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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)
ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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Gestión de archivos orales de memoria y derechos humanos La experiencia de VerdadAbierta.com
Ivonne Rodríguez González
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A partir de la convergencia histórica entre la Transición y la aceleración del proceso de secularización, el presente trabajo examina las claves de la desactivación de la denominada «cuestión religiosa» desde una perspectiva sociohistórica y por medio ...
Rafael Ruiz-Andrés
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Varieties of Authoritarian Policymaking: Housing Policy Across Dictatorships
ABSTRACT Public policies are expected to vary across regime types, but this association remains inconclusive even when further differentiating within types of authoritarian regimes. Focusing on the theoretical mechanisms behind the expected associations between regime type and policy, I propose a novel framework to analyze policymaking and outputs ...
Emilia Simison
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May I pick your brain? Local minds as living cadastres in a Portuguese eleventh‐century lawsuit
In the context of a dispute with the monastery of Lorvão, in the late eleventh century, the monks of Vacariça, near Coimbra (modern Portugal), carried out a field enquiry in the village of Recardães. This was part of a failed attempt to repossess a number of land plots that they claimed were theirs, but had lost control of.
Julio Escalona
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Los archivos orales de Koolhaas. El papel epistemológico del maratón de entrevistas
Koolhaas is, above all, an interviewer. His interviews contribute to his architectural production as a way of working, thinking and speculating. He approaches these formats as archives to expand the notion of the interview as a meaningful form of knowledge.
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ABSTRACT For over 30 years, the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua bordering Texas and New Mexico has experienced and witnessed multiple forms of violence across its rural and urban regions. Communities are besieged with cartel and gender‐based violence and the saturation of international corporations that pay less than livable wages for workers in ...
Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla +1 more
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The purpose of this article is to present some of the considerations that arose following the development of an experience of caregiving for teams of professionals who support, investigate, and collect testimonies on human rights violations and the processing of Chile’s dictatorial past.
Fuenzalida, Nicole +1 more
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ABSTRACT This narrative experiment brings together scenes from my family histories in western Pennsylvania coal country, alongside ongoing visits to learn about rising health issues in the region today. Increasing numbers of residents express concerns about chronic problems such as young cancers, and many people worry about potential exposures coming ...
Amy Moran‐Thomas
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ABSTRACT This article examines the peasant revolution that took place in Bolivia between November 1952 and November 1953 and seeks to explain why the peasantry took a revolutionary path. While existing explanations have emphasized the exploitative nature of the hacienda and the influence of external political actors, this article argues that the ...
Arián Laguna Quiroga
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