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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

Principled Experiments in Just Being: From Police Oversight to Community Intersight

open access: yesPoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 48, Issue 2, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This article compares ideals and practices of police oversight in two very different contexts—settler colonial North America and “post” colonial South Asia—to interrogate fundamental principles underlying police oversight globally and to imagine new ways of working toward transformation.
Beatrice Jauregui
wiley   +1 more source

Accommodation as a Rhetorical Principle: Twenty Years after John O’Malley’s The First Jesuits (1993)

open access: yes, 2014
Twenty years after its publication, John O’Malley’s The First Jesuits (1993) can be located within a broader “postmodern” intellectual context that followed in the wake of 1989 and the consequent end of the Cold War.
S. Schloesser
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Making Justice‐Oriented Futures From a Censored Past: Reanimating the Racio‐Religious Specters Haunting a Research–Practice Partnership in English Language Arts

open access: yesReading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 4, October/December 2025.
Participants' revision of Pollock's “backup” concept. ABSTRACT This article explores how eight white teachers engaging in a two‐year anti‐bias, antiracist research–practice partnership with the aims of forwarding justice‐oriented English language arts came to name, recognize, and respond to curricular censorship and community controversy at their pre‐K–
Jon M. Wargo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Infidels” at Home: Jesuits and Muslim Slaves in Seventeenth-Century Naples and Spain

open access: yes, 2014
Drawing from published and unpublished Jesuit sources—treatises, handbooks, reports, and letters—this article explores the Jesuit apostolate to Muslim slaves in Naples and in different cities of Spain during the seventeenth century.
E. Colombo
semanticscholar   +1 more source

On an unknow translation of a religious text by Alexey Agafonov

open access: yesБиблиосфера, 2018
This paper is devoted to studying manuscript «Wang U Dzhin Yuan or the True Source of All Creatures or the Book on the True Source of All Creatures».
D. V. Tcvetkov
doaj   +1 more source

Necrologio de un extirpador de idolatrías: Pablo Joseph de Arriaga. Documento original del Archivo Romano de la Compañía de Jesús

open access: yesAnthropologica, 2007
El artículo presenta una transcripción paleográfica de dos documentos originales del Archivum Romanum Societat Jesu (ARSI), en Roma, referentes a la defunción del Padre Jesuita Pablo Joseph de Arriaga de la provincia del Perú. El primer documento ha sido
Fabiola Chávez
doaj  

The Politics of Religious Brotherhood

open access: yesComillas Journal of International Relations
When six members of the transnational brotherhood of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) were murdered in cold blood in El Salvador in November 1989, the Jesuit community in the United States responded with a powerful combination of outrage and embarrassment ...
Timothy A. Byrnes
doaj   +1 more source

Conquest and Theology: The Jesuits in Angola, 1548–1650

open access: yes, 2014
The Jesuits played a key role in the evangelization of the Portuguese colony of Angola and its surrounding Kimbundu-speaking neighbors when they came with the colonial mission of Paulo Dias de Novais in 1575.
J. Thornton
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Central-European Jesuit Scientists in China, and Their Impact on Chinese Science

open access: yesAsian Studies, 2015
This article describes nine Central European Jesuits from the Austrian province who embarked for China in the 17th and 18th centuries. Their European educational networks provide useful insights into the abilities of the absburg Monarchy to meet Chinese ...
Stanislav Jože JUŽNIČ
doaj   +1 more source

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