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Cosmopolitan justice and the globalization of capitalism: The UNDP and ILO proposals (2005)
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Recently several proposals for more effective, democratic and just forms of global governance have been put forward. In this paper I compare the proposals by the United Nations Development Programme, the International Labour Organization and cosmopol... Read More about Cosmopolitan justice and the globalization of capitalism: The UNDP and ILO proposals.

International Dimensions of Women's Suffrage: 'At the crossroads of several interlocking identities' (2005)
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This article surveys recent suffrage histories in a range of countries across the world with a focus on the neglected period of the interwar years. It asks what the suffrage movement would look like if viewed through the eyes of women from outside Br... Read More about International Dimensions of Women's Suffrage: 'At the crossroads of several interlocking identities'.

Can improvisation be taught? (2005)
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The aim of this article is to reconsider the (age old) problem of relating theory to practice in art education by placing it within the largely ignored context of improvisation. In so doing it is hoped that some of the well-known 'difficulties' art p... Read More about Can improvisation be taught?.

The concept of irony: Jane Austen's Emma and Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theatre (2005)
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Imaginary widows: Spinsters, marriage, and the "Lost generation" in Britain after the great war (2005)
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This article argues that the status of spinster was associated with widowhood in the decades after the First World War in Britain, an association that is still active in our collective memory. Widely publicized census statistics suggesting that a who... Read More about Imaginary widows: Spinsters, marriage, and the "Lost generation" in Britain after the great war.

Banana splits and policy challenges: The ACP Caribbean and the fragmentation of interest coalitions (2005)
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The 'milch-cow state' revisited: Republican politics in the Aveyron (2005)
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This article examines the 'republicanization' of the Aveyron under the Third Republic, exploring issues of the practice and meaning of politics in this rural département. I look at the impact of the Republic's efforts to secularize education and ask... Read More about The 'milch-cow state' revisited: Republican politics in the Aveyron.

Brussels French une fois: Transfer-induced innovation or system-internal development? (2005)
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In language contact studies, specific features of the contact languages are often seen to be the result of transfer (interference), but it remains difficult to disentangle the role of intra-systemic and inter-systemic factors. We propose to unravel t... Read More about Brussels French une fois: Transfer-induced innovation or system-internal development?.

Missing intertexts: Hannah craft's the Bondwoman's Narrative and African American literary history (2005)
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Politeness-induced semantic change: The case of quand même (2005)
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This article contributes to a growing body of theory that posits language-external, social factors as a primary motor in diachronic change. Politeness theory and the use of variationist approaches enable us to posit, and test, the hypothesis of a typ... Read More about Politeness-induced semantic change: The case of quand même.

Verulamium: The Romano-British name of St Albans (2005)
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A submitted article in the principal journal of general Celtic scholarship, accepted without major revision, reviewing previous scholarship on this difficult Romano-British place-name and claiming that it meant, in British Celtic, 'place of a man nam... Read More about Verulamium: The Romano-British name of St Albans.

Imperial Rhodesians: The 1953 Rhodes centenary exhibition in Southern Rhodesia (2005)
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Reviewing the Rhodes Centenary Exhibition (RCE) of 1953, this article focuses on three interrelated themes in post-war Southern Rhodesia. First, significant post-war immigration challenged the state to educate new white Rhodesians on the founding myt... Read More about Imperial Rhodesians: The 1953 Rhodes centenary exhibition in Southern Rhodesia.

Your room or mine? Spatial politics in children's literature (2005)
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German espionage and British counter-intelligence in South Africa and Mozambique, 1939-1944 (2005)
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For most of the Second World War, German and Italian agents were actively engaged in a variety of intelligence gathering exercises in southern Africa. The hub of this activity was Lourenço Marques, the colonial capital of Portuguese East Africa (Moza... Read More about German espionage and British counter-intelligence in South Africa and Mozambique, 1939-1944.

“Free, bold, joyous”’: the love of seaweed in Margaret Gatty and other mid-Victorian writers (2005)
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With particular reference to Gatty’s British Sea-Weeds and Eliot’s ‘Recollections of Ilfracombe’, this article takes an ecocritical approach to popular writings about seaweed, thus illustrating the broader perception of the natural world in mid-Victo... Read More about “Free, bold, joyous”’: the love of seaweed in Margaret Gatty and other mid-Victorian writers.

The émigré socialist revolutionary party and the russian peasantry during nep (2005)
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This article examines the analysis of the Russian peasantry during NEP that was made by members of the Socialist Revolutionary Party (SRs) in emigration. They saw evidence that peasant behaviour in this period justified narodnik beliefs. It also disc... Read More about The émigré socialist revolutionary party and the russian peasantry during nep.

Is redistribution a form of recognition? Comments on the Fraser-Honneth debate (2005)
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Hardly shall I tell my joys and sorrows: Robert Browning's engagement with Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetics (2005)
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Towards a polytheistic relationship to landscape: Issues for contemporary art (2005)
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The paper examines the concerns of the art critic and environmentalist Rebecca Solnit with the myth of Eden in the book of Genesis, the assumptions of a Judaeo-Christian monotheism and its secular inheritance, as a means to introduce the need for a '... Read More about Towards a polytheistic relationship to landscape: Issues for contemporary art.

Evidence for insertional codemixing: Mixed compounds and French nominal groups in Brussels Dutch (2005)
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In this paper we analyze mixed compounds, such as legume+winkel ‘vegetable shop, greengrocery‘ and winter+paletot ‘winter coat’ which contain a French and a Dutch element, and French nominal groups, such as carte d'identité ‘identity card’, and journ... Read More about Evidence for insertional codemixing: Mixed compounds and French nominal groups in Brussels Dutch.