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Building a Potemkin village in occupied China: Japan's wartime system of linked trade, 1939–43
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The paper discusses the novel but little‐known exchange rate system of Japanese‐occupied North China during the Second Sino‐Japanese War, in which exporters were given the right to import in the form of a piece of yellow paper, which could be sold in the secondary market.
Shinji Takagi
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Symbolic Representation of Bells on Icons in the Context of the Formation of Russian Christian Culture (10th — early 20th centuries) [PDF]
Вестник Екатеринбургской духовной семинарииThe article is devoted to the development of two traditions in Russian Christian culture: icon-painting, adopted from Byzantium, and bell-traditions — from Western countries.
Olesia V. Kuleva
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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Studies in the Central Part of the Bolgar Fortified Site (“the Craftsman’s House”)
Поволжская археология, 2013 The results of the 2010 salvage and conservation archaeological research in the territory of the Bolgar fortified site, conducted in the construction zone of the so-called "Memorial Plaque" (excavation trench CXLVIII) are presented in the article.
Gubaydullin Ayrat M.
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The Role of ESG in Shaping the Impact of Financial Development on Banks' Performance
European Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how financial development, divided into financial markets and financial institutions, affects banks' performance across 93 financially developed countries during the period between 2008 and 2023. The analysis highlights the role of environmental, social and governance readiness as core determinants that reshape ...
Noman Arshed +4 more
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Analysis of Analogies of Oriental Ornamentation in Russian Art of the XIV–XV Centuries
Археология евразийских степейIn the XIV–XV centuries decorative art is being revived in Rus, based on pre-Mongol samples. The main support remained Byzantine samples, where lush floral patterns and Arabic calligraphy continued to be used.
Natalya V. Zhilina
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American Journal of Islam and Society, 2012 In Jewish Identities in Iran, Mehrdad Amanat tries to unearth the roots of Iranian Jews converting to both Islam and the Baha’i faith starting with the Safavid period in the sixteenth century.
Farideh Goldin
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Persian Legend on Islamic Coins : From Traditional Arabic to the Challenge of Leadership [PDF]
, 2010 The tradition of placing Persian inscriptions on Islamic coins goes back to the middle of the 7th century AD, namely the time of the “righteous” caliphs ‛Uthman and ‛Ali, when silver and copper coins struck in the eastern provinces of the recently ...
Nastich, Vladimir
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Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, EarlyView.Some African Cyphostemma species evolved much larger genomes as they adapted to dry, rocky habitats. These expansions are linked to succulent traits and specialization on nutrient‐rich limestone outcrops. The findings show how climate‐driven aridification shaped plant evolution and highlight broader genome‐environment patterns across flowering plants ...
Rindra M. Ranaivoson +18 more
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Persia under Mongol domination. The effectiveness and and failings of a dual administrative system [PDF]
, 2006 International audienceThis paper points out the break of the traditionnal administrative patterns from dure Gret' Khans period to the fall of the Persian Ilkhanate in 1355. Previously, financial and secretarial offices had been handed down, to generation,
Aigle, Denise
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