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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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Managing Diversity in the Portuguese Empire
, 2021 Abstract The production of diversity and its transformation into hierarchy and social inequality in the Portuguese Empire are at the core of this essay. Conversion of local populations and slaves to Catholicism was the main strategy used by the Portuguese Empire to create allegiance and reduce diversity.
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Out of the labyrinth? Television memories of revolution and return in contemporary Portugal [PDF]
, 2016 This essay examines Portuguese contemporary memories of the end of colonialism as represented in the 2013 television series, Depois do Adeus. It argues, first, that a popular series such as this can perform useful memory work in society, and, second ...
Ribeiro de Menezes, Alison
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Mercês e cartografia no governo do Império Marítimo Português: o caso de João Teixeira [PDF]
Navigator, 2011 In the context of the Ancien Régime, the Teixeiras produced several maps representing the Portuguese dominions in the America. These maps were narratives of possessions and allowed the Crown could obtain knowledge and develop a management of its more ...
Marcello José Gomes Loureiro
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Caravelle, 2016 Historiography considered the Portuguese colonial Amazon region as being a “land of Indians”. Scholars argued that African slavery was economically just not possible, due to the settlers’ poverty, and especially the region’s geographical isolation, which
Rafael Chambouleyron, Karl Heinz Arenz
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White Female Identity-Building in Colonial Africa [PDF]
, 2016 This paper won an honorable mention writing flag award in the research category. It was written for Ruramisai Charumbira's HIS 350L class, "Becoming African: Europeans in Southern African History".Charumbira, RuramisaiUndergraduate ...
Kessenich, Marissa
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
History, EarlyView.Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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O Brasil e o Atlântico Sul na historiografia de Charles Boxer
Ler História, 2017 The purpose of this article is to reflect on the historical writing of Charles Boxer (1904-2000), with emphasis on his works about Portuguese America and South Atlantic in the 17th and 18th centuries. Although other texts will be considered, the analysis
Alberto Luiz Schneider
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, 2012 Publicado na prestigiada Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series, o livro de Ricardo Roque catapulta para o debate contemporâneo da antropologia historica a “colonia maldita” de Timor-Leste, assim apresentada recorrentemente no seculo XIX.
F. Rosa
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