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‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
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Review of "Media and Culture in the US Jewish Labor Movement: Sweating for Democracy in the Interwar Era" by Brian Dolber (Palgrave Macmillan)

Lateral, 2018
Newman examines the early period of video games in America when arcades and game rooms emerged in suburban malls around the country, televisions became 'entertainment centers,' and computers and game consoles were one in the same.
David Reznik
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Le crime d’espionnage face aux juges, d’une guerre à l’autre (France, 1914-1940)

Criminocorpus, 2023
Between 1914 and 1940, the fight against espionage is undergoing major changes, firstly due to a changing context and the emergence of new threats. While the police, military and political aspects of this fight have been the subject of several works ...
Nicolas Picard
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Virility, fascism and regeneration in post‐Civil War Spain: On interpretations of literary Romanticism under the Franco regime

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes.
Zira Box
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Interwar Blueprints of Europe: Emotions, Experience and Expectation

Politics and Governance, 2018
The notion of European integration has been contested from its very start. In the interwar period many ideas were floating around on how to shape European unity. These interwar Blueprints for Europe have to be understood in the context of conflicting and
Trineke Palm
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Sexing the history of Indian anti‐colonial internationalism: White women, Indian men and the politics of the personal

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract In contrast to the wealth of literature on the gendered and sexual politics of Indian nationalism, studies on the internationalisation of Indian anti‐colonial nationalism are rarely informed by the twin themes of gender and sexuality. As Indian activists traversed international political spaces in the early twentieth century, they frequently ...
Joanna Simonow
wiley   +1 more source

Sven-Olof Olsson (ed.), Managing Crises and De-globalization. Nordic foreign trade and exchange 1919-39 (New York: Routledge, 2014 pbk.)

Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2015
A review of the book: Sven-Olof Olsson (ed.), Managing Crises and De-globalization. Nordic foreign trade and exchange 191-39 (New York: Routledge, 2014 pbk. [original hardcover edition: 2010])
Giorgio Baruchello
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Pastoralists, Camels and State-Making: The Banu Sakhr and Glubb Pasha in Early Twentieth-Century Jordan

Nomadic Peoples
The administrative documents produced in Transjordan during the first decades of the British Mandate concerning the Banu Sakhr Bedouin tribe offer a detailed case study of state-making and the consequent disruption of autonomous nomadic pastoralist ...
Patrick Hegarty Morrish
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EVOLUTIONS OF THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE CHANGES ON THE WORLD POLITICAL MAP IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD [PDF]

Revista Română de Geografie Politică, 2016
The use of sports and politics has had both positive and negative implications over history. Sports competitions or activities have had the intention to bring about change in certain cases. Nationalistic fervor is sometimes linked to victories or losses
Vasile GRAMA, Ştefan MAROTI, Grigore Vasile HERMAN   +2 more
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Tarpukariu Panevėžyje statytų švietimo įstaigų architektūra / The architecture of educational institutions built during the interwar period in the city of Panevėžys

Mokslas: Lietuvos Ateitis, 2018
The buildings of educational institutions built during the interwar period in Panevėžys are a unique part of the city‘s architectural heritage. Over a relatively short period in this city there where built quite a lot buildings for the educational ...
Evaldas Vilkončius
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