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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Angola: apontamentos para uma História Social da Cultura
Africana Studia, 2020 Este artigo é dividido em duas partes. Na primeira, apresenta-se uma reflexão a respeito da produção historiográfica, sobretudo a realizada em língua portuguesa, acerca do período colonial em Angola, enfatizando-se o que tem sido feito e o que ainda há ...
Andrea Marzano
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Pollution and Haunted Eco‐Histories: Silent Hill and Silent Horrors in Centralia, Pennsylvania
Popular Culture Review, Volume 37, Issue 2, December 2026.ABSTRACT Centralia is a former mining town and borough in Northeastern Pennsylvania, whose population has been steadily declining since the Mine Fire of 1962—a fire that still burns today. The “horrors” of living in Centralia are reflected in horror media set in postindustrial mining towns like Silent Hill.
Maz Jardon
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Wildlife Monographs, Volume 225, Issue 1, September 2026.We describe the host response continuum for highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAIV), including the continuum of host responses to HPAIV infection and exposure based on the primary axis of host competence, ability to infect other hosts, and host vulnerability.
Johanna A. Harvey +9 more
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De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 265-286, September 2026.Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
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Disaster Schooling Experiences and Emergent Crises: Lessons From Puerto Rico
Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines the disaster schooling experiences of Puerto Rican educators, families, and students across multiple crises following Hurricane Maria. Drawing on 11 months of ethnographic research, we analyze how schooling unfolded across disasters and how long‐standing vulnerabilities and structural inequalities shaped responses. Findings
Melissa Colón +2 more
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Pulperos rurales: entre la vida privada y la pública
Mundo Agrario, 2004 Este trabajo estudia la vida privada del pulpero rural de la campaña de Buenos Aires y las actividades que desarrolla cuando no se encuentra frente a su negocio.
Julián Carrera
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Nuevas de Indias, 2020 Reseña de Belinda Palacios, Entre la historia y la ficción: estudio y edición de “Historia del Huérfano” de Andrés de León (1621), un texto inédito de la América colonial.
Guillermo Serés
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Fluid Toxicities: Violent Affective Ecologies in Cartagena, Colombia
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.ABSTRACT Water is at the centre of climate change emergency concerns in coastal cities. It constitutes here a fluid entry point to investigating the socio‐ecological politics of toxicities for residents dwelling with and against contaminated waters in Cartagena, Colombia's urban extensions.
Laura Neville, Silke Oldenburg
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Historia colonial de Santo Domingo [PDF]
Hispanic American Historical Review, 1976 Woodrow Borah, Frank Moya Pons
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