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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A scientist’s walk through Hanoi Old Quarter Houses [PDF]
Hanoi – the capital city of Vietnam and the land of thousand years of civilization – invokes among both locals and tourists the image of the ‘Sword Lake’ with its ancient ‘Turtle Tower’ and the charming Old Quarter with its preserved old houses lying ...
Quynh, Bui Dieu
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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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The educational effects of 19th century disentailment of catholic church land in Colombia. [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of land concentration prompted by the distribution of disentailed Church land during the second half of the 19th century on the accumulation of human capital, in early 20th century Colombia1.
Antonella Fazio Vargas +1 more
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A freshman seminar: energy -- the history of a concept [PDF]
, 2018 This new freshman honors seminar, to be first offered in Spring 2019, uses the development of the concept of energy from the 17th to the 20th century to combine the teaching of both scientific inquiry and intellectual history.
Hughes, W.
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A century of macroeconomic and monetary thought at the National Bank of Belgium [PDF]
"A century of macroeconomic and monetary thought at the National Bank of Belgium" traces the history of economic research at the National Bank of Belgium, from the early decades of the 20th century to its present functioning in the Eurosystem.
Ivo Maes
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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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Historical and Pedagogical Chronology of the Development of Ethno-confessional Musical Education of Mennonites in the South of Ukraine (End of the 18th - Early XX Centuries) [PDF]
, 2018 Historical and chronological principles that the development of musical education of Mennonites in the South of Ukraine (from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century) is based on were explained.
Brezhnieva, S. (Svetlana)
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Notas para la historia financiera y empresarial de Andalucía: Recursos y Problemas para un Censo Fiscal de Las Sociedades Andaluzas a principios del siglo XX. [PDF]
The systematic study of the statistics concerning the Corporations Profit Tax from the first decades of the 20th century allows the analysis of complex questions about Andalusian and Spanish business history in the critical stage of the emergence of the ...
Gregorio Núñez, Luís González Ruiz
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