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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &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
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The aunt Águeda, of Adelaida García Morales: between the novel of initiation and the confessional writing

Castilla: Estudios de Literatura, 2015
This article analyzes The aunt Águeda as a Bildungsroman that dialogues with the speech of confession: the history is told by a female conscience deliberating on a stage of his past: the traffic of the infancy to the youth, duality be configured to be a ...
Carlos Vadillo Buenfil
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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PARTY‐STATE URBANISM: Coevolution of Local State Capacity and Strategic Alliances in Shenzhen

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is distinct about Chinese urban governance? Classic theories predict that when the central state retreats from resource allocation, capacity‐strained local governments must form alliances with non‐state actors, thereby diluting state power. In China, however, state power remains dominant despite decentralization.
Yunhan Wen
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„La Țigănci”, nuvela-parabolă a profetismului eliadesc / "La Țigănci" – The Parable of the Eliadesc Prophetism

Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies, 2018
The unprecedented experience of Gavrilescu, the main character in the La Țigănci short story, continues to arise various interpretations, proving the viability of this eliadesc writing. For some literary critics, he is the anti-hero by definition, which
Liliana Danciu
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[News Clip: Murder confession]

, 1958
Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Louie Meeks, who confessed that he strangled his wife to death after a violent ...
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Confession privée et confession publique dans les paroisses du XVIe siècle

, 1983
Lemaitre Nicole. Confession privée et confession publique dans les paroisses du XVIe siècle. In: Revue d'histoire de l'Église de France, tome 69, n°183, 1983. pp.
Lemaître, Nicole, Nicole Lemaitre
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
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