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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article measures the cost of the early modern consumer revolution through a quantitative analysis of product and process innovations in Amsterdam and examines their variegated social impact in two distinct datasets of probate inventories.
Bas Spliet, Anne E. C. McCants
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Integrating the In‐Laws: Class and Kin Support Within Marriage in Urban Kenya
Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study compares affinal kin relationships in low‐income and higher‐income families in Nairobi, Kenya. Background In most studies of kinship structure and relationships in sub‐Saharan Africa, culture serves as the basis upon which norms and expectations of kin are differentiated.
Kirsten Stoebenau +3 more
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In Search of the British Indian in British India: White Orphans, Kipling's Kim, and Class in Colonial India [PDF]
Modern Asian Studies, 2004 Contemporary scholars struggling to keep their work politically meaningful and efficacious often, with the best of intentions, invoke the triad of race, gender and class. But though this three-part mantra is persistently and even passionately recited, usually in the introductory paragraphs of a scholarly piece, ‘attentive listening,’ as historian ...
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Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the relationship between the systemization of kharāj (land tax) and the higher objective of Islamic law or Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa. After the conquest of Sawād region (located in modern