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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Excavating Early Burawoy: Toward a Third Position in the Race‐Class Debates
ABSTRACT This paper intervenes in contemporary sociological debates over the relationship between race and class by excavating the early writings of Michael Burawoy. Against the prevailing polarization between twin absolutist models in which either racism or capitalism alone possesses causal force, we argue that Burawoy articulates a third position—one
Zachary Levenson, Marcel Paret
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Through their declarations and practice during the interwar period, the members of the Société des Architectes Modernes (Modern Architects Society, SAM) developed a discourse on the similarity between architectural and artistic labour. The SAM architects,
Léna Lefranc-Cervo
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ABSTRACT This paper examined the critical challenges facing the international monetary system, arguing that they have created conditions for a shift from a neoliberal framework to a pluralist multipolar financial order. Using an interdisciplinary approach that blends international law and international relations, the paper provides an analysis of the ...
Jiangyu Wang
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ABSTRACT As far as international economic law (IEL) is concerned, the ‘Washington Consensus’ generally refers to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s development finance policies and tools. It covers their application to their clients and borrowers with the support of Western governments. This acceptation is of particular interest
Leïla Choukroune
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Beyond Manoeuvre Theory for European Defence
ABSTRACT This article contributes to the debate about European defence in the light of the Russo‐Ukraine war and growing doubts about US commitment to Europe. It argues that Europeans need to fundamentally relearn the ability to imagine military strategy from a European viewpoint.
Lukas Mengelkamp, Sam Vincent
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Abstract Why and when do cities vote for the left? The emergence of the urban–rural divide in the United States in the 1930s is inconsistent with canonical theories of cleavages. This paper introduces an explanation: agglomeration effects. The provision of government services is more efficient in urban environments because of nonrivalries, economies of
Theo Serlin
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Głównym celem artykułu jest wskazanie na ogromny potencjał badawczy zbioru biografii pod redakcją Aliny Cały: Ostatnie Pokolenie. Autobiografie polskiej młodzieży żydowskiej okresu międzywojennego ze zbiorów YIVO Institute of Jewish Research w Nowym ...
Joanna Cukras-Stelągowska
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When Afghan women are mentioned in the story of the country’s independence, it is most often in relationship to men, as either objects of King Aman Allah Khan’s Islamic reforms (r.1919-1929) or else as the locus of backlash against these reforms.
Marya Hannun
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From Unremembered to Overremembered. Gender in the Holocaust Museums of Hungary and Slovakia
ABSTRACT In museums, the history of the Holocaust is told through various means of exhibition construction, including architecture/space, texts, artifacts, photographs, and digital technologies. The article focuses on the gendered history of the Holocaust in museums as institutions in Central Europe after the illiberal turn and evaluates how (and if ...
Andrea Petö, Borbála Klacsmann
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