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PREAMBULAR HISTORY: THE VIEW OF THE PAST IN KEY HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS
History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-31, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article claims that the preambles of foundational human rights instruments, taken together, articulate a consistent view of the past. This view is firmly rooted in historical processes, embedded in metaphysical truths, and enacted in service of the future. Part 1 assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the “preambular approach to history”
Antoon De Baets
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Hygiene culture of nomads in the Eurasian steppes during the 13th–15th centuries
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2020 Based on a comprehensive study of various written sources and ethnographic materials, this paper considers some aspects of personal hygiene of nomads, who lived in the Eurasian steppes during the 13th–15th centuries, i.e., primarily in the states of ...
L.F. Abzalov
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Locusts on the Arabian Oil Commodity Frontier: Space, Territory and Ecology in the Extractive Zone
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT In 1943, British authorities launched a major operation in Arabia against the desert locust. Considered a threat to food security, teams of troops patrolled the desert to search for the insect and lay poison. Based on British archive documents, I argue that these patrols played a role in the territorialisation of the oil commodity frontier as ...
Christian Henderson
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Memories of Statehood in the “Defter-i Genghis-name” » [PDF]
Золотоордынское обозрение, 2016 The Turkic peoples of the Volga Region lost their statehood for centuries due to the Russian occupation of the Khanate of Kazan and Astrakhan in the mid–16th century.
Maria Ivanics
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F1000Research, 2015 Cultural transmission of reproductive success states that successful men have more children and pass this raised fecundity to their offspring. Balaresque and colleagues found high frequency haplotypes in a Central Asian Y chromosome dataset, which they ...
Elsa G. Guillot, Murray P. Cox
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Altralang Journal, 2020 : Many similarities existing in the epics of the Mongols and the Turkish allow to research common literary-cultural features in these works. The Book of Dede Gorgud and “The Secret History of the Mongols” as remarkable examples of nation’s heroic works ...
Lamiya NASIROVA
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Social construction and meta‐ground
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 3, Page 954-973, November 2025.Abstract The notion of social construction plays an important role in many areas of social philosophy, including the philosophy of gender and sex, the philosophy of race, and the philosophy of disability. Yet it is far from clear how this notion is to be understood.
Asya Passinsky
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Mongolskie oblicza postpamięci
Politeja, 2017 The Faces of Mongolian Postmemory This article applies the concept of postmemory to demonstrate the relation of modern Mongolia to its own past and history.
Celina Strzelecka
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 5, September/October 2025.ABSTRACT High‐resolution remote sensing, magnetometry, and trench stratigraphy identify a significant flood event at Lagash (modern Tell al‐Hiba) during the late Early Dynastic period (ca. 2400–2350 BC). Satellite imagery and magnetometry reveal a 90‐meter‐wide meander belt—3–15 times broader than documented canals—adjacent to primary temple districts.
Reed Goodman +8 more
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Scroll Depicting Hōjō Tokimune, the Conqueror of the Mongols, from the Collection of the Oriental Department of the State Hermitage Museum [PDF]
Крымское историческое обозрениеThe article investigates the principal stages in the life and political career of Hōjō Tokimune, one of the most emblematic military leaders and influential spiritual figures of medieval Japan.
Aleksey Bogolyubov
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