Seeking a preferential option for the rural poor in Chile by Edward Dew

“…From colonial times well into the twentieth century (and, unfortunately, even beyond) the man/land relationship in Latin America has been markedly unjust. …”
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Feministas por la paz. La prédica contra la guerra y militarismo en los albores del feminismo rioplatense by Gisela Manzoni

“…Indeed, those times witnessed a world context that already announced the great wars of the twentieth century. For this purpose, we selected different interventions referring to these topics, paying special attention to those of its director, María Abella de Ramírez. …”
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Des photographes hors champ ? Les femmes dans les cercles amateurs et pictorialistes français (1891-1914) by Frédérine Pradier

“…This article proposes to study the social role of women in amateur photography in France at the turn of the twentieth century. The photographic activity of women conveys the antagonism structuring the bourgeois order, separating the public and private spheres. …”
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Biblical metaphor: the cosmic garden heritage by B. Green

“… An inquiry into the nature of metaphor, as it has evolved since Aristotle and particularly in the late twentieth century, allows fresh consideration of biblical texts. …”
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Les nouveaux espaces publics chez les Yucuna d’Amazonie colombienne by Laurent Fontaine

“…Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the regular contacts of the Yucuna Indians with some new external actors have gradually led them to experience new public spaces, permanently transforming their social organization. …”
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Imigrantes espanhóis e poloneses como agentes de relações transnacionais entre a Europa e o sul do Brasil by Regina Weber

“…This article presents actions of individuals and entities belonging to two immigrant groups, during the twentieth century, materialized either in productive activities and artisanal techniques, or in emigrant organizations. …”
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Notes sur le mobilier funéraire de Thoutmosis IV by Renaud Pietri

“…The tomb of Thutmose IV (KV 43), excavated in the early twentieth century by Howard Carter, contained two leather-scabbard fragments, which probably attested to the presence of daggers among the grave goods of the 18th-dynasty king. …”
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THE CONCEPT OF THE «BLACK HUNDREDS» IN THE SOVIET HISTORICAL SCIENCE: RUNNING IN CIRCLES by G. A. Ivakin

“…As a result, the full scientific debate on the right monarchism in the Soviet period did not take place, and Soviet historians failed to form a historical concept of the Black Hundreds as an ideological and political trend in the early twentieth century.…”
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L’enseignement des langues étrangères en Grèce : hégémonie ou pluralité linguistique ? by Varvara Pyromali

“…However, in the mid-twentieth century, Anglo-American influence propelled English to the forefront of communication, education and business. …”
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Individual Agency and the Diversity of Traditional Practice: The Iji Nla Association of Ijede by Charles K. Omotayo

“…In Ijede town, a suburb of Ikorodu in Ijede Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, exists the Iji Nla Association, an ancient traditional group that rose to local power through the agency of Prince Ajanaku during the first half of the twentieth century. Over time, it increasingly functioned as an institution providing traditional social control mechanisms and security. …”
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La photogénie de l’artiste en action : six exemples de l’acte créateur photographié au xxe siècle by Pierre-Emmanuel Perrier de La Bâthie

“…What therefore can we expect from their association, especially in the twentieth century, which saw the birth of the most subjective and immaterial forms of art? …”
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Enjeux textuels d’une lecture féministe de la science-fiction by Richard Saint‑Gelais

“…Godwin’s “The Cold Equations” and A. Robida’s The Twentieth Century allows us to put forward an array of questions about the role of reading in the shaping of fictional worlds, the identification of the stance tacitly assumed by narratives, and the evaluation of the respective incidence of ideology and formal devices.…”
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Dystopia in the Skies: Negotiating Justice and Morality on Screen in the Video Game BioShock Infinite by Stefan Schubert

“…In turn, the game suggests to draw parallels between these fictional representations and actual US society at the beginning of the twentieth century.…”
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The Word become Flesh. Wild orality and “palliative” conservation for the Mexican performative arts by Juan Gerardo Ugalde Salinas

“…Since the beginning of the twentieth century, Mexico's political and social context has influenced a body of performance artworks rich in activist connotations, full of black humor and references to the violence and injustice surrounding. …”
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Sit finis libri, sed non finis quaerendi. Lămuriri preliminare la Bernard din Clairvaux, Despre considerare by Alexander Baugmarten

“…The main study stake is to highlight the value of the political discourse operating within the values of religious experience from Bernard’s perspective, and leading to an analysis comparable to Karl Schmidt’s theory of the exception state, in the twentieth century.…”
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A Broken Idyll: Post-Pastoralism in the Works of George Crumb by Kristina KNOWLES

“…Pastoral is one of the oldest and most enduring musical topics, yet most scholarship exploring it in music ends with the beginning of the twentieth century. This paper seeks to examine the expression of the pastoral in the musical output of post-modern composer, George Crumb. …”
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Les riches heures et l’avenir incertain de la culture cotonnière en Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre by Camille Renaudin

“…Cotton farming has been one of the rare achievements in the agricultural development of Western and Central African CFA franc countries in the second half of the twentieth century. However, the economical crisis is now facing threats that jeopardize its future and shows the difficulty for African cotton industries to integrate the global market. …”
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Du crime passionnel au féminicide. À propos de l’affaire Chambige by Aya Umezawa

“…The term 'crime passionnel', coined at the same time, also potentially justified the author. In the twentieth century, De Greeff denounced the hatred of women that hides behind compassion for criminals of passion, and Bourdieu pointed out that men's brutality originates in an anguish towards women. …”
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A Few Misconceptions about Cultural Evolution by O’Brien Michael J.

“…Despite a growing number of social scientists who view the evolution of culture as a Darwinian process, research in the field at large is still rooted in the orthogenetic, progressive models of cultural evolution that were popularized in the nineteenth century and brought back in a new form in the mid-twentieth century. This is unfortunate because it shifts the focus away from the fact that cultural evolution is driven by some exceedingly complicated and highly interesting mechanisms that await further analytical attention. …”
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