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The far side of capitalism: Institutions and trade financing in Manila during the long eighteenth century

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 1068-1087, November 2025.
Abstract Sustained long‐distance trade in the early modern era necessitated institutional mechanisms capable of solving three interrelated challenges: the need to mobilize an unprecedented volume of capital and to lock it in for long periods of time, ways of mitigating the principal–agent problem across continents, and methods to internalize and ...
Juan José Rivas Moreno
wiley   +1 more source

Islã político, Direitos Humanos e Democracia: rearticulações e possibilidades

open access: yesMonções, 2015
O presente artigo pretende discutir criticamente a relação entre Islã Político, os dispositivos de proteção aos Direitos Humanos e a democracia.
Fernando Luz Brancoli
doaj  

Livelihood resilience: The role of social‐ecological filters in a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System of southern Chile

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 8, Page 1889-1904, August 2025.
Abstract The global agrifood system faces significant threats due to rapid and interconnected social‐ecological changes, including climate change, land‐use shifts, demographic changes and emerging diseases. Small‐scale farmers are among the most vulnerable groups to these changes due to their direct dependence on their environment.
Julián Caviedes   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patriotismo y autonomismo en José Antonio Saco

open access: yesAnuario de Estudios Americanos, 1994
Tan pronto como llegó a España, inició José Antonio Saco su intensa carrera de escritor político, dedicado al estudio de la "cuestión cubana". Se trata de mostrar aquí, mediante el análisis de las más importantes piezas de su publicística, el sentimiento
Luis Navarro García
doaj   +1 more source

Capacity and capability of remote sensing to inform invasive plant species management in the Pacific Islands region

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 1, February 2025.
Abstract The Pacific Islands region is home to several of the world's biodiversity hotspots, yet its unique flora and fauna are under threat because of biological invasions. These invasions are likely to proliferate as human activity increases and large‐scale natural disturbances unfold, exacerbated by climate change. Remote sensing data and techniques
Carrol M. H. Chan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards Hemispheric Conversations in the Americas: Internal Colonialism and Efforts to Decolonise the Self in Abya Yala

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 120-146, January 2025.
Abstract We bring the concept of internal colonialism—developed by Indigenous and racialised activist‐scholars in Abya Yala—into conversation with settler colonialism, white supremacy, white privilege, and Indigenous fleshed or embodied politics.
Daniel P. Gámez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The presence of abandonment: Left to live at the borderland of Lampedusa

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 126, Issue 4, Page 622-634, December 2024.
Abstract Drawing from the extensive literature on the anthropology of borders and border death in and beyond Europe, this article ethnographically explores the processes through which irregular migrants and locals at the borderland of Lampedusa (south of Sicily, Italy) are left to live and die in abandonment.
Alessandro Corso, Nayanika Mookherjee
wiley   +1 more source

La sombra alargada del patrón: Gamonalismo y hábitos hacendatarios en Chimborazo tras la reforma agraria

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 352-363, December 2024.
Abstract This paper explores selective aspects of the historical processes of organization of the kichwa peasantry in the Andes of Ecuador. Based on the analysis of two representative cases of confrontation between peasants and landowners over access to land in the province of Chimborazo, it discusses the relevance of the concept of “gamonalismo” as ...
Víctor Bretón
wiley   +1 more source

Bats and Mayan temples: Bat diversity and the potential for conservation of archeological zones in Yucatan, Mexico

open access: yesBiotropica, Volume 56, Issue 4, July 2024.
The role of archeological zones in biological conservation has been highlighted because they restrict land‐use change, size, and maintenance of upstanding vegetation. We found 23 species from six families and seven guilds, representing 53% of all bat species known from the Yucatan state, including two endangered species for Mexico.
Daniela Cafaggi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Acercamiento al estudio de la guerra mediática contra Cuba: representación de Cuba en 4 documentales de TVE

open access: yesHistoria y Comunicación Social, 2014
Cuba goza de un protagonismo en los medios de comunicación de masas que no se corresponde con la relevancia que este país tiene en el devenir político y económico mundial.
Manuel González Ayestarán
doaj   +1 more source

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