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Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century

open access: yesHistory, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 66-89, January 2026.
Abstract Influential sociologists of social control, including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and others, conceived of the modern state as progressively moving towards the humanization of its penal programme. This article highlights developments that do not easily fit this progressivist model, drawing attention to the region that today is often referred to ...
Olga Kantokoski
wiley   +1 more source

State of the Field: The History of Masculinities

open access: yesHistory, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 5-29, January 2026.
Abstract This State of the Field article discusses how, when and why the history of masculinities has emerged since the 1980s, and why it continues to be an important research field today. The article begins with the field's multiple origin stories and then discusses its expansion in chronology, geography and theme, as well as newer directions for ...
ERICA L. FRASER
wiley   +1 more source

Britain and genocide: historical and contemporary parameters of national responsibility [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article (originally given as the Annual War Studies Lecture at King's College, London, on 25 January 2010) challenges the assumption that Britain's relationship to genocide is constituted by its `vigilance towards the genocide of others.
Shaw, Martin
core   +1 more source

Watching Radical Geography: Spaces and Practices of Authoritarian Surveillance in ‘Democratic’ and ‘Dictatorial’ Brazil

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper addresses stories of surveillance of Brazilian critical/radical geographers, drawing on innovative sources. That is, the folders and reports through which the political police and related institutions watched critical and radical scholars during the 20th century in all Brazilian states and abroad, under both ‘dictatorial’ and ...
Federico Ferretti, Guilherme Ribeiro
wiley   +1 more source

Wartime China’s Resistance against Japanese Aggression: Changing Interpretations and Perspectives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In 1931, Japan invaded Manchuria and established the puppet state of Manchukuo in northeast China. Hoping to avoid an all-out war with Japan, China pursued a policy of appeasement and did not resist the occupation of China.
Fortin, Jason, Pagliarini, Tom
core   +1 more source

The Myth of the Good War: America in the Second World War Revised Edition (Book Review) by Jacques R. Pauwels [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Review of The Myth of the Good War: America in the Second World War Revised Edition by Jacques R ...
St. Croix, Brad
core   +1 more source

The Twentieth-Century Urals Economy in Historical Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The article discusses major works on economic history published by Urals scholars over the past few decades and outlines the main stages of their research development.
Guanshan, Ch.   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Anti-Cosmopolitan Campaign in the USSR: Russian Historiography in 2010s – Early 2020s

open access: yesСибСкрипт
The article describes the recent Russian historiography (2010s – early 2020s) on the anti-cosmopolitan campaign launched by the Soviet authorities in 1949–1953. The research relied on the principles of historicism and objectivity.
Elena S. Genina   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Leaders of the February Revolution M. Rodzyanko and A. Kerenskii in Late February – Early May 1917 in Soviet Historiography (1918–1985)

open access: yesHistoria provinciae: журнал региональной истории
The article analyses the Soviet historiography of 1918–85 devoted to the questions of leadership in the February Revolution and the activities of M. Rodzyanko and A. Kerenskii in March – early May 1917. The author proves that starting with the works of S.
Andrei B. Nikolaev
doaj   +1 more source

Yuri Borisov: Soviet Historiography Reconsidered

open access: yes, 1991
Summary of lecture at the Harriman Institute.
openaire   +2 more sources

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