The One Lonely Little Guy Versus Thousand Lobbyists: George H. W. Bush and the American Jews
ABSTRACT This article reconsiders the strained relationship between President George H. W. Bush and the American Jewish community during the early 1990s, focusing on the controversy surrounding Israel's request for US loan guarantees and Bush's September 1991 “lonely little guy” remark.
David Tal
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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The impact of climate change and adaptation on food production in low-income countries: Evidence from the Nile Basin, Ethiopia [PDF]
"This paper presents an empirical analysis of the impact of climate change on food production in a typical low-income developing country. Furthermore, it provides an estimation of the determinants of adaptation to climate change and the implications of ...
di Falco, Salvatore +4 more
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The Tree of Chivalry and the Black Lady: Juana of Castile's 1496 Joyous Entry into Brussels☆
Abstract Kupferstichkabinett MS 78D5 (Staatliche Museen Berlin) presents an iconographic account of the Joyous Entry of Juana of Castile into Brussels on 9 December 1496. In this article, we newly identify a rare visual record of a civic contribution to a tournament within the manuscript.
Nadia T. van Pelt +2 more
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Abstract Access to timely postpartum family planning (PPFP) helps safeguard women's reproductive autonomy and supports healthy birth spacing, yet little is known about how reproductive coercion (RC) shapes women's ability to initiate contraception after childbirth.
Jessica L. Dozier +4 more
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Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders
Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
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Classical oriental literatures, especially in Syriac, Arabic and Coptic languages, constitute extraordinary treasury for patristic studies. Apart from the texts written originally in their ecclesiastical ambient, the oriental ancient manuscripts include ...
Zarzeczny, Rafał
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Importance of teaching and practices of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in forest biodiversity conservation : implications for national conservation policy [PDF]
In Ethiopia, natural forests and woodlands cover only 12.3 million hectares, of which the remaining closed natural forests are 4.12 million hectares or 3.37%.
Gobena, Abate
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The Ethiopian Agricultural Extension System and Its Role as a Development Actor : Cases from Southwestern Ethiopia [PDF]
Smallholder agriculture forms the backbone of the Ethiopian economy, supporting the majority of the country's population. Since the late 1960s, the state has been actively pursuing agricultural extension as a key means of agricultural and rural ...
Leta Dufera, Gerba
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Judiska inslag i det kristna Etiopien
Ethiopian Christianity has often been regarded by European travelers and missionaries as impure, because of the presence in it of what were believed to be Jewish customs and ideas. The Ethiopians regard themselves as “The Children of Israel”.
Witold Witakowski, Witakowski, Witold
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