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“THE NORMAL EXCEPTION”: EDOARDO GRENDI, MICROANALYSIS, AND GENERALIZATIONS*

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Cuban Popular Resistance to the 1953 London Sugar Agreement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In 1953, faced with a catastrophic fall in the price of sugar, representatives of the major sugar producing and consuming nations of the world met in London to agree a mechanism for stabilising the international sugar market.
Cushion, Stephen
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A Conversation With David Bellhouse

open access: yesInternational Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary David Richard Bellhouse was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 19 July 1948. He studied actuarial mathematics and statistics at the University of Manitoba (BA, 1970; MA, 1972) and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1975. After being an Assistant Professor for 1 year at his alma mater, he joined the University of Western ...
Christian Genest
wiley   +1 more source

Historia global, historias conectadas: ¿un giro historiográfico?

open access: yes, 2015
La idea según la cual las ciencias sociales habrían experimentado durante los últimos años un verdadero "giro global" parece imponerse al punto tal que casi ni se discute. Pero ¿qué dice exactamente esta expresión en el dominio de la historia? ¿Designa simplemente una expansión del horizonte geográfico de los historiadores y, por lo tanto, una ...
openaire   +1 more source

Rentabilidad de los fondos de pensiones en España. 1991-2007 [PDF]

open access: yes
En los últimos 10 y 17 años, la rentabilidad promedio de los planes de pensiones fue inferior a la inversión en bonos del estado. Sólo 2 de los 170 planes con 17 años de historia tuvieron una rentabilidad superior a la de los bonos del Estado. Ninguno de
Bermejo, Vicente J., Fernandez, Pablo
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Isolated in the highlands, found in the museum: A new species of Characidium (Crenuchidae) from a Bolivian National Park, with a CT scan revealing features

open access: yesJournal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract A new species of Characidium is described from a small, isolated river in the highland areas of Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia. The new taxon can be diagnosed by the presence of a relatively broad and conspicuous dark midlateral stripe extending from the tip of snout to the base of the caudal fin, markedly darker than the vertical ...
Leonardo Oliveira‐Silva   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

City of God and the Duty of Just Memory

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In a recent essay, Richard Miller claims that Augustine presumes a duty to remember justly in his City of God. However, Miller's brief reference to a presumed duty of “just memory” does not fully explain how Augustine conceptualizes this duty or how it relates to his theological concerns.
Zachary J. Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
wiley   +1 more source

Homo Nationalis and the Moralisation of Belonging: Rethinking National Identity in Austria

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how national identity and belonging in contemporary Austria are articulated through moral rather than ideological vocabularies. Analysing presidential, party, media and social media discourse surrounding the 2025 National Day, it conceptualises the homo nationalis as the moral citizen who embodies the nation's virtues of ...
Markus Rheindorf
wiley   +1 more source

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