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Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
wiley   +1 more source

Holocene Nile dynamics shaped the physical and cultural landscape of ancient Nubia. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Peeters J, Winkels TG, Wolf P, Skuldbøl TBB, Chamberlain EL, Büchner-Matthews S, Elamin SM, Mohamed EA, Emberling G.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Reply to Letter to the Editor on: A. G. Nerlich, J. C. Dewaal, A. Perciaccante, S. Di Cosimo, L. Cortesi, J. Wimmer, S. T. Donnell, R, Bianucci: Did Michelangelo paint a young adult woman with breast cancer in "The Flood" (Sistine Chapel, Rome)? Breast 2024, 78, 103823 by Dr. Paul Gelinsky. [PDF]

Breast
Di Cosimo S, Nerlich AG, DeWaal JC, Perciaccante A, Wimmer J, Donnell ST, Bianucci R, Cortesi L.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Behind the Canvas Curtain: Gender, Visibility, and Spectacle in the 1956 Semenyih Incident in the Malayan Emergency

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the 1956 Semenyih strip–search scandal in British colonial Malaya during the Malayan Emergency, a counterinsurgency campaign shaped by Cold War politics in Southeast Asia, to explore how non‐elite Chinese women navigated surveillance, humiliation, and limited opportunities to have their grievances recognized.
Alison Fong
wiley   +1 more source

Continuity or change in the transition to Islam? A diachronic assessment of agricultural production at Old Dongola, Northern Sudan (14th-18th centuries CE). [PDF]

PLoS One
Nasreldein M, Riehl S, Obłuski A.
europepmc   +1 more source

State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source

The Oceanian archaeological and palaeontological isotope database. [PDF]

Data Brief
Florin SA, Rogers AJ, Lyall NB, Crowther A, Cocozza C, Fernandes R.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
wiley   +1 more source

Virtuality VS Reality: Testing a virtual approach for the exploratory analysis of Bronze Age urns from Northern Italy. [PDF]

PLoS One
Scalise LM, Morigi MP, Cavazzuti C, Brancaccio R, Crema ER, Seracini M, Benazzi S, Pomeroy E.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source