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Winston Churchill and France: A Certain Ideal
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines relations between Winston Churchill and France. It argues that Churchill was sympathetic to France and, in particular, unusual among Englishmen of his generation in being sympathetic to its political system, but also that this sympathy did not make Churchill consistent in his relations with France.
Richard Vinen
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Vanishing Point: Joan Didion and the Horizons of Historical Knowledge
European Journal of American Studies, 2015 This critical study situates Joan Didion’s memoir Where I Was From in the context of debates about the textuality of history in contemporary culture. In particular the essay is a critical examination of Didion’s interest in the concept of origins.
Kenneth Millard
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Domestic Violence in Lac Su’s I Love Yous Are for White People: A Sociological Criticism Approach [PDF]
, 2016 This article employs sociological criticism to examine domestic violence, parenting, and communication behavior in Lac Su’s Vietnamese American memoir.
Ha, Quan-Manh
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Dilations of frames, operator valued measures and bounded linear maps
, 2014 We will give an outline of the main results in our recent AMS Memoir, and include some new results, exposition and open problems. In that memoir we developed a general dilation theory for operator valued measures acting on Banach spaces where operator ...
Han, Deguang +3 more
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Winston Churchill and South Africa: An Enduring, yet Debatable Connection, 1899–1955
History, EarlyView.Abstract The article traces Churchill's engagement with South Africa, from his time as a newspaper correspondent during the Anglo‐Boer War to his services in both Liberal and Conservative cabinets as well as, ultimately, his premiership. The discussion highlights three phases in this relationship.
LUVUYO WOTSHELA
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Churchill and Spain: More Sancho than Quixote?
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article offers a detailed analysis of Winston Churchill's relationship with Spain over the course of his long and eventful political and personal life. The article focuses on three key episodes: Churchill's ambivalent stance during the Spanish Civil War; his leadership and policy towards Spain during the crucial years of the Second World ...
EMILIO SÁENZ‐FRANCÉS
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Neurasthenia, Robert Graves, and Poetic Therapy in the Great War [PDF]
, 2017 Though Robert Graves is remembered primarily for his memoir, Good-bye to All That, his First World War poetry is equally relevant. Comparably to the more famous writings of Sassoon and Owen, Graves\u27 war poems depict the trauma of the trenches, marked ...
Sebock, Juliette E.
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The social life of money for children
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
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The Life and Afterlives of Captain Hedley Vicars: Evangelical Biography and the Crimean War
19, 2015 This article argues that one of the most influential responses to the Crimean War, and indeed one of the most widely known books of the mid-century, was the work of a woman: the middle-class evangelical Miss Catherine Marsh’s biography of her friend ...
Trev Broughton
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Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
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