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“Eminently appalling suffering”: Irish Women in World War I Medical Services, Citizenship, and Remembrance in the Irish Free State During the 1920s
Irish women served in World War I medical services as nurses, Voluntary Aid Detachments, doctors, ambulance drivers, and x-ray technicians. In doing...
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Coalition Warfare and the International Dimension
This chapter analyses the international dimension of the Dhofar War, covering external assistance to both the insurgency and the Sultanate of Oman....
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The Course of the War
This chapter covers the history of the conflict with reference to the transformation of the DLF into the Popular Front for the Liberation of the...
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‘Environmental Stewardship’ and Article 11 of the 1922 Constitution
Article 11 of the 1922 Constitution provides for State ownership of ‘natural resources’. This chapter argues that Article 11—and the successor...
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A Swedish Invention that Conquered the World
Dynamite, the safety match, the screw propeller, the AGA lighthouse, the adjustable wrench, the Hasselblad camera, the three-point safety belt and...
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The Social Democrats Embrace Sport
During the second half of the nineteenth century, as discussed in the previous chapter, in Sweden sport was not drawn into political conflicts...
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Property Rights and Democratic Decision-Making: Lessons from the 1922 Constitution
This chapter analyses the lessons that can be taken from the drafting of the 1922 Constitution for current-day constitutional property dilemmas. In...
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The Golden Age of Sport Respectability: The Post-war Period
Sport had fulfilled almost all the state’s requirements and expectations from the pre-war period, and the sharp criticism that had been directed at...
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Introduction
The year 1922 was meant to be the calm after the storm. The Articles of Agreement for a Treaty between British and Irish delegates signed in December...
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Introduction
Large-scale migration within and to the nineteenth-century British Isles was a reflection of a dynamic industrial economy. Among the migrants who...
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Finance, Industry and Information: The JSE and the Chamber of Mines
The early financial momentum in the development of gold miningGold mining promoted much more than just the establishment of intermediaries aimed at...
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Between Johannesburg, London and Paris: Deep-Level Mining and International Finance
The consolidation of the partnership between finance, industry, and the press came at a time of great transformation for Johannesburg’s economy. The...
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Blurring the Line and Walking the Street: The Elision of Visual Distinctions Between Prostitutes and New Women in Otto Dix’s Three Prostitutes on the Street (Drei Dirnen auf der Straße)
During the chaotic years of Germany’s Weimar Republic (1918–1933), women made some important gains, including employment opportunities and the right...
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The Unspoken Gender of Apocalypse: Patriarchal Realism and Ecofeminist Hope in Twenty-First-Century Post-apocalyptic Cinema
This chapter seeks to spotlight the big elephant in the room of cinematic apocalypse—patriarchal culture—one that only replicates the pachyderm...
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Identity Policies in Action
This chapter delves further into Ottoman nationalism in the second constitutional period, specifically examining the rise of the Unionist approach to...
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In the World of Postselves and Posthumans: The Biopolitical Utopia of Postmortalism
The chapter focuses on the biopolitical challenges of the rise a postmortal society as a result of the burgeoning research and business connected...
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Phototopia: Photography, Utopia of the Archive, and Techno-utopianism
Photography is frequently compared to mummification and embalming due to its ability to preserve moments that have passed and life that has vanished,...
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Cyberculture, U(Dys)topias, and Transformation
Utopia in the cybercultural world is on the one hand based on the assumptions of democratization of access to information, collective intelligence,...
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Revolution and Disillusion
With the constitutional revolution of 1908, the topic of this chapter, the Ottomans found themselves in a new political atmosphere that provided new...
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Imoinda in Berlin: Feminists and the Cultural Memory of Slavery After 1848
This chapter discusses the intersection between the discourses of antislavery and of women’s rights in the aftermath of 1848. It discusses cases of...