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Władysław Szafer as a palaeobotanist

Studia Historiae Scientiarum, 2021
Władysław Szafer (1886–1970) was one of the notable Polish botanists of the first half of the 20th c., palaeobotany being one of his main fields of interest, cultivated for over 60 years.
Piotr Köhler
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The Reinforcement of Political Myth? Hans Blumenberg, Hannah Arendt and the History of the Twentieth Century

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2019
It seems that the first two decades of the twenty first century demonstrate political mythology to be still functioning in the political life of the West.
Paulina Sosnowska
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The Overfishing Problem: Natural and Social Categories in Early Twentieth-Century Fisheries Science

Journal of the History of Biology, 2021
This article looks at how fisheries biologists of the early twentieth century conceptualized and measured overfishing and attempted to make it a scientific object.
Gregory Ferguson-Cradler
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From the ‘History of Western Philosophy’ to entangled histories of philosophy: the Contribution of Ben Kies

British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2023
The idea of ‘Western Philosophy’ is the product of a legitimation project for European colonialism, through to post-second world war Pan-European identity formation and white supremacist projects.
Josh Platzky Miller
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Teaching Irish History to Irish-Argentine children at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Studi Irlandesi, 2021
The purpose of this work is to research on the teaching of Irish history to Irish children in Argentina between 1880 and 1922. It examines two Irish history textbooks - Stories from Irish History: Told for Children by Mrs.
Viviana P. Keegan
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The Twentieth-Century Desire for Morphology

Journal of the History of Biology, 2020
In the history of biology, the study of form inhabits an ambivalent place. Some morphological topics have been explored in depth, whereas the majority of research traditions and practices that featured twentieth-century evolutionary morphology have only ...
Marco Tamborini
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The Institutional Destruction of the Greek Catholic Church in the Postwar Period: Manifestation of Soviet Colonialism

Київські історичні студії
The article examines the institutional destruction of the Greek-Catholic Church in Ukraine during the postwar period as a characteristic manifestation of Soviet colonialism.
Petro Bondarchuk
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Blurring boundaries: Towards a Medical History of the Twentieth Century

BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2017
This special issue intends to show the potential of medical history to contribute to major historical debates, e.g. on the rise of the welfare state.
Frank Huisman, Joris Vandendriessche, Kaat Wils   +2 more
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Minors’ Daily Routine in 1944–1950 (based on materials of the Boryspil District Archive)

Київські історичні студії
The goal of the research is to reconstruct the everyday life of minors in the Boryspil district of Kyiv region during 1944–1950, based on an analysis of documents from the Archives department of Boryspil State district administration.
Maryna Baryshpolets (Loboda), Myroslava Smolnitska   +1 more
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History reconstruction: Third century parallels to 20th century South African Church 'History Origen Adamantinus

Verbum et Ecclesia, 1997
History reconstruction: Third century parallels to 20th century South African Church History - Origen Adamantinus. In this paper a possible third century contribution to Church History reconstruction is considered.
P.J. Maritz
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