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Automobiles in interwar Chișinău [PDF]

Dialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și Literatură
Based on archival sources, the author highlights one of the innovative elements of the era, namely the use of the automobile in the second largest city of Romania as a whole, by population.
Ion Valer XENOFONTOV
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Field Emergence From Diverse Origins: History, Heterogeneity and the Evolution of UK Business Schools

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract This article revisits the view that UK business schools emerged as late and imitative responses to American models. Drawing on archival evidence and a longitudinal dataset of 130 institutions, it shows that the field developed incrementally from diverse origins, including mechanics’ institutes, civic universities, colleges of commerce and ...
Charles Harvey, Mairi Maclean, Tom McGovern   +2 more
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Escape of poetry from the village to the city in interwar Lithuania

Vilnius University Open Series, 2021
The article examines the thematic transformation of interwar Lithuanian poetry from the countryside to the city in 1918-1940. Based on images and lyrical experiences in interwar Lithuanian poetry, it reviews the changing features of the urban poetry of ...
Emilija Kilinskaitė
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The political life of a chair: the Chaise Sandows in interwar France

, 2022
Isenstadt, Sandy“The Political Life of a Chair: The Chaise Sandows in Interwar France” investigates the history of a chair made of steel and rubber to reveal a nuanced relationship between the steel industry and the decorative arts in interwar France ...
Thamm, Kiersten Elaine
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Can Anonymous be the exception? Modernist anonymity and the challenges of literary exceptionalism

Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2021
The article examines the relatively little-known “Anonymous” project launched in Paris by Michael Fraenkel and Walter Lowenfels in 1930 with a view to advancing our understanding of modernist “exceptionalism” as a heterogeneous and malleable cultural ...
Anne Reynes-Delobel
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The Grammar of Race: British Fascism, Racial Nationalism and the Rise of Reform UK

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article brings histories of British fascism and the Black Radical Tradition into conversation with the study of contemporary British politics to offer a race‐critical analysis of Reform UK's rise. Drawing on race‐critical scholarship and Black Radical analyses of fascism, it argues that Reform UK is the latest formation of a distinctively
Kian Aspinall
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Seals of the Khotyn County in the Interwar Period. Historical and Sphragistic Analysis

Codrul Cosminului, 2023
In the article, the authors have made a detailed sphragistic and historical analysis of the matrix seals that were found on the territories of the former Khotyn County (Northern Bessarabia).
Oleksandr Rusnak, Mykola Ilkiv, Vitalii Kalinichenko   +2 more
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A Crisis of Representation: Reflections on John Boswell, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this symposium contribution, we subject John Boswell's How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State to the scrutiny warranted by its contribution. While the book offers a rich categorisation of the myriad forms of mundane agency one can observe in the underbelly of the democratic state, we seek to extend the argument by situating it in some ...
Liam Stanley, Dillon Wamsley, Joseph Ward   +2 more
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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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Accommodating Women: Geographies of Citizenship in the Twentieth‐Century Campaign for Women's Jury Rights

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian women were among the first in the world to receive electoral suffrage, yet it took until 1997 before they had full equality of jury suffrage. This article examines the debate around female jurors by focusing less on discourses of citizenship than on the subterranean spatial arrangements upon which equality depended.
Alecia Simmonds
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