventions in Civil Wars: The Use of States as Proxies in Military Interventions

open access: yesCzech Journal of International Relations, 2019
Current research on motivational sources of military interventions in civil wars frequently assumes that states intervene due to direct interests in the civil war country.
Klosek, Kamil
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