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82 YEARS SINCE THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD [PDF]
Annals: Series on Military SciencesThe "Battle of Stalingrad" was the bloodiest battle of World War II. It was the "battle of battles" on the Eastern Front, considered by some historians to be the "Verdun of the Volga".
Gheorghe BOARU
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non‐governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACPO) responded to women's changing roles and ...
Anna Cant
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El gran protagonista olvidado. El ejército de Carlos II entre el mito y la realidad (1665-1700)
CriticónTraditionally, the army of Charles II has never enjoyed great renown. After the great successes achieved during the reigns of the Habsburgs, the Crown’s armed forces experienced an irreversible decline that reached its peak during the reign of the last ...
Davide Maffi
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European Defence Community: origins of integration in the defence sphere
Проблеми Законності, 2017 There is a tendency among non-historians to force «practioners» of the discipline to justify why the study of a particular episode of the past is so important and to articulate the lessons to be learned from the experience.
Іван Васильович Яковюк +1 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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The Europeanization of the Cemeteries of World War I in West Galicia
Politeja, 2018 Focusing primarily on the Łużna-Pustki military cemetery constructed by the Austro-Hungarian army on the Eastern Front after the Battle of Gorlice, also known as the ‘Little Verdun’ (2-5 May 1915), the article deals with the memory of World War I and its
Krzysztof Kowalski
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the militarization of white settler women during the Kenya Emergency (1952–1960), analyzing how their armed participation disrupted and reconfigured colonial gender norms. Drawing on visual and textual archival and newspaper sources, this article explores representations of settler women as maternal guardians of the ...
Lauren Brown
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Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
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A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article draws on the largely unexplored epistolary archive of dozens of women who were born or married into military families in northern Italy around the time of the first phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). Building on recent work on early modern agency, patriarchy, networks and emotional communities, the article reconstructs and ...
Stephen Bowd
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Die Europäisierung des Nationalstaates – Erosion oder Transformation? [PDF]
Journal of Humanistic and Social Studies, 2016 This paper asks whether the traditional European nation-state has eroded or transformed as a consequence of European integration. In order to answer this research question, several aspects are being analyzed.
Christian Stark
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