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Atlantic trade and the West African market economy: New evidence from cowry imports, 1650–1905

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, billions of cowries arrived in West Africa, leaving one of the few quantitative traces available for historians to measure the Atlantic trade's impact on the precolonial market economy. Yet, current estimates substantially underestimate the volume of cowry imports.
María José Pont Cháfer
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Revue de l'Institut oriental / Fondateur l'abbé L. Gruel

open access: yes, 1883
Variante(s) de titre : Revue de l'Institut oriental et colonialAvec mode ...
Institut oriental (Paris). Auteur du texte
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A newly discovered Carolingian text: Candidus' Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti, written for Charlemagne

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
This article presents a newly discovered Latin text: a theological treatise titled Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti that was written by Alcuin’s friend Candidus (Wizo) at the request of Charlemagne. By discussing selected passages from the Heptateuch, Candidus seeks to demonstrate that Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, thus the whole Christian ...
Lukas J. Dorfbauer
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Region 4 Tech Center

open access: yes, 2015
This archived document is maintained by the Oregon State Library as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Title from PDF caption (viewed on April 8, 2015)."04/03/15 ...

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Anthropogenic and natural factors are associated with bird dawn chorus onset in subtropical East Asia

open access: yesIbis, EarlyView.
Anthropogenic factors such as artificial lighting at night (ALAN) and natural factors including temperature and moonlight can affect the dawn chorus pattern in birds. However, most studies are conducted in temperate regions. We investigated the effect of anthropogenic and natural factors on dawn chorus timing in eight species of bird across Hong Kong ...
Ann W. Y. To, Sarah A. Collins
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