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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article uses rare and detailed data on matriculants to the University of Oxford during the middle decades of the twentieth century as a prism through which to consider gendered processes of recruitment to elite institutions. The article makes four key claims. First, the broader shifts in middle‐class women's labour market participation in
Eve Worth, Naomi Muggleton, Aaron Reeves
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The Problem of Reception of Joseph de Maistre in the Russian Culture at the Turn of the 19 th and 20 th Century (Vladimir Solovyov, Nikolay Berdyaev) [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2018 The article examines the reception of Joseph de Maistre in Russian culture at the turn of the 19 th and 20 th centuries. J. de Maistre is a French philosopher of the early nineteenth century, who spent fourteen years in St.
Marina V. Pantina
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The "handedness" of language: Directional symmetry breaking of sign usage in words
, 2018 Language, which allows complex ideas to be communicated through symbolic sequences, is a characteristic feature of our species and manifested in a multitude of forms.
Ashraf, Md Izhar, Sinha, Sitabhra
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Paleolinguistics brings more light on the earliest history of the traditional Eurasian pulse crops [PDF]
, 2011 Traditional pulse crops such as pea, lentil, field bean, bitter vetch, chickpea and common vetch originate from Middle East, Mediterranean and Central Asia^1^.
Aleksandar Medovic +7 more
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History, 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
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The Gallant Lexicon of A. P. Sumarokov’s Love Elegies
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2018 The author analyses A. P. Sumarokov’s Love Elegies from the point of view of the writer’s reference to the book of French writer J. F. Dreux du Radier (1714–1780) The Dictionary of Love (Dictionnaire d’amour), which describes the gallant behavioural code.
Tatyana Ivanovna Akimova
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The use of colloquial words in advanced French interlanguage [PDF]
, 2001 This article addresses the issue of underrepresentation or avoidance of colloquial words in a cross-sectional corpus of advanced French interlanguage (IL) of 29 Dutch L1 speakers and in a longitudinal corpus of 6 Hiberno-Irish English L1 speakers ...
Anna Nizegorodcew +3 more
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
History, EarlyView.Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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Oriental Studies, 2023 Introduction. The article presents an analysis of Kalmyk food-related proverbs and sayings — comparing the latter to paremiological units of European languages from an axiological perspective. Goals.
Natalia Yu. Neliubova +3 more
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John Maynard Keynes, man or myth? The incident of the Spanish pesetas [PDF]
, 2019 John Maynard Keynes was and still is one of the world’s most famous economists. One of the most fascinating stories about Keynes appeared in his obituary in the 1946 Proceedings of the British Academy.
Zagorsky, Jay
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