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Kuwait and Iraq: historical claims and territorial disputes

International Affairs, 1992
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Sofia to pressure Skopje on historical disputes

Emerald Expert Briefings, 2023
Headline BULGARIA/NORTH MACEDONIA: Sofia pressures Skopje
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Historical Notes on the North Borneo Dispute

The Journal of Asian Studies, 1966
The Philippine claim to the territory of North Borneo, or as it is now called, Sabah, is not of recent origin. Rather it is based on an older claim to the area by the Sultans of Sulu. But the Sulu claim itself is suspect. A look at the background and an analysis of the status of North Borneo is therefore essential to understanding the nature of the ...
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Engagement: [PDF]

, 2019
It is the main intent of this article to correct a misunderstanding of what engagement in historical studies, historiography and historical culture means and what it is about. So, first of all I will shortly describe the widespread notion of engagement as the direct opposite of objectivity in historical studies.
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Disputing the Past: Historical Fiction

2015
‘All novels called “historical novels” before the publication of Waverley [were] misnamed’: T.H. Lister’s claim, published in the influential Edinburgh Review in 1832, concerns not only genre but also implicitly gender.1 As Ina Ferris has argued, with Waverley Walter Scott was seen to restore masculinity to the novel, re-establishing fiction as a male ...
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The Settlement of Land Disputes in Kenya — an Historical Perspective

The Journal of Modern African Studies, 1984
The nature of the boides responsible for administering justice to Africans, and for settling disputes between them, was the subject of continual and sometimes heated debate in colonial Kenya, and indeed elsewhere in British Africa. Nor have the old controversies completely lost their relevance in contemporary independent African states, as recent moves
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Adorno’s position in the positivism dispute: A historical perspective

Journal of Classical Sociology, 2015
The article reconstructs Adorno’s position in the German Positivismusstreit. It tracks the history of his thought from his first postwar lecture course at the University of Frankfurt, in WS 1949/1950, to his introduction for the 1969 volume Der Positivismusstreit in der deutschen Soziologie, later translated into English as The Positivist Dispute in ...
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Octogram versus pentagram in a (not too important) historical dispute

International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 1985
Abstract This short paper deals with a question in the history of Greek mathematics. It appears in this special issue as a token of esteem to Prof. Hayashi, and not, of course, as a contribution to non-linear mechanics (which happened to be, several years ago, the research subject of one of us). Nevertheless, we have been glad to write it.
Nicolas Rouche, Françoise Thomas-Van Dleren   +1 more
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The Bulgarian-Macedonian Dispute and Historical Fiction

Southeastern Europe
Abstract This article raises the question of the Bulgarian-Macedonian dispute by addressing the related notions and interpretive patterns which are captured and manifested in literature during socialism. The object of attention is the legacy of Stt. Cyril and Methodius as one of the most important components of the (non-)shared past.
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Disputing Limeño Historical and Cultural Heritage

PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2007
In the 1970s many persons of andean origin migrated to Lima. Informally and through the mediation of emerging grassroots organizations, the nuevos limeños negotiated with the state for their right to residency in the city and to sanitation and other services. They struggled for recognition as citizens.
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