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Reclaiming Beaches for the People on the Fourth of July [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
During these dog days of summer, millions of Americans will flock to the nation’s shores for comfort and relief. Who will go, where they will go, and who they can expect to find there speaks volumes about class in America.
Kahrl, Andrew W.
core   +1 more source

M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
wiley   +1 more source

Book Review by Louis McCray of The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228 by Dick Couch

open access: yes, 2002
The review author attended Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) Class 209. The article of record as published may be found at https://doi.org/10.1177/0095327X0202900109.
openaire   +2 more sources

Winston Churchill and France: A Certain Ideal

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines relations between Winston Churchill and France. It argues that Churchill was sympathetic to France and, in particular, unusual among Englishmen of his generation in being sympathetic to its political system, but also that this sympathy did not make Churchill consistent in his relations with France.
Richard Vinen
wiley   +1 more source

Churchill and Germany: A ‘Special’ Relationship

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract No other country defined the trajectory of Churchill's political career more than Germany, a country of which he had little direct knowledge but which he either sought to emulate, accommodate or oppose throughout his time in politics. This article traces Churchill's relationship with Germany from his entry into politics at the beginning of the
T. G. Otte
wiley   +1 more source

‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
wiley   +1 more source

HOUSING QUESTION OLD AND NEW: Mapping Crowding, Tenure, Rents and Segregation in the Neighborhoods of Major European Cities around 1900 and Today

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In a context of unprecedented urbanization, nineteenth‐century European cities faced the ‘housing question’, i.e. precarious housing standards and affordability problems. While existing research has well described these historical housing problems in single‐city studies or in national urbanization histories, to our knowledge, there are hardly ...
Sebastian Kohl   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Warrior Elites on the South and East Coasts of the Baltic Sea,and Maritime Routes in the Early Merovingian Period(approx. 450-550 CE)

open access: yes, 2022
During the second half of the 5th and the first half of the 6th century, several archaeologicalsites (mainly graves) belonging to military elites appear on the south and east coasts of theBaltic Sea, from the mouth of the Oder to the Gulf of Bothnia. Their emergence along the Balticcoast is linked to the birth of a maritime route between Western and ...
openaire   +1 more source

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