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“The Great Mistake of the Republic”: Why was the military uprising of July 17-18, 1936 not averted?

open access: yesИбероамериканские тетради, 2021
Book under review: Vinas, Angel. El gran error de la Republica: Entre el ruido de sables y la ineficacia del Gobierno. Barcelona: Critica, 2021.
A. A. Glazov
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Neutrality in World History

open access: yes, 2019
Neutrality in World History provides a cogent synthesis of five hundred years of neutrality in global history. Author Leos Müller argues that neutrality and neutral states, such as Switzerland, Sweden and Belgium, have played an important historical role
Müller, Leos, Müller, Leos,
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Writing World History

open access: yes, 2019
The term ‘world history’ describes one of the oldest, most persistent and most pliable forms of history writing.1 No simple definition is possible, for world histories vary widely in narrative style, structure and spatio-temporal scope. Furthermore, a
Hughes-Warrington, Marnie
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The World Civilizations library assignment: Development and analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
In 1986 a faculty group at Washington State University (WSU) embarked on a project that resulted in a new requirement for all prospective graduates of the university, a two-semester sequence in World Civilizations (Gen Ed 110 and 111), chronologically ...
Johnson, Corey   +2 more
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World Development Indicators 2010

open access: yes, 2010
The 1998 edition of world development indicators initiated a series of annual reports on progress toward the International development goals. In the foreword then, World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn recognized
World Bank
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Environment Matters at the World Bank, 2009 Annual Review : Banking on Biodiversity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This issue of environment matters celebrates the 2010 international year of biodiversity and describes some of the challenges and opportunities in protecting biodiversity for the benefit of humankind. From
World Bank
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Representing Reformation Traditions in China: Missionary Strategies, Discursive Practices and the Politics of Religious Classification

open access: yesВестник Новосибирского государственного университета. Серия: история, филология
This article examines the diverse approaches taken by missionaries from various Reformation traditions in constructing and communicating their confessional identities to Chinese audiences during the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
A. M. Ananyan, I. A. Fadeyev
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The “material turn” in world and global history [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This article charts the confluence and eventual overlap between two different fields: that of world/global history and that of material culture. At a basic level, world and global historians’ interest in “things” is the result of the fact that material ...
Riello, Giorgio
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USSR and the 1966 Coup d’État in Ghana: Based on Materials from Russian Archives

open access: yesVestnik RUDN. International Relations, 2020
The article investigates the role of Soviet experts and diplomats in conceiving the economic policy of the government of Kwame Nkrumah and in elaborating a seven-year development plan for Ghana (1963-1970).
Sergey Vasilyevich Mazov
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Pandemics Throughout History

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2021
The emergence and spread of infectious diseases with pandemic potential occurred regularly throughout history. Major pandemics and epidemics such as plague, cholera, flu, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East ...
J. Piret, G. Boivin
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