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Historiske toll- og skipsanløpslister – tollregnskap som kilde
Heimen, 2017 Eighteenth century trade statistics can help cast new light on economic, cultural and social aspects of the eighteenth century, as well as show international and global interconnection.
Ragnhild Hutchison
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Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain
History, EarlyView.Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
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Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne, 2014 The ideas and language and national identity of the former inhabitants of the south-eastern provinces of the Republic. Notices. The material printed typography bazyliańskich (eighteenth century) Article – based on materials eighteenth century editions ...
Joanna Getka
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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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Reimagining Book History Creatively for Twenty‐First‐Century Publishing Students
History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Teaching book history to twenty‐first‐century publishing students often proves a delightful challenge as some grapple with appreciating how this history is relevant to not only their pursuit of a career in the publishing industry but also the publishing industry generally.
Jocelyn Hargrave
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Map of Texas and Adjacent Regions in the Eighteenth Century
, 1915 This is a map of Texas and adjacent regions in the eighteenth century, showing North American Indian tribes.Creator and Contributor obtained from identical map at Huntington Digital Library: http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id ...
Bolton, Herbert Eugene, 1870-1953
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INFRASTRUCTURAL CONCEALMENT: Everyday Festival Economies and Riverine Ecologies in Kolkata
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban infrastructures are often celebrated within marketized development logics for their promise of equitable access while concealing ecological harm. This article examines whether and how ecological degradation is integral to infrastructural modernization, showing how infrastructures that promise improvement and inclusion simultaneously ...
Debapriya Chakrabarti +2 more
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New Perspectives on Ukraine’s Eighteenth Century
ВивліоѳикаReview of: Zenon E. Kohut, Volodymyr Sklokin, and Frank E. Sysyn, with Larysa Bilous, eds., Eighteenth-Century Ukraine: New Perspectives on Social, Cultural and Intellectual History.
Barbara Skinner
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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Much of the current popular and academic literature on the provision of green spaces is dominated by the assumption that ‘nature’ is an unalloyed positive, and that socioeconomic and racial exclusion from access to green spaces is a problem of unequal spatial distribution rather than of the form and content of particular urban designs.
Kiera Chapman
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