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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

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ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Integration Through Segregation: Swedish‐Jewish Emancipationists and the Jewish Girls’ School in Nineteenth‐Century Sweden

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ABSTRACT This article analyses the only Jewish girls’ school in nineteenth‐century Sweden, Sophiaskolan, and the discussions about girls’ education and Bildung that emerged within the community – including regarding Judaism's ‘Oriental heritage’. The community meetings were a male sphere in which men discussed women's role within Jewish tradition. This
Jens Carlesson Magalhães
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Ragged Histories: Textiles, Craft and Creative History

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Abstract This article presents insights from three academics who are based at Canadian universities and have used rag‐rug making as a teaching method, engaging students in studying material culture and industrialization in nineteenth‐century England.
ANDREA KORDA   +2 more
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State of the Field: The History of Masculinities

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Abstract This State of the Field article discusses how, when and why the history of masculinities has emerged since the 1980s, and why it continues to be an important research field today. The article begins with the field's multiple origin stories and then discusses its expansion in chronology, geography and theme, as well as newer directions for ...
ERICA L. FRASER
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What About Eco‐Populism? A Neglected Historical Tradition

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Constellations, EarlyView.
Federico Tarragoni
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