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Selling soldiering: Marketisation, gender complementarity and the promise of military femininity in 1990s Sweden

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the first large‐scale attempts to recruit women as soldiers and officers in 1990s Sweden, focusing on the techniques and promises employed by the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF). Building on a wide range of documents and audiovisual sources, we demonstrate how the SAF utilised various marketing techniques, including ...
Sanna Strand, Fia Cottrell‐Sundevall
wiley   +1 more source

Cliopatria - A geospatial database of world-wide political entities from 3400BCE to 2024CE. [PDF]

Sci Data
Bennett JS, Mutch E, Tollefson A, Chalstrey E, Benam M, Cioni E, Reddish J, Zsambok J, Levine J, Cook CJ, Francois P, Hoyer D, Turchin P.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

An essay on the age and antiquity of the Book of Nabathaean agriculture. To which is added an inaugural lecture on the position of the Shemitic nations in the history of civilization

Ernest Renan
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Victory in Great Patriotic War as Embodiment of Spirit of Soviet Civilization, Unprecedented in World History [PDF]

, 2020
Алекстандр Иванович Субетто
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Democratic Alarmism: Coherent Notion or Contradiction in Terms?

Constellations, EarlyView.
James S. Pearson
wiley   +1 more source

Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
wiley   +1 more source

<b>Staikos, Konstantinos Sp.</b> <i>The History of the Library in Western Civilization, Vol. I: From Minos to Cleopatra: The Greek World from the Minoans’ Archival Libraries to the Universal Library of the Ptolemies.</i> Trans. Timothy Cullen. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll; The Netherlands: Hes & DeGraaf; and Athens: Kotinos. 2004. 351p. $75 (ISBN: 1584561149, USA). LC 03-58221.

, 2005
Plummer Alston Jones
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Césaire and Fanon on Fascism: The “Boomerang Effect” Beyond the Metropole

Constellations, EarlyView.
Dallas Jokic
wiley   +1 more source

The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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The Downfall of Health and Wellness as a Challenge to Humanity: Using Science Fiction to Highlight a Real-Life Crisis. [PDF]

Am J Lifestyle Med
Arena R.
europepmc   +1 more source