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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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War, Politics, Pandemic, and a Failed Assassination: 117 Years of World Congresses of Surgery. [PDF]
World J Surg, 2023 Hunter JG.
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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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Views of democracy and society and support for political violence in the USA: findings from a nationally representative survey. [PDF]
Inj Epidemiol, 2023 Wintemute GJ +8 more
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Barack Obama’s Rhetoric on unlifting Racial Divisiveness in the U.S.A. [PDF]
, 2012 This paper is an inquiry into Barack Obama’s rhetorical craftmanship that evidently paved the way to his move forward to the White House. As his presidential campaign was placed as part of the journey toward the job of perfecting the nation, the rhetoric
Gunawan, Samuel
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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
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Maternalism and new imperialism in Russia: "good mothers" for a militarizing state-expectations, implications, and resistances. [PDF]
Front Sociol, 2023 Gradskova Y.
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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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Commencement Address, Learn to Know Yourself [PDF]
, 1930 It is a great pleasure to be invited to address the graduating class of the Bryant-Stratton College of Business Administration - a school which has stood in the front ranks of the great educational institutions of the coutnry for the last sixty-seven ...
Curtis, Charles
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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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