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Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics
The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 342-376, February 2026.Abstract In this study, we explore the long‐run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio‐economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the ...
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola
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Slavonic Historical Writing in South-Eastern Europe, 1200–1600
, 2018 This chapter considers the period from 1200 to 1600 because social and political realities of Southeastern Europe delineate such a delayed chronology. The latter term, beginning in the seventeenth century, marks the end of those medieval societies who ...
Petre Guran
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Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines return plans of forcibly displaced persons from Ukraine in Czechia, which has one of the highest relative shares of Ukrainian refugees in population. It draws on data from two rounds of cross‐sectional surveys conducted in 2022 (N = 1037) and 2023 (N = 350), including a panel subsample (N = 116). Using exploratory network
Josef Novotný +3 more
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American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 188, Issue 4, December 2025.ABSTRACT Objectives Paleoanthropology has been slow to adopt postcolonial frameworks to assess the validity of interpretations of human origins. This blind spot is made worse when we consider that postcolonial critique is often inappropriate for post‐communist spaces.
Michelle Glantz, Davorka Radovčić
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On the natural border: A bio‐geo‐political reading
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 4, December 2025.Abstract This article engages in a critical analysis of the concept of the natural border. It highlights its inherently biopolitical nature by exploring how it intersects with biology, history and geography. In the last decades, critical border studies have deeply questioned the naturality of borders.
Matteo Proto, Francesco Buscemi
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Making vertebrate fossil radiocarbon dates more useful for global scientific research
Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 8, Page 1309-1335, November 2025.ABSTRACT Radiocarbon dating of bones is essential for reconstructing timelines of species' occurrences, domestication, extinction, migrations, and interactions with Quaternary environments. Many studies compile these chronologies at continental to global scales by aggregating radiocarbon dates from various sources, often balancing data quantity and ...
Salvador Herrando‐Pérez +1 more
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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Sites of Contact and Models of Change: Introduction
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 391-398, November 2025.This Special Issue of Transactions of the Philological Society grew out of a Symposium held in November 2023 at St John's College, Cambridge, in honour of our friend and colleague, Peter Matthews, who died on 7 April 2023. Both the Symposium and the Special Issue were commissioned by the Council of the Philological Society in his memory.
Sylvia Adamson, Nigel Vincent
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Multiword Discourse Markers Across Languages: A Linguistic and Computational Perspective
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 2078-2090, November 2025.ABSTRACT Discourse markers (DMs) are linguistic expressions that convey different semantic and pragmatic values, managing and organizing the structure of spoken and written discourses. They can be either single‐word or multiword expressions (MWE), made up of conjunctions, adverbs, and prepositional phrases.
Elena‐Simona Apostol +9 more
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The leader cult in communist Romania 1965-1989: constructing Ceaușescu's uniqueness in painting [PDF]
, 2007 This study focuses on Ceaușescu’s cult in painting. Its aim is to demonstrate that in spite of obvious similarities with the master cult of Stalin, the Romanian leader's cult was not a simple adaptation of Stalin's cult, but it had its own ...
Mocanescu, Alice Carmen Rodica
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