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GENDER, POWER AND IMPLICATION IN ANTJE RÁVIK STRUBEL'S NOVEL BLAUE FRAU
German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 4, Page 537-556, October 2026.Abstract By bringing Michael Rothberg's notion of the ‘implicated subject’ into conversation with feminist scholarship, this article examines Antje Rávik Strubel's Blaue Frau, a novel that addresses both structural violence and specific instances of sexualised violence in a European context.
Friederike Eigler
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 318-332, September 2026.This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version of the ...
Kai Parker
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Evliyâ Çelebi’nin Freng-pesend Resim Tutkusu
Cahiers Balkaniques, 2013 Evliyâ Çelebi evidently became acquainted with European painting at an early age. Somewhat later, as he writes, he studied calligraphy with Güğümbaşı Mehemmed Efendi and nakş — i.e., painting — with Nakkaş Hükmizâde Alî Beg. He also informs us in several
Nuran Tezcan
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A Model for Road Transport in France and the UK, 1910–1930
Transactions in GIS, Volume 30, Issue 6, September 2026.ABSTRACT This article introduces a methodology for the creation of historical road transport networks, focussing on France and the UK between 1910 and 1930. We construct the first road networks for both countries in the early twentieth century, the key take‐off period of motoring. We differentiate roads according to quality, width, and surfacing.
Alexis Litvine +5 more
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Did Evliyâ Çelebi “fall in love” with the Europeans?
Cahiers Balkaniques, 2013 What was Evliyâ’s attitude toward the Europeans, or the Franks as he calls them? Europeans are always referred to disparagingly but on the personal level Evliyâ had no problem befriending individual Europeans.
Robert Dankoff
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New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, Volume 60, Issue 2, June 2026.Galaxiids are a family of scaleless and mostly small freshwater fish which are distributed across the temperate latitudes of the southern hemisphere. The largest member of this family is the giant kōkopu (Galaxias argenteus), which has the added distinction of being the first New Zealand freshwater fish of any kind to be scientifically described.
James Braund
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Field Theory and Colonialism: Indirect Colonial Situation as a Social Field in Egypt (1882–1922)
Sociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 180-189, June 2026.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Egypt under British rule (1882–1922) constituted a field of power in which the local state of Egypt and the British administration competed to dominate three key subfields to ensure control over a contested territory: the modern courts system, policing, and agricultural production.
Mehdi Hoseini
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Buryat Oral Histories on Inner Asian Pilgrimage: Introducing a New Source
Oriental Studies, 2020 Introduction. Research on Buryat and Kalmyk pilgrimage to Buddhist worshiping sites in Tibet and wider in Inner Asia at the late imperial period mostly focuses on biographies and travel writings of Buddhist clergy, while experience of ordinary pilgrims
Sayana B. Namsaraeva
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 299-322, May 2026.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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The Art of Family Reading: Adapting Mary Shelley's ‘The Mortal Immortal’ (1833) Into a Graphic Novel
Literacy, Volume 60, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT The popularity of children's graphic novels reflects a rising interest in multimodal literature, and the academic benefits of reading graphic novels have been widely documented. However, little research exists on the possibilities afforded by creating graphic novels.
Susan Civale, Rachael Stone
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