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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
wiley   +1 more source

Consequences of Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Ardabil (1925-1941): A Historical Analysis. [PDF]

Arch Iran Med
Aghabeiglooei Z, Rezaei Orimi J, Marghoub Khajeh S, Mojahedi M, Ghaffari F.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Zurvanism [PDF]

, 2014
de Jong, Albert
core  

Entwined Liberations: North Korean Democratic Women's Union and Third World Internationalism, 1945–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
wiley   +1 more source

Neonatal encephalopathy due to birth asphyxia and trauma: global trends and disparities. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Du F, Gu L, Wang J, Zhang C, Li C, Zhao S, Shen Y, Luo M, Yan Y, Zhou J, Dong W.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Status of Suhrawardi Studies in the West [PDF]

, 2004
Aminrazavi, Mehdi
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack <i>et al.</i> [PDF]

Med Hist
Green MH, Fancy N.
europepmc   +1 more source

Review of Michal Biran, 'Qaidu and the Rise of the Independent Mongol State in Central Asia' [PDF]

, 1999
Lane, George
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CONSULTANCY STATE: Government as (a) Service and the Anti‐politics of Technological Expertise in Indian Cities

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses ideas of ‘good governance through technology’ in India that first emerged from the software industry, symbolizing state support for the ‘new middle‐class’ values of liberalized private enterprise. We suggest that the contemporary prominence of consulting firms in government represents a second transformation that embeds ...
Matt Birkinshaw, Sanjay Srivastava
wiley   +1 more source