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‘Childish’ and ‘Minors’? Deconstructing Prejudice and Identity Transformation Among Spanish Women Religious During the Long Sixties1

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the identity formation process undertaken by Spanish women's religious following the aggiornamento promoted by the Second Vatican Council. Specifically, it seeks to examine the context in which these women lived and acted, analysing the construction of their identities, their capacity for agency and transgression within ...
Verónica García‐Martín
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The Great Patriotic War in Russian history textbooks

Sprawy Narodowościowe. Seria nowa, 2018
The Great Patriotic War in Russian history textbooks The topic of this article is presenting how the Great Patriotic War (GPW) is depicted in Russian national history textbooks.
Dagmara Moskwa
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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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DAGESTAN DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR (1941 – 1945)

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2016
A comprehensive objective scientific understanding of political processes and changes in the multinational Russian state at the present stage is impossible without reference to the historical experience and the analysis of its national and regional ...
M. Ya. Mirzabeckov
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A Discordant Voice from the Trenches: Juan José de Soiza Reilly's War Chronicles [PDF]

, 2017
The First World War represented a deep crisis of the European civilization that called into question the values and certitudes of the Belle Époque society. Trenches became the symbol of the dehumanization produced by a conflict that marked a watershed in
Tato, María Inés
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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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
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Production of Bacteriological Preparations in the Anti-Plague Institute “Microbe” during the Great Patriotic War and the Post-War Years (on the 80th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War)

Проблемы особо опасных инфекций
The paper considers the production activities of the Institute “Microbe” during the Great Patriotic War. The methodological basis for the study was the documents from the funds of the State Archive of the Saratov Region.
S. V. Generalov, E. G. Abramova
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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