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Using art history to explore society's changing connections with agriculture

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Food insecurity is a looming challenge that especially affects those least fortunate. Consumer food choices have a substantial impact on the sustainability of current food systems. Here, we use art as a lens through which to consider our contemporary and historical relationship to one of the world's most crucial crops, the potato, in the context of the
Edward F. Hill‐King   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

18th Century Turning Points in U.S. History: 1767-1776

open access: yes, 2008
1766 John Singleton Copley Paints "Boy with the Squirrel"1767 Daniel Boone Views Kentucky1768 Indiana Co. buys 1,800,000 acres from the Iroquois1770 The Liberty Pole Riot and the Boston Massacre1773 The Boston Tea Party1774 The First Continental Congress

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Neznano in pozabljeno iz 18. stoletja na Slovenskem

open access: yes, 2011
Neznano in pozabljeno iz 18. stoletja na Slovenskem [The Unknown and Forgotten from the 18th-Century Slovenian Territory] is the first monograph written by the Slovenian Society of 18th Century Studies and presents the less known phenomena and aspects of

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FTX’s collapse mirrors an infamous 18th century British financial scandal

open access: yes, 2022
Amy Froide receives funding from the Henry E. Huntington Library.https://theconversation.com/ftxs-collapse-mirrors-an-infamous-18th-century-british-financial-scandal ...
Froide, Amy
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Illegal Gold Mining in the Brazilian Amazon: Environmental Degradation in Yanomami Indigenous Lands, and Regulatory Failures

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Illegal gold mining has emerged as a major sustainability threat in the Amazon, eroding Indigenous rights, forest integrity, and climate mitigation efforts. This study examines how international market incentives relate to the expansion of illegal mining and associated deforestation within the Yanomami Indigenous Territory (YIT) from 2008 to ...
Shirléia Lago Santos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Technology‐First Framework for SDG Implementation in Carbon‐Based Economies: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Only 17% of Sustainable Development Goal indicators are globally on track, yet the structural conditions explaining this failure remain inadequately theorised for fossil‐fuel‐dependent economies. This study develops and empirically tests a four‐layer loop framework of Technology, Well‐being, Social Equity, and Sustainability closing through ...
Sameh W. H. Al‐Muqdadi   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The 18th-century traditions of representation in a new age of revolution : History politics in the Swedish and Finnish parliaments, 1917−1919

open access: yes, 2015
What happened to shared historical experiences in the discursive processes of constitutional reform in Sweden and Finland? This article examines the use of 18th-century history in early 20th-century politics. Building on a long-term survey of Swedish and
Ihalainen, Pasi
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A History of Visual Culture: Western Civilization from the 18th to the 21st Century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Book Review of A History of Visual Culture: Western Civilization from the 18th to the 21st Century, ed, by Jane Kromm and Susan Benforado Bakewell. ISBN 9781845204921.
Jeff Guerrier
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Perfluorohexanone for Clean Fire Suppression: Mechanisms, System Design, Applications, and Future Directions

open access: yesSafety Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Driven by halon and high GWP agent phase out, perfluorohexanone is increasingly deployed in enclosures such as data centers, marine machinery spaces, and industrial process lines. This review summarizes application performance, discharge and distribution design, material compatibility, and byproduct control and maps practical gaps for large volume and ...
Zhilei Yu   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Art history: formation of the academic discipline in Europe, and related developments in Greece (18th-19th c.) Rethymnon (3-4 October, 2014) [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Art Historiography, 2015
The Academic Forum with the title Art history: formation of the academic discipline in Europe and related developments in Greece (18th-19th centuries), co-organised by the Association of Greek Art Historians and the Institute for Mediterranean Studies ...
Annie Malama
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