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Cultural Woods in Brazil: Historical Legacy and Future Frontiers [PDF]

open access: yesActa Botânica Brasílica
: Historical woods express cultural relations around the use of biodiversity by human societies. This article presents an overview of woods used for cultural purposes in Brazil based on the epistemological concept of historical anatomy.
João Carlos Ferreira de Melo Júnior   +17 more
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Arboreal Tradition and Subversion: An Ecocritical Reading of Shakespeare’s Portrayal of Trees, Woods and Forests

open access: yesMulticultural Shakespeare, 2020
This paper analyses from an ecocritical standpoint the role of trees, woods and forests and their symbolism in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard II and The ...
Andoni Cossio, Martin Simonson
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Methods in historical anatomy: proposal for a standardized sampling of different categories of historical woods [PDF]

open access: yesRodriguésia
The timber used by human societies serves as a material testament to knowledge about biodiversity and its appropriation, potentially revealing important information about historical and cultural aspects, as well as the implications of its use in ...
João Carlos Ferreira de Melo Júnior
doaj   +1 more source

The «Group of Twenty», IMF and EU and Reforming of Global Governance

open access: yesVestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2014
This article is devoted to the process of reforming the global financial system and world economic organizations since the foundation of the International Monetary Fund at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 to present time.
Evgeniy J. Il'in
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“Ist es nicht ein finsterer Wald, in den wir gerieten?”. Waldgänge und Waldgänger in Maja Haderlaps Roman «Engel des Vergessens»

open access: yesStudia theodisca, 2014
This essay examines the literary portrait of the forested Southern Carinthian border region as a place of Austrian Slowenian historical experience and cultural memory in Maja Haderlap’s novel Engel des Vergessens.
Brigitte Prutti
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A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical

open access: yesNotes and Queries, 1881
A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical (1839), combines the practical knowledge of an engraver with the critical inquiry of an historian. Compiled and edited by William Andrew Chatto, an established author with an interest in woodcuts, the book was originally conceived by the wood-engraver John Jackson, who provided the book's more than
John Jackson, William Andrew Chatto
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Comparative wood anatomy of Wych Elm, English Elm, Caucasian Elm and Hackberry [PDF]

open access: yesتحقیقات علوم چوب و کاغذ ایران, 2011
In this investigation, anatomical characteristics of Iranian native woods from Ulmaceaefamily: Ulmus glabra, Ulmus carpinifolia,Zelkova carpinifolia,Celtis australis have been compared.
Vahid reza Safdari, Meisam Golchinfar
doaj   +1 more source

L’espace sacré de Rome au chant VIII de l’Énéide : des « lieux de mémoire » au paysage allégorique

open access: yesPallas, 2022
The organization of Roman landscape in Aeneid 8 has an important symbolic and programmatic value, which tends towards what we may call an “allegorical landscape”.
François Ripoll
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Analytical Aspects of Waterlogged Wood in Historical Shipwrecks

open access: yesAnalytical Sciences, 2011
Conservation methods applied to historical shipwrecks increasingly rely on combining modern analytical techniques to obtain new insights for specially adapted conservation treatments. Crystalline salts formed on waterlogged wood are identified by powder X-ray diffraction while X-ray fluorescence measurements along wood cores show penetration profiles ...
FORS, Yvonne   +2 more
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