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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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Construction of a Spatial Housing Price Index by Estimating an Almost Ideal Demand System [PDF]
The aim of this article is to build a spatial housing price index for the Chilean communes (the commune political body similar to a municipality or county).
Iturra, Victor, Paredes - Araya, Dusan
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea
Gender &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
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SIZE DIVERSITY SHAPING FINANCIAL CONDITION OF RURAL COMMUNES OF SIEDLCE SUBREGION
Polityki Europejskie, Finanse i Marketing, 2018 Financial condition of basic units of territorial government is a complex phenomenon. Some authors associate it with the financial situation of the particular commune.
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THE POTENTIAL OF THE RURAL AREA DEVELOPMENT OF STEFAN VODA COMMUNE IN CALARASI COUNTY [PDF]
Scientific Papers Series : Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 2013 The concept of development means all forms and methods of socio-economic development, and it is based first of all on ensuring a balance between these socio-economic systems and the elements of natural capital.
Elena LASCAR
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Internal Migration and Regional Population Dynamics in Europe: Switzerland Case Study [PDF]
, 2000 This paper reports on internal migration and regional population dynamics in Switzerland. It examines briefly the main population trends in the last century and then turns to more detailed examination of internal migration patterns and trends in three ...
Durham, H. +4 more
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History, EarlyView.Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In a context of unprecedented urbanization, nineteenth‐century European cities faced the ‘housing question’, i.e. precarious housing standards and affordability problems. While existing research has well described these historical housing problems in single‐city studies or in national urbanization histories, to our knowledge, there are hardly ...
Sebastian Kohl +2 more
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