A gentrification stage‐model for London? Through the ‘looking Glass’ of Kensington
Short Abstract Despite the term ‘gentrification’ being coined in London by the British sociologist Ruth Glass, there has not been an attempt to develop a stage model of gentrification for London, nor any up‐to‐date discussion of the different waves of gentrification there in one academic paper or book.
Loretta Lees, Sharda Rozena
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The Generation of Memory: Reflections on the “Memory Boom” in Contemporary Historical Studies [PDF]
Jay Winter delivered the following in the form of a lecture at the Canadian War Museum on 31 October 2000. A distinguished academic, Winter has been writing about the cultural history of the First World War for nearly three decades.
Winter, Jay
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Framing European Heritage and Identity: Cultural Policy Instruments of the European Union
Abstract This submission examines the impact of the European Union (EU) policy efforts to construct a European Heritage and a sense of belonging within the wider European population on Heritage policy. The article explores how the EU has selected and wielded instruments that frame particular values that (1) respond to specific policy problems and ...
Anthony R. Zito, Susannah Eckersley
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Writing war, writing memory: the representation of the recent past and the construction of cultural memory in contemporary Bosnian prose [PDF]
Focusing on the work of Miljenko Jergović, Nenad Veličković, Alma Lazarevska, and Saša Stanišić, this paper examines how the representation of the recent past intertwines with the construction of collective memory in contemporary Bosnian prose.
Vervaet, Stijn
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100 years of GAMM: Motivation, history and achievements
Abstract The International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, GAMM) was founded in 1923 with the goal to strengthen the field of scientific engineering by the foundation of an Engineering Association with strong scientific contacts to Applied Mathematics.
Wolfgang Ehlers
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Reflections on the Holocaust: The Holocaust Art of Aba Bayefsky [PDF]
In July 1997 it was announced that work had begun on the design and construction of a new 16,000 square foot addition to the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, a section of which will be devoted to a memorial Holocaust gallery.
Brandon, Laura
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COSMOPOLITAN PHILOLOGY AND SACRED GRAMMAR
ABSTRACT Persian developed a formal grammatical tradition comparatively late in its thousand‐year history as a lingua franca. This article takes up the emergence of Persian grammar within the larger trajectory of Persian philology. It explores questions about why and when such a tradition developed in Persian by closely analyzing the earliest formal ...
ALEXANDER JABBARI
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How founders' values enable business model innovation in new ventures: The case of Magnum Photos
Abstract Research Summary This study explores why and how founders' values lead them to design novel business models. To address these questions, we conducted a historical case study of Magnum Photos, a photo agency whose novel business model revolutionized magazine photography in the mid‐20th century.
Anastasia Sergeeva, Christoph Zott
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United Kingdom Country Report 2010: Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research [PDF]
The United Kingdom first submitted its Holocaust Education Country Report to the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF) in March 2006.
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Abstract The article explores the harrowing use of sexual violence as a tool in the ethnic cleansing of Germans in post‐World War II Czechoslovakia. By examining the grim realities of internment camps, prisons, and border regions, it reveals a disturbing pattern of abuse aimed primarily at German women by Czech men.
Jaromír Mrňka
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