Tourism as a territorial strategy in the South China Sea by Rowen, Ian

“…The chapter first situates and provides a brief political history of China’s general outbound tourism policies and practices before turning to the South China Sea. …”
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Nixon, Trump and Washington behind closed doors: fictionalizing Watergate and the prescience of the historical miniseries by McNally, Karen

“…At the same time, the article contends, the explicit fictionalization of the nation’s recent political history in Washington Behind Closed Doors provides a space in which to read the show as a prescient imagining of the United States’ political future later realized in the presidency of Donald Trump.…”
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The Perugian nobility c. 1200-1430 by Thomas, HC

“…</p> <p>Perugian political history has been re-evaluated; special consideration has been given to the actual powers of the <u>popolo</u> during the period of its apparent predominance, c.1260-1400, to the complex interaction between town and countryside, to the persistence of private jurisdictions and to the degree to which the rural nobility was attracted to urban life. …”

Transportal literatures: Empire, partition, and exile in colonial and postcolonial travel writing on Cyprus by Nunziata, D

“…<p>The purpose of this thesis is to interrogate the stylist forms and literary devices employed in the travel writing of Cyprus with particular attention to how they relate to the political history of the island from the time of British imperial rule, to the rise of nationalist movements, and the ethnolinguistic partition of 1974. …”

Searching for Forms and Methods of Acting on Indigenous Population by Turkestan Soviet and Communist Party Bodies in the Context of Fighting the Basmachi in 1918-1924 by Valeriy A. Barmin

“…In the proposed paper, the author’s research is supported by materials from newly identified sources in the holdings of the Russian State Military Archive and the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History. The author claims in the paper that a significant part of the causes that boosted the scale of the movement and its support from the population resulted from gross mistakes of the Soviet government in socio-political reforms and especially in matters of nationalities policy. …”
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Reunion of Crimea and Russia in the Context of Trends and Contradictions of Contemporary Policy-Making by Ekaterina G. Kirsanova, Sergey A. Pankratov

“…This process is analyzed through the prism of the political history of Russia, the establishment and strengthening of its statehood. …”
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V. I. Nilov is “a very modest man and an exceptionally serious scientist” (concerning one comment in M. Gorky’s letter to I. V. Stalin) by A. G. Plotnikova

“…Gorky (Institute of World Literature, Moscow) and the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (Moscow) are for the first time introduced into public scientific discourse.…”
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395–398 AD Western Roman Expeditionary Army in Claudius Claudianus’ Poem De bello Gildonico: The Aspects of Ethnic Composition by Evgenii Aleksandrovich Mekhamadiev

“…The Later Roman court poet and panegyrist Claudius Claudianus (ca. 370 – after 404) supplies a main source on the military-­political history of the Western half of the Roman Empire in 395–404, particularly the account of a revolt of North Africa’s warlord Gildo raised up in spring of 397 and suppressed in winter 398. …”
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Disease, religion and medicine: smallpox in nineteenth-century Benin Doenças, religião e medicina: a varíola no Benim, século XIX by Elisée Soumonni

“…The prominence of Sakpata, god of smallpox, coupled with the influence of its priests is evaluated within the context of Dahomey's political history and the spread of the disease. This pivotal position was to constitute a challenge to the French colonial campaign to vaccinate against smallpox.…”
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What Drives Innovation and How Its Relevance is Established. A Perspective on Electric Vehicle Promotion in La Rochelle and Gothenburg : 1989-2000 by Marika Rupeka

“…This research paper reveals that there are (at least) three different perspectives from which the relevance of technological solutions for specific territorial contexts is established: 1/ the local political history perspective, 2/ the international perspective, 3/ the individual (user) perspective. …”
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The End of the Old France. <i>Book Review of ‘From Triumph to Disaster: Political and Military Defeat of France in 1940 and Its Origins’ by A.A. Vershinin and N.N. Naumova</i> by V. Sergienko-Soler

“…They also thoroughly examined the works of both classic and contemporary researches on the military and political history of France. A.A. Vershinin and N.N. Naumova provide an exceptionally detailed picture of the main political, social, military, cultural and ideological reasons that provoked the defeat of the French army. …”
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La réception du régime démocratique athénien, au xviiie siècle, en France, de Rollin à Barthélémy by Pascal Payen

“…And it is thus starting from the years 1720-1730 that the conditions necessary for Athens to find its place in critical political history come to fruition. Rollin heralds the beginning of a development that continues with Montesquieu and up to the eve of the Revolution with Jean-Jacques Barthélemy’s Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce (1788). …”
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Commemoration in the management practices of the Soviet elite in 1960–1970-ies (on the example of the Penza region) by O. A. Sukhova

“…An assessment is made of the possibility of using the methodological tools of the «new political history» at the regional and local levels of problem development. …”
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The Combat Condition of the Units of the Czech-Slovak Corps in Late 1917 – Early 1918 by Boris Tatarov

“…Despite the rather large volume of publications in Russian historiography, the military-political history of the corps during the Civil War cannot yet be considered sufficiently studied. …”
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Aspects of social life in the era of the Islamic message by Najla Alsaeghe

“…I chose certain aspects of the social life of the place, which are the foods, clothes, and appearances of adornment - in that society - as I sought to determine the time period in researching the subject so that the time period in a third of it is not taken away, and the study of these aspects of the life of the Arab people puts us aspects of Arab civilization in that important period of The political history of the Arabs and the extent of its development and its influence with the political and religious aspects that accompanied it at that time. …”
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THE PHENOMENON OF SILVIO BERLUSCONI by A. Y. Kovaleva

“…Having provided the country with four governments that lasted for a total of almost ten years, Berlusconi left a profound mark on Italian political history and even defined the era of Berlusconism. …”
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Ethnic stereotypes in the field of intercultural interaction. Case Study: Republic of Tatarstan by Liliya V. Sagitova

“…At the same time, the Russians, being the dominant group of the state, are associated with the Tatars political history and close ties of everyday life. Under the conditions of long-term close contact and cultural interaction between those ethnic groups, ideas and images of peoples about themselves and their neighboring people were formed. …”
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MY LAW AND MODERNIZATION JOURNEY by Boaventura de Souza Santos

“…It will be evident how the turbulence and the excitement of the latter analysis reproduces in a foggy and messy way the greater clarity and assertiveness of the first analysis. Social and political history has a double existence: as macro-history of the large-scale societal forces that shape the social and political processes at national and transnational levels; and as micro-history of individuals and communities as they express their creativity within such processes, managing resources and resistances, opportunities and constraints, often partly or totally unaware of the macro-history of which they are part. …”
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“We Are Peronists, We Are Organic”: Discipline, Authority, and Loyalty in Argentine Populism by Julia Beth Fierman

“…Yet, at particular moments in Argentine political history, Peronist militants either find organicity and loyalty to be intrinsically incompatible, or vocalize definitions of organicity that seem to question the top-down structure of the movement celebrated in Perón’s writings. …”
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From Building Dams to Fetching Water: Scales of Politicization in the Indus Basin by Abdul Aijaz, Majed Akhter

“…Despite the significance of these shifts for political history, we argue that the historical geography of water reveals a techno-managerial knowledge/value structure with a deep and structural continuity. …”
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