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Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article presents the findings of an international interdisciplinary research project that has collaborated with community groups and museums in Colombia. It proposes that there are potential benefits in rethinking the museum “from below”, using the concept of the museum as a memory prop to work with communities to document, create, curate,
Claire Taylor +8 more
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‘Blind Dislike of Anything New’
SjuttonhundratalThe first textbook on midwifery written in Icelandic was published in 1749. Its origin can be traced to several late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century European pioneers in obstetrics and anatomy.
Bragi Ólafsson
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Treating, Preventing, Feigning, Concealing: Sickness, Agency and the Medical Culture of the British Naval Seaman at the End of the Long Eighteenth Century. [PDF]
Soc Hist Med, 2022 Caputo S.
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Marxism and Decolonizing Praxis: From Decolonial Misinterpretations to Marxist Contributions
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article intervenes in postcolonial and decolonial critiques that portray Karl Marx and Marxism as intrinsically Eurocentric and inattentive to race, colonialism and non‐European revolutionary agency. It argues that such critiques often rely on selective, historically limited interpretations that overlook Marx's later writings, in which he
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
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Autopsy or anatomical dissection: evidence of a craniotomy in a 17th-eighteenth century burial site (Ravenna, Italy). [PDF]
Forensic Sci Med Pathol, 2021 Scianò F +4 more
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Money and federal autocracy: 1913 and the quiet inversion of the American constitutional order
Economic Affairs, EarlyView.Abstract The American Revolution affirmed that sovereignty inheres by nature in each Citizen, and collectively in the People. The Constitution completed a structure in which authority flowed from Citizens to their several State republics, and from the States to a Union holding only delegated powers. 1913 inverted that order.
James Turk
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Life‐cycle living standards of male‐headed households: Evidence from Stockholm, 1800–80
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Recent research in economic history argues for using a household life cycle standard‐of‐living approach that includes the income and expenses of all household members and considers fluctuations in the household over the life course. This study builds on that approach by empirically examining the development of living standards in male‐headed ...
Anton Svensson
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Sick leave in the United Kingdom Post Office, 1850–1908
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper uses a large individual‐record‐level dataset on sick leave to examine adult morbidity in the United Kingdom between 1850 and 1908. From 1859 onwards postal workers were eligible to receive a pension or gratuity when they retired or were forced to stop working due to ill health.
Harry Smith +8 more
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The reading revolution and eighteenth century thinking about the novel
, 2007 the eighteenth-century reading revolution had an impact on narrative theories. Examples were brought from Du Plaisir' "Sentimens sur les lettres ..." and Johnson' "The Rambler" n.
LORETELLI, ROSA MARIA
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract One of the most contentious issues in the study of the Atlantic slave trade is the profitability of the trade. In this paper, we contribute by pooling all available data on transatlantic slave ship voyage accounts into a joint dataset. This dataset includes data from a period of 100 years (1730–1830) and from five nations (Denmark, France ...
Klas Rönnbäck +4 more
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