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The depth and breadth of capitalism at the Cape
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Limited liability company legislation was introduced to the Cape Colony in 1861. An amendment in 1892 led to wider adoption, expanding and diversifying the capital market. Using novel data from the Cape Joint Stock Archive between 1892 and 1902, this paper examines who invested, where capital flowed, and how these patterns shaped firm outcomes
Edward Kerby, Lloyd Melusi Maphosa
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Herman Merivale’s black legend: rethinking the intellectual history of free trade imperialism
NWIG, 2008 Focusses on the lectures and theories of economist and colonial bureaucrat Herman Merivale on the imperial transition of British colonialism from slave labour to free labour, and toward free trade, in 1839.
Daniel Rood
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Remote investing in Latin America, 1869–1929
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Substantial amounts of British capital flowed to Latin America during the first era of globalization. Companies financed by this capital were typically headquartered in the United Kingdom, but operated thousands of miles away. This paper asks how this geographic separation between governance and business activities affected the valuation of ...
Gareth Campbell +2 more
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Black diamonds : coal, the Royal Navy, and British imperial coaling stations, circa 1870−1914 [PDF]
This thesis examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across the British Empire.
Gray, Steven, (Researcher in history)
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An Exploration of the Inter‐Sectional Identity of Black Female Leaders in the UK: A Shotterian Study
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the experience of Black female leaders in UK business and the narratives of their lived experience of marginalization. Drawing principally on the rather small UK‐focused literature on this topic as context, as well as some of the much larger international literature, methodologically we use the approach to qualitative ...
Rita G. Klapper +2 more
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Married to the Empire: British wives and British imperialism in India, 1883-1947
, 1997 Although many recent historical works on the Raj examine issues of race and gender in the imperial context, historians have largely ignored the role of European women in defining, directing and maintaining imperialism. This dissertation analyzes the role
Procida, Mary A
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Colonization of minds: Ukraine between Russian colonialism and Western Orientalism. [PDF]
Front Sociol, 2023 Kotliuk G.
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Black Fugitivity in the Sporting Workplace: The Story of Eniola Aluko
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Being a Black fugitive involves constant movement: to find and cultivate spaces of safety and hope. In this paper, I curate a sporting archive about the UK Black women's elite football player Eniola Aluko to read her as a Black fugitive. I demonstrate how she traversed a racist and anti‐Black sporting workplace—where she was unfairly demonized
Aarti Ratna
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The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Newman's educational writings can present an apparent contradiction or rupture, with the ‘intellectualist’ Idea of a University opposed to the ‘commonsensical’ Grammar of Assent. An appeal to the imagination—to imaginative and implicit reasoning—has sometimes been made in order to reconcile these apparent contradictions. While Newman's thought
Austin Walker
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines elementary Grade 5 and 6 students’ emic perspectives on their L1 French and L2 English teachers’ cross‐curricular efforts to build linguistic and conceptual bridges. Drawing on research on translanguaging pedagogies and recent motivation scholarship, we propose a multi‐competence view of motivation that aligns more closely ...
Sunny Man Chu Lau +1 more
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