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Czech-Slovak Corps and the Bolsheviks in the spring of 1918
Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2022 May 1918 is a turning point in the relationship between the Bolsheviks and the CzechSlovak Corps. The events that have taken place will lead to the outbreak of a Civil war in Russia, which will take millions of lives.
V. V. Mironov, P. E. Salnikov
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Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2007 For contemporary British observers, the Indian Mutiny of 1857 was not so much about India as it was about Britain. The following essay examines the culturally introspective nature of the “Mutiny plays” and their persistent exploration of British ...
Marty Gould
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Temporalités, 2006 Many are the veterans who took part in the 1917 mutinies or who experienced them at close range. Yet, transmitting that memory proves extremely complex, so difficult it is to fully accept a mass movement of disobedience in wartime and award it a stable ...
Nicolas Offenstadt
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The Fire Dragon. Benavente’s Indian Comedy
Indialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies, 2014 El dragón de fuego is a play by Jacinto Benavente, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922, which describes the situation in India during the British Raj. The action takes place in Nirvan, an imaginary country which symbolises India.
Enrique Gallud Jardiel
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‘Cavemen in an era of speed-of-light technology’ : historical and contemporary perspectives on communication within prisons [PDF]
, 2009 Many prisoners believe that the restricted access they have to computer-mediated communcation (CMC) technologies and, in particular, the almost total absence of computers and Internet access in prisons is a form of censure that renders them second-class ...
Jewkes, Yvonne, Johnston, Helen
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Empire and erasure: a case study of Pitcairn Island [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2013 Over the past few decades the Pacific region has undergone many changes through decolonization and postcolonial adjustment. Political change in new and existing Pacific nations is marked by efforts to reclaim identities, histories and futures.
Maria Amoamo
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American Journal of Islam and Society, 2023 Kamran Bashir’s The Qur’an in South Asia addresses the question of how Sunni Muslims in India dealt with their intellectual heritage and identified with their past tradition in the wake of European colonialism and missionary activism.
Kamran Ahmad Khan
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Daouda LOUM, Diome FAYE & Ndeye Fatou DIOUF [PDF]
Akofena: In Benito Cereno (1855), a story of slaves revolt set on sea, Herman Melville typifies various social facts related to late eighteenth-century Senegal, particularly the atmosphere in the Kajoor kingdom.
The Figure of the Senegalese in Benito Cereno : Melville’s Representation of West Africans’ Response to Colonialism
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Slavery and abolition in the Caribbean and Brazil: Blood, fire, and freedom
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2022 '– Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast', by Marjoleine Kars, The New Press, 2020.' – Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire, 'by Tom Zoellner, Harvard University Press, 2020.
Evan C. Rothera
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POPULAR UNREST IN RUSSIA IN 1648-1650: CURRENT RESEARCH QUESTIONS
Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021 The article is devoted to social unrest in Russia in 1648-1650, the Author makes the generalization of the accumulated results of their research unrest.
Denis Alexandrovich Lyapin
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