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From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
wiley   +1 more source

Sex and rank in public service hierarchies: Rank distribution in Ghana's health and security services. [PDF]

PLoS One
Norman ID, Kpeglo ED, Nadarajah S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Legitimacy and Persuasion in the Anglo‐Scottish Wars of the 1540s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The considerable efforts of the invading English to justify their activities and garner support during the Anglo‐Scottish wars of the 1540s are well known. Recent welcome attention to Scottish texts produced during the conflict has begun to correct a previous historiographical imbalance towards English materials.
Amy Blakeway
wiley   +1 more source

Natalia Danilova, Armiia i Obshchestvo : Printsipy Vzaimodeistviia

Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, 2009
Dale R. Herspring
doaj  

Between Eagle and Dragon: Affective representations of the United States and China in South Korean Media. [PDF]

PLoS One
Han S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Obligation, Exemption and Remission: The Multi‐Layered Functioning of the Poll Tax (Cizye) in Ottoman Governance during the Long Eighteenth Century

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
wiley   +1 more source

Dale Herspring, The Kremlin and the High Command. Presidential Impact on the Russian Military from Gorbachev to Putin

Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, 2009
Isabelle Facon
doaj  

A dataset of geographic entities and relationships from Song Dynasty texts on Lin'an. [PDF]

Sci Data
Zhang C, Zhong F, Chen Z, Wu W, Pan D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Non‐Career Ambassador Appointments: Transformations in Turkish Diplomacy during the 1920s and 1930s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the early years of the Turkish Republic, the establishment of foreign missions, the assignment of new diplomats to these missions as well as the inheritance of experiences, diplomats, buildings and other assets from the Ottoman Empire were matters of major political concern.
Evren Küçük
wiley   +1 more source

Leonid Peven’,Demokraticheskii grazhdanskii kontrol’ nad vooruzhennymi silami

Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, 2009
Dale Herspring
doaj