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¿Cádiz, Jamaica o Londres? La colonia británica de Cádiz y las transformaciones del comercio inglés con la América española (1655-1750)

open access: yesStudia Historica: Historia Moderna, 2011
Ni los intercambios realizados a través de Jamaica, conquistada a España en 1655, ni los privilegios disfrutados por la Compañía del Mar del Sur en virtud del Tratado del Asiento a partir de 1713 conllevaron la decadencia de la colonia mercantil ...
José Ignacio Martínez Ruiz
doaj  

Beyond thermoregulation: Active behavioural regulation of ultraviolet light exposure by a free‐ranging lizard

open access: yesJournal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
This study provides a clear demonstration of active ultraviolet (UV) regulation in free‐ranging lizards and supports that microhabitat choice likely constrains UV regulation more than thermoregulation. Overall, it serves to establish UV as a parallel regulatory axis of physiological homeostasis and expand the range of testable hypotheses in animal ...
Matthew S. Lattanzio
wiley   +1 more source

The Laws of Jamaica, 1946 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1947
The Laws of Jamaica passed in the year 1946 Published by authorityhttps://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/jamaica/1099/thumbnail ...
Jamaica
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International Tourism in the Global South: Revealing an Extractive Development Process

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Hosting international tourism remains a key development strategy for many Global South countries to generate economic growth, government revenue and employment. However, this conventional wisdom can be contested: tourism may instead be seen as an extractive process that disrupts livelihoods, ecosystems and host economies.
Julia Jeyacheya, Mark P. Hampton
wiley   +1 more source

Absence of the Ackee Tree

open access: yesPlant Perspectives
On a monument to the people enslaved on the grounds of the University of the West Indies campus in Kingston, Jamaica, groves of ackee trees are acknowledged as ‘botanical markers’ of former slave villages. This use of the ackee as a long-term memorial of
Heather Craddock
doaj   +1 more source

Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
wiley   +1 more source

The Acts of Jamaica, 1964 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1965
The Acts of Jamaica passed in the year 1964 Published by authorityhttps://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/jamaica/1123/thumbnail ...
Jamaica
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Assessing vaccination coverage quality in Jamaica during COVID-19 using vcqiR: insights from the 2022 MICS

open access: yesRevista Panamericana de Salud Pública
Objective. This analysis aimed to identify the underlying causes of gaps in routine immunization coverage observed during the COVID-19 pandemic recovery phase by applying the open-source Vaccination Coverage Quality Indicators package in R (vcqiR ...
Anya Cushnie   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘The Housewife's Greatest Standby’: Dried Eggs, Gender and Domesticity During the Second World War

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the previously underexplored connections between dried eggs, women and domesticity in Britain during the Second World War. It argues that newsprint and advertisements framed the purchase and use of dried eggs, a novel wartime product, as a means for housewives to contribute to the war effort through domestic labour. Dried
Joel Mead
wiley   +1 more source

Blue book, Island of Jamaica ...

open access: yes
Description based on: 1920.Mode of access ...
Jamaica.
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