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UK World War I and interwar data for business cycle and growth analysis [PDF]

This article contributes new time series for studying the UK economy during World War I and the interwar period. The time series are per capita hours worked and average capital income, labor income, and consumption tax rates. Uninterrupted time series of
James M. Nason, Shaun P. Vahey
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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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Persistent Alarms Confronting New Priorities: Protestants in Africa in Italian and French Catholic Magazines (1945–1962)

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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Capital views: interwar London in the photographs of Aerofilms Ltd

, 2010
A new imagery of London emerged through the widespread circulation of aerial photographs that followed World War I. This article focuses on the work of the air-survey company Aerofilms Ltd, which established itself as the main provider of aerial imagery ...
Deriu, D., Davide Deriu
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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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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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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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