Transatlantic Translations of the Button-down Shirt by Nathaniel Weiner

“…This article looks at how the button-down shirt has been translated in the American and British contexts. Employing Barthes’ notion of ‘fashion narrative,’ I describe how in the United States, the button-down shirt is closely associated with the Ivy Look, a style that had emerged from the elite Ivy League universities but became mass fashion by the mid-1960s. …”
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The Palestinian population in Israel in demographic evolution and distribution, a study by يوسف إبراهيم

“…The Zionist movement was able with the help of The major victorious countries in the world war should translate the Balfour Declaration into a program included in the mandate document issued by the League of Nations in 1922, which includes steps to implement the Balfour Declaration in 1917 (Institute for Palestine Studies, 1983) ( ) The mandate document was supported by the United States, which was not a member In the League of Nations (Al-Israa Center for Studies and Research, 1988) () Thus, the plans for the Judaization of Palestine began to be practically translated with British-American support as well as other European countries. …”
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BRYTYJSKO-NIEMIECKI UKŁAD MORSKI Z 18 CZERWCA 1935 ROKU by Krystian Maciej Szudarek

“…It also meant a break in the joint British, French and Italian front towards Germany and a move away from a policy of agreement between western powers on revising military caveats of the Treaty of Versailles in exchange for some concessions by Adolf Hitler (Germany’s return to the League of Nations and to the Disarmament Conference and Germany’s accession to the regional security pacts: the Air Pact, the Eastern Pact and the Danubian Pact. …”
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The Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2019—Britain and the making of global order after 1919 by Clavin, P

“…The lecture exposes the connected history of the First World War with the global order forged to build peace, underlining the important role of the blockade, and the multilateral relationships it engendered. It reveals how British dominance after 1919 encouraged it to use the League of Nations a multilateral hub to manage Britain’s relations with Europe and with its empire, and the legacy of this history for international relations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.…”

The intelligence battle in the Gulf of Guinea: Espionage and counter-espionage operations in Spanish Guinea by Saliou Abba

“…The archival sources and the bibliographic data analysed from the perspective of Intelligence Studies, revealed the consideration of the colony of Spanish Guinea as a target of paramount importance by the German, French, British and American units in charge of the underground war, an offensive strategy, which inaugurated a new paradigm from military and security view points for Cameroon under the League of Nations trusteeship.…”
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Forced Evictions as Urban Planning? Traces of Colonial Land Control Practices in Yangon, Myanmar by Elizabeth Rhoads

“…Despite purported ideological differences, successive Burmese regimes have adopted urban planning and housing policies, especially with respect to the urban poor, that vary only slightly from the precedents set by the British colonial administration. Recent actions and pronouncements by the current government suggest that further forced evictions will occur and the National League for Democracy (NLD) will continue to follow colonial precedents in state policies towards forced evictions and the urban poor.…”
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‘Bringing the divided Powers of Europe nearer one another’. The Congress of Soissons, 1728-1730 by Frederik Dhondt

“…This contribution reconstructs the Congress of Soissons (1728-1730), a consequence of the Parisian Preliminaries (31 May 1727), an agreement that prevented the eruption of a general war in Europe between the League of Hanover (France, Britain-Hanover, Dutch Republic) and the League of Vienna (Emperor, Spain, Brandenburg-Prussia). …”
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La Somalie en mauvais État by Alain Gascon

“…Under the pressures of the Arab League and of the African Union the United Nations have constantly refused to recognize the independence of Somaliland, a former British colony, despite its separatist government has brought peace on all their territory, rebuilt equipments and held fair elections. …”
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La linea dell’odio: la frontiera nella letteratura della <i>Partition</i> by Rossella Ciocca

“…When, after a series of violent riots, the Congress Party decided to accept the request of the Muslim League for a separate and independent Muslim state, the British authorities drew the boundaries that split up the regions of Punjab and Bengal creating East and West Pakistan. …”
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Beyond famines: wartime state, society, and politicization of food in colonial India, 1939 – 1945 by Sarkar, A

“…Further, it demonstrates how the Muslim League government’s failure to prevent the Great Bengal Famine of 1943-44 was politically used by the Mahasabha to oppose the League’s emerging demand for the creation of Pakistan.…”

Imperial Questions and Social Identities by Lauren Banko

“…These new statuses for the former Ottoman subjects, the majority of whom were Arab, reflected colonial and imperial norms and they incorporated the changing international terminology of identity issued from the League of Nations and post-World War I treaties. The article analyses how the development of new social and political understandings of identity was shaped by both the British legislators and the Arabic-speaking national leadership in Palestine. …”
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Activity of Albanian emigration in the West towards the issue of Kosovo and Metohija (1945-1969) by Vukadinović Igor Đ.

“…Although the operation failed, strong ties were forged between US and British intelligence and Albanian nacionalist emigration, which were further intensified in the 1960s. …”
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Newspaper as source of history: A case study of daily “Zamindar” of Maulana Zafar Ali Khan by Suleman, Zahida

“…He not only preached the loyalty to the British but his journalism was also aimed at the social reforms.Sir Syed formed a society called the scientific society in 1863 and it brought out a paper, the Scientific Society Magazine. …”
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Irish journalists and litterateurs in late Victorian London, c. 1870-1910 by Sheehy, I, Sheehy, Ian

“…Moran - and they were to be influenced by the Irish cultural revival rather than British Liberalism, becoming involved in the Southwark Irish Literary Club, the Irish Literary Society and the London Gaelic League during the 1880s and 1890s. …”

South Asian Muslim politics, 1937-1958 by Samad, Y, Yunas Samad

“…These factors combined with the weakness of the Congress due to their incarceration during the war resulted in the widespread shift away from the regional parties to the Muslim League.</p> <p>Jinnah was able to achieve for a brief moment political unity and used this as the basis to extract the maximum constitutional concessions from the British and the Congress. …”

T. W. Rolleston’s Ireland through a Polish Prism by McAteer Michael

“…In 1917, Rolleston published a significant pamphlet assessing Irish-British relations during the decades preceding the 1916 Rising in Ireland as compared with relations between Prussia and Poland over the same period. …”
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GEORGE HOWELL AND THE BEGINNING OF LIB-LABISM by I. M. Uznarodov

“…Since 1865, he was the fulltime secretary of the Reform League, which turned into a very influential organization with branches throughout the country. …”
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The sporting lives of Sir Shenton Thomas and the male European internees at Changi Prison camp during the Japanese occupation of Singapore, 1942–1945 by Lim, P.H., Aman, M.S.

“…During the Japanese occupation of British Malaya and Southeast Asia from the years 1942 to 1945 there were reports of POWs being allowed to play cricket, football, rugby and basketball, as told by Kevin Blackburn in The Sportsmen of Changi published in 2012. …”

The abstraction of sovereignty: the Ottoman Empire in early twentieth-century socialist thought by Zaman, F

“…This article examines the way British socialists came to provide intellectual and political weight to the ‘internationalizing’ of non-European territory during and after the First World War. …”

Capturing seizures in clinical trials of antiseizure medications for KCNQ2‐DEE by John J. Millichap, Cynthia L. Harden, Dennis J. Dlugos, Jacqueline A. French, Noam N. Butterfield, Celene Grayson, Ernesto Aycardi, Simon N. Pimstone

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