The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract One of the most contentious issues in the study of the Atlantic slave trade is the profitability of the trade. In this paper, we contribute by pooling all available data on transatlantic slave ship voyage accounts into a joint dataset. This dataset includes data from a period of 100 years (1730–1830) and from five nations (Denmark, France ...
Klas Rönnbäck +4 more
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The Absence of Plantations in the Taiwanese Sugar Industry
Historische Anthropologie, 2019 openaire +1 more source
The fast and the focused: Balancing timely and accurate classification of deforestation and degradation drivers using remote sensing. [PDF]
PLoS OneDebus A, Beauchamp E, Lines ER.
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Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
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Cunninghamia lanceolata Resource Distribution Research, Hotspots and Trends via Bibliometric Analysis. [PDF]
Plants (Basel)Wu H, Huan J, He Z, Jiang L, Zhu P.
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Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
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Tropical <i>Bacillus</i> as Hidden Producers of Thermostable and Structurally Complex Exopolysaccharides. [PDF]
ACS Omegade Almeida JS +6 more
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Embedded Pesticide Use: Exploring the Pesticide‐Land Nexus
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since the turn of the century, global land grabs, farmland financialization and land‐based food sovereignty movements have returned the land question to the heart of agrarian studies. Meanwhile, abiding interest in pesticides has been reanimated in the face of changes in production, regulation and knowledge of toxicity.
Julie Guthman, Marion Werner
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Investigating industrial by-product for soil conditioning addressing environmental risk and waste reduction alternatives. [PDF]
Sci RepAziman ES +6 more
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Remaking State Power Through a Paraquat Ban in Malaysia
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of the state in its ability to enact environmental regulations. Specifically, this study investigates how Malaysian state actors changed, shifted and betrayed various, oftentimes competing interests to ban paraquat, an acutely toxic herbicide.
Caitlyn Sears
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