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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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Estates in Slavonia after World War II: Confiscation of the property of Slavonian nobility after World War II [PDF]

Zbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu
In the first decades of the 20th century, several large estates existed in Slavonia, belonging to noble families and operating under their administration, or parts of the se estates were leased to business entities that utilized them.
Gardaš Miro A., Repić Marko A.
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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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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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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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Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
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FOREST AS NATIONAL PROPERTY IN RUSSIA FROM 1917 TILL ATTACHMENT OF THE RSFSR FOREST CODE IN 1923

Russian Journal of Economics and Law, 2012
The article analyzes the statement of Decrees "On land" of 1917 and "On forests" of 1918 concerning turning forests to the national property. Basing on the legal analysis, the difference between notions "state property" and "national property ...
A. Yu. Puryaeva
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Indications of the In-Between in Works of W. Wabruschek-Blumenbach and F. Umlauft: A Case Study of Two Habsburg Ethnographers

Traditiones
This article presents a case study of two Habsburg ethnographers, Wenzel Wabruschek-Blumenbach (1791–1847) and Friedrich Umlauft (1844–1923). It seeks to classify their works, Neuestes Gemälde der Oesterreichischen Monarchie (1832/1837) and Die ...
Gerhard Katschnig
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Patrimonial archives of the Tambov landowners’ estates: the documentary heritage nationalization

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2019
We consider the potential of the Russian landowners’ estates patrimonial records management as a historical source for the features characteristic of the landlord economy development after the serfdom abolition.
R. M. Zhitin
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