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Honouring the Past, Embracing the Future

The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The United Church of Canada, founded in 1925, represents an ambitious experiment in church union that blends Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist traditions. Over the past century, the church has played a pivotal role in shaping Canadian society by advocating for social justice, Indigenous reconciliation, interreligious dialogue ...
Hyuk Cho
wiley   +1 more source

Multidimensional Militarisation, Evidence From Mexico's War on Drugs

International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article documents different dimensions of militarisation observed in Mexico since the start of the war on drugs. It argues that militarisation is a multidirectional phenomenon that is characterised by rationales that justify the use of illegal means to address complex issues, promising expediency and efficiency but rarely delivering on it.
Agustin Hernandez Berea
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Does Deposit Insurance Promote Deposit Stability? Evidence from the Postal Savings System during the 1920s

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.
Abstract We evaluate whether deposit insurance (DI) promotes liquidity by influencing depositor behavior. We use the postal savings (PS) system and state‐adopted DI schemes during the 1920s to examine the effect of bank suspensions on PS deposit growth in pairs of border cities (DI versus non‐DI).
Lee K. Davison, Carlos D. Ramirez
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Transformations of the historical context in the linguistic consciousness: Ideas, idols, and ideals

Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2017
The present paper is of high relevance, because this year marks the 100th anniversary of the events of 1917, which forces us to reconsider the situation of that time.
M.A. Pilgun
doaj  

The Place of History in British Criminology: 20th‐Century Developments

Sociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 16-30, March 2025.
ABSTRACT While the relevance of historical research and analysis for the development of a critical criminology in the United States in the 1970s has recently received some attention by historical criminologists, the place of history in British criminology—and British critical criminology in particular—remains a largely unexplored area of academic ...
Roberto Catello
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Political Cooperation in the Revolutionary Process of 1917–1920 (on the Materials of Voronezh Province)

Historia provinciae: журнал региональной истории, 2018
The revolutionary process of 1917–22 demonstrates the variety of instruments for cooperation throughout the period under the study. The February Regime and the regimes of ‘democratic counter-revolution’ were based on the ideas of political solidarity as ...
Mikhail Razin’kov
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When Great Powers Struggle: How Geopolitical Alignments of Small States Are Influenced by Their MNEs

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Comparing two distinct deglobalization periods, this study shows how Finnish multinational enterprises (MNEs) used corporate diplomatic activities (CDA) to influence Finland's alignment with a struggling great power. Drawing from hegemonic stability theory and new institutional economics, we argue that the power's collapsing global networks ...
Saara Matala, Christian Stutz
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The Unimaginable Revolution: 1917 in Retrospect

Historická sociologie, 2018
The essay takes off from current controversies about Communism, and on the relative weight of its cultural, political and economic components. The discussion then moves, in light of recent historical scholarship, to problems of conceptualizing the ...
Johann Pall Arnason
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Trade Wars, International Supply Chains, and Business Associations: Historical Evidence from Norway and Portugal

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the 1921–1923 trade war between Norway and Portugal as a historical case for exploring business responses to deglobalization and trade disruption. Focusing on the international supply chains (ISCs) of port wine and salted and dried cod, it investigates how business actors contributed to the recoupling of ISCs after a ...
Rolv Petter Amdam, Teresa da Silva Lopes, Trudi Henrydotter Eikrem, Maria Eugenia Mata   +3 more
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Dni by V.V. Shul’gin (1922) and the Role of Witnessing in the Construction of the Anti-Semitic Myth: from History to Self Writing and back again

Avtobiografija, 2014
The paper focuses on the text Dni, written, already in exile, by V.V. Shul’gin, a famous Kievian journalist and political figure, known for his nationalistic and anti-Semitic views. In the conviction that it is possible “through alpha (1905) to determine
Maria Gatti Racah
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