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‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
wiley   +1 more source

The Radical Attorney of the Russian Empire – Alexander Lindfors (1837–1890) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The article is intended to highlight the advocacy of the well-known attorney and zemstvo leader in the Russian Empire, Alexander Lindfors (1837–1890).
Yutsevych, Pavlo
core   +2 more sources

Sexing the history of Indian anti‐colonial internationalism: White women, Indian men and the politics of the personal

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract In contrast to the wealth of literature on the gendered and sexual politics of Indian nationalism, studies on the internationalisation of Indian anti‐colonial nationalism are rarely informed by the twin themes of gender and sexuality. As Indian activists traversed international political spaces in the early twentieth century, they frequently ...
Joanna Simonow
wiley   +1 more source

Exile on Penal Servitude in the Russian Empire in the 19th Century: Some Aspects of Applying [PDF]

open access: yesCodrul Cosminului, 2017
The results of the research of the main features of the execution of criminal penalties in the form of exile on servitude in the Russian Empire in the 19th century are presented in the article. The study was based on the use of narrative, comparative and
Aleksandr A. Krymov   +2 more
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Hired Childcare and Changing Maternal Perceptions Among the Urban Poor: Baby Farming in the Western Lands of Late Imperial Russia

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores baby farming in the western regions of late imperial Russia, framing it as a childcare practice of the lower‐classes – a form of crèche for working mothers. The article delves into the public discourse surrounding baby farming among the educated strata and contrasts it with how this practice was viewed by the lower ...
Ekaterina Oleshkevich
wiley   +1 more source

Orlando Figes. A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 / Revoluţia rusă. 1891-1924. Tragedia unui popor, Iaşi, Polirom, 2016, 814 p. Traducere de Cornelia Marinescu [PDF]

open access: yesPlural: History, Culture, Society, 2018
Review on Romanian version of the book signed by Orlando Figes. A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 / Revoluţia rusă. 1891-1924.
Anatol Petrencu
doaj  

Экспорт сахара из украинских земель Российской империи в Персию накануне и в годы Первой мировой войны [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
У статті розглядається малодосліджений аспект української історії - торговельні відносини між українськими землями Російської імперії та Персією на початку ХХ ст.
Pylypenko, O.   +2 more
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
wiley   +1 more source

The Monarchy Downfall was preceded by Monarchists Decline in Quality and Quantity…»: on causes of Russian Empire Sunset

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Russian History, 2011
The article is devoted to the causes of the Russian Empire breakup. The author studies imperial foundations as a particular type of statehood, shows their features in the light of these components and tries to trace the process of the Russian Empire ...
A P Korelin
doaj  

The Perception of Germany in the Kyivan Press: From Ukrainian People’s Republic to the Hetmanate (November 1917 — December 1918) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The 1917 February Revolution led to the reshaping of the war-era image of the German enemy. Focusing on the former imperial borderland province of the Southwestern Krai, this article unveils the national, political, and cultural considerations of the ...
Basenko, Ivan
core  

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