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“In the greatest confusion and helplessness”: a riot on board in the 18th century Portuguese merchant marine and their motivations

open access: yesRevista Mundos do Trabalho, 2022
The text begins with a definition of the term “riot” and its uses in the 18th century. And then summarizes the reasons that led merchant marine sailors, including enslaved ones, to riot on the high seas.
Jaime Rodrigues
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SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS FOR EARTH DAMS USING (GEO-SLOPE/W)

open access: yesDiyala Journal of Engineering Sciences, 2018
The study of slope stability is important in the design and construction of the earth dams under influence of special states. Some factors affect on the slope stability for the earth dams such as change the water level in the reservoir, dam ...
Jasim M Abbas, Zainab Ali Mutiny
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Südsee : Mythos, Handlungsraum, Thema ; eine Filmographie [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Inhalt Spielfilme, TV Movies, Mini-Series Lamour, Dorothy The Mutiny on the Bounty / Die Meuterei auf der Bounty Dokumentarfilme, Dokumentationen ...
Wulff, Hans Jürgen
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A ‘Wholly Unjustifiable Treatment of British Subject’? The Detention of W. T. Goode in the Baltic, 1919

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
wiley   +1 more source

The lifetime problem of evaporating black holes: mutiny or resignation

open access: yes, 2015
It is logically possible that regularly evaporating black holes exist in nature. In fact, the prevalent theoretical view is that these are indeed the real objects behind the curtain in astrophysical scenarios. There are several proposals for regularizing
Barceló, Carlos   +3 more
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
wiley   +1 more source

‘Thy Hunger-Starved Men’: Shakespeare’s Henry plays and the contemporary lot of the common soldier [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Between 1589 and 1599 Shakespeare wrote six Henry plays, two on the reign of Henry IV, one on that of Henry V and three covering that of Henry VI. An important preoccupation, which runs through all of these plays, is the conditions in which common ...
Leahy, WJ
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
wiley   +1 more source

Muslim Historical Literature in the Era of Early Muslim Nationalism

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2021
Mid-nineteenth century Muslim historical literature, particularly on the mutiny-rebellion of 1857, presents an interesting contrast, and offers a fascinating study of the state of Muslim mind before and after 1857.
Salahuddin Malik
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Osobní nebo státní svědomí?! Melvillovo pozdní dílo Billy Budd aneb proces proti „švarnému námořníkovi“

open access: yesPrávněhistorické studie, 2020
In this article the author deals with the Herman Melville’s fiction “Billy Budd” from the perspective of the current “law and literature”. So firstly he contextualizes this book in writer’s work whereas he also claims that it is a story that Melville ...
Radim Seltenreich
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