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The article addresses an important but less studied aspect of the activities of Claude de Seyssel (1450-1520), a humanist, his work as a translator of classical texts.
Kuleshova Elena Vladimirovna
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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
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Italiani in Argentina. Gli ultimi duecento anni
The 200 year anniversary of the foundation of Argentina and the 150th anniversary of Italian unification marks the occasion for an historical analysis of the presence of Italians in Argentina. The article examines the topic from the 1930s until post WW2,
Torcuato Di Tella
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Armed conflict and border society: The East and Middle Marches, 1536-60 [PDF]
The final phase of the Anglo-Scots Wars (1542-1560) significantly affected Northumberland. The Tudor government attempted to use the militarised society of Northumberland as a means of subduing Scotland. However, the ensuing conflict took a heavy toll on
Becker, Jeffrey Marcus
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Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
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REPAIR AND RECONSTRUCTION FOR URBAN COMMONING: The Making of the Liberated Spaces in Naples
Abstract Commoning requires repair. Where capitalist logics of accumulation, enclosure and exclusion produce abandoned space through the city, urban commoners remake that space to serve the needs of inhabitants. Without hiding the paradoxes and risks of repair, based on years‐long ethnography in the Liberated Spaces in Naples, Italy, we demonstrate how
Martina Locorotondo, Adam Fishwick
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Il posto del corpo. Anton Giulio Bragaglia teorico di danza tra le due guerre
Director, set designer, historian, theatrical critic and theorist, Anton Giulio Bragaglia has been one of the few italian intellectuals interested in dance during first half of the twentieth century.
Giulia Taddeo
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Stock market reactions to wars and political risks: A cliometric perspective for a falling empire [PDF]
In this paper, based on cliometric methodology we use new historical data on the most popular stocks traded at the İstanbul bourse between 1910 and 1914, to examine the effect of wars on stock market prices.
Yaldız Hanedar, Elmas +1 more
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Looking at Us Through Their Eyes. The Analytical Process from Ethnographic Perspectives1
Abstract This article looks at the analytical situation through the Others’ eyes—through examples from contemporary ethnographies of foreign cultures. It discusses the following issues: a) The analogy between the ontological worlds of the dead, ghosts, animals and dreams in “primitive populations” and the analytical psychological descriptions of the ...
Stefano Carta
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