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Memento Vienna. How an Online Tool Presenting Digitized Holocaust-related Data and Archival Material is Offering New Insights into the Holocaust in Vienna

Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 2018
Holocaust research and archives are undergoing a digital transformation, most obviously seen in the digitization of primary sources. The increased volume of digital Holocaust-related archival content raises the question though of whether online ...
Wolfgang Schellenbacher
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Women and Political Agency in the Early Modern Low Countries

Early Modern Low Countries
Politically active women in the early modern period have often been seen as exceptional figures, notable primarily for their ability to influence decision-making despite societal constraints on female authority.
Lidewij Nissen, Dries Raeymaekers
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
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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Review of Jeremiah Morelock (Ed.), Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism (2018). London: University of Westminster Press.

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2019
Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism (2018; University of Westminster Press), edited by Jeremiah Morelock, brings together the work of sociologists, political scientists, historians, and philosophers attempting to revitalise the empirical and ...
Daniel Sullivan
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Library as Agent of [Re]Contextualization [PDF]

, 2009
Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2009 conference in College Park ...
Ammerman, Jack, Green, Garth W., Zafrin, Vika   +2 more
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Riding Through Norms: Creating and Performing Athletic Femininity at American Ladies’ Equestrian Exhibitions, 1850–1890

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century, American agricultural fairs often featured ladies’ equestrian exhibitions. At these events, women constructed an athletic femininity based on skill and competitiveness that challenged traditional ideals of womanhood.
Gabrielle McCoy
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Churchill and Spain: More Sancho than Quixote?

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers a detailed analysis of Winston Churchill's relationship with Spain over the course of his long and eventful political and personal life. The article focuses on three key episodes: Churchill's ambivalent stance during the Spanish Civil War; his leadership and policy towards Spain during the crucial years of the Second World ...
EMILIO SÁENZ‐FRANCÉS
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Vecchie abitudini e nuovi strumenti. Un sistema informativo per lo studio delle vicende architettoniche del Palazzo Ducale di Mantova

Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2012
This paper provides a brief overview of the potential interaction between the traditional methods for surveying archival resources, as well as for compiling descriptions of architectural heritage (for instance, Raumbuch), and the tools of digital history,
Laureatasi in architettura nel 2010, Lisa Valli è dottoranda in conservazione dei Beni Architettonici al Politecnico di Milano; oggetto d’indagine della sua tesi di dottorato è la ricognizione delle fonti che trattano le vicende architettoniche del complesso monumentale del Palazzo Ducale di Mantova dal XIX secolo ad oggi.
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Using Geographic Information Science to Map the Flight of the Regicides in Seventeenth- century New England [PDF]

, 2016
In mid-seventeenth century two of the judges who condemned King Charles I of England to death became regicide fugitives when his son came to the throne as Charles II. The two men fled to New England and eluded their Royalist pursuers for twenty years.
Cowley, Steven
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“It's such a terrible drug”: Narratives of fentanyl dealers amid the opioid overdose crisis

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract The fentanyl‐fueled overdose crisis is historically lethal, yet the voices of those who sell fentanyl remain understudied. While research has focused extensively on people who use drugs (PWUD), the perspectives of people who sell fentanyl (PWSF) are largely absent from academic and policy discussions. This study draws on 87 in‐depth interviews
Brittney M. Schwehr, Sandra M. Bucerius
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