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Análisis de una personalidad femenina de la dinastía Flavia: Julia Flavia Titi
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 2021 Se presenta un estudio dedicado a Iulia Flavia, hija de Tito Flavio, a través la documentación histórica (fuentes literarias, epigráficas, numismáticas e iconográficas). Se analiza la evolución de su personalidad e imagen en las tres etapas fundamentales
Pilar Fernández Uriel
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“For God, for Tsar and for the Nation: Authenticity in the Russian Imperial Movement’s Propaganda”
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2021 This paper will examine how extremist organizations manage to present themselves as credible actors in the eyes of potential supporters on social media. This paper will address this question by exploring the role of authenticity in strategic narratives, which is believed to help these groups achieve this purpose.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Império e Propaganda: as viagens presidenciais às colónias ultramarinas durante o Estado Novo
Revista Brasileira de História da Mídia, 2016 Esta comunicação pretende traçar uma genealogia da viagem oficial do Estado Novo português (1933-1974) às províncias ultramarinas, correlacionando-as com as diretivas político-propagandísticas daí subjacentes.
Maria João Castro
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Virtual Warfare: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Propaganda in the Russo-Ukrainian War
East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 2017 This paper explores the intersection of sexual and political discourses as a particular aspect of the body politics that Russia has employed, among other strategies, in its massive propaganda offensive during the hybrid warfare against Ukraine.While ...
Maryna Romanets
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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Domesticating the Frontier: Gender, Empire and Adventure Landscapes in British Cinema, 1945-59
, 2003 Before 1945, films of the empire genre, produced in Hollywood as well as Britain, celebrated the masculinity of the British adventure hero, and promoted an imperial world view.
Webster, Wendy
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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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