‘Nobody could possibly misunderstand what a group is’: a study in early twentieth-century group axiomatics
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DOI: 10.1007/s00407-017-0193-8
Abstract: In the early years of the twentieth century, the so-called ‘postulate analysis’—the study of systems of axioms for mathematical objects for their own sake—was regarded by some as a vital part of the efforts to… read more here.
Keywords: group; nobody could; early twentieth; could possibly ... See more keywords
Infectious disease in asylums: a fact-finding investigation to prevent tuberculosis contagion in the early twentieth century in Italy
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DOI: 10.1007/s10072-020-04744-4
Abstract: Nowadays, infectious diseases are a topic of great interest in the scientific community. One of the main issues concerns the spread of infections within hospitals. This is not a new fact. Indeed, doctors and health… read more here.
Keywords: disease; disease asylums; tuberculosis; century ... See more keywords
Spectacles of Settler Colonial Memory: Archaeological Findings from an Early Twentieth-Century “First” Settlement Pageant and Other Commemorative Terrain in New England
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DOI: 10.1007/s10761-021-00635-2
Abstract: In 1923, rural New England mill town Dover, New Hampshire, staged a Tercentenary pageant of extraordinary proportions to celebrate its “first” settlement. This public spectacle memorialized a specific, and deeply exclusionary, narrative of English settler… read more here.
Keywords: early twentieth; twentieth century; new england; century ... See more keywords
Truth in advertising: Rationalizing ads and knowing consumers in the early twentieth-century United States
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DOI: 10.1007/s11186-017-9286-2
Abstract: This article examines the way advertising was rationalized in the early twentieth-century United States. Drawing on a targeted archival comparison with the United Kingdom, I show how the extensive mobilization undertaken to legitimate and rationalize… read more here.
Keywords: century united; advertising; united states; early twentieth ... See more keywords
Revising Infant Mortality Rates for the Early Twentieth Century United States
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DOI: 10.1007/s13524-018-0723-2
Abstract: Accurate vital statistics are required to understand the evolution of racial disparities in infant health and the causes of rapid secular decline in infant mortality during the early twentieth century. Unfortunately, U.S. infant mortality rates… read more here.
Keywords: infant mortality; mortality; united states; early twentieth ... See more keywords
“Trash,” Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany. By Kara L. Ritzheimer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. x + 318. Cloth $99.99. ISBN 978-1107132047.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0008938917000139
Abstract: underlying idea of modernity by talking of ‘modernities’ in the plural. Yet as Frederick Cooper has pointed out, this merely buries the problem” (333). It is greatly to the editors’ credit that their volume ends… read more here.
Keywords: trash censorship; national identity; identity early; early twentieth ... See more keywords
Urban Emotions Behind the Veil: An Early-Twentieth Century Muslim Wedding in Shahjahanabad*
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DOI: 10.1017/s1356186317000372
Abstract: Abstract While scholarship on pardah nashīn or veiled women in South Asia has emphasized the links between women's ritual and urban landscape, what has received less attention is the ways that domestic spaces, affective work… read more here.
Keywords: urban emotions; behind veil; city; emotions behind ... See more keywords
Pacific contribution to the early twentieth-century warming in the Arctic
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DOI: 10.1038/s41558-018-0247-1
Abstract: Arctic surface temperature warmed more than twice as fast as global temperature during the early twentieth century, similar to that during the recent global warming. This Arctic warming has been attributed to both external forcing1… read more here.
Keywords: arctic warming; surface; warming arctic; early twentieth ... See more keywords
Fighting antisemitism with numbers in early twentieth-century Britain
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DOI: 10.1080/0031322x.2018.1536348
Abstract: ABSTRACT In the 1920s and 1930s, the Jewish Health Organization of Great Britain (JHOGB) and its president, Redcliffe Nathan Salaman, championed the collection and analysis of demographic data about the Anglo-Jewish community as a way… read more here.
Keywords: early twentieth; britain; antisemitism numbers; numbers early ... See more keywords
National identity and education in early twentieth century Australia, by Jan Keane
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DOI: 10.1080/0046760x.2019.1702722
Abstract: For most young people, the institution at which they will spend the majority of their formative years is school. The importance of this institution in instructing students in both content and socia... read more here.
Keywords: education early; national identity; identity education; education ... See more keywords
The Notion of Love in the Early Twentieth-Century Russian Philosophical Tradition
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DOI: 10.1080/10611967.2019.1660560
Abstract: This article presents the central paradigms of the understanding of love by early twentieth-century Russian philosophers. It shows that interpreting the meaning of erotic love as a way of overcoming death, as proposed by Vladimir… read more here.
Keywords: tradition; russian philosophical; century russian; love early ... See more keywords