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ReligionsBattlefield preservation is commonly understood as a matter of heritage management, historical education, or cultural tourism. This article argues that its origins and enduring significance lie elsewhere.
Yaron Pasher
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Serious Educational Games and the Study of the Military Historical Heritage
Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage, 2018 The report examines the issue of serious educational games in the field of military and historical heritage. The world-wide research experience in the field of serious educational games has been studied.
Galya Georgieva-Tsaneva +2 more
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CeROArt : Conservation, Exposition, Restauration d'Objets d'Art, 2012 Since the civil war in 1979 Afghanistan’s heritage has been exposed to severe robbery. To mitigate the plunder several measures need to be taken. Looting is a mutual problem: market countries should prevent the sale and source countries should protect ...
René Teijgeler
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
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BuildingsTang dynasty beacon towers in Xinjiang’s circum-Tarim region constitute surviving architectural evidence of a frontier military communication system that supported regional governance and safeguarded the Silk Road.
Siqi Wang, Shaohan Luan, Yan Li
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“Lovelies on Wheels”: The Politics of Miss Wheelchair America, 1972–1977
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the Miss Wheelchair America pageant in the 1970s as a cultural and political space that produced a specific message about the intersections of womanhood, disability, and citizenship. The pageant elevated contestants who performed normative femininity, beauty, heterosexuality, and whiteness, while narratively framing ...
Moira Armstrong
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Chatham, Plymouth et Portsmouth, villes ouvertes ?
In SituThrough their ancient industrial history and their often exceptional dimensions, the docks of the British Crown—and the buildings that compose them— form a specific landscape and an almost invaluable industrial heritage.
Damien Bruneau
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Partitioned Desires: Female Agency and Interfaith Relationships Around the Partition of India
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Through an examination of the phenomenon of abduction, I suggest that the preoccupation with women's violation during the 1947 Partition of India has obfuscated a history of female desire. Considering accusations of kidnapping made by women's families against men belonging to a different religion in instances of interfaith desire, I ...
Angad Singh
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Theoretical Roman Archaeology JournalIn this article we examine the dominant, militaristic interpretation of the Roman Limes, particularly within UNESCO World Heritage sites and national heritage narratives.
Gertjan Plets +3 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
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