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    Women and sexual assault in the United States, 1900–1940 by Keire, M

    Published 2019
    “…In the United States, the history of sexual assault in the first half of the 20th century involves multiple contradictions between the ordinary, almost invisible accounts of women of all colors who were raped by fathers, husbands, neighbors, boarders, bosses, hired hands, and other known individuals versus the sensational myths that involved rapacious black men, sly white slavers, libertine elites, and virginal white female victims. …”
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    To ratify or not to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: gains and losses by Neagu, M, Wilson, RF

    Published 2024
    “…The United States hosts the United Nations, the organization which adopted the CRC. …”
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    The Big Smoke : congestion charging and the environment by Banister, D

    Published 2008
    “… This book chapter is from <em>Road congestion pricing in Europe : implications for the United States</em>: In February 2003, the London Congestion Charging Scheme was introduced and in 2006 a similar policy was introduced in Stockholm. …”
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    Divergent evolution in the Law of Torts: Jurisdictional isolation, jurisprudential divergence and explanatory theories by Goudkamp, J, Murphy, J

    Published 2015
    “…Since the first wave of law-and-economics scholarship in the United States in the early 1970s, scholars have spent a tremendous amount of time trying to come to grips with tort law from a theoretical perspective. …”
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    Religious freedom and anti-discrimination in Europe and the us: generally applicable laws and possible exceptions by McLean, I, Peterson, S

    Published 2016
    “…According to Laycock, the Puritans came to the United States to gain religious freedom, but once they had a theocracy in Massachusetts that was enough liberty for them: people of other Christian denominations and other faiths could go elsewhere if they wanted to be free. …”
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    The power of the public sphere: (anti)diplomacy and crisis management within security communities by Bjola, C

    Published 2010
    “…The empirical validity of the theoretical framework is confirmed by the analysis of the diplomatic crisis involving the European Union and the United States over the latter’s intervention in Iraq in 2003.…”
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    Some Issues in Modeling and Forecasting Inflation in South Africa. by Aron, J, Muellbauer, J

    Published 2009
    “…This invited overview paper draws on our South African and United States (US) inflation modelling and forecasting experience. …”
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    The technology of puberty suppression by Biggs, M

    Published 2023
    “…It then traces the subsequent adoption of this Dutch protocol in the United States and Britain down to the 2010s. The chapter concludes by evaluating recent evidence for the outcomes of puberty suppression.…”
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    ‘Three ministers and the world they made: Acheson, Bevin, Schuman, and the making of the North Atlantic Treaty, March-April 1949 by Deighton, A

    Published 2010
    “…Former enemies, such as Germany, became close allies, while even countries that often criticized the United States made no serious attempt to break with Washington. …”
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    Avner Offer (1944–) by Getzler, J

    Published 2021
    “…Avner Offer’s work includes the history of property politics in England before the Great War; the impact of the international food economy on politics and strategy in Britain, the British Empire and Germany before and during that War; analysis of the experience of affluence and its impact on social mores and well-being in the United Kingdom and the United States since 1950; and a study of abstract economic theory and its influence on political ideologies and economic organisation in the West since the late 1960s. …”
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    The power of the public sphere: (anti)diplomacy and crisis management within security communities by Bjola, C

    Published 2010
    “…The empirical validity of the theoretical framework is confirmed by the analysis of the diplomatic crisis involving the European Union and the United States over the latter’s intervention in Iraq in 2003.…”
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    Walking city by Middleton, J

    Published 2010
    “…Most of this increase will take place not in Europe or in the United States but in the megacities and newly emerging urban regions of what used to be called the developing world.Urban studies is an expansive and growing field, covering many disciplines and professional fields, each with its own schedule of conferences, journals, and publication series. …”
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    Apple's iPad City: subcontracting exploitation to China by Chan, J, Ngai, P, Selden, M

    Published 2015
    “…This is in part a response to the growing anti-sweatshop movement in the electronics industry from within the United States, Europe, and more recently Greater China (Smith et al. 2006; Litzinger 2013). …”
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