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La vogue du jouet militaire dans la première moitié du xxe siècle
Strenae, 2021 This longitudinal study proposes a methodology for quantifying the popularity of military toys in the first half of the 20th century. From the beginning of the century to the 1920s, the vogue for military toys is as strong as it had been in the previous ...
François Mesqui
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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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JEWISH POLITICAL LIFE IN POLAND ON THE EVE OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Pl.it, 2022 The increasingly critical situation of the Jewish minority and the bankruptcy of the previously dominant political orientations within the Jewish community created a new set of opportunities for a group, the General Jewish Workers’ Alliance, or Bund ...
POLONSKY ANTONY
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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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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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, 2016 The subject of the article is to present an outline of the reception of Julian Tuwim’s works in the last decade. “The Prince of Poets” of the interwar period, well known in the post-war era, is less and less known today.
Węgrzyniak, Anna
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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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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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