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Sobre catalanismes al turc baixmedieval [PDF]
La qüestió dels manlleus turcs al català no ha rebut fins ara una atenció detinguda per part dels romanistes. Sí que hi ha hagut, en canvi, un cert interès per la presència de turquismes al castellà dels sefardites (Armistead / Silverman, 1979; Díaz-Mas,
Redondo Sánchez, Jordi
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“Flames Over Persepolis”: New Scientific Evidence Supporting Historical Perspectives
ABSTRACT This study investigates the burning of Persepolis Terrace, historically attributed to Alexander III in 330 bce. A review of classical accounts and excavation reports, combined with diagnostic surveys, confirms the fire's historicity and provides novel insights.
Maria Letizia Amadori +10 more
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The migrant voice : the politics of writing home between the Sinophone and Anglophone worlds
This paper addresses the politics of language, identity, and diasporic Chinese writing in old and emerging Chinese migrant literature. I opt for the idea of a “migrant subject” as brought up by Ha Jin to underscore a diverse verbal strategy and mobile ...
NG, Kenny K. K.
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Mapping Language: Names, Speakers and Voices
Short Abstract In this conversational piece, we reflect on our experience of working with and on maps and map‐makers that have shaped linguistic conventions and ideas, suggesting geographers have much to contribute by engaging with such mapping. It illuminates how maps rendered the unpredictable geography of speakers and the naming of places as ...
Beth Williamson, Philip Jagessar
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Mapping Disjuncture: Internationalism and Palestine
Short Abstract This paper reflects on a ‘Map Conversation’ session at the 2024 RGS‐IBG Annual Conference, that explored maps of the League of Nations and Palestine. The authors contrast maps promoting global consciousness in the 1920s with those charting colonial encroachment in Palestine.
Zena Agha, Jake Hodder
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ABSTRACT The institutional current effort to regulate and increase the quantity and quality of sustainability information reported by companies is undeniable. However, the growing complexity of sustainability reporting standards creates isolated compartments for each major dimension of sustainability, leaving aside their interconnectedness and combined
M. Marco‐Fondevila +3 more
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Addressing environmental misperceptions for nature recovery
Abstract A poorly understood and systemic challenge to global conservation agreements is shifting baseline syndrome (SBS), wherein people misperceive the extent to which nature has changed. This can diminish societal expectations for nature recovery. We broadened the conceptual framing of SBS beyond the more common elements of nature loss to include ...
Shuo Gao +3 more
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Race‐related research in economics
Abstract Issues of racial justice and economic inequalities between racial and ethnic groups have risen to the top of public debate. Economists' ability to contribute to these debates is based on the body of race‐related research. We study the volume and content of race‐related research in economics.
Arun Advani +4 more
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China inside out: Explaining silver flows in the triangular trade, c. 1820s‒70s
Abstract This paper analyses a new large dataset of silver prices, as well as silver and merchandise trade flows in and out of China in the crucial decades of the mid‐nineteenth century when the Empire was opened to world trade. Silver flows were associated with the interaction between heterogeneous monetary preferences and availability of specific ...
Alejandra Irigoin +2 more
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Abstract In one of the most influential works in 20th‐century Latin America, Leopoldo Zea draws on Hegel's Master–Slave Dialectic to construct a philosophy of Latin American History from colonialism to the present. Yet his motives for organizing his work around these brief but suggestive passages from Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit have not been well ...
Pavel Reichl
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