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Famine and poverty in the army during the reign of the House of Vasa in the light of reports and diaries

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WOŹNICA K.

Historia i Świat

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2016

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issue 5

169-190

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The aim of the article is to present the phenomenon of famine in the army of the Crown and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the reign of the House of Vasa. Shortages of food were not present in the army constantly. Nevertheless, they were a frequent phenomenon during wars. It was not always possible to buy or steal something due to destructions in the area where the army was staying. In situations of no possibility to purchase food products, people tried to look for things that could fill their stomachs in the nearest surrounding. They would pick rhizomes, tree leaves, vegetables and herbs. Carrion as well as ill and injured animals were eaten. A symbol of famine was eating horse meat. The last resort was cannibalism.

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Of Cannibals and Witches: Monstrosity and Capitalism at the Onset of Colonial Visual Culture

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Racy G.

Review of International American Studies

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2022

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vol. 15

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issue 2

71-94

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This article provides preliminary insight into the creation of colonial visual culture. Using visual examples, the author shows how the encounter between European and Amerindian was, at first, apparently deprived of moral judgement, later being increasingly signified through moral and physical monstrosity, especially the female body, which served as an apparatus to assure colonial dominion. Looking mostly at the works of Liègeois artist Theodor de Bry, the author shows how increasing female protagonism may have helped to coin a proper visual culture that mirrored the development of productive force in early capitalism. Assuming that the European colonizer in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was still highly informed by Medieval culture, the author quickly retraces how the New World was imagined through cartography, following to the first depictions of the Amerindian and, finally, focusing on de Bry’s work and an argument on capitalism and how visual culture may help us understand its process.

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Smak życia — smak śmierci. Uczta Władimira Sorokina

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Zywert A.

Slavica Wratislaviensia

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2014

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vol. 158

337 - 347

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The Feast (Пир, 2001) by Vladimir Sorokin is considered to be the culmination of the second period of the author’s literary work, and the one that presages his break up with the fundamental principles of postmodernism and conceptualism. The Feast consists of thirteen novels, all of which more or less literally revolve around the theme of eating. Sorokin’s search for the taste of life based on the opposition body/flesh–the disincarnate, culture–pseudoculture, manifests his critique of the superficiality of modern societies, in which the collective pursuit of sensuality together with widespread accessibility of all sorts of material goods are signs of inner self-destruction. Sorokin’s “taste of death,” expressed principally in the display of various forms of cannibalism, prefigures the advent of afuture “taste of life” — free from taboo, illusion and prejudice.

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„Dobrze jest już wtedy, gdy nie jest bardzo źle”…, czyli o sytuacji wsi ukraińskiej po Wielkim Głodzie

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Kuśnierz R.

Dzieje Najnowsze

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2020

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vol. 52

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issue 2

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The article presents an analysis of the Ukrainian countryside after the Great Famine of 1932–1933. In 1934, hunger continued, although on a much smaller scale than in 1933. The mid-1934 brought a relative stabilisation, but it did not mean that the standard of living resembled that of the period of the New Economic Policy.

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W artykule przeanalizowano sytuację wsi ukraińskiej po Wielkim Głodzie z lat 1932–1933. W 1934 r. nadal występował głód, oczywiście w znacznie mniejszych proporcjach aniżeli w 1933 r. Od połowy 1934 r. sytuacja zaczęła się względnie stabilizować, choć poziom życia nie przypominał ten z czasów NEP-u.

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Famine and poverty in the army during the reign of the House of Vasa in the light of reports and diaries

Of Cannibals and Witches: Monstrosity and Capitalism at the Onset of Colonial Visual Culture

Smak życia — smak śmierci. Uczta Władimira Sorokina

„Dobrze jest już wtedy, gdy nie jest bardzo źle”…, czyli o sytuacji wsi ukraińskiej po Wielkim Głodzie