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The Timely Rise of a Teenage Reformer: Youth Revolt, Feminism and the Struggle for a ‘New Sexual Morality’ at the Dawn of the Spanish Second Republic

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The contributions of propagandist and writer Hildegart (1914–1933) to Spanish cultural life are overshadowed by accounts of her unusual upbringing and violent death. This article examines the conditions that enabled the teenager to become a prominent voice for feminism and sexual reform on the eve of Spain's Second Republic (1931–1939).
Micaela Pattison
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Transfer of Ownership of Forests in the Western and Northern Teritories after World War II: Nationalization and Reprivatization

Studia Historiae Oeconomicae, 2019
The article concerns the transfer of ownership of forest property, nationalized after World War II. It covers the subject matter of the process of property acquisition by way of nationalization decrees, in particular in the area of the so-called ...
Joanna Jaroszyk-Pawlukiewicz
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Governing the Global Square: Pueblos, Platforms, and the Politics of Place

Constellations, EarlyView.
Jennifer Forestal
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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Agency theory and corporate governance principles: causes of inefficiency in Venezuelan state-owned companies

RAN, 2020
The purpose of this research is to analyze the causes of loss of efficiency, profitability and bankruptcy, according to Transparency Venezuela (2020a, 2018) of 70% of the five hundred and twenty-six (526) companies held by the Venezuelan state since the ...
Juan Carlos Fonseca Sánchez
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Malezya Kamusal Zekât Uygulaması Üzerine

Cumhuriyet İlahiyat Dergisi, 2016
Zekât, zengin ile fakir arasında köprü oluşturan, darda kalanların imdadına yetişen ve böylece toplumsal huzur ve barışa önemli katkı sağlayan mali bir ibadettir.
İsmail Yalçın
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Class Ruptures and Openings: The Role of Social and Family History in Narratives on Class Mobility and Reproduction

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, sociological interest in the study of social class—particularly its subjective dimensions—has intensified. This article contributes to this growing body of literature by focusing on Poland as a case within the Central and Eastern European region.
Justyna Kajta, Stefan Bieńkowski
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Formation of Main Directions of Bolsheviks’ Cooperative Policy in Civil War and “War Communism”

Научный диалог, 2017
The relevance of the study is determined by insufficient exploration of the problem of the formation of the cooperative policy of the Bolsheviks in the difficult conditions of finding ways of building fundamentally new social, political and economic ...
A. V. Chichulin
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