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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

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Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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Historias de misses, historia de naciones

open access: yesÍconos - Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 2013
En 1930 Ecuador recibió la primera convocatoria para participar en un concurso internacional de belleza que se llevaría a cabo en Florida, Estados Unidos. Para ello se organizó un evento nacional cuya final estaría compuesta por ocho candidatas, cuatro de Guayaquil y cuatro de Quito.
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Historia oral: ¿una historia popular?

open access: yesCampos en Ciencias Sociales, 2016
<p>El artículo empieza por reconocer la importancia de reivindicar una historia popular que revalorice el papel de los actores tradicionalmente excluidos —en oposición a la historia convencional de las élites—, por lo cual su propósito principal consiste en develar los intereses políticos que, bajo discursos populistas, sobredimensionan los ...
Rodríguez Rojas, Pedro   +1 more
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Legitimacy and Persuasion in the Anglo‐Scottish Wars of the 1540s

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Abstract The considerable efforts of the invading English to justify their activities and garner support during the Anglo‐Scottish wars of the 1540s are well known. Recent welcome attention to Scottish texts produced during the conflict has begun to correct a previous historiographical imbalance towards English materials.
Amy Blakeway
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Tewdwr: Eponymous Ancestor of the Tudor Dynasty

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Abstract The standard derivation of the dynastic name Tudor from Welsh Tudur, surname of the grandfather of Henry VII, is problematic on phonological grounds, as well as the fact that Tudur was never used as a surname by Henry himself, being attributed to him only by his enemies with implication of lowly origins.
DAFYDD JOHNSTON
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Desconcierto del tiempo presente y retos del futuro. Algunas claves orientativas

open access: yesArbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura, 2011
La de la incertidumbre es una de las características que mejor define a nuestra sociedad occidental. Vanguardia del mundo durante siglos, se encuentra con que ve cómo se recorta su protagonismo.
Manuel González Portilla   +1 more
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Seizing the Regno: Relics and the Politics of Aragonese Expansion in the Fifteenth‐Century Mediterranean

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Abstract On 2 June 1442, Alfonso V of Aragon seized the throne of Naples after twenty years of violence, rivalry and warfare between the houses of Anjou and Trastámara over control of the Italian Regno. Over the span of his sixteen‐year reign, Alfonso used Naples as a tool to build his reputation as a new Roman and Imperial ruler in the Italian south ...
Jessica L. Minieri
wiley   +1 more source

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