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Imperial and Colonial Encounters: Some Reflections

open access: yesNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2005
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Climate Security: Reframing the Climate‐War Nexus Through Bataille's General Economy

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView.
Abstract The spectre of resource scarcity as a cause of war is dominant in discussions about potential links between climate change and armed conflict. Via engagement with Georges Bataille's theory of a general economy of the biosphere, this article conceptualises the relationship between climate change and war by focusing on resource excess as a ...
Gitte du Plessis
wiley   +1 more source

‘Missing persons’: Ancient legacies of human–environment interaction in tropical natural properties inscribed under the 1972 World Heritage Convention

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Cultural and natural values form the core of World Heritage designation. Properties displaying both values, however, comprise a fraction of inscriptions (currently c. 3%) to the World Heritage List. In 1992, when that fraction stood at c. 5%, adoption of the popular ‘cultural landscapes’ category of cultural heritage in 1992 was therefore ...
Ryan J. Rabett
wiley   +1 more source

Nineteenth‐Century Watercolour Reproductions of Old Masters in the Ruskin Teaching Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: Materials and Techniques of ‘Heaven‐Borne’ Copyist Charles Fairfax Murray

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents the first comprehensive analysis of the pigments and techniques used by Charles Fairfax Murray (1849–1919), a leading expert in Italian Renaissance attribution, influential art collector and primary copyist for John Ruskin.
Victoria Kemp   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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