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Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
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THE NAITŌ HYPOSTASIS: NAITŌ KONAN (1866–1934) AND THE JAPANESE IMPERIALIST LEGACY IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MIDDLE‐PERIOD CHINA (800–1400 CE)

History and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, Hisayuki Miyakawa published an article that sought to introduce American and European scholars to the work of the Japanese Sinologist Naitō Konan (1866–1934). Miyakawa drew particular attention to what he called the “Naitō hypothesis”—that is, Naitō’s argument that China became modern during the Song dynasty (960–1279).
CHRISTIAN DE PEE
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AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES AND SUBSTRUCTURES IN ARMENIA [PDF]

The Armenian land privatization program is unique among former Soviet Republics in regard to the speed and completeness of its implementation. Armenia is the smallest of the Republics, with a population of 3.7 million, and was left highly dependent on ...
Meloya, Sergei, Nichols, John P.
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The Position of National Minorities in Putin’s Russia: Uniformity or Diversity? [PDF]

, 2015
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Prina, Federica
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“THE NORMAL EXCEPTION”: EDOARDO GRENDI, MICROANALYSIS, AND GENERALIZATIONS*

History and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “The normal exception” has long been a slogan of microhistory. This oxymoronic phrase is the iconic rendering of an incidental sentence that appeared in a 1977 article by Edoardo Grendi. His article, titled “Micro‐analisi e storia sociale” (Microanalysis and Social History), is cited more often than it is read.
FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO
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Integration potential of post-Soviet area for a quarter of a century: problems and prospects

RUDN Journal of Russian History, 2013
The article is devoted to the integration processes in the post-Soviet area. The authors prove that the integration potential of the former Soviet republics increased through some regional multispeed and different sectoral vectors of focal convergence ...
S F Grebenichenko, S Zh Toktamysov
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An overview of consent requirements for HIV and viral hepatitis B and C testing in Europe

HIV Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Complicated consent procedures for bloodborne virus (HIV, HBV and HCV) testing present barriers to implementation, particularly in non‐specialist healthcare settings. European and global guidelines no longer recommend written consent. An overview of testing consent requirements in Europe is lacking. Methods An online survey on legal
Annemarie Rinder Stengaard, Ann K. Sullivan, Daniel Simões, Josephine Diderichsen, Dorthe Raben, Jürgen K. Rockstroh, on behalf of the EuroTEST Steering Committee, Ann K Sullivan, Ben Collins, Brian Gazzard, Carlos Mejia, Cary James, Casper Rokx, Daniela Rojas Castro, Deniz Gökengin, Ferenc Bagyinszky, Francesco Negro, Igor Karpov, Irith De Baetselier, Jack Lambert, Jens D. Lundgren, Johanna Brännström, Jordi Casabona, Jürgen Rockstroh, Olesia Murha, Lella Cosmaro, Liudmyla Maistat, Loreta Kondili, Magnus Unemo, Maria Prins, Michael Rayment, Milosz Parczewski, Mojca Matičič, Nicoletta Policek, Nikos Dedes, Nino Tsereteli, Olga Grozdetska, Sara Croxford, Tom Platteau, Valerie Delpech, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Anastasia Pharris, Stela Bivol, Thomas Seyler   +43 more
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Suicide Trends in the Former Soviet Slavic Republics

European Psychiatry, 2015
Introduction High suicide rates in the former Soviet Slavic republics (fSSr) Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and its profound fluctuations over the past decades have attracted considerable interest. There is suggestion that mass privatization as an economic strategy was a crucial determinant of differences in mortality trend in post-communist countries ...
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Japanese Women's Attitudes Toward Learning Languages Other Than English in the Era of Global English

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study on female Japanese learners of the Korean language is situated in the centuries‐long anti‐Korean sentiments in Japan, the global popularity of the Korean Wave, particularly among women, and the essentialized image of socially marginalized young Japanese women who study English with romantic desires for Western men.
Yoko Kobayashi
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Postcolonial transitions on the southern borders of the former Soviet Union: the return of Eurasianism? [PDF]

, 2003
As the Soviet Union dissolved into a new territorial reality, it released the doubly repressed histories of Tsarist and Soviet imperium. In the states to the south of the new Russian Federation, the post-soviet jostled with the postcolonial as nations ...
Bowring, Bill
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