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Children of Empire

Groundings, 2022
While the British Empire is acknowledged to have functioned from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, it was during the nineteenth century that its greatest expansion in terms of size, population, and wealth occurred. Dominating the nineteenth century,
Molly Finlay
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The Crimea as Viewed by British Adventurer William Eton

Золотоордынское обозрение, 2020
Research objective: This paper analyses the account of the Crimea supplied in a little-known source written by British adventurer, William Eton, who visited this pe­ninsula in the period of an independent Crimean Khanate and used extremely interesting ...
Khrapunov N.I.
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The British End of the British Empire [PDF]

, 2018
How did decolonization impact on Britain itself? And how did Britain manage its transition from colonial power to postcolonial nation? Sarah Stockwell explores this question principally via the history of the overseas engagements of key institutions that had acquired roles within Britain's imperial system: the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the ...
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Changing patterns of imperialism and education: the United Kingdom

Revista Española de Educación Comparada, 2018
Education has been central to the maintenance of modern empires. Educational policies and practices under British imperialism reflected the complexities, tensions and conflicts in the different territories of the Empire.
Leslie Bash
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Commodity culture : tropical health and hygiene in the British Empire [PDF]

, 2008
Before heading to a 'tropical' region of the Empire, British men and women spent considerable time and effort gathering outfit believed essential for their impending trip.
Johnson, Ryan
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Sport in the concept and practice of the “civilizing mission” of Great Britain in the second half of the XIX century

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования
Introduction. The article analyzes the role of sport as a tool for the British to implement soft power policy in the British Empire in the second half of the 19th century.
T. N. Gella
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Palestine and the British Empire in US Political Cartoons, 1917-1919

Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований, 2022
The article is devoted to the analysis of the process of formation of the image of Palestine and the British Empire at the end of the First World War. On the basis of the materials of American cartoons and periodicals, the main points in the evolution of
Sergei O. Buranok
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Quantitative MRI Uncovers Subtle Cortical Damage in Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein Antibody‐Associated Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To determine whether myelin‐sensitive quantitative MRI reveals microstructural abnormalities in normal‐appearing cortex (NACtx) in myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody–associated disease (MOGAD), indicating that conventional MRI underestimates remission residual cortical injury.
Valentina Camera, Agnese Tamanti, Silvia Messina, Nicola Dall'Osto, Teresa Maltempo, Stefano Ziccardi, Matteo Foschi, Maria Grazia Piscaglia, Diana Ferraro, Francesco Crescenzo, Francesca Rossi, Albulena Bajrami, Sabrina Marangoni, Damiano Marastoni, Francesca Benedetta Pizzini, Maria Isabel Leite, Roberta Magliozzi, Patrick Waters, Massimiliano Calabrese, Jacqueline Palace, Ruth Geraldes   +20 more
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Methodological Perspectives on British Commercial Telegraphy and the Colonial Struggle over Democratic Connections in Gibraltar, 1914–1941

Media and Communication, 2018
This article examines the privatization of telegraphy in the British Empire from the perspective of Gibraltar, an overseas territory in the Mediterranean. While the history of international telegraphy is typically written from a world-systems perspective,
Bryce Peake
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A Geometrically Transient Platform for Bioelectronic Implants

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Minimally invasive bioelectronic implants often compromise performance for smaller sizes. To resolve this optimization dilemma, a wireless bioelectronic implant with a transient geometry is introduced (MiFi). The origami‐inspired device miniaturizes up to sixfold for syringe insertion and autonomously unfolds post‐implantation.
Selin Olenik, John D. Goodwin, Atharv Naik, Philip Coatsworth, Ioi Chit Cheung, Farbod Amirghasemi, Anies Sohi, Ehsan Abedi, Tayeb Tadlaoui, Maral P. S. Mousavi, Andriy S. Kozlov, Victoria Salem, Andrew S. Cowburn, Firat Guder   +13 more
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