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Winston Churchill and South Africa: An Enduring, yet Debatable Connection, 1899–1955
Abstract The article traces Churchill's engagement with South Africa, from his time as a newspaper correspondent during the Anglo‐Boer War to his services in both Liberal and Conservative cabinets as well as, ultimately, his premiership. The discussion highlights three phases in this relationship.
LUVUYO WOTSHELA
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A probability integral method modified model for accurately characterizing subsidence at the boundary of a mining area. [PDF]
Zhou B +5 more
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Abstract This article examines how modern class dynamics become intertwined with automated classifications and data‐driven regimes of value creation under digital capitalism by demonstrating how housing markets shape asset inequalities and middle‐class formation in South Africa.
Julien Migozzi
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“No good reason for the government to interfere”: Business, the state and railway employee safety in Britain, c.1900-39 [PDF]
Esbester, Mike
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Abstract Participatory planning is widely used for the purpose of democratizing urban governance. Yet, the literature on post‐politics largely depicts participatory decision‐making contexts as spaces devoid of the ‘properly political’. Scholars critical of post‐politics find this lens paralyzing, as the approach may disregard political moments arising ...
Stephanie Loveless
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Study on accumulative plastic deformation of cement-fly ash improved subgrade coarse-grained soil under heavy-haul traffic loads and relative prediction based on PSO-ANN. [PDF]
Wenquan Z +5 more
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WASTELAND ACTIVISM: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal
Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, this article examines the ways in which urban dwellers and activists engage with the living materialities of wastelands to illuminate evolving ecological imaginaries and their political potentials.
Daniela Giudici
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Experimental Study on Fatigue Performance of Steel Used in U75V Rails. [PDF]
Xu D, Liu G, Wang X, Liu H.
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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