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Pollution and Haunted Eco‐Histories: Silent Hill and Silent Horrors in Centralia, Pennsylvania

Popular Culture Review, Volume 37, Issue 2, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Centralia is a former mining town and borough in Northeastern Pennsylvania, whose population has been steadily declining since the Mine Fire of 1962—a fire that still burns today. The “horrors” of living in Centralia are reflected in horror media set in postindustrial mining towns like Silent Hill.
Maz Jardon
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Similitudes entre los sectores siderúrgico e industrial en Argentina durante el período de la Convertibilidad

Revista Tiempo & Economía, 2020
Durante la aplicación del modelo de Convertibilidad (1991 y 2001) el sector industrial argentino se caracterizó por una mayor concentración de su actividad en grandes empresas, entre las cuales las de capital extranjero tuvieron una importante ...
Patricia Jerez
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Enforcing environmental law in the Amazon

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 7, Page 2281-2294, July 2026.
Abstract This article identifies the underlying obstacles to enforcement of laws against environmental crimes such as illegal logging, mining and ranching. With four departments (provinces) from Colombia as case studies, it assesses enforcement of the country's main environmental law, Law 2111, which is one of Latin America's strongest. The article has
Mark Ungar, Juan Corredor‐Garcia
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Migration, Repression and Homosexual Sociability in Francoist Spain: An Analysis of the Case Files of the Special Courts of Barcelona (1965–1975)

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 672-679, July 2026.
ABSTRACT In Spain, under General Franco's regime, homosexuality was regarded as an antisocial and dangerous behaviour. It was thus pursued both by the police and judicial courts. The Law on Vagrants and Crooks (1954) and, subsequently, the Law on Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) constituted the legal mechanisms used by the dictatorship to
Jordi Mas Grau, Rafael Cáceres‐Feria
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El abastecimiento militar de cáñamo para el imperio español (1665-1808): globalización, estado y empresarios en el largo Siglo XVIII

Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie IV, Historia Moderna, 2019
El cáñamo se convirtió en un insumo estratégico de primer orden para los imperios marítimos durante la Edad Moderna, porque con él se producía cuerda mecha, y jarcia y velas para el aparejo de los veleros, por lo que su producción agraria, su ...
Manuel Díaz-Ordóñez
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Adolfo Dorfman, forjador de los estudios sobre la industria en la Argentina

H-Industri@, 2022
Esta entrevista con Ariel Dorfman, destacado novelista y dramaturgo, tiene como objetivo aportar información sobre su padre, Adolfo Dorfman (1907-2003), un ingeniero nacido Ucrania, estudioso de la industria argentina y de apreciable participación en las
Marcelo Rougier, Tomás Nasra
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“THE NORMAL EXCEPTION”: EDOARDO GRENDI, MICROANALYSIS, AND GENERALIZATIONS*

History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 237-256, June 2026.
ABSTRACT “The normal exception” has long been a slogan of microhistory. This oxymoronic phrase is the iconic rendering of an incidental sentence that appeared in a 1977 article by Edoardo Grendi. His article, titled “Micro‐analisi e storia sociale” (Microanalysis and Social History), is cited more often than it is read.
FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO
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Análisis cualitativo comparativo difuso para determinar influencias entre variables socio-económicas y el rendimiento académico de los universitarios || Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to Determine Effects from Socio-Economical Factors and University Students Performance

Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y la Empresa, 2017
El objetivo de este artículo es explicar el rendimiento académico con la ayuda de una técnica novedosa: el análisis cualitativo comparativo difuso. Para hacerlo posible, se consideran diferentes variables que afectan a la educación superior, así como el ...
Fedriani Martel, Eugenio M., Inmaculada Romano Paguillo   +1 more
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Exiled From Their Own Lands: Indigenist Policies, Oil, and Colonial Plunder in 20th Century Venezuela

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the historical displacement of Indigenous peoples in Venezuela, focusing on the links between indigenist policies and the exploitation of natural resources, particularly oil, throughout the 20th century. Using a combined historical and ethnographic approach, it demonstrates how the formation of the Venezuelan nation‐state
Gabriel Tardelli
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“Construcción, trayectoria y límites del régimen liberal de bienestar en Costa Rica. 1870-1940”

Diálogos, 2008
Existe un interesante debate sobre el “proyecto” liberal costarricense del período 1870- 1940, por lo que en esta ponencia se plantea cómo se resolvió la relación entre caridad, bienestar, pobreza, crecimiento económico y políticas públicas en Costa Rica
Ronny Viales Hurtado
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