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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Gender &History, EarlyView.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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Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2020 Fight books can be defined as texts specialising in the theories of martial arts and the instruction of techniques (for future generations) based on actual experience of real fighting and training.
Bok Kyu Choi
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Text and Topos: British Travellers to Real‐and‐Imagined Classical Sites, c. 1560–1820
History, EarlyView.Abstract Early‐modern British travellers to the Mediterranean often understood their journeys through the lens of classical texts and culture. Historians sometimes explain this as an imaginative phenomenon: travellers’ preconceptions shaped by classical knowledge guided their subsequent comprehension and activity.
Paul Stock
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Retos: Nuevas Tendencias en Educación Física, Deportes y RecreaciónCharacter education is not easy to do in the world of education. Need a good synergy between a series of ongoing learning. Especially with sports specifically taking a role in character education efforts.
Albadi Sinulingga +9 more
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A Persian archery manual by Mohammad Zaman
Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 2016 Persian archery manuals provide lots of useful information on shooting with a Persian composite bow. The main aim of this article is to provide, for the first time, a full annotated translation of an undated Persian archery manual written by Mohammad ...
Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani +1 more
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Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century
History, EarlyView.Abstract Influential sociologists of social control, including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and others, conceived of the modern state as progressively moving towards the humanization of its penal programme. This article highlights developments that do not easily fit this progressivist model, drawing attention to the region that today is often referred to ...
Olga Kantokoski
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Jean‐Baptiste Say and the Political Economy of Republican Utopia in Revolutionary France
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article offers a fresh analysis of Olbie (1798), a frequently overlooked essay by the French author and economist Jean‐Baptiste Say (1767–1832). It positions Olbie as a central text for comprehending Say's political thought and situates it within the wider historical context, in particular French republicanism during the 1790s.
MINCHUL KIM
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INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT TRANSITIONS: Agglomeration and Gentrification in Urban Industrial Zones
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Recent research questions the relevance of urban industrial zoning in the context of industry change and competitive property markets, but overlooks the place‐based variation and complexities that define contemporary industrial districts. Drawing on comparative case study research in Melbourne, Australia, this article explores the changing ...
Carl Grodach +3 more
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Martial arts as a mental health intervention for children? Evidence from the ECLS-K
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2009 Background Martial arts studios for children market their services as providing mental health outcomes such as self-esteem, self-confidence, concentration, and self-discipline.
Strayhorn Joseph M, Strayhorn Jillian C
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