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What England Is and What It Claims to Be: Orwell on National Identity

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article suggests that George Orwell's body of work offers a rather unique and insightful two‐part conception of national identity in the context of England, made up of a moral inheritance—the values of liberty, fairness and decency—and a lived sensibility—the fluid, experiential quality of collective life expressed in shared customs ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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De l’autogestion revendiquée à la nationalisation imposée

Revue des études slaves, 2019
The reconstruction of the stages of the theatrical network’s restructuration from spring 1917 by the Provisional Government contradicts the Soviet official history which presented the nationalization as a panacea which allowed the theaters to survive the
Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu
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How Place‐Based Policy Could Counter Populist Discontent

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Resentment felt by people in areas that have suffered from social and economic decline is a significant driver of populist backlash—‘the revenge of the places that don't matter’. An effective place‐based strategy could provide something of an antidote to populist discontent.
Gerry Stoker, Daisy Blackburn, Nick Clarke, Will Jennings   +3 more
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The Lessons from 1970s Price Controls

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract There has been a recent revival of interest in both voluntary and mandatory controls of prices to reduce the impact of inflation on low‐income groups. This article reviews the use of voluntary schemes of price restraint by the 1974–9 Labour government, in particular the ‘red triangle’ scheme in operation between February and August 1976.
Wyn Grant
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Bosanskohercegovačko društvo u razdoblju uspostavljanja jugoslavenske revolucionarne vlasti (1943-1950) [PDF]

Historijska Misao, 2016
In this paper the author analysed some of the main directions of the constitution of the Communist authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina in terms of realization of the decisions on the part of the Presidency of AVNOJ and the Central Committee of the ...
Vera Katz
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Staging friendship: towards an anthropology of everyday geopolitics in South Asia L'amitié mise en scène : vers une anthropologie de la géopolitique du quotidien en Asie du Sud

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
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The Nationalization of the Iraqi Petroleum Company

, 1979
One of the more important developments in Iraq since the 1958 overthrow of the Hashemite monarchy was the nationalization of the Iraqi Petroleum Company on 1 June 1972.
Michael E. Brown
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Dokument myśli otwartej. Studia poleskie Józefa Obrębskiego a rozważania o grupach etnicznych i stosunkach narodowościowych w polskiej etnologii i socjologii

Sprawy Narodowościowe. Seria nowa, 2019
A document of open thought: Józef Obrębski’s studies on the Polesie region and debates on ethnic groups and nationality relations in Polish ethnology and sociology This article attempts to reconstruct and examine the concept of the ethnic diversity and
Marcin Lubaś
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‘The Housewife's Greatest Standby’: Dried Eggs, Gender and Domesticity During the Second World War

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the previously underexplored connections between dried eggs, women and domesticity in Britain during the Second World War. It argues that newsprint and advertisements framed the purchase and use of dried eggs, a novel wartime product, as a means for housewives to contribute to the war effort through domestic labour. Dried
Joel Mead
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Government intervention, political connections, and stock performance: an event study from Argentina

Business and Politics
This paper examines whether political connections can protect firms from losses resulting from a government’s adverse policies. I explore this question in the context of Argentina’s partial nationalization of publicly traded firms in 2008–2011, resulting
Marcelo Cano-Kollmann
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