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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
wiley   +1 more source

Poland in the Period of Partitions 1795–1914 [PDF]

, 2015
The present book “Poland – History, Culture and Society. Selected Readings” is the third edition of a collection of academic texts written with the intention to accompany the module by providing incoming students with teaching materials that will assist ...
Żurawski vel Grajewski, Radosław
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A ‘Wholly Unjustifiable Treatment of British Subject’? The Detention of W. T. Goode in the Baltic, 1919

History, EarlyView.
Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
wiley   +1 more source

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

Codrul 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, Alexey V. Rodionov, Andrey P. Skiba   +2 more
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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]

Plural: 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
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HOUSING QUESTION OLD AND NEW: Mapping Crowding, Tenure, Rents and Segregation in the Neighborhoods of Major European Cities around 1900 and Today

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In a context of unprecedented urbanization, nineteenth‐century European cities faced the ‘housing question’, i.e. precarious housing standards and affordability problems. While existing research has well described these historical housing problems in single‐city studies or in national urbanization histories, to our knowledge, there are hardly ...
Sebastian Kohl, Florian Müller, Ria Wilken   +2 more
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The Monarchy Downfall was preceded by Monarchists Decline in Quality and Quantity…»: on causes of Russian Empire Sunset

RUDN 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
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Russian factory inspection (1882-1918): cui bono? [PDF]

This study deals with history of important state institution in late Russian Empire - factory inspection. Such aspects of institutional development as evolution of legislative regulations, growth of staff, and complication of functions (and particularly,
Andrei Y. Volodin
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source