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Review Of: David Matthews, The Invention Of Middle English, Richard Utz Dec 2001

Review Of: David Matthews, The Invention Of Middle English, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

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Military Strategy In The Indonesian Revolution: Nasution's 'Total People's War' In Theory And Practice, Robert Cribb Oct 2001

Military Strategy In The Indonesian Revolution: Nasution's 'Total People's War' In Theory And Practice, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

Analyses the guerrilla strategy of General A.H. Nasution, architect of Indonesia's guerrilla resistance to the Dutch in the late 1940s and finds that his strategy, unlike that of Mao or Giap, involved keeping the mass of the poeple at arm's length from the guerrilla army.

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Νεολιθική Μακεδονία, Kosmas Touloumis May 2001

Νεολιθική Μακεδονία, Kosmas Touloumis

Kosmas Touloumis

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North, Polanyi And Ming-Qing Economic History, Pengsheng Chiu Mar 2001

North, Polanyi And Ming-Qing Economic History, Pengsheng Chiu

Pengsheng Chiu

D. North「制度論」與明清經濟中的組織、法律與文化

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“The Price Of Used Paper: How A Treasure Trove Of William Clark Documents Was Rescued From The Scrap Heap.”, Jay H. Buckley Feb 2001

“The Price Of Used Paper: How A Treasure Trove Of William Clark Documents Was Rescued From The Scrap Heap.”, Jay H. Buckley

Jay H. Buckley

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Timbuktu: A Lesson In Underdevelopment, Riccardo Pelizzo Jan 2001

Timbuktu: A Lesson In Underdevelopment, Riccardo Pelizzo

riccardo pelizzo

Th e purpose of the present paper is to investigate Timbuktu’s economic decline in the three centuries elapsed between 1526, when Leo Africanus reached the Mysterious City, and 1830, when the fi rst European explorers arrived in Timbuktu. It is argued that Timbuktu’s decline was neither an accident nor the result of inevitable natural conditions. Timbuktu’s decay was the product of historical and social forces. Specifi cally, it is argued that Timbuktu lost power and prestige because its market decayed. However, it is also suggested that no single factor can account individually for this event. Th e crisis of Timbuktu’s …

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Rights Of Inequality: Rawlsian Justice, Equal Opportunity, And The Status Of The Family, Justin Schwartz Jan 2001

Rights Of Inequality: Rawlsian Justice, Equal Opportunity, And The Status Of The Family, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

Is the family subject to principles of justice? In A Theory of Justice, John Rawls includes the (monogamous) family along with the market and the government as among the "basic institutions of society" to which principles of justice apply. Justice, he famously insists, is primary in politics as truth is in science: the only excuse for tolerating injustice is that no lesser injustice is possible. The point of the present paper is that Rawls doesn't actually mean this. When it comes to the family, and in particular its impact on fair equal opportunity (the first part of the the Difference …

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Independence For Java? New National Projects For An Old Empire, Robert Cribb Jan 2001

Independence For Java? New National Projects For An Old Empire, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

In the context of speculation that outlying regions might break away from Indonesia, the chapter suggests that Java might be better off shorn of its Indonesian empire.

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Mongoler I Troebbel Pa Java (Mongols In Trouble On Java), Robert Cribb Jan 2001

Mongoler I Troebbel Pa Java (Mongols In Trouble On Java), Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

Brief article in Norwegian on the unsuccessful Mongol invasion of Java in the 13th century

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Çanakkale Denizaltı Savaşı (Nisan-Mayıs 1915), Yaşar Semiz Jan 2001

Çanakkale Denizaltı Savaşı (Nisan-Mayıs 1915), Yaşar Semiz

Yaşar Semiz

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“Slavery, Racist Violence, American Apartheid: The Case For Reparations.”, Sundiata K. Cha-Jua Jan 2001

“Slavery, Racist Violence, American Apartheid: The Case For Reparations.”, Sundiata K. Cha-Jua

Sundiata K Cha-Jua

LIKE THE PROVERBIAL COMET, over the last year the demand for reparations has blazed across the political skyline. Few current issues burn as brightly among African Americans. The movement's surging growth has predictably provoked renewed opposition. Recently critiques of the escalating reparations movement have come from two very different sources: Adolph L. Reed, Jr., a justly-respected African American radical, and David Horowitz, an unrespected neoconservative ideologue. This paper has three interconnected objectives: (1) to explicate Reed's and Horowitz's arguments; (2) to contextualize their arguments; and (3) to suggest an alternative reading of the reparations movement. The first, explication of their …

