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Correction to: Ni gauche ni droite? Positioning the candidates in the 2017 French presidential election
The following corrections are made to this article: All instances of “Boussole Présidentielle” throughout the article are corrected to the proper acknowledgement, “La Boussole présidentielle®” as this is trade...
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Contingent Privacies: Knowledge Production and Gender Expectations from 1500 to 1800
This epilogue presents the main insights from Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe, demonstrating the key ways in which privacy factored into women’s knowledge-making practices...
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The Politics of Street Naming
The chapter examines the role of streets as politically contested spaces that act as representations of a group’s self-image—its identity—and serve as a means of politicizing space. Street-naming, a complex pr...
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Wreck Sites as Systems Disrupted by Trawling
This chapter examines the effects of bottom trawling on shipwreck sites, conceptualising them as process-response systems that achieve a quasi-equilibrium state over time. Disruptions to this state by bottom-c...
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Conclusion
Thomas C. Ferguson’s The Past is Prologue concludes by emphasizing how personal the fourth-century world of Christian historiography was. Ferguson sees Eusebius of Caesarea, the founding figure of the important C...
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Managing Potentially Polluting Wrecks in the United Kingdom
The battleship HMS Royal Oak was at anchor in Scapa Flow in Orkney when, in the early hours of 14th October 1939, the German submarine U-47 entered the harbour and fired a salvo of torpedoes at Royal Oak’s port s...
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3D Content in Europeana: The Challenges of Providing Access
Europeana is an online platform that provides access to millions of items of digital content from Europe’s museums, galleries, libraries, archives and research institutions. Although 3D documentation has becom...
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Sasanian Cultural Relics Unearthed in China in Recent Years
The people of China and Iran have had friendly exchanges for a long time. During the Sassanid Empire, there were not a few Sassanian cultural relics that were directly or indirectly imported into China through...
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Conclusion
Rohingyas are indeed unfortunate people as they have no identity in their place of origin—Myanmar—and their host place in Cox’s Bazar Bangladesh. The neoliberal democratic era and human rights instruments have...
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Potentially Polluting Wrecks in the Blue Pacific
Marine pollution is a global and transboundary issue that negatively affects the environment, people, and coastal economies around the world. It is widely recognised as one of the four major threats to the wor...
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The Byzantine Gold Coin Unearthed from the Tang Tomb in Tumen Village, Xi’an
In 1956, a Byzantine gold coin was unearthed from the Tang tomb in Tumen village, the western suburb of Xi’an. After examination, this paper suggests that this Byzantine gold coin is a replica of Heraclius coi...
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Conclusion: Looking Forward
The case studies presented in this volume offer a compelling look at the damage caused to many forms of Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH) by bottom trawling and other mobile fishing gear, as well as provide s...
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Opera Geometrica (1644) Transcription: General Considerations
This section provides information and background on the selection of Opera geometrica (Fig. 1). We have worked on transcription from Latin and Italian vernacular language, which is the original language of the To...
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Mary Warren English Tries to Preserve Ojibwe Culture
As a Native, Mary Warren English, informally adopted by the Wheelers, lives on various reservations, mostly at White Earth. When the Smithsonian sends Ruth Densmore there to collect information about Ojibwe ri...
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Going Downrange
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Assessment Methodologies for Potentially Polluting Wrecks: The Need for a Common Approach
There are believed to be more than 8500 Potentially Polluting Wrecks (PPW) lying on the seabed around the world, including many oil tankers, which potentially still contain very large quantities of oil. With m...
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Investigating forty years of French politics through the prism of value change
In this introduction, we advocate for an approach based on values when trying to make sense of shifts and changes that occurred in French politics during the last four decades. Values play a pivotal role in st...
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Conclusions and Prospects
In the seventh chapter, the book’s main conclusions are presented, combining the different syntheses presented in the previous chapters, emphasising the four elements of the morphological invariants, and propo...
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Band of Brothers and Sisters
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Introduction
Most urban Americans of the Progressive Era (1890–1920) disliked even mild inflation comparable to the 2 percent per annum now considered desirable by the Federal Reserve. In response to a minor surge in the c...
