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Comparing and Exploring Frontier Myth and Reality in Latin America

submitted by 957896 18 days ago

Frontiers around the world have long attracted attention, both scholarly and popular, owing to their exoticism and often ‘larger-than-life’ qualities. In Latin America, scholars have deployed a...

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Credit, reputation, and masculinity in British urban commerce: Edinburgh, c. 1710–70

submitted by phainex 23 days ago

This article draws on cases of public insult from the Edinburgh consistory court to explore constructions of credit and reputation during the eighteenth century. Scotland's unique legal context off...

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John Cabot and his Italian financiers

submitted by dege2 23 days ago

While the early Bristol expeditions to North America have always been thought of as a purely English phenomenon, this article demonstrates that they were partly funded by Italian capital. Following...

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Complaints of the lesser commune, oligarchic rule and baronial reform in thirteenth-century Oxford

submitted by chod 24 days ago

In 1253 the ‘lesser commune’ of Oxford directed a petition to Henry III with complaints against the ‘magnates’ there who were misusing their powers over taxation and commerce and otherwise ...

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Peninsularity and patriotism: Spanish and British approaches to the Peninsular War, 1808–14

submitted by extrico 24 days ago

The Peninsular War until recently has failed to receive comprehensive and critical attention from Spanish and British historians, their outputs having been partial, narrative and ideological in nat...

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Through the magnifying glass: provincial aspects of industrial growth in post-Unification Italy

submitted by DeclaRyl 26 days ago

This article presents estimates of industrial production in post-Unification Italy's 69 provinces in the census years 1871, 1881, 1901, and 191Initially industry was largely artisanal, and located ...

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“Conspiring Bastards”: Saddam Hussein's Strategic View of the United States

submitted by SantJak 26 days ago

This article uses captured Iraqi regime records to trace Saddam Hussein's strategic view of the United States from the time of his political ascendancy in the 1970s to his invasion of Kuwait in 199...

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“We Don't Want a Munich”: Hanoi's Diplomatic Strategy, 1965–1968

submitted by sodighepaar 26 days ago

This paper explores Hanoi's diplomatic strategy during the early stage of the so-called Vietnam War. It draws from Vietnamese, Western, and other materials to elucidate the meanings and usages Hano...

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Did Canada Kill Fast Track?

submitted by dallvit 26 days ago

Fast track procedures have been key institutional mechanisms for U.S. trade policy making for nearly three decades. In April 2008, the U.S. House of Representatives made a small change to rules for...

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“A Very Pleasant Way to Die”: Radiation Effects and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb against Japan

submitted by AlbertoM 26 days ago

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the atomic bombs used against Hiroshima and Nagasaki was their accompanying radiation effects. The effects of ionizing radiation on the bomb's survivors...

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Place Matters: Domestic Regionalism and the Formation of American Foreign Policy

submitted by iddeiback2 26 days ago

Place matters in how Americans and their political representative have responded to U.S foreign relations. Domestic regionalism has exercised a persistent and at times primary influence on the form...

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Less Sugar, More Warships: Food as American Propaganda in the First World War

submitted by garydiaa48 27 days ago

The use of food as American war propaganda finds its origins in the First World War, when anti-German sentiment prompted Americans to rename German foods. The First World War also signifies an impo...

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The Kishu Army and the Setting of the Prussian Model in Feudal Japan, 1860-187

submitted by mecragay 27 days ago

In 1860–1 the Tokugawa bakufu established diplomatic relations with the kingdom of Prussia. The fascination for the Prussian military system rapidly spread in Japan, a land that was destabili...

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Orphans, Converts, and Prostitutes: Social Consequences of War and Persecution in the Ottoman Empire, 1914-1923

submitted by rmocep 27 days ago

Considerable research has been conducted on the relationship between the First World War and the persecutions of Ottoman Armenians. So far, little is known about the aftermath of the catastrophe, i...

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Reappraising Late Medieval Strategy: The Example of the 1415 Agincourt Campaign

submitted by menhctyhoe 27 days ago

Modern military historians struggle to explain medieval strategic behaviour. One key reason, the article argues, is their strong belief in the existence of timeless strategic standards. By analysin...

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