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The Ladies’ Alpine Club, Embattled Collaboration and International Communities of Knowledge, 1907–39

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article considers the development of the Ladies’ Alpine Club from its inception until the Second World War through its Yearbooks, articles and lectures, as part of a community of knowledge which was devoted to international mountaineering.
James Watts
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Cinema and/as infrastructure in interwar avant-gardes and empire aviation documentaries

, 2023
This article analyses cinematic exposition of aeriality in empire documentaries and avant-garde cinema from the interwar period to interrogate cinema as infrastructure, its weaponisation and deployment in the imperial project, and its convergence with ...
Anu Thapa
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Paradigm Shift in the Making? Geopolitical Challenges and Institutional Changes in the International Monetary System: From Neoliberalism to a Pluralist Multipolar Financial Order

Global Policy, EarlyView.
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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Between Sustainable Development, Financialisation and Sovereign Debt Crisis: The Case of Blue Finance as Yet Another Iteration of the Washington Consensus

Global Policy, EarlyView.
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

Global Policy, EarlyView.
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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Branding, Marketing and Product Innovation: The attempts of British Banks to Reach Consumers in the Interwar Period [PDF]

This paper considers the relationships of the ‘Big Five’ British clearing banks with their personal customers in the interwar period. British banks formed a cartel and dominated the market for domestic financial services from the early twentieth century ...
Lucy Newton
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Health impacts of public pawnshops in Industrialising Tokyo

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines whether expanded credit access through low‐interest small loans relaxed liquidity constraints among poor households and improved early‐life health in industrialising Tokyo. Using ward‐level panel data for 1927–1935, this study shows that public pawnshop lending was associated with 4% and 5% reductions in infant and foetal ...
Tatsuki Inoue
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Modernity Through the Telegraph Pole: Visions of Railways in Interwar England

This presentation will discuss how railway companies and amateur photographers travelling by train in interwar England interpreted the presence in the landscape of the telegraph network, which had paralleled the railways since the 1840s. Interwar England
Chambers, T.
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Resisting relegation to the rank and file: Explaining the effects of status seeking on military force structure

European Journal of International Security
States can acquire international status through battlefield performance, but they can also pursue it through the fielding of ostentatious prestige platforms that look impressive but, unless properly supported, possess limited battlefield utility.
Samuel Martin Seitz
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The Royal Commission Into the Monetary and Banking Systems in Australia, 1935–1937

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian governments of the 1930s were less inclined to establish royal commissions than their predecessors in the 1920s, and few of the 1930s inquiries were of great moment. The exception was the royal commission appointed by the Lyons Government to inquire into the monetary and banking systems in Australia in 1935.
David Lee
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