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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

Research on optimization of train routing problem for railway hubs considering passenger demand. [PDF]

PLoS One
Wang Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Mere Amateurs’? Elementary Teachers and the Making of Scientific Authority in the British Child Study Movement

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
wiley   +1 more source

The Flowery Stations Contest in Early Twentieth-Century Italy: Railway Gardens and the Case Study of Ripafratta (Tuscany). [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Pedrelli A, Vergine M, De Bellis L, Luvisi A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
wiley   +1 more source

Experimental study of the sand deposition patterns on railway tracks under different subgrade structures in desert areas. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Wang P, Huang N, He K, Xin G.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
wiley   +1 more source

Railway carbon emission scenario prediction in four regions of China based on machine learning. [PDF]

Carbon Balance Manag
Lu Y, Liu S, Wang Y, Qiu S, Wang P, Zhang C, Hu B, Wang J, Zhao J, Yao H.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Research on railway emergency resource scheduling strategy under multiple uncertainty coupling. [PDF]

PLoS One
Sun J, Wan Y, Lu G, Tang Z.
europepmc   +1 more source