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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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Forever Displaced?: Identity, Migration, and the Concept of Home in the Works of Manzu Islam, Neamat Imam, and Tahmima Anam

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2019
This paper explores the meaning of identity and nation, home and belonging, through the study of internal and international migration in three novels.
Tahmina Mariyam
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Diasporic consciousness in contemporary Colombia [PDF]

, 2001
published or submitted for publicationis peer ...
Palencia-Roth, Michael
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Towards the West. Conflict and Settlement in the Maniot Diaspora (17th‑18th Centuries)

Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire
This article analyses the interaction between Mediterranean mobility and the internal colonisation policies promoted by European countries in the modern age through the events of the Greek‑Maniot migration flow that unfolded from the 1660s to the 1760s ...
Giampaolo Salice
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Institutionalising diasporic Islam: multiculturalism, secularism and the integration of Muslim immigrants in Britain

Indonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies, 2013
The integration of Muslim immigrants in Western countries especially Britain has attracted wider attention both from academia, policymakers and public in gen- eral. Their different religion (i.e.
Amika Wardana
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Barefoot Wandering: Hanshan’s Spiritual Hybridity and the Hehe Pluralism

Religions
This paper explores the concept of diasporic hybridity through Hanshan’s (Cold Mountain) life and poetry during the Tang dynasty (618–907). Departing from traditional diaspora models of forced migration, Hanshan’s voluntary exile from the Confucian ...
Yanfei Qu, John Zhao
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Law’s empire : English legal cultures at home and abroad [Review Article] [PDF]

, 2005
The past few decades have witnessed a welcome expansion in historians’ understanding of English legal cultures, a development that has extended the reach of legal history far beyond the boundaries circumscribed by the Inns of Court, the central tribunals
Finn, Margot C.
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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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