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Telefunken Und Der Deutsche Schiffsfunk, 1903–1914, Michael Friedewald Jan 2001

Telefunken Und Der Deutsche Schiffsfunk, 1903–1914, Michael Friedewald

Michael Friedewald

On May 27, 1903 the “Gesellschaft für drahtlose Teleg- raphie m.b.H.” (System Telefunken) was established as a subsidiary of the Allgemeine Electricitäts Gesellschaft (AEG) and Siemens & Halske AG. In the following years the new enterprise, which had a practical monopo- ly in Germany, was aggressively seeking markets both in Europe and in North America. In marine uses radio was filling a gap in the existing communications technology large enough to give Telefunken a chance to establish itself. In German merchant shipping, wireless stations were at first considered a dispensable luxury, that were useful only for large shipping companies for …

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Spanish Pre-Civil War, Josep M. Colomer Jan 2001

Spanish Pre-Civil War, Josep M. Colomer

Josep M. Colomer

Nonmonotonic electoral results in which the loser in popular votes becomes the winner in seats can help to explain high levels of political bipolarization that, under certain circumstances, may lead to revolution, coup d'état, and civil war. This was the case in the Spanish Second Republic, in the period 1931-1936.

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Origin Of Communist Policing In The People's Republic Of China, Kam C. Wong Jan 2001

Origin Of Communist Policing In The People's Republic Of China, Kam C. Wong

Kam C. Wong

This is an investigation into the origin of Communist policing in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Existing literature on the PRC police (baowei, gongan, jingcha) are not in agreement as to the origin of Communist policing. Most sources, particularly western ones, point to the formation of the Ministry of Public Security in November of 1949 as the origination of Communist police. Others, particularly the PRC police historians, have traced the starting date to November of 1931 when the Chinese Soviet government in Shan-Gan-Ning border area established the Political Security Department (zhengzhi baoweiju). Still, a minority have suggested that Communist …

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El Laboratorio De Cádiz Del Instituto De Investigaciones Pesqueras : ”Arena” Investigadora Del Csic Entre 1957 Y 1966., Enrique Wulff Jan 2001

El Laboratorio De Cádiz Del Instituto De Investigaciones Pesqueras : ”Arena” Investigadora Del Csic Entre 1957 Y 1966., Enrique Wulff

Enrique Wulff

The aim of this communication is to detail some main images projected by CSIC from its laboratuory in Cádiz, as critical information points from the past. 1957-1966 is the studied period, its fondational time. The indexation of the scientific problems related with the activity of the laboratory makes use of the calculation of transition probabilities. Catch percentages and bathymetric distributions are emoployed to approach the structure of the oceanographic campaigns results. The quantitative enumeration of observed organs and mathematical procedures provide information on the observations in the tunny fisheries. Multivariant bibliometry (factorial and cluster analysis, multiple regression) , and coauthor …

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The Glass Bead Game, David D. Nolte Jan 2001

The Glass Bead Game, David D. Nolte

David D Nolte

Our lives are filled with images. Everyday we see signals, read signs, and learn symbols.We find our way with maps, look for news and bargains in newspapers, calculate ourbills and taxes. We turn printed music into wonderful sounds, often without consciouseffort. Icons fill our churches, synagogues and mosques, dot our computer screens, andare sprawled on billboards, on clothing and advertisement pages. Architecture and artconspire to fill our views with meaningful shapes and form. Pictures capture an instant intime, while movies and video entertain us with visual motion. We live in a visual world,full of information transmitted by light.

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The Age Of Entanglement Jan 2001

The Age Of Entanglement

David D Nolte

Quantum mechanics is a venerable field of study. The year 2000 marked the 100th anniversary of theoriginal quantum hypothesis proposed by Max Planck in November of 1900. Few current fields in physicsor engineering are as old as quantum mechanics. It predates relativity, both special and general. It predatesnuclear and particle physics. Quantum mechanics even predates universal acceptance of the molecularhypothesis, that is, that all matter is made up of individual molecules in thermal motion. It may be hard tobelieve, but this happened only after Einstein's paper on Brownian motion was published in his miracleyear 1905.

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