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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
wiley   +1 more source

Recent Spanish American Fiction: Trial and Success

open access: yes, 1981
The originality of contemporary Spanish American fiction is recognized throughout the literary world. A professor of Spanish literature discusses some aspects of that originality, especially with regard to linguistic innovation and ...
Lichtblau, Myron I.
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

From the horror of the impossible to the horror of the social : ideological dimensions in Santiago Eximeno's fantastic fiction

open access: yesÉtudes romanes de Brno
Spanish research on the fantastic has not always shown interest in delving into the ideological aspects of the works under study. This attitude has changed significantly in recent times, due to the increasingly evident and militant presence of socio ...
Miguel Carrera Garrido
doaj   +1 more source

Jüri Talvet maailmaluule tõlgendajana / Jüri Talvet’s Interpretations of World Poetry

open access: yesMethis: Studia Humaniora Estonica, 2016
Teesid: Tartu Ülikooli maailmakirjanduse professori, luuletaja, kirjandusteadlase ja hispaaniakeelse kirjanduse spetsialisti Jüri Talveti tõlketegevuse viljade hulka kuulub luulet ja proosat nii sajandeid vanast Hispaania klassikast kui ka 20.
Lauri Pilter
doaj   +1 more source

Detective fiction in Cuban society and culture.

open access: yes, 2000
PhDThe object of this thesis is to reach towards an understanding of Cuban society through a study of its detective fiction and more particularly contemporary Cuban society through the novels of the author and critic, Leonardo Padura Fuentes.
Wilkinson, S.H., Wilkinson, Stephen
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Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction

open access: yes, 2021
Romance continues to stand as the most profitable literary genre and the second most read book category. The developments reshaping the conventions and marketing practices of popular fiction, both inside and beyond the books themselves, have affected the

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GOVERNING THE CLOUD: Infrastructural Statecraft and the Political Ecology of Digital Expansion in Oregon

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Oregon's wave of data center and semiconductor projects shows how cloud capitalism reorganizes resource systems and territorial governance. Examining Amazon, Google, and Intel, the article traces how fiscal incentives, utility programs, and land‐use instruments are recalibrated to secure hyperscale loads.
Justin Kollar
wiley   +1 more source

La codificación televisiva del franquismo: de la historia del entretenimiento a la historia como entretenimiento.

open access: yesHistoria Crítica, 2010
This article interprets television as a social and political medium. On the one hand, it examines the principal ways that Franco's government, during its final years in power (1968-1975), managed and used it for social ends.
José Carlos Rueda Laffond.   +1 more
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

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