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American Building: Materials and Techniques from the First Colonial Settlements to the Present. By <italic>Carl W. Condit</italic>. [The Chicago History of American Civilization.] (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1968. Pp. xiv, 329. $10.00.)

, 1969

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A history of East Asia: from the origins of civilization to the twenty-first century [PDF]

, 2011
Charles Holcombe
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The history of the term "civilization" in the context of historical semantics and semiotics [PDF]

, 2012
Anastasia S. Raikova
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The Recent Civil Disobedience Fidelity to Law

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Generations of citizens have successfully used civil disobedience to enact positive lasting change in their societies. In some places, such as the UK and elsewhere, it is considered a ‘tradition’. But recent instances of civil disobedience—especially in relation to UK climate campaigners—have brought forward numerous challenges, some of which ...
Brian Christopher Jones
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Acknowledging Ralph Pred [PDF]

At the time of his death in May of 2012, Ralph Pred was working on a critical social theory inspired by process philosophy. In the book manuscript he left unfinished, Syntax and Solidarity, he develops a “radically empirical” sociology that enables him ...
Anderson, Weekes
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Civilizational Aspects of Japanese History: Continuities and Discontinuities [PDF]

, 2021
Jóhann P. Árnason
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Where do nomads bury their dead? Necro‐ostracism, statelessness, and the pastoral/ peripatetic divide in Afghanistan

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article proposes that stigmas connected to social categories of exclusion prevalent during life extend into dealings with the dead, here referred to as ‘necro‐ostracism’, in the context of death and burial of Muslim nomadic populations in urban Afghanistan. Based on qualitative fieldwork carried out in Kabul, Herat, and Mazar‐e Sharif, it explores
Annika Schmeding
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The Development and Progress of Health Information Technology in Iran. [PDF]

Health Sci Rep
Balaghafari A, Siamian H.
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Agropastoral possibilism and the trajectorial affordances of Danish inland heaths: a study of deep‐time entrapment Possibilisme agropastoral et affordances des trajectoires dans les landes de l'arrière‐pays danois : une étude des entraves dans le passé lointain

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
History does not unfold along a single trajectory, and yet the socioecological configuration of landscapes may narrow the directions history can take. This article develops a framework for assessing the directionality of history in a (pre)historic heath landscape in Denmark.
Zachary Caple, Mette Løvschal
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Was Einhard a widower?

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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