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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract 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 ...
Kai Parker
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Commodity Windfalls, Polarization, and Net Foreign Assets: Panel Data Evidence on the Voracity Effect [PDF]
This paper examines the effects that windfalls from international commodity price booms have on net foreign assets in a panel of 145 countries during the period 1970-2007.
Rabah Arezki, Markus Brückner
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Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2013 Didactics Without Tendency. Boccaccio’s Falcon and Per Hallström’s Short Story, ”The Falcon” This essay focuses on the issue of how and why a pre-modern didactics is incorporated into a modern aestheticist short story – namely, Per Hallström’s ”The ...
Beata Agrell
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Poverty, voracity, and growth [PDF]
, 2011 This article investigates economic performance when enforceable property rights are missing and basic needs matter for consumption. It suggests a new view of the so-called voracity effect according to which windfall gains in productivity induce behavior ...
Strulik, Holger
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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Wagner and the fading voracity effect : short vs. long-run effects in developing countries [PDF]
, 2019 This paper empirically revisits the validity of Wagner’s proposition in a panel of 149 developing countries between 1980-2015 by focusing on different components of government expenditure.
Jalles, João Tovar
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Voracity and Growth Reconsidered [PDF]
This article investigates economic performance when enforceable property rights are missing and subsistence needs matter. It shows that if per capita income is sufficiently high, a windfall gain in productivity triggers behavior that leads to higher ...
Strulik, Holger
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NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2017 In my paper, I shall be examining how the voracity for news which characterises Tudor and―to a larger extent―Stuart England can be mapped on the spoken discourse of society in Early Modern England.
Elisabetta Cecconi
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Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
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Anthocoris nemorum (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae) as predator of cabbage pests-voracity and prey preference [PDF]
, 2010 Laboratory experiments were performed with adult female Anthocoris nemorum (Linnaeus) (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae) at 20°C ±1°C, L16:D8, 60-70% RH to determine voracity and preference on cabbage aphids (Brevicoryne brassicae L.) (Hemiptera: Aphididae ...
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