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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Pragmatist Framework for Constructing a New Humanhood

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 61, Issue 4, Fall 2025.
ABSTRACT A prolific writer and social activist, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) has been widely recognized as an influential American reformer and feminist thinker in the early decades of the twentieth century. However, scholars interpret her views in divergent ways.
Marga Vicedo
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Russia: Asia or Europe? Civilizational model in search of finding meaning

RUDN Journal of World History, 2012
The article is devoted to finding self-identity of the Russian state. The author reflects on the relationship between the concepts despotism and democracy in historical perspective today.
S Anatol'evich Voronin
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Emigrant voyages from the UK to North America and Australasia, 1853–1913

The Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 452-473, May 2025.
Abstract Studies of the determinants of emigration from Europe from 1850 to 1913 include the gains to migrants but often neglect the costs. One component of those costs is earnings forgone on the voyage. In this paper, I present new data on the voyage times for emigrants from the UK traveling to the United States and to Australia.
Timothy J. Hatton
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Ex occidente imperium : Alexander the Great and the rise of the Maurya empire [PDF]

, 2015
Since the nineteenth century, many authors have seen the campaign of Alexander the Great in the Punjab as a pivotal moment in the history of the Indian subcontinent.
Fauconnier, Bram
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Nicaea, Constantine, and Gender

International Review of Mission, Volume 114, Issue 1, Page 52-61, May 2025.
Abstract The canons of the Council of Nicaea appear to confirm what some might consider today to be stereotypical views of gender identity. However, according to Philostorgius, a Christian church historian of Late Antiquity, Constantine's stepsister Constantia played an influential role in the decisions of some sceptical key players to sign the creed ...
Martin Illert
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Strategic Group Formation in the Mekong Delta: The Development of a Modern Hydraulic Society [PDF]

The lower Mekong Delta, one of the largest river deltas in Asia, is a landscape shaped by the waters of the Mekong River that flows, as last part of its long way from the Tibetan Plateau to the South Chinese Sea, through a dense river and canal network ...
Benedikter, Simon, Evers, Hans-Dieter
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From the Great Divergence to South–South Divergence: New comparative horizons in global economic history

Journal of Economic Surveys, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 517-545, April 2025.
Abstract The Great Divergence debate has been the leading conversation in economic history for the past 25 years. This review article explores new comparative horizons in global economic history. I argue that questions of South–South Divergence form a logical and timely extension to the Great Divergence research agenda.
Ewout Frankema
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Henri H. Stahl – a social‑democratic sociologist

Sfera Politicii, 2013
The following paper is an attempt to reveal Henri H. Stahl’s political views and the means by which he managed to work and publish during the Romanian communist regime.
Alina Juravle
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‘Tearing Off the Bonds’: Suffrage Visual Culture in Australia, New Zealand and the USA, 1890–1920

Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 234-266, March 2025.
Abstract This article will examine how transpacific suffrage visual culture imagined and reimagined an artistic tradition centred around the figure of the bound woman. White suffragists and anti‐suffragists in Australia, New Zealand and the United States used the iconography of bonds, chains and whips to mediate the possibility of women’s ...
Ana Stevenson
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Fukuzawa Yukichi and Eurocentrism in modern Japan [PDF]

, 2012
Fukuzawa Yukichi is generally regarded as one of the founders of modern Japan. He introduced earnestly the Western thought of enlightenment and civilization as a translator, teacher and writer. But, at the same time, he is often criticized as a supporter
Uemura Kunihiko, 植村 邦彦
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