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Ottoman Nationalism in Transition from Empire to Republic, 1908–1931
This book deals with the complex process of national identity formation in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic, during a crucial...
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Connected Worlds Notes from 235 Countries and Territories - Volume 1 (1960-1999)
The notes that Ludger Kühnhardt wrote in 235 countries and territories around the world create a fascinating panorama, reflected in the personal...
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Vegetation and Landscape Dynamics of the Iberian Pyrenees During the Last 3000 Years The Montcortès Palynological Record
The high-resolution palynological study of the varved sediments of Lake Montcortès has provided a unique record of the regional vegetation shifts...
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Polizei und Sicherheit Akteure - Heuristiken - Repertoires
Als zentrale Sicherheitsexpertin des Staates trägt die Polizei durch ihre spezifischen Sicherheitsheuristiken und Sicherheitsrepertoires in...
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Handbuch Rechtsextremismus
Das Handbuch liefert einen aktuellen und wissenschaftlich fundierten Überblick über den Rechtsextremismus. Neben theoretischen Erklärungsansätzen und...
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Reflecting Imperial Overstretch and New Realities The British Trade Corporation, 1917–1926
This book is the first comprehensive history of the British Trade Corporation, which was constituted under a Royal Charter on 21st April 1917. Its...
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Introduction: The Age of Empire, the Making of the Modern Nation, and the Advancement of Medical Sciences
This introductory essay focusses on the concepts of empire, colonies, and the nation, and how they intersect with medicine. Historiography in these...
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Tropical Medicine and the “Consolidation” of the Portuguese Empire (1902–1966)
Defending the Portuguese colonial empire in Africa after the Berlin conference was never an easy task for the national political order. Despite the...
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Tropical Medicine, the Nation, and the Colonial Expansion in the View of Italian Royal Navy Physicians at the End of the Nineteenth Century
This chapter explores the connections between two contemporary historical phenomena that Italian historiography has poorly connected hitherto: the...
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Stories of Silence, Echoes of Events: The Family as a Changing Site of Illness
Today, citizens in many western countries are increasingly confronted with questions of mental health. In the mid-twentieth century, mental issues...
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Navigating Imprisonment: Tactics and Experiences in an Eighteenth-Century Danish Prison Workhouse
In the latter decades of the eighteenth century, thousands of inmates were sentenced to the prison workhouse at Christianshavn for crimes ranging...
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Catholics, Muslims and the “nones”: old and new cultural and political divides
Ever since they have existed, studies have shown a link between religious affiliation and political behavior. However, the basis for this link is a...
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What goes with what and for whom? How political sophistication shapes the structuring of economic and cultural beliefs
Recent studies have acknowledged the heterogeneity in the way citizens make sense of their economic and cultural beliefs, thus calling to question...
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The ‘Scottish’ State and Foreignness, 1885–1914: The ‘Alien’ Concept, Problematisation and the Pursuit of the Common Good
By the turn of the twentieth century, newcomers from continental Europe had begun to be demonstrably ‘present’ in Scottish cities and had begun to...
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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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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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Redressing or Excusing the Past? The Evaluation of Sexual Child Abuse in the Swedish Redress Scheme for Historical Abuse in Out-of-Home Care
This chapter addresses how adult victims of historical institutional child abuse have been treated in the Swedish state’s financial redress scheme....
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Re-negotiating Single Motherhood Within the Helsinki Mother and Child Home in Post-War Finland
This chapter studies how single motherhood was negotiated within the Helsinki Mother and Child Home in post-war Finland. The home was founded by...
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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...