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From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
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“The Voiceless in Goan Historiography”

, 1981
This essay was presented at the first Seminar on Indo-Portuguese History (ISIPH-I) organized in Goa by Rev. Dr. John Correia-Afonso, S.J. in November 1978.
Souza, Teotónio R. de
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Obligation, Exemption and Remission: The Multi‐Layered Functioning of the Poll Tax (Cizye) in Ottoman Governance during the Long Eighteenth Century

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
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The Hellenica Oxyrhynchia and historiography : new research perspectives /

, 2016
"This book involves a new historiographical study of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia that defines its relationship with fifth- and fourth-century historical works as well as its role as a source of Diodorus' Bibliotheke.
Occhipinti, Egidia,aut
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Economic Development Barriers, Opportunities and Pathways [PDF]

, 2003
The Indigenous Economic Forum was held in Alice Springs on 6 & 7 March 2003. In Professor Jon Altman's introductory remarks to the conference, he addresses Indigenous engagement with the marketplace.
Altman, Jon, Indigenous Economic Forum
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Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power

History, EarlyView.
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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Comparative business indicators for Kansas [1983]

, 1983
Research and preparation by Research and Publications Division, Economic Analysis Section.DEMOGRAPHIC CLIMATE -- EMPLOYMENT CLIMATE -- AGRICULTURAL CLIMATE -- ENERGY ...
Kansas Department of Economic Development, Planning and Community Development Division
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Western Greek Historiography

, 2007
General survey about Western Greek Historiography (Hippys, Antiochus, Philistus, Timaeus), and its relevance in Ancient Greek culture. A survey on Western Greek Historiography from the beginnings to Diodorus of Siciliy (V-I Cent.B.C.).
VATTUONE, RICCARDO
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The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
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Seizing the Regno: Relics and the Politics of Aragonese Expansion in the Fifteenth‐Century Mediterranean

History, EarlyView.
Abstract On 2 June 1442, Alfonso V of Aragon seized the throne of Naples after twenty years of violence, rivalry and warfare between the houses of Anjou and Trastámara over control of the Italian Regno. Over the span of his sixteen‐year reign, Alfonso used Naples as a tool to build his reputation as a new Roman and Imperial ruler in the Italian south ...
Jessica L. Minieri
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