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Howard Williams, Joanne Kirton, Meggen Gondek (ur.): Early Medieval Stone Monuments. Materiality, Biography, Landscape, 2015

Arheološki Vestnik, 2018
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Saša Čaval
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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 4, no. 2 [PDF]

, 2019
A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: 1.
Oborji, Frances Anekwe, Bratt, David, Bonk, Jonathan, Walls, Andrew, Restrick, Beth, Watters, John R., Sanneh, Lamin, Sigg, Michèle Miller   +7 more
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Non‐Career Ambassador Appointments: Transformations in Turkish Diplomacy during the 1920s and 1930s

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Abstract During the early years of the Turkish Republic, the establishment of foreign missions, the assignment of new diplomats to these missions as well as the inheritance of experiences, diplomats, buildings and other assets from the Ottoman Empire were matters of major political concern.
Evren Küçük
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Vida con Palas

Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2006
Are the spades a useful category in the analysis, understanding and narration of their participation in past social life? Through the analysis and discussion of the diverse practical contexts of which the spades were part of, the ways in which these ...
Marcos Román Gastaldi, Alejandro F. Haber   +1 more
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Conjuring Ghosts of the Past: Landscapes and Hauntings in Jane Urquhart’s The Stone Carvers

The London Journal of Canadian Studies, 2018
Jane Urquhart’s novel The Stone Carvers (2001) portrays the struggles of a community of German immigrants in the nineteenth century, as they attempt to settle in Western Ontario; it also includes a fictionalized account of the construction of the ...
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Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain

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Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
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The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
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Interstitial prehispanic landscapes. Ancestral knowledge and community action in San Juan De Lurigancho [PDF]

lo Squaderno
The territory of Lima, Peru, is the result of thousands of years of history of prehispanic cultures. A strategic management of ecological and social resources disrupted by colonization and modernity. Nowadays, the South American metropolis struggles with
Juan Manuel Del Castillo Cáceres, Arturo Vásquez Escobar   +1 more
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Adopted by a Nickname

The February Journal
This reflexive autoethnographic essay traces a life through given names, surnames, name days, confirmation names, and community nicknames. It situates one Central European biography within the language politics of postwar Poland, examining Catholic ...
Tomasz Stanisław Bogdan Wicherkiewicz
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