O envolvimento dos Estados Unidos no comércio transatlântico de escravos para o Brasil, 1840-1858
Afro-Ásia, 2007 Ships built in the United States played an important role in the transatlantic slave trade from Africa to Brazil. After the War of 1812 between the United States and England (1812-15), United States merchants and ship builders looked for new trading ...
Dale T. Graden
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Green Subsidies and the Promotion of Eco‐Social Policy in Germany and the United States
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The climate crisis poses an acute threat to humanity. Eco‐social policy can help mitigate this threat, but eco‐social policy and the green transition are expensive. Our paper contributes to a better understanding of the role that green subsidies play in advancing eco‐social politics and policies.
Benedikt Bender, Daniel Kinderman
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L’Atlantique de l’esclavage, 1775‑1860.
Transatlantica, 2006 Although slavery was condemned in France, Britain, and the United States from the 1770s to the 1790s, leaders in all three countries considered that as a first step the international slave trade should be abolished.
Marie-Jeanne Rossignol
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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Atlantic connections: Rio de la Plata and United States commercial networks (1790-1822)
Anos 90, 2017 This article examines the United States commercial presence in Rio de la Plata, specifically in Montevideo, between 1790 and 1722. In the first decades of the nineteenth century, US commercial presence grew in American territories under the control of ...
Fabricio Prado
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Interstellar Migration, the Population ‘Problem’ and the Climate Emergency
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Anna Hartnell
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Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
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The transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The present study uses private correspondence to investigate the use of embedded inversion on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustration of the spread of spoken/conversational features through writing. The paper discusses the use of embedded inversion in Irish English (IrE) and briefly compares its occurrence in other varieties of English ...
Carolina P. Amador‐Moreno
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Nigerian English: History, functions and features
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This article offers a comprehensive overview of Nigerian English, a rapidly expanding variety of world Englishes, recognised as one of the fastest‐growing varieties of English globally in numerical terms. This article has four aims. First, it discusses the historical developments of English in Nigeria with reference to the events that led to ...
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Networks and Trans-Cultural Exchange. Slave Trading in the South Atlantic, 1590–1867. Ed. by David Richardson and Filipa Ribeiro da Silva [Atlantic World, Vol. 30.] Brill, Leiden [etc.] 2015. xvi, 278 pp. Maps. € 110.00; $142.00. [PDF]
, 2016 Jelmer Vos
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