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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
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Stadiums and National Trauma: Remembering the Katrina Disaster [PDF]
, 2011 Latin American ...
Guridy, Frank A.
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Memoria política y artefactos culturales Political Memory and Cultural Artefacs
Estudios Políticos, 2012 El artículo presenta los diversos momentos en la construcción del campo de la memoria política y sus potencialidades de investigación futura. Aborda inicialmente a Maurice Halbwachs, quien piensa la memoria como un fenómeno sociológico de cohesión social.
Javier Alejandro Lifschitz +1 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Spain, under General Franco's regime, homosexuality was regarded as an antisocial and dangerous behaviour. It was thus pursued both by the police and judicial courts. The Law on Vagrants and Crooks (1954) and, subsequently, the Law on Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) constituted the legal mechanisms used by the dictatorship to
Jordi Mas Grau, Rafael Cáceres‐Feria
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Genealogía de la violencia en la Argentina de los años 70
Historia Actual On-Line, 2010 Este artículo aborda las condiciones históricas que llevaron a que Argentina –un país próspero y relativamente pacífico para los estándares latinoamericanos de la primera mitad del siglo XX- experimentara un ciclo de violencia devastador, particularmente
Guillermo Mira Delli-Zotti
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The Faculty Notebook, December 2004
, 2004 The Faculty Notebook is published periodically by the Office of the Provost at Gettysburg College to bring to the attention of the campus community accomplishments and activities of academic interest.
Provost\u27s Office,
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Economic Measurements and Quality of Life in Mexico [PDF]
, 2004 Using the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), the article seeks to evaluate the quality of life in modern Mexico. The GPI employs the same indicators used to arrive at per capita GDP, but adds positive and negative monetary and non-monetary actors that ...
Danopoulos, Constantine P.
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
History, EarlyView.Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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Kittens in the Oven: Race Relations, Traumatic Memory, and the Search for Identity in Julia Alvarez’s \u3cem\u3eHow the García Girls Lost Their Accents\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2010 The search for an ever-elusive home is a thread that runs throughout much literature by authors who have immigrated to the United States. Dominican authors are particularly susceptible to this search for a home because “for many Dominicans, home is ...
Carter, Natalie
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