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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract In contrast to the wealth of literature on the gendered and sexual politics of Indian nationalism, studies on the internationalisation of Indian anti‐colonial nationalism are rarely informed by the twin themes of gender and sexuality. As Indian activists traversed international political spaces in the early twentieth century, they frequently ...
Joanna Simonow
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the marmalade machine, a mechanical device designed to slice orange peel. These niche objects were manufactured between roughly 1870 and 1938 in Britain. As a so‐called ‘labour‐saving’ gadget, the marmalade machine sliced orange peel quickly and effectively, removing the tedious process of slicing orange peel by hand ...
Katie Carpenter
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SLOVENIAN IMMIGRATION IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD
Dve Domovini, 2003 Among the immigration countries of the world is Argentina, which took in millions of European migrants. In the late 19th Century and thereafter this country offered economic promise, thanks to fertile lands appropriate for growing cereal crops and ...
Catalina Banko, Pablo Mouzakis
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Romania during the Interwar Period: an Economic Approach [PDF]
Romanian Economic Journal, 2018 In the following paper I want to succinctly present the main characteristics of the Kingdom of Romania during the period between 1918 and 1940, representing the two decades after the end of the First World War (World War I, The Great War) also known as ...
Camil-George Stoenescu
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Commodity market disintegration in the interwar period [PDF]
European Review of Economic History, 2012 Work on this paper commenced while O'Rourke was a Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellow, and he thanks the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences for their generous financial support. Jacks gratefully acknowledges the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for research support. The views expressed herein
William Hynes +2 more
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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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Romanian Economy in the Interwar Period
EIRP Proceedings, 2016 Resumption of economic progress Will Be slow, but unevenly but after overcoming the food crisis of 1920-1921, Romania will be able to deliver on economic recovery by attracting capital investment, Increase the number of enterprises and workers and ...
Gheorghe Stefan
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Monetary Sovereignty, Exchange Rates, and Capital Controls: The Trilemma in the Interwar period [PDF]
The interwar period was marked by the end of the classical gold standard regime and new levels of macroeconomic disorder in the world economy. The interwar disorder often is linked to policies inconsistent with the constraint of the open-economy trilemma
Alan M. Taylor +2 more
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Intelectuali şi „capcane politice” în România interbelică
Sociologie Românească, 2012 In this paper I aim to discuss the role played by public intellectuals in interwar Romania starting from a series of recent analyses relative to this period, analyses which state that these intellectuals were „ensnared” by the fascination of ...
Daniel Şandru
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