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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): 84–112.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Roxanne Panchasi Copyright © 2019 University of Illinois Press 2019 "No Hiroshima in Africa": The Algerian War and the Q_uestion ofFrench Nuclear Tests in the Sahara Roxanne Panchasi A test in peacetime on a restricted desert provingground bears no resemblance to a military bombardment...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 137–168.
Published: 01 October 2015
... concept, in the largest propa ganda campaign to date inAmericanhistory known as atomic "civil defense:' In reaction to the first Soviet nuclear test, a new U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) was created in 1950. The FCDA worked to trans form U.S. citizens into Cold Warriors by saturating...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 207–240.
Published: 01 October 2022
... labor and capital, transformed into products that white audiences could consume ( Andrews 92 ). The NBA drug policy authorized testing for both cocaine and heroin when either the “NBA or the Players Association has information which gives it reasonable cause to believe that a player may have been...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 123–126.
Published: 01 April 2023
...-protests/article30446145.ece . India Today . “ Shaheen Bagh Protest Site Cleared by Police as Delhi Goes Under Coronavirus Lockdown .” March 24 , 2020 . Mathew E. D. “ The COVID-19 Fight Is the Test of Modi’s Leadership .” South Asia Monitor , April 18 , 2020 . https...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 244–258.
Published: 01 October 2011
..., Eugen Bleuler's Burgholzli clinic was one ofthe Meccas ofworld psychiatry. Bleuler took a"lively interest" inFreud's work, andFreud, in turn, courted the Swiss psychiatrists, as they were in a unique position to test and legitimize psychoanalytic theory and prac tice through their work with asylum...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): i–iv.
Published: 01 April 2019
... Construction of Racial Inferiors in Korea Jae Ifyun Kim and Moon-Kie Jung 55 "No Hiroshima in Africa:" The Algerian War and the Question of French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara Roxanne Panchasi 84 ...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 157–165.
Published: 01 April 2020
... “science” takes the form of DNA tests on ancient bones or the application of neuroscience to mentalités . History’s resistance to theory has taken many forms: i . 11 History’s anti-theoretical preoccupation with empirical facts and realist argument nevertheless entails a set...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 174–191.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., for example, without ever having been part of a coercive or medically risky experiment testing the pill’s effectiveness and safety. My sex life didn’t enrage white taxpayers. My sexual freedom never stimulated a public official or a physician to offer me abortion access in exchange for tubal ligation. I...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 265–274.
Published: 01 October 2011
... the grain ofour own thinking. Let me take an example, again in the first per son singular. After I first wrote inFrench in 2006 about the now (in)famous integration tests immigrants from non-Western countries are subjected to in the Netherlands, I was invited to write a piece concerning that DVD...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2013
... had been temporarily buried in a cemetery in France, but had now been brought stateside.Gen.Jacob L. Devers, the "chief of Army Field Forces;' declared, "there is one supreme final test of loyalty to one's native land.This test is readiness and willing ness to fight for, and, if need be, to die...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 107–118.
Published: 01 April 2021
... with Elizabeth Weed, in setting up the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown. Likewise, there are files that track my political activities—from the heady days of protest in high school (ban the bomb) and college (nuclear testing and civil rights) and at the University of Wisconsin...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 April 2015
... blocks reserved for black prisoners.60 The possibilities for future actions loomed large; activists started to envision 1961 as the year of the jail-in.61 WhenCOREmembers began preparations for a Freedom Ride through the border states and into the Deep South to test the 1960 Supreme Court ruling 17 Civil...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 33–58.
Published: 01 April 2017
... is the treatment, then, for this affliction of parasites? How were the patients inthe "immense hospital ward of civilization; as Nordau puts it, to recover?32 For Gandhi the true test of civilization-as much as the antidote to it-is when people living in it start making bodilywelfare the object of life.Unlike...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 107–121.
Published: 01 October 2012
... of making a "test" (essai) of this feeling "in the material, in the flesh:'27 Demar grounds this postulate in her own experience of failure using a tone of disturbing intimacy: "It is I who speak, who has rested voluntarily, only for an hour, in the arms of a man, and this hour erected a barrier of satiety...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 20–26.
Published: 01 April 2023
... a mobile hospital that can conduct COVID-19 tests and treat early symptoms as well as its participation in a vaccination drive in the Rohingya refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh. The fourth significant anniversary that passed during the pandemic was that of Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK; the People’s...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 87–103.
Published: 01 April 2016
... at play in Hempel: Biology, like allsciences, isgroundedon the twinfoundations ofthe discovery ofnew facts and the testing ofstatements regarding the manner in which naturalprocesses operate. Newfactsare discovered (usually) by traveling to new locations eitherphysi cally (e.g., trained expertsgaining...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 71–77.
Published: 01 April 2012
... when I was testing out my reading ofHosain's novel-as-archive atconferencesand symposia. Yet scholars, both in and outside the academy, who want to impress readers with more than the facts and figures ofmajor world-historical events often resort to the novel form. I am thinking here ofMichelle Cliff's...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 57–87.
Published: 01 April 2018
... the government's promotion of the depredation claim as an instrument of peace, and its simultaneous promotion of settlement, which was akin to provoking more violence? During the first years of the early Republic, the United States created the Indian depredation claim system to supplement the well - tested...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 275–283.
Published: 01 October 2023
... is not a test of their power; their power lies in themselves.” The examples of this, in 2023, are too numerous to enumerate, but Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s recent call for a “national divorce” (or what most of us call secession) is as good an example as any. Calling for “red states...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 101–121.
Published: 01 April 2023
... personnel to enforce strict testing and quarantining measures for migrants ( Al Omran ). Mere days later, Mecca registered the highest number of cases in the country ( Alzahrabi, Aljamaan, and Al-Fakih ). Acknowledging the uncontrolled spread of the virus, authorities imposed a lockdown on the whole city...
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