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Women, Hospitality and The Intimate Politics of International Socialism, 1955–1965

In the 1950s, a commitment to democratic socialism connected networks of intellectuals, activists and political operators in both Europe and Asia. Many of these were women, who built informal and ... between men that remain underexplored. Apart from in Burma, the hub of the Asian socialist movement, Asian socialist parties were almost always in political opposition to mainstream nationalist parties. The

Doubt and the dislocation of magic: France, 1790–1940

. 10 Liam Kofi Bright, ‘White Psychodrama’, forthcoming in Journal of Political Philosophy. 11 Alexandra Walsham, ‘The Reformation and the “Disenchantment of the World” Reassessed’, Historical ... choosing, as he does, to see ‘belief’ as a colonizer of ‘neighboring epistemic categories’. Ibid., 282, 293. 7 See Ted Honderich (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, 2nd edn (Oxford, 2005), 193; D

Solitude and Soul in Restoration Britain

Mackenzie made no secret of his political ambitions. Modern interpreters treat the debate as a literary joust, a playful display of mock argument in a classic late Renaissance mode. A letter from Evelyn to ... political events; his shrewd reflections on the arts, religion and science: all these make his Diary an invaluable source. Evelyn was an influential courtier and a polymath, a notable figure in his day. But

Invitro antibacterial activity of bark, leaf and root extracts of combretum molle plant against streptococcus equi isolated from clinical cases of strangles in donkeys and horses

): Antibacterial Efficacy and Safety of Selected Kenyan Medicinal Plants a Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of a Doctor of Philosophy Degree (PhD) in the Department of

Gold Rushes, Universities and Globalization, 1840–1910

tendencies. The pre-gold city of Sydney, with a pre-rush population of 54,000, positioned itself at the top of the Australian colonies’ social and political food chain. Gold rushes upset this balance of power ... ’.53 In this case, the first university council in Melbourne saw revolutionary impulses and looked to re-create an Old World social hierarchy. Word of new political creeds in ascendance across the globe

Flows of History

articles reviewed date mostly from the year 2000 onwards, reflecting the growing importance of water to scholarly (as well as cultural, political and artistic) agendas in the previous two decades. We have ... and China and the staggeringly rapid melt of polar ice caps. At the same time, infrastructures around water reveal long legacies of political and environmental disfranchisement. To give but three recent

A comparison of strategies used and considered to mitigate droughts in California

droughts in California is increased use of wastewater recycling. However, it faces some emotional and political obstacles to its widespread use. ... planned expansion. Nancarrow et al. (2009) investigated the behavioral response to wastewater for potable and non-potable uses, indicating emotional and political obstacles to its implementation. Costwater

Women and the Fight for Urban Change in Late Francoist Spain

and oral history interviews to show how collectives helped shape the places in which they lived, changing Spain’s social and urban landscape and constituting the emergence of women into the political ... untaken, opposing her former political activism with an identity she depicts as traditionally feminine. This conflict might relate to cultural expectations from the time she is describing, or to her later

Risk analysis methods of water supply systems: comprehensive review from source to tap

analysis methodologies are in their journey to gain the necessary broad technical, community and political acceptance in the water treatment sector, and some gaps and opportunities have been included in the

Assessment of water productivity improvement strategies using system dynamics approach

may provide special conditions for the future import and export of virtual water, and it can also serve as an economic and political tool to exert pressure on countries with limited water resources. Due ... . Several of the categories raised in the Qazvin plain are influenced by the economic, social, political, cultural, and environmental conditions at the national and basin levels. During the analysis of the

The Uprooting of Indigenous Women’s Horticultural Practices in Brazil, 1500–1650

Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy (Princeton, 2017), 84. 111 Smith, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference, 84. 112 C. R. Boxer, The Golden Age of Brazil: Growing Pains of a Colonial

A study on the epidemiology of brucellosis in bovine population of peri-urban and rural areas of district Multan, southern Punjab, Pakistan

serve as main barriers in controlling brucellosis are conventional livestock policies, political influences, inadequate implementation of control measures, usage of old traditional practices, consumption

Passing The Book: Cultures of Reading in the Winthrop Family, 1580–1730

recipes to political tracts. Once deciphered and compared with other documents, such as letters and diaries, they show not only the ways in which the members of the family read these varied books, but also ... ' responses to political and religious crises. I A FAMILY TRADITION ‘Ye Eating teeth of time devours all things[:] a Hogshead of Ancient papers of Value belonging to our family lost at Ipswich, in New

Comparative evaluation of imperialist competitive algorithm and artificial neural networks for estimation of reservoirs storage capacity

assessment and management. In the present study, imperialist competitive algorithm as a relatively new socio-political-based global search technique introduced for solving different optimization problems

The Turn to Sabotage by The Congress Movement in South Africa

leaders feared the social and political consequences of increased popular enthusiasm for using violence. Nelson Mandela, Joe Slovo, and the other founders of Umkhonto we Sizwe did not launch their sabotage ... a South African historiography that was dominated by the study of social history ‘from below’: most scholars evinced limited interest in the activities of the national leaders of formal political

Application of the “water flow decision pattern” to Asian disaster response

decision-making model has been expanded to other fields, such as political science, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, warfare, and evolutionary theory, among others. Second, human beings can be ... preliminary damage assessment, among others. Another factor was that Japanese political leaders feared that the Japanese people would lose face if they sought international help to clean up their own nuclear

‘Where does water go’? A critical analysis of nature of water crisis in Darjeeling city, India

social, economic, demographic, geographic, hydrological and infrastructural, and political aspects. Role of these drivers changes with varying space and spatial diversity. Therefore, several social ... , cultural, economic, and political factors must be considered in the study, in order to reach the root cause of the problem. Studying on the topic of social ecology of domestic water use in the context of

The United States As A Developing Nation: Revisiting The Peculiarities Of American History

of modernization inspired by Max Weber. The most promising avenue of inquiry, we argue, lies in asking how American political institutions configured what should properly be called an American ... a global political economy upon the world. If Britain’s industrial revolution in the late eighteenth century marked the beginning of a ‘Great Divergence’ (Pomeranz) of ‘the West’ from other regions

Trans Liminality and the Nazi State

of social orders, making visible the workings of supposed ‘normative’ and ‘logical’ binaries in cultural, biological and political mechanisms.6 In the context of modern Europe, most histories benefit ... ’ towards stigmatized sexual acts and identities in past eras can lead to such rosy conclusions.20 This article seeks to avoid such readings, and to remove the weight of political expectation that histories

Assessing the role of community participation in integrated watershed management in Dandi Lake watershed Dandi district, West Showa, Oromia, Ethiopia

management activities through mobilizing local resources in the form of cash, labor, materials, managerial and political support which are critical to program success. A response given from sample respondents