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“Imperialismo do Espírito”. Ficções da totalidade e do eu no modernismo austríaco

Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2008
In studies on Austria, the debate persists on the applicability of post-colonial theory to the Habsburg monarchy. This text aims to contribute to the debate, analysing discursive structures common to the medieval-rooted continental empires and to modern ...
Catarina Martins
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“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
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Imperialism and self determination: revisiting the nexus in Lenin

, 2013
This essay examines the nexus between self-determination, imperialism and the importance of Marxist theory in Lenin's writings. It argues that the three strands were inseparably connected in Lenin's thinking.
D'Souza, R.
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India: Makings of little cultural/media imperialism?

, 2001
An efflorescence of the media in India during the 1990s, mainly in television, has revolutionized the South Asian mediascape. After the novelty of foreign channels wore off in the early 1990s, Indian channels consolidated their position, recorded the ...
Sonwalkar, Prasun
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
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New imperialism or new capitalism? [PDF]

Over the past century, the institution of capital and the process of its accumulation have been fundamentally transformed. By contrast, the theories that explain this institution and process have remained largely unchanged.
Nitzan, Jonathan, Bichler, Shimshon
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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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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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Folklore Studies, Fieldwork and the Making of a Domestic Anthropology in Fin‐de‐Siècle Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article follows the ‘communities of knowledge‐making’ that formed around folklore collection at the end of the nineteenth century. Often regarded as eccentric or marginal figures in the history of human science, these collectors in fact engaged in lively and sophisticated discussions about the methodologies needed to study the mental ...
HARRY PARKER
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A Tribunal Only in Name: Anarchic Sensibilities at the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women, 1976

History, EarlyView.
Abstract In March 1976, around 2000 women from forty countries arrived at the Palais des Congrès in Brussels to participate in the first International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women. Explicitly positioning themselves against the United Nations‐led ‘International Year of the Woman’, the organizers and participants of the tribunal proclaimed a global ...
NIVEDITA JOON
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