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From Codes to Contexts: The Maturation of Historical Cryptology

History Compass, Volume 24, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Over the past decades, the study of historical cryptology in Europe has evolved from a marginal, largely individual pursuit into a consolidated field of research with dedicated conferences, collaborative projects, and institutional research groups.
Benedek Láng
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Etymology and entomology: The semiotics and ethics of multispecies gene nomenclatures

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract This article examines controversies surrounding gene names that are perceived as humorous in the context of fruit flies but are considered rude in the clinical context of human medicine. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in insect laboratories, interviews with entomologists and geneticists, and an analysis of scientific and clinical ...
Colin M. E. Halverson
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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 707-717, July 2026.
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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History of Mexican linguistics: Lope Blanc and the project of the «Linguistic Atlas of Mexico»

Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2010
The historiography of hispanic linguistics, in particular Mexican, is a subject practically not developed in Russian hispanic studies. In this article two aspects of the scientific and pedagogical activity of one of the most outstanding Mexican linguists
S A Iakovleva
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 497-514, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Crossing Borders of Care: The Professionalization of Women in Nursing and China–US Collaboration at Xiangya, 1909–1926

Nursing Inquiry, Volume 33, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the development of modern nursing education in China through a case study of the Xiangya School of Nursing in Changsha between 1909 and 1926. Founded in 1911 by the Yale‐in‐China Association, a non‐denominational mission, Xiangya was among the earliest nursing schools in China to promote undergraduate nursing education ...
Yao Tang, Dominique Tobbell
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Koerner, Ernst Frideryk Konrad. 2020. Last Papers in Linguistic Historiography

Histoire Épistémologie Langage, 2021
Jacques François
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Linguistic evidence and historiography: the selection of slaves on Curaçao, 1650-1700

Journal of Ibero-Romance Creoles, 2012
Drawing on recent linguistic investigations on the origins of Papiamentu, this article aims to cast new light on an intriguing but hitherto unresolved socio-historical aspect of the initial decades of the Curaçaoan transit slave trade: the selection of ...
Bart Jacobs
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Diplomatic Interpreting in Socialist Bulgaria: Soviet Influences, Political Loyalty and Interpreter-Diplomats during the Cold War

Translation Studies: Theory and Practice
This article examines the development of diplomatic interpreting in socialist Bulgaria and its relationship to Soviet practices during the Cold War. Drawing on archival documents from Bulgaria’s Central State Archive (CSA), memoirs, and visual sources ...
Boris Naimushin
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THE MINORITIES’ STATUS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION [PDF]

CES Working Papers, 2009
The problem of the minorities’ status in the European Union represents a research topic still less analyzed in Romanian historiography. Usefulness lies in deepening the clarification of concepts like "minority", "national minority", "linguistic minority",
Ionuţ Nistor
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