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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Wood Use in Mongolia: From the photographs of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research
The original version of this article was published in Japanese by the Japan-Mongolia Association in the journal “Japan and Mongolia” (Vol. 55, pp. 76–101).
Y. Konagaya, K. Suzuki
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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The artistry of the poems by Inner Mongolian poet D. Tserenvanjil

Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research
On September 7, 1961, he was born as the fifth child of Donrov with the family name Dolood and Otgon with the family name Sharnud in the area of Jaran village of Jaran soum, Western Uzemchin County, Shiliinggol Province, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous ...
S. Tsomorlig
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
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The origin of the pecheneg’s ethnic name

Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research
This article is dedicated to the origin of the pecheneg’s ethnic name. The latters are considered to be a turkic tribe, lived in the southern Russian and in the lower Danubian steppes in the X–XI cc. According to some authors, the gagauz people, i.e. the
K. A. Kotkoff
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FINANCIALIZED GREEN STATE ENTREPRENEURIALISM AND THE URBANIZATION OF MOUNTAINS: Chongli’s Consumption‐based Territorial Business Model for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of a territorial business model (TBM) to renew the analysis of the production of the urban built environment beyond established urban cores. Based on the case of Chongli, a site for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this article provides a double decentering of the ways in which a mountain region was urbanized
Thierry Theurillat, Mengke Zhang
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Meteorological and astronomical knowledge of Mongolian-speaking nomads in the mirror of the natural landscape lexicon in weather and climate discourse: based on folklore and artistic texts

Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research
The article is devoted to the specifics of verbalization of traditional meteorological and astronomical knowledge in the meteorological lexicon and weather-climatic discourse of Mongolian-speaking nomads.
E. U. Omakaeva
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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Traditional cattle breeding of the Kalmyks at the beginning of the XIX century: based on the instructions of commanders on the Caucasian line and civil governors on the presentation of information of cattle breeding among nomadic peoples

Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research
The article is devoted to the development of traditional cattle breeding of the Kalmyks at the beginning of the XIX century. Based on the instructions of commanders on the Caucasian line and civil governors to provide information on the state of cattle ...
V. V. Batyrov
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