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Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
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A moléstia da cana-de-açúcar na década de 1860: a lavoura The sugar cane blight of the 1860s: science applied to agriculture

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2012
O Imperial Instituto Fluminense de Agricultura incentivou debates com vistas a solucionar a moléstia que assolava as plantações de cana-de-açúcar na Bahia. Participaram das discussões os proprietários rurais, membros do governo e homens das ciências.
Begonha Bediaga
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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A GLIMPSE ON THE RIO DE JANEIRO POPULATION

Travessias, 2007
German travellers that came to Brazil in the XIX century had produced documents about the brazilian population based on the illuminist ideology and, fundamentally, in the Bildung concept.
Rafael Chaves Santos
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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Divisão Naval do Leste: A Marinha Imperial na Costa da África [PDF]

Navigator, 2010
The purpose of this article consists essentially to analyze the Navy Division of the East performance, base that the Imperial Navy established in the Africa coast in resulting from diplomatic agreements accomplished in 1826 and 1827 between the Brazil’s ...
Marcelo Rodrigues de Oliveira
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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Império dos eleitores: dinâmicas familiares e elite política no Século XIX – Paróquia de Piranga, Minas Gerais

Acervo, 2017
O contexto específico de configuração das elites locais na formação do Estado no Brasil imperial apresenta a família à frente da constituição das estruturas políticas do passado brasileiro.
Mateus Rezende Andrade
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The presidency of province and public instruction as a factors for expansion of the public space in the brazilian Empire / A presidência de província e a instrução pública como fatores de ampliação do espaço público no Império brasileiro

Cadernos de História da Educação, 2018
O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar uma discussão acerca da atuação dos presidentes de província, integrantes da elite política nacional que, após a Independência, se tornou um dos grupos responsáveis pela manutenção da unidade e garantia da ...
Vera Lúcia Nogueira, Dalvit Greiner de Paula   +1 more
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