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Life‐cycle living standards of male‐headed households: Evidence from Stockholm, 1800–80

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent research in economic history argues for using a household life cycle standard‐of‐living approach that includes the income and expenses of all household members and considers fluctuations in the household over the life course. This study builds on that approach by empirically examining the development of living standards in male‐headed ...
Anton Svensson
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Cooperation of the Commune and Parish in Poland in XXI Century as the Implementation of Community Activities

Religions
The commune and the parish are units of two divisions: government and church administration. Both were created for the better functioning of structures and the implementation of central activities: government and the mission of the Church.
Dorota Tokarska
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Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine the colonial origins and evolution of gender inequality in mission schooling and formal labour force participation across six cities in British colonial Africa, using marriage register data for some 30,000 Anglican brides and grooms well‐positioned to benefit from colonial educational and employment opportunities.
Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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Liturgy at Ground Level [PDF]

, 1992
(Excerpt) On the back yard of our parish lot is a patch of ground I drive by every day. It is the place where we have a bonfire of trees and greens on the Twelfth Night of Christmas.
Seltz, Martin A
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The Pan‐Orthodox Celebration of the 1600th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea in 1925

The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the attempts to organize a Pan‐Orthodox Council in the years following the First World War that could gather in 1925 on the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea. While some of these efforts were remarkably ambitious, and although they were not always feasible or fully realized, they
Natallia Vasilevich
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Structural and functional analysis of the Orthodox community as a traditional society in modern conditions

Векторы благополучия: экономика и социум
The article provides a socio-philosophical analysis of the Orthodox religious community as a traditional society in modern conditions. At present, Russian society is a complex structured system represented by various groups of traditional, religious ...
А.V. Atamanov
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Curatorial Ways of Making Cities and Navigating Futures Through Urban Experiments

The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Contemporary curation is profoundly relational, emphasising the importance of the interrelations amongst objects and the enhanced meanings generated through their dialogues with each other and with various publics. In this contribution, we outline a curatorial approach founded in relational geography to inform the co‐construction and ...
Miguel Valdez, Matthew Cook
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UNIVERSALITY IN THE CLIMATE CATASTROPHE: RETHINKING CHAKRABARTY'S ANTHROPOCENE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY WITH MERLEAU‐PONTY'S PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE

History and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article critically examines Dipesh Chakrabarty's concept of Anthropocene history, a philosophy of history that is designed to respond to the universal challenge of the Anthropocene. It uses the work of Maurice Merleau‐Ponty to mitigate the pitfalls of Chakrabarty's concept and to propose an alternative relation between nature and history.
Andréa Delestrade
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Recent Investigations at the Mounds Plantation Site (16CD12), Caddo Parish, Louisiana [PDF]

, 2012
Dr. Montroville Wilson Dickeson, born in Philadelphia in 1810, was a medical doctor, taxidermist and avid collector of fossils. Between 1837 and 1844 he pursued another interest—excavating Indian burial mounds in the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys ...
Girard, Jeffery S.
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