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Mining and Financial Imperialism [PDF]

Mining finance houses were substantial public corporations with access to money markets in the City of London, the world’s leading capital market for mining.
Särkkä, Timo
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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

Gender &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
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Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
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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Rethinking imperialist theory and US imperialism in Latin America

Historia Actual On-Line, 2011
En este artículo criticamos la teorización contemporánea sobre el imperialismo por su reducción al ámbito económico y su carencia de un análisis de clase e institucional específico dentro del estado imperialista.
James Petras, Henry Veltmeyer
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British Nationalism, Imperialism and the City of London 1880-1900

, 1985
PhDBased mainly on the records of the London Chamber of Commerce, the study explores the role of the City in the promotion of a form of British nationalism and the pressure for an expansion of the British Empire and navy in the last two decades of ...
Smith, Steven Reginald Burdett
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &History, EarlyView.
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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The State Itself as a Vulnerable Subject? Existential Resilience under International Law

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This paper proposes a new framework for analysis of the law governing State continuity, with particular reference to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) threatened with legal extinction as a result of rising sea‐levels. Prevailing wisdom suggests that if States were to lose their inhabitable land or permanently resident populations, their status ...
Alex Green (文浩航)
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Moral imperialism

, 2012
The term imperialism has been coupled to or prefixed by a wide range of labels and descriptors, many of them controversial or contested. Examples that readily come to mind include neo-imperialism, economic imperialism, cultural imperialism, liberal ...
Bowden, Brett (R15141)
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Presentation. (2478) Economic History. Unit 4. “The Establishment of a World Economy.” [PDF]

, 2016
Syllabus: 4. The Establishment of a World Economy. 4.1. Introduction. 4.2.
Martínez Rodríguez, Susana
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The Protestant Menace: Catholic Missionary Anti‐Protestantism during and after the First World War (1918–1922)*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Sante Lesti
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