A wunderkind, Prebisch occupied key positions at the Argentine ministry of finance in his twenties and was the general manager of the Argentine Central Bank before forty. Exiled by Juan Perón after ...World War II, he became arguably the most influential Latin American official at the UN, heading such international organizations as the Economic Commission for Latin America and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
The biographer Winifred Gérin (1901-81), wrote on all the lives of the four Brontë siblings. She also wrote about Elizabeth Gaskell, Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Fanny Burney. This book is based on her ...letters and on her unpublished memoir. Gérin's childhood and youth, like the Brontës', was characterised by a cultured home and intense imaginative life shared with her sister and two brothers, and by family tragedies (the loss of two siblings in early life). Her happy life in Paris with her Belgian cellist husband, Eugène Gérin, was brought to an abrupt end by the Second World War. After Eugène's death in 1945 Winifred coped with bereavement through poetry and playwriting until discovering her true literary metier on the trip to Haworth. On the same visit she met her second husband, a Brontë enthusiast twenty years her junior.
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IEEE annals of the history of computing,
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Recenzirano
In the biography of William Alfred Higinbotham 1, the abstract should state that he was recruited to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1943, not 1945.
Once a powerful figure who reversed the disintegration of China and steered the country to Allied victory in World War II, Chiang Kai-shek fled into exile following his 1949 defeat in the Chinese ...civil war. As attention pivoted to Mao Zedong’s communist experiment, Chiang was relegated to the dustbin of history.In Chiang Kai-shek’s Politics of Shame, Grace C. Huang reconsiders Chiang’s leadership and legacy by drawing on an extraordinary and uncensored collection of his diaries, telegrams, and speeches stitched together by his secretaries. She paints a new, intriguing portrait of this twentieth-century leader who advanced a Confucian politics of shame to confront Japanese incursion into China and urge unity among his people. In also comparing Chiang’s response to imperialism to those of Mao, Yuan Shikai, and Mahatma Gandhi, Huang widens the implications of her findings to explore alternatives to Western expressions of nationalism and modernity and reveal how leaders of vulnerable states can use potent cultural tools to inspire their country and contribute to an enduring national identity.
This paper is devoted to the impact of Hermann Trautschold’s personality and scientific authority on the young generation of Moscow naturalists of the 1850s-1860s: thermochemist W. Louginine (V.F. ...Luginin) (1834-1911), cristallographer, mineralogist and chemist G. Wyrouboff (G.N. Vyrubov) (1842-1913), botanist A.N. Petunnikov (1842-1919), and geologist and palaeontologist N.P. Vishnyakov (1844-1927). Except Louginine, all of them were graduates of the Imperial Moscow University and began their journey in science at the Imperial Moscow Society of Naturalists (‘MOIP’). The paper describes Trautschold’s activities at MOIP as well as brief biographies, scientific achievements and public activities of his mentees.
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