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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

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ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
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The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945

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ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
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Folklore Studies, Fieldwork and the Making of a Domestic Anthropology in Fin‐de‐Siècle Britain

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Abstract This article follows the ‘communities of knowledge‐making’ that formed around folklore collection at the end of the nineteenth century. Often regarded as eccentric or marginal figures in the history of human science, these collectors in fact engaged in lively and sophisticated discussions about the methodologies needed to study the mental ...
HARRY PARKER
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Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power

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Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
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Prolonged Drought Enhances Northwest China Dust Storm Activity

Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres, 2022
AbstractThe patterns and forcing mechanism of dust storms in arid Northwest China remain unclear and debated due to lack of reliable long‐term geological records. Here we present a ∼1,600‐year dust storm history in Northwest China based on the sedimentary coarse fraction (>63 μm) retrieved from Lake Hurleg and Lake Qinghai on the northeastern ...
Xingxing Liu, Hai Xu, Jing Wang
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Salt dust storm in the Ebinur Lake region: its 50-year dynamic changes and response to climate changes and human activities

Natural Hazards, 2015
The dynamic changes characteristics of salt dust storm in the Ebinur Lake of Xinjiang were investigated using the monitoring data during 1957–2007 of atmospheric dust storm and floating dust from four meteorological stations surrounding the dry lakebeds, and the gray correlation analysis method was used to calculate the correlation degree between ...
Jilili Abuduwaili, Dongwei Liu
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Spatial extent of dust storm boundaries in the Mars Dust Activity Database

Icarus, 2023
© 2023 Elsevier. The Mars Dust Activity Database v1.1, including code to generate the accompanying figure, can be found at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7480334 and is supported by NASA Mars Data Analysis Program Grant #80NSSC22K1077. The Mars Dust Activity Database v1.0 can be found at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/F8R2JX and was supported by NASA Mars
J. Michael Battalio, Huiqun Wang, Mark I. Richardson, Anthony D. Toigo, Morgan Saidel   +4 more
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The Mars Dust Activity Database (MDAD): A comprehensive statistical study of dust storm sequences

Icarus, 2021
Abstract A comprehensive Mars Dust Activity Database (MDAD) over 8 Mars years (MY 24, L s = 150°to MY 32, L s = 171°) is compiled from Mars Daily Global Maps. A total of 14,974 dust storm instances are cataloged with area > 10 5 km2 that are visually distinguishable from the surface.
Michael Battalio, Huiqun Wang
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