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History, Volume 108, Issue 382, Page 407-420, September 2023., 2023 Abstract The main aim of this article is to reconstruct the evolutions and the political implications of the Italian historical novel between the nineteenth and twenty‐first centuries. The starting hypothesis is that the historical novel has always performed a vicarious function with respect to traditional historiography.
ADRIANO VINALE
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The Many Nationalities of Tamara Khanum: Friendship of the Peoples at Home, Abroad, and Within
The Russian Review, Volume 82, Issue 3, Page 433-452, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Inspired by scholarship on empire and historical biography, this article examines the life of Soviet entertainer Tamara Khanum (1906–91) and her formation as a socialist intermediary. First, it considers how an ethnic Armenian born in the Uzbek SSR came to represent an image of liberated Eastern femininity to domestic audiences.
Charles D. Shaw
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Robert Harley as Secretary of State and his Intelligence Work: 1702–1708
History, Volume 108, Issue 381, Page 328-352, June 2023., 2023 Abstract This article seeks to reassess Robert Harley's role as Secretary of State (1704–10) and especially his work in the intelligence and espionage fields of his day. It examines not only his reputation in such affairs but his skills and techniques in early eighteenth‐century espionage, and also his failures. It sets out the important administrative
ALAN MARSHALL
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History, Volume 108, Issue 381, Page 303-327, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Tracing patterns of letter interception across the Alps provides a new geography of Habsburg communications, espionage, and counter‐espionage in seventeenth‐century Europe. Using the correspondence of the Tassis family of imperial and Spanish postmasters, this article demonstrates that despite increasingly martial rhetoric, battles in ...
RACHEL MIDURA
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The Genome Assembly of Vitis vinifera cv. Shiraz
Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research, Volume 2023, Issue 1, 2023., 2023 Background and Aims. Shiraz (Syrah) is a dark‐skinned cultivar of the wine grape Vitis vinifera that forms the basis of some of the world’s most iconic wines. Worldwide, Shiraz is the fourth most planted grapevine cultivar; however, it represents the most planted cultivar in Australia.
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Panorama du roman policier au Mexique
Cahiers d’Études Romanes, 2003 Malgré sa diffusion depuis les années quarante par des collections de poche autochtones, le roman policier fut longtemps, au Mexique, un genre méprisé par la critique et les écrivains. Paco Ignacio Taibo II est le premier écrivain mexicain a légitimer et
Alba Lara-Alengrin
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Le Carnet Noir de Laurence Durrel et le roman de la transition [PDF]
, 1994 Le Carnet Noir de Lawrence Durrelle et le roman de la ...
Pelletier, Jacques
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Homage to Ebola Fighters: Black Labor and Humanitarian Media Campaigns
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 329-349, September 2022., 2022 Abstract During the Ebola outbreak that hit Guinea in 2014, most of the people employed at the Wonkifong Ebola treatment unit were from Africa or Cuba. Despite the recruitment of black personnel, the unit exposes how the humanitarian infrastructure exploited Guinean workers as if their lives were less vulnerable than those of the foreign personnel. The
Veronica Gomez‐Temesio
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Franchir les frontières, subvertir les règles. Deux romans et une nouvelle de Massimo Carlotto
Cahiers d’Études Romanes, 2003 Les romans et les nouvelles de Massimo Carlotto élargissent les limites et renversent les règles du roman noir. Dans Arrivederci amore ciao, Carlotto utilise les éléments structurels d’un roman noir qu’il a lui-même contribué à faire évoluer avec son ...
Claudio Milanesi
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The evidence of hearsay in criminal proceedings from Late Renaissance France
Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 377-394, June 2022., 2022 Abstract This article argues that Renaissance legal culture provided a robust means of evaluating the epistemological status of rumour, informed by the Roman law of proof. In order to do so, the article explores the meaning of hearsay evidence in criminal proceedings from late Renaissance France, focusing on a major series of interrogations for ...
Tom Hamilton
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