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Did Vasco da Gama Matter for European Markets? Testing Frederick Lane's Hypotheses Fifty Years Later [PDF]

open access: yes
In his seminal publications between the 1930s and 1960s, Frederick Lane offered three hypotheses regarding the impact of the Voyages of Discovery that have guided debate ever since. First, pepper and other spice prices did not rise in European markets in
Jeffrey G. Williamson, Kevin H. O'Rourke
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La frontera: nociones y problemas en francia, siglos XVI-XVIII.

open access: yesHistoria Crítica, 2006
This article addresses the concept of the frontier in France between the 16th and 18th centuries. It is divided into fve lines of thought from which the historicity of frontiers and the active role that social actors play in their construction are ...
Daniel Nordman
doaj  

Ancient mtDNA Analysis of Early 16th Century Caribbean Cattle Provides Insight into Founding Populations of New World Creole Cattle Breeds

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
The Columbian Exchange resulted in a widespread movement of humans, plants and animals between the Old and New Worlds. The late 15th to early 16th century transfer of cattle from the Iberian Peninsula and Canary Islands to the Caribbean laid the ...
C. Speller   +3 more
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Balulalow [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
A cappella choral setting of a 16th-century Scottish carol text by Robert, James and John Wedderburn. Completed on 31 March 2009. Published by Oxford University Press, 27 May 2010.
Francis, Emily
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The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
wiley   +1 more source

Gabriel Harvery’s 16th Century Theory of Curriculum

open access: yesJournal of Curriculum Theorizing, 2013
Curriculum is typically understood to be a 20th century construct organized around the modern content disciplines. Gabriel Harvey’s 16th century oration on rhetoric disrupts this understanding by demonstrating that the practice of thinking about and ...
Stephen S. Triche
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Inside-outside: 3-D music through tissue conduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Eliciting an auditory perception by means of mechanical transduction bypassing the peripheral hearing apparatus has been recorded as early as the 16th century.
Lennox, Peter   +2 more
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Perfumes and perfume-making in the Celestina [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Celestina’s house, as Dorothy Sherman Severin notes, is at the same time ‘a bawdy house, a factory for perfumes and cosmetics, and a symbol of the misrule of a woman empowered by her illegal professions of sorceress, witch and bawd’ (Severin 1995: 45 ...
Twomey, Lesley
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Archiving Futurity Within the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's Crisis

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, we examine how settler colonization and gendered violence against Indigenous women are remembered and recorded in two archival registers: 18th‐century records from the Massachusetts Archives Collection (MAC) and a 21st‐century corpus of posts using the hashtag MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) on X (formerly Twitter)
Lindsay Martel Montgomery   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

IANUS VITALIS: IN CHRISTOPHORUM COLUMBUM PORTRAIT OF A HERO

open access: yesAkroterion, 2012
The discovery of the New World at the end of the 15th century tested the traditional assumptions, beliefs, and attitudes of Renaissance Europe. Although the literary response during the 16th century showed a great deal of diversity in its appreciation ...
M. Schneider, A.V. Van Stekelenburg †
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