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Soils, scale, or elites? Biological innovation in Uruguayan cattle farming, 1880–1913

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 498-524, May 2023., 2023
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
wiley   +1 more source

The afterlife goes on: The biographical consequences of women's engagement in the 2011 Egyptian uprising

open access: yesDigest of Middle East Studies, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 380-396, Fall 2022., 2022
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
wiley   +1 more source

The seasonally dry tropical forest species Cavanillesia chicamochae has a middle Quaternary origin

open access: yesBiotropica, Volume 54, Issue 1, Page 91-99, January 2022., 2022
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
wiley   +1 more source

La migración como determinante de la obesidad infantil en Estados Unidos y Latinoamérica

open access: yesObesity Reviews, Volume 22, Issue S5, Octubre 2021., 2021
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
wiley   +1 more source

Fictitious commodification and agrarian change: Indigenous peoples and land markets in Highland Ecuador

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, Volume 21, Issue 1, Page 3-24, January 2021., 2021
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
wiley   +1 more source

Canadian Democracy at Risk? A Wakeup Call From the Perspective of English‐Speaking Citizens

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 53, Issue 1, February 2025.
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
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

Geómetras en el paraíso: el levantamiento topográfico del Real Sitio de Riofrío (1868-69) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
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
core   +2 more sources

New metric products, movies and 3D models from old stereopairs and their application to the in situ palaeontological site of Ambrona [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
[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
core   +1 more source

Mapping methodological nationalism in Middle Eastern studies: Toward a transnational understanding of the 2011 Arab uprisings?

open access: yesDigest of Middle East Studies, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 26-47, Winter 2024.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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