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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

Stalinism [European civilization: 1648-1945]

open access: yes, 2016
Presents part of course, European Civilization, 1648-1945, when Professor John Merriman describes one of the central questions in assessing Stalinism is whether or not the abuses of the latter were already present in the first years of the Russian ...
Merriman, John
core   +1 more source

Is That West of Us Still the West?

open access: yesPoliteja, 2018
The article takes up the concept of “Central Eastern Europe” only to show that it makes sense if we can reshape our political imagination. What is crucial is our perception of the West which now is based on intellectual assumptions about the continuity ...
Paweł Armada
doaj   +1 more source

Longitudinal Association Between Media Use and Development in Preschool: Moderation by Maternal Education. [PDF]

open access: yesActa Paediatr
ABSTRACT Aim This study examined associations between children's use of electronic media and maternal education at age 3, and developmental outcomes and changes (cognitive, language, motor, socio‐emotional) one year later. Methods Included were 109 participants of the LIFE Child cohort (Germany).
Eggeling J   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Fascists [European civilization: 1648-1945]

open access: yes, 2016
Educação Superior::Ciências Humanas::HistóriaPresents part of course, European Civilization, 1648-1945, when Professor John Merriman describes the rise of fascism in Germany, as elsewhere, must be understood in the context of a postwar climate of ...
Merriman, John
core   +1 more source

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

open access: yesGender &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
wiley   +1 more source

The Language of Gendered Violence and Sexual Aggression in the Spanish Civil War: Conceptualizations and Reassessments

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the conceptual vocabulary through which violence against women during the Spanish Civil War has been interpreted, with particular attention to the longstanding predominance of the category ‘sexed violence’ (violencia sexuada).
SABINA MOMPÓ TORIBIO
wiley   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal Evolution and Influencing Factors of Ecological Civilization Construction in China

open access: yesComplexity, 2020
The construction of an ecological civilization is a strategic idea proposed based on the conditions of different countries and the laws governing social development. It is a new way to promote harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.
Mei Gai, Xiuqi Wang, Changli Qi
doaj   +1 more source

Eastern or Central-Eastern Europe? European civilization circles

open access: yes, 2017
The area of the Central Europe that includes so called new countries of the European Union is incorrectly classified as Eastern Europe. In the categories of geopolitics and civilization paradigm the Eastern Europe includes Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova ...
Winnicki, Zdzisław J.
core  

A comparative study of Maulana Madoodi’s views and Allama Asad’s views on modern reformation of Islamic civilization [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper throws light about the services of two scholars for Islam. The purpose of this paper is to differentiate the eastern birth Scholar Maulana Madoodi and the Western birth Scholar Allama Asad (after embracing Islam).
Mahmood Khan, Tariq, Ushama, Thameem
core   +1 more source

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