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The Demands of the Disabled: Masculinity, Disability, and Citizenship in the Late Imperial Russian Military

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 4, Page 518-534, October 2024.
Abstract In the years after 1905, catastrophic war, widespread political and social unrest, and rising demands from across all segments of the empire’s population forced the Russian imperial state to develop a rudimentary social contract with military personnel and implement a series of reforms to prevent the reoccurrence of military disaster and mass ...
Siobhán Hearne
wiley   +1 more source

The Interpretation of the Norms of the 1922 Constitution of Lithuania by the Supreme Tribunal

open access: yesBratislava Law Review
There were six constitutions in the Republic of Lithuania during the period of 1918-1940: three provisional ones (enacted in 1918, 1919, and 1920) and three permanent ones (enacted in 1922, 1928, and 1938).
Anatoliy A. Lytvynenko   +1 more
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Pharmacy and the Pharmacist in a Small Town: The Mission of Juozas Piekarskis in the Life of Nevarėnai

open access: yesLietuvos Istorijos Studijos
In the first half of the 20th century, small-town pharmacies performed an important role in the healthcare of the local population. They became an indispensable part of the community life.
Viktorija Šimkutė
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Missing girls in Liberal Italy, 1861–1921

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 185-211, February 2024.
Abstract By relying on the number of (surviving) boys per hundred girls observed in the population censuses as a cumulative measure of differential mortality during birth, infancy, and childhood, this paper shows that average Italian child sex ratios (aged 0–4) were abnormally high between 1861 and 1921. Our estimations indicate that unexplained excess
Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interwar Kražiai in Oral Narration

open access: yesLietuvos Istorijos Studijos
The article reveals a picture of Kražiai, a minor town, during the interwar years while covering the range from the stories of homes and their families to the staple food which found its way onto the dinner table and descriptions of the daily worn ...
Emilija Gedvilaitė   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

'In Glasgow but not quite of it’? Eastern European Jewish Immigrants in a Provincial Jewish Community from c.1890 to c.1945 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article makes use of autobiographies and oral interviews in order to explore the lifestyles of the first generation of immigrants within one particular provincial Jewish community – the Gorbals in Glasgow – between 1890 and 1945.
AVRAM TAYLOR, Rogers
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Burgomasters in Interwar Lithuania: Variety, Trends, Developments

open access: yesLietuvos Istorijos Studijos
The article investigates peculiarities of the corpus of town and city burgomasters as an important Lithuanian urban settlement governance institution with regard to personalities, thus highlighting the related trends and their development.
Leonas Nekrašas
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Kant's Legacy When It Matters: On Karl Ameriks' Kantian Dignity and Its Difficulties

open access: yes
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1587-1598, December 2025.
Wolfgang Ertl
wiley   +1 more source

Architecture of the first railway in the interwar Lithuania / pirmosios geležinkelio trasos tarpukario Lietuvoje architektūra

open access: yesMokslas: Lietuvos Ateitis, 2013
This article analyses the examples of passenger stations and railway workers living houses of the first wide railroad Kretinga – Telšiai – Kužiai in the independent Lithua­nia (1918 – 1940).
Iveta Dabašinskienė
doaj   +1 more source

Towards mapping the extent of irrigation in the last century : time series of irrigated area per country [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
A data set of annual values of area equipped for irrigation for all 236 countries in the world during the time period 1900 - 2003 was generated. The basis for this data product was information available through various online data bases and from other ...
Freydank, Katharina, Siebert, Stefan
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