Winston Churchill and South Africa: An Enduring, yet Debatable Connection, 1899–1955
Abstract The article traces Churchill's engagement with South Africa, from his time as a newspaper correspondent during the Anglo‐Boer War to his services in both Liberal and Conservative cabinets as well as, ultimately, his premiership. The discussion highlights three phases in this relationship.
LUVUYO WOTSHELA
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‘Three Circles’: Winston Churchill's Approach to International Relations
ABSTRACT This article introduces a special issue that explores Winston Churchill's relationship with different countries. As its starting point, this piece takes Churchill's world view that Britain derived her status from its position at the focal point of three intersecting circles: Europe, the British Empire and the wider English‐speaking world ...
ALLEN PACKWOOD +2 more
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Abstract Revised GDP data suggest that Japan was more than one‐third richer in 1874 than suggested by Maddison, and that Meiji period growth built on earlier development. Despite trend GDP per capita growth during the Tokugawa Shogunate, the catching‐up process only started after 1890 with respect to Britain, and after World War I with respect to the ...
Stephen Broadberry +2 more
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Fugitive or orphan? The Shanghai yen in the early days of the Sino‐Japanese war, 1938–1939
Abstract We explore a phenomenon observed during the Second Sino‐Japanese War in which the value of the yen in Shanghai fell below the official rate. Shanghai provided a parallel market in which yen could be traded indirectly against British pounds through the intermediation of the Chinese yuan.
Shinji Takagi
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Enduring and the horizon of repair: French Caribbean post‐stroke rehabilitation amid health inequity
Abstract Drawing on ethnographic research with patients and therapists in post‐stroke rehabilitation, this article explores how Guadeloupeans strive to exist on their own terms amid postcolonial health inequities, forms of marginalization and institutional disrepair.
Raphaëlle Melissa Rabanes
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Syphilis, blanchiment and French colonial medicine in sub-Saharan Africa during the interwar period. [PDF]
Linte G.
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ABSTRACT In September 1976, British Tidings, a publication of the Neo‐Nazi political organisation, BM, announced they were to begin a women's division. Their Headquarter was based in Queensferry, Flintshire, North Wales; on the cusp of the English border.
Katherine Niamh McCoubrey
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Between the Wars, Facing a Scientific Crisis: The Theoretical and Methodological Bottleneck of Interwar Biology : Introduction to Special Issue: New Styles of Thought and Practices: Biology in the Interwar Period. [PDF]
Baedke J, Brandt C.
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Ways of knowing the health of livestock populations: the age of surveys, 1928-65. [PDF]
Woods A.
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The Tendentiousness of Multilingualism in the Central European Interwar Avant-Garde
Meghan Forbes
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