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Conclusion: Women Speaking Out in the Medieval Parliament
The concluding chapter analyses an unusual case from the Parliament of 1427–1428 in which a group of London women were said to have entered the...
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Simulation and Architecture: Map** Building Information Modeling
In the 1990s, Building Information Modeling (BIM) software significantly altered architectural approaches to planning and building. Based on...
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A “Fair Matter for Public Discussion and Enquiry?”
This chapter explores in detail the carceral regime at Dartmoor, part of a broader framework of management and oversight put in place by the...
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Between Iconic Image and (Artificial) Ruins: Shanghai Sihang Warehouse and Chinese Modern Visuality of World War II
Opened in 2015, the Sihang Warehouse Memorial Museum is an architectural relic of the fierce and famous “Defense of Sihang Warehouse,” which took...
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Compilations: Designing and Using Archaeological Databases
This chapter introduces the concepts and tools used to design databases, including information languages and data models. With emphasis on relational...
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Registration: Erasing Indigenous Land Rights
Land title registration on Torrens’ model spread quickly, not only to other settler colonies in Australia, New Zealand, and western Canada, but also...
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The Connection Between Economic and Social Elite
In Athens, private wealth was harnessed on a large scale in the religious and military spheres in the form of liturgies and eisphorai. This specific...
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Eugenics and Border Control, Australia 1912–1920
This chapter accounts for the perception of Australia 1912 Immigration Act as heralding its ‘definite eugenic phase’. It positions Director of...
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Plotting Out a Living
This chapter explores aspects of the experiences of growing up within village communities, from schooling and other training up to marriage. As much...
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Holocaust Education in the Museum Space: An Israeli Perspective
Shachar’s chapter explores the educational philosophy of Yad LaYeled, the only children’s Holocaust memorial museum in the world, which is located in...
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The Application of Virtual Reality Technology to Heritage Conservation in Famagusta’s Armenian Church
This chapter explains how Virtual Reality (VR) technology could possibly be used for heritage conservation based on a pilot case we have conducted...
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Stoats and Weasels (1883–1892)
Over the decade 1883–1892, at least 7838 British stoats and weasels were landed in New Zealand. At least 25 shipments are known, on named ships, with...
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The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century (1995–Today)
This chapter deals with fashion in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, dominated by the phenomenon of globalization. First of all,...
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Introduction: The Armenian Church Project: Heritage Welfare in an Unrecognized State
This book is about seven centuries of change in Famagusta, Cyprus, and the Eastern Mediterranean, in which the fourteenth-century Armenian Church of...
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The Debate on Privateering and Neutral Ports, 1793–1799
Wold examines the little-known British-Danish debate on privateering and neutral ports. Why did the Danish government allow French privateers to use...
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The Brazilian Expeditionary Force: The Smoking Cobras
Brazil was the only Latin American country to send troops into combat in World War II. This chapter takes the reader from the level of policy...
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The Status of Patent Medicines
Patent medicines had a status of their own that was distinct from both orthodox medicine and irregular practice. Branded proprietary medicines became...
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East Germany: An Elaborately Squandered Opportunity
This chapter covers the single case brought by East Germany against a suspected former Arajs Kommando man. The capture, investigation, and trial of...