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Between the Wars, Facing a Scientific Crisis: The Theoretical and Methodological Bottleneck of Interwar Biology : Introduction to Special Issue: New Styles of Thought and Practices: Biology in the Interwar Period. [PDF]

J Hist Biol, 2022
Baedke J, Brandt C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Chasing the perfida Albione: Anglo‐Italian productivity gap in the late 1930s

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper presents new estimates of Anglo‐Italian labour productivity levels in manufacturing in the late 1930s, derived using the standard single‐deflation approach. The findings confirm a substantial productivity gap between Italy and the United Kingdom at the aggregate level, alongside pronounced intersectoral heterogeneity.
Tancredi Salamone
wiley   +1 more source

Sectoral Shifts and Unemployment in Interwar Britain [PDF]

This paper measures the importance of sectoral shifts, as against aggregate shocks and changes in search intensity, in explaining the persistent high unemployment that prevailed in interwar Britain.
S. Lael Brainard
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Speculation in the United Kingdom, 1785‒2019

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Speculation has long been thought to have significant economic effects, but it is difficult to measure, making it challenging to examine these effects empirically. In this paper we measure speculation in the United Kingdom since 1785 by using business and financial reporting in The Times newspaper.
William Quinn, John D. Turner, Clive B. Walker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The structure of Polish education, based on Jedrzejewicz’s reforms: its indisputable benefits and critical voices

The Person and the Challenges
In autumn 1931, work on an educational reform had commenced, which ended in March of the following year with the passing of the Act on the Education System of 11 March 1932.
Zofia Frączek
doaj   +1 more source

Orol in Slovakia in the Interwar Period. Strained Relations with Sokol Organization on the Example of Women´s Physical Education / Orol na Slovensku v medzivojnovom období. Napäté vzťahy s organizáciou Sokol na príklade telovýchovných aktivít žien [PDF]

Studia Historica Nitriensia
Submitted text focuses on the activities of the organization Orol in Slovakia, whose members were actively involved in social and political activities in the Czechoslovak Republic.
MLYNEKOVÁ, Barbora
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Coreen McGuire 2020: Measuring difference, numbering normal. Setting the standards for disability in the interwar period und Jaipreet Virdi 2020: Hearing Happiness. Deafness Cures in History. [PDF]

NTM, 2023
Stock R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Thermidor: The Revolution Betrayed in Trotsky, Orwell and Serge

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Anna Vaninskaya
wiley   +1 more source

Romano Guardini and Cornelio Fabro on Kierkegaard's Christian Humanism

The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how Søren Kierkegaard's theological anthropology furnished resources for reconstructing Christian humanism among mid‐twentieth‐century Catholic thinkers. Focusing on Romano Guardini (1885‐1968) in Germany and Cornelio Fabro (1911‐1995) in Italy, I demonstrate how each thinker creatively appropriated Kierkegaard's ...
Joshua Furnal
wiley   +1 more source

Activities of the Lithuanian Left-wing Intelligentsia on the Eve of the Occupation of Lithuania and during its First Days

Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2006
This study reviews the activities of the Lithuanian left-wing intelligentsia on the eve of the occupation of Lithuania, and during the days after the invasion of 15 June 1940, that is, following the collapse of the authoritarian regime of Antanas ...
Mindaugas Tamošaitis
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