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Property Rights Entrepreneurship: The Drive for Product, Asset, and Resource Excludability
Managerial and Decision Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Property rights are foundational to market economies, and entrepreneurial activity depends heavily on the excludability afforded by property rights. Yet, the role of entrepreneurs in shaping the evolution of property rights has been so thoroughly taken for granted that it often vanishes from analyses.
Thomas J. Dean +2 more
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Les enjeux d’une traduction éclairée : La dama colérica, o novia impaciente de María Rosa de Gálvez
Babel: Littératures PluriellesIn the 18th century, translation experienced a notable boom in Spain, particularly in the theatrical field. Within the context of the Enlightenment, it became a vehicle for the spreading of enlightened ideas and literary renewal, with French being the ...
Richard Palomar Vidal
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Strategie polskich tłumaczy włoskich librett w XVIII wieku
Między Oryginałem a Przekładem, 2013 Strategies in Translating Italian Librettos in 18th Century Poland Polish dramatic writers of the 18th century very often referred to the European repertoire. The majority of Polish dramas in fact were translations or adaptations of foreign texts. Among
Jadwiga Miszalska
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Mobilizing Presence across Borders: Devotion to Papua New Guinea's Blessed Peter To Rot in Australia
Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article engages with the conjunctures between migration and religion by focusing on the celebration of Papua New Guinea's ‘National Patron Saint’, the Blessed Peter To Rot, in the Australian diaspora. Both in Sydney and Brisbane, Catholic Papua New Guinea (PNG) migrants have been ‘relocating’ PNG shrines, regalia, relics and ritual ...
Anna‐Karina Hermkens
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Disability in the 18th Century
Ennen ja Nyt: Historian Tietosanomat, 2003 Helen Deutsch & Felicity Nussbaum (eds): Defects: Engendering the Modern Body. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2000. xi + 332 pp.
Daniel Blackie
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The Long Trajectory of Rubber Physics: 3500+ Years and Counting
Journal of Polymer Science, EarlyView.Natural rubber's trajectory is traced from Mesoamerican use of Castilla elastica through vulcanization and the pneumatic tire to macromolecular physics and modern solid‐state refrigeration. Illustrations of C. elastica and an H. brasiliensis plantation frame the historical progression from indigenous material, then industrial crop and on to advanced ...
Gregory B. McKenna
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Diciottesimo SecoloA large number of transcultural fictions appeared in the 18th century, providing us with an important entry into discussing the task of comparative literature today.
Wen Jin
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Using art history to explore society's changing connections with agriculture
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Food insecurity is a looming challenge that especially affects those least fortunate. Consumer food choices have a substantial impact on the sustainability of current food systems. Here, we use art as a lens through which to consider our contemporary and historical relationship to one of the world's most crucial crops, the potato, in the context of the
Edward F. Hill‐King +2 more
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Jean-Baptiste Del Amo: Bloodhound and animalist
Thélème, 2019 The purpose of this paper is to study the 18th century’s sources of Une éducation libertine by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo. This immersive novel showcases a young man initiation story as a rake’s progress.
Juan Manuel Ibeas-Atlamira +1 more
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Herbaria as repositories of past soil properties and historical soil DNA
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Soil health is fundamental to agriculture, food security, and the sustainable management of terrestrial ecosystems under ongoing climate and land‐use changes. Soil microorganisms play a key role in these processes, yet how soils and their microbial communities have changed over time in response to global environmental change remains poorly understood ...
Gianluca Grasso +7 more
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