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Soils, scale, or elites? Biological innovation in Uruguayan cattle farming, 1880–1913
Abstract This article examines the economics of innovation in livestock rearing during the first globalisation in Uruguay, the country with the most cattle per person in the world, both then and now. Using a new historical dataset of Uruguayan agriculture, the first one at a sub‐provincial level, I exploit regional differences in the adoption of cattle
Emiliano Travieso
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Abstract What are some of the effects of women's participation in the 2011 Egyptian uprising on their personal biographies? A small body of feminist scholarship has examined how gender mediates the consequences of social movement participation for women.
Nermin Allam
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The seasonally dry tropical forest species Cavanillesia chicamochae has a middle Quaternary origin
We use DNA sequence data to understand the evolutionary history of the genus Cavanillesia (Malvaceae), with particular emphasis on C. chicamochae, an emblematic succulent‐trunked tree endemic to seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs) of the Chicamocha Canyon of Colombia, South America.
Christine D. Bacon +6 more
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La migración como determinante de la obesidad infantil en Estados Unidos y Latinoamérica
Resumen La migración internacional tiene consecuencias económicas y en la salud. El proceso de aculturación en el país de acogida puede estar relacionado con la obesidad infantil. Utilizamos el marco conceptual del balance energético comunitario (CEB, por sus siglas en inglés) para analizar la relación entre migración y obesidad infantil en los hogares
Mireya Vilar‐Compte +7 more
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Abstract Creating private property rights and establishing land markets were fundamental to the historical development of capitalism in the Global North and remain at the centre of capitalist development in the Global South. This article contributes to debates about these processes by analysing the relationship between land markets and indigenous ...
Geoff Goodwin
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Canadian Democracy at Risk? A Wakeup Call From the Perspective of English‐Speaking Citizens
ABSTRACT At first glance, Canada is a resilient democracy. It has so far resisted international trends of democratic decline, it has not had any major populist upheavals aside from the Freedom Convoy in 2022, and no extremist parties are in parliament. However, if we look at public opinion data, we find widespread democratic disillusionment.
Daniel Stockemer, Valere Gaspard
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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
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Geómetras en el paraíso: el levantamiento topográfico del Real Sitio de Riofrío (1868-69) [PDF]
En agosto de 1868 un equipo de geómetras de la Junta General de Estadística, dirigido por José Giralt Torner, inició los trabajos de campo necesarios para proceder a una representación cartográfica fiable del Real Sitio de Riofrío (Segovia).
Camarero Bullón, Concepción +1 more
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New metric products, movies and 3D models from old stereopairs and their application to the in situ palaeontological site of Ambrona [PDF]
[ES] Este artículo está basado en la información del siguiente proyecto:● LDGP_mem_006-1: "[S_Ambrona_Insitu] Levantamiento fotogramétrico del yacimiento paleontológico “Museo in situ” de Ambrona (Soria)", http://hdl.handle.net/10810/7353● LDGP_mem_006-1:
Lopetegi Galarraga, Ane +5 more
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Abstract This article assesses the prevalence and implications of the research foci methodological nationalism, methodological globalism, and transnationalism in publications regarding the 2011 Arab uprisings. We propose a new typology that contrasts state‐centered methodological nationalism with the cosmopolitan lens of methodological globalism as two
Jonas Nabbe +2 more
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