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Einen neuen Staat bauen. Die Entwicklung des polnischen Schienennetzes in der Zwischenkriegszeit

Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
This article deals with the development of the Polish railway network in the interwar period. The then Polish state, the Second Polish Republic, had to face two challenges in particular: Firstly, the railway network, built before World War I, had been ...
Elias Oppenrieder
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‘Mere Amateurs’? Elementary Teachers and the Making of Scientific Authority in the British Child Study Movement

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
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The Language of Gendered Violence and Sexual Aggression in the Spanish Civil War: Conceptualizations and Reassessments

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the conceptual vocabulary through which violence against women during the Spanish Civil War has been interpreted, with particular attention to the longstanding predominance of the category ‘sexed violence’ (violencia sexuada).
SABINA MOMPÓ TORIBIO
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The bad governance in the interwar period

Sfera Politicii, 2019
Review of Bogdan Bucur, Sociologia proastei guvernări în România interbelică.
Florin Grecu
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
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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Culture and Cooperation during the Interwar Period

EIRP Proceedings, 2015
Starting from the most important Publications of the International Institute for Intellectual Cooperation (1925-1946) we will explore the ideas concerning culture and personalities involved in the intellectual cooperation during the Interwar Period ...
Anişoara Popa
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UK defence news, 1920-1938 : estimates based on contemporary sources [PDF]

, 2012
This paper employs the concept of ‘defence news’ proposed by Ramey (2009) to develop a time series of shocks to UK defence spending in the interwar period at a quarterly frequency.
Crafts, N. F. R.
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Excavating Early Burawoy: Toward a Third Position in the Race‐Class Debates

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
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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Local financial institutions in Gjilane in interwar period [PDF]

Baština, 2013
Local financial institutions in the Gnjilane region were created in the Kingdom of Serbians, Croatians and Slovenians. During the twenties of the twentieth century the Gnjilane Commercial Bank, the Bank 'Novo Brdo', and Credit Bank 'Kosovo' A. D.
Becić Ivan M.
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The Transnational Constitution of Europe’s Social Market Economies: A Question of Constitutional Imbalances? [PDF]

, 2019
Throughout its history the European integration process has not undermined but rather strengthened the autonomy of Member States vis-à-vis wider societal interests in relation to political economy, labour markets and social provisions.
Kjaer, Poul F.
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