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Mapping New Jerusalem: Space, National Identity and Power in British Espionage Fiction 1945-79. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This thesis argues that the espionage fiction of Graham Greene, Ian Fleming and John le Carré published between 1945 and 1979 illustrates a number of discontinuities, disjunctions and paradoxes related to space, sovereignty and national identity in post ...
Goodman, Samuel Geoffrey
core  

Symposium on Erving Goffman and the Cold War, by Gary D. Jaworski

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
The symposium on Gary D. Jaworski's book Erving Goffman and the Cold War is based on an "Author meets Critics" event held at the European SSSI 2024 Conference in Pisa. After a brief introduction by Dirk vom Lehn, Gary Jaworski briefly suggests his motivation for writing the book.
Chiara Bassetti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Arctic cinema: from horror through dramas and thrillers To Action movies and fiction (Part II)

open access: yesПроблемы постсоветского пространства, 2023
The article examines Arctic thrillers, action films and fantasy films. Presented kaleidoscope of horror, drama, thriller, science fiction and action films, with all its plot differences, is united by almost a single location, the Arctic north.
I. S. Zonn
doaj   +1 more source

A ‘Wholly Unjustifiable Treatment of British Subject’? The Detention of W. T. Goode in the Baltic, 1919

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
wiley   +1 more source

El espionaje en España en la guerra civil y la segunda guerra mundial: una visión general [PDF]

open access: yesDiacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2016
The espionage activity by both sides during the Spanish Civil War is the missing dimension of the conflict, given its crucial importance. Both Nationalists and Republicans used intelligence to frustrate arm dealings of their enemies in foreign countries,
Manuel Ros Agudo
doaj  

Defending Korematsu?: Reflections on Civil Liberties in Wartime [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
According to Justice William J. Brennan, After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.
Tushnet, Mark V.
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TROPICAL FRENCH THEORY: Henri Lefebvre and the Reinvention of Urban Planning in Havana, Cuba (1968–1971)

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean ...
William Kutz
wiley   +1 more source

El espionaje militar republicano durante la Guerra Civil Española [PDF]

open access: yesDiacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2016
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the Popular Army of the Republic had to set up useful intelligence services to know the capabilities and intentions of its enemy.
Hernán Rodríguez Velasco
doaj  

Cold War in Space: Reconnaissance Satellites and US-Soviet Security Competition

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2023
This article traces the history of US and Soviet reconnaissance satellites during the Cold War. It fills the gap in historiography of the Space Race that has inadequately studied military space programs and focused largely on civilian spaceflight, with ...
Wawrzyniec Muszyński-Sulima
doaj   +1 more source

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

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