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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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STRUCTURE AND FEATURES OF THE SOCIAL MEMORY OF THE RUSSIAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE: VALUE AND MEANING AND FUNCTIONAL ASPECT

Russian Journal of Education and Psychology, 2022
Relevance. Leading domestic scientists who dealt with the problem of studying the intelligentsia note in their works that intellectuals are not born and it is not encoded in the genes.
Petr Y. Naumov
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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

“It’s Not a Matter of Choice”: Aleksander Smolar Interviewed by Konrad Matyjaszek

Studia Litteraria et Historica, 2018
Konrad Matyjaszek’s interview with Aleksander Smolar focuses on the contemporary Polish intelligentsia, identified as a social group and a social milieu, and on this group’s self-image produced in relation to antisemitism, understood here both as a set ...
Konrad Matyjaszek
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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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The Total Astonishment of the Polish Intelligentsia

Studia Litteraria et Historica, 2018
Editorial.
Anna Zawadzka, Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, Konrad Matyjaszek   +2 more
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‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
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Navigating Technoscientific Internationalism: Hungarian Engineers, International Associations and the Global Cold War (1950s–80s)

History, EarlyView.
Abstract From the mid‐1950s onward, Hungarian engineers became deeply involved in the rapidly expanding technoscientific internationalism of the period, notably through their participation in several international scholarly associations devoted to both scientific and technical disciplines.
Jules Siran
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Class Ruptures and Openings: The Role of Social and Family History in Narratives on Class Mobility and Reproduction

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, sociological interest in the study of social class—particularly its subjective dimensions—has intensified. This article contributes to this growing body of literature by focusing on Poland as a case within the Central and Eastern European region.
Justyna Kajta, Stefan Bieńkowski
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Influence of the cultural context on the development of science in Russia: socialpsychological perspective

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2012
The article offers a socialpsychological perspective on the process of shaping national science culture, which determines the peculiarities of scientific research in different countries.
V. I. Konnov
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