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Traces of 'Woke' in 20th-Century U.S. History
On Education. Journal for Research and Debate, 2023 In recent years, attacks on wokeness have undermined the scope and methods of history education in U.S. American schools and colleges. Current critiques by conservatives that wokeness curtails American freedom ignores the significance of wokeness in the struggle for Black freedom.
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Phrenology and the Rwandan Genocide
Arquivos de Neuro-PsiquiatriaBelgian colonizers used phrenology to create an irreducible division between the two major groups living for centuries in Rwanda-Urundi. This formed the basis for the implementation of systematic efforts to subdue the large Hutu population.
Charles André
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Biodiesel: History of an innovation to keep the world moving
Substantia, 2019 The history of biodiesel dates back to mid-19th century when transesterification of vegetable oils was discovered. It took another half century for the world to realize its potential as fuel.
Narayanaganesh Balasubramanian +1 more
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La fascistizzazione dei migranti italiani in Francia e Brasile: una comparazione
Storicamente, 2018 The aim of this paper is to compare the process of fascist penetration in the Italian immigrant communities of Brazil and France. Through the fasci italiani all’estero and the Organizzazione Nazionale Dopolavoro’s sections, the fascistization
Pietro Pinna
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History, Mythology, and 20th Century Latin American Fiction
Theory in Action, 2021 The history of the Americas from the colonial period is marked by a large influx of persons from Europe and Africa. Fiction in 20th Century Latin America is marked by ties to the Chronicles and the history of human melding in the Americas, with a natural flow of social and religious syncretism that shapes the unique literary aesthetics of its ...
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BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2017 In the period 1959-1965 the Netherlands witnessed a major controversy between agricultural and public health camps on livestock-associated Salmonella, and whether the state or the agricultural sector itself was responsible for its control.
Floor Haalboom
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Strategy in the 20th Century: Explanations from History
Revista Ibero-Americana de Estratégia, 2013 In this essay, we argue that an historical perspective helps to understand some of the strategic choices made by organizations. More specifically, the purpose here is to describe the great influence of historical events (related to economy, politics, technological advancement etc.) on the creation, acceptance, spreading and / or establishment of the ...
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DiálogosThe occurrence of epidemics accompanied man throughout history. There were several causes that contributed to the various outbreaks, namely, the lack of cleaning and hygiene care of the body, homes and public spaces, among others.
Sílvia Pinto, Alexandra Esteves
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Pinning Down a Force in 20th-Century History
, 1990 We have a choice: to remember William S. Paley as the television tycoon lionized by the media throughout his life, or to remember him as portrayed in Sally Bedell Smith's new biography, "In All His Glory." The two portraits are not the same, and it remains to be seen which has the greater power - the biographer or the press.
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