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“A Vast and Beautiful Country”: Ideas of Exile, Racial Hierarchies, and Industrial Education in the Formation of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission (APCM) and the Congo Free State (CFS), 1832-1890
Recent literature has highlighted the close relationship between the American Presbyterian Congo Mission (APCM) and the government of the Belgian Congo. Despite a libel trial in 1909, which saw the APCM face a key Belgian ... -
Victorian Painting and Social Action
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Visualising Femicide in the Print Media: A Comparison of Italy and the UK
The 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action developed at the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women acknowledged the media as a vital arena for the advancement of women’s equality. More than 25 years ... -
‘We Are Left With Barely Anything’: Colonial Rule, Dependency, and the Lever Brothers in the Belgian Congo, 1911-1960
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2019-07-10)When historians have examined labour relations in the Belgian Congo, the paradigmatic image is that of rapacious, avaricious metropolitan investors oppressing helpless African communities by dint of a skeletal but violent ... -
What is Conservatism? History, Ideology and Party
(SAGE Publications, 2019)Is there a political philosophy of conservatism? A history of the phenomenon written along sceptical lines casts doubt on the existence of a transhistorical doctrine, or even an enduring conservative outlook. The main ... -
What is the history of anger a history of?
(2020-06-01)This article uses the history of emotions to make two arguments – one destructive and one constructive. It uses examples from intellectual and cultural history to undermine the idea that the modern English term ‘anger’ ... -
When did Britain join the Occident? On the origins of the idea of "the West" in English
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Wie westlich war das bundesdeutsche Fernsehen? Die Produktion und Rezeption von Unterhaltungsserien im Dreiländervergleich
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Wladimir Kaminer and Jewish Identity in 'Multikulti' Germany
(University of Kent, 2019-03-13)Wladimir Kaminer has become something of a poster-boy for the ‘Kontingentflüchtlinge [Quota Refugees]’, the term applied to Jews from the former Soviet Union who immigrated to Germany between 1990 and 2006, as a result of ... -
Women, Marriage and Paid Work in Post-war Britain
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Working across species down on the farm: Howard S Liddell and the development of comparative psychopathology, c. 1923 to 1962
(Springer Verlag, 2018-02-07)Seeking a scientific basis for understanding and treating mental illness, and inspired by the work of Ivan Pavlov, American physiologists, psychiatrists and psychologists in the 1920s turned to nonhuman animals. This paper ...
