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The scope of the global history of science: an essay on James Poskett's Horizons. [PDF]
Serrano-Juarez JD +7 more
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Abstract This article revisits the view that UK business schools emerged as late and imitative responses to American models. Drawing on archival evidence and a longitudinal dataset of 130 institutions, it shows that the field developed incrementally from diverse origins, including mechanics’ institutes, civic universities, colleges of commerce and ...
Charles Harvey +2 more
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In defence of medical judgement: medicalisation strategies in the daily life of the Lima Asylum in the last third of the 19th century. [PDF]
Amaya Nuñez E.
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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Weaving MAPS: Historiographical Perspectives on Writing Postcolonial Histories of the Modern Hospital. [PDF]
Joe JAS.
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ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
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Saving explorers and healing Amazonians: a history of the Tabloid medicine chest used in Hamilton Rice's 1919-1920 Amazon expedition. [PDF]
Limeira-daSilva VR.
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A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy
ABSTRACT This article draws on the largely unexplored epistolary archive of dozens of women who were born or married into military families in northern Italy around the time of the first phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). Building on recent work on early modern agency, patriarchy, networks and emotional communities, the article reconstructs and ...
Stephen Bowd
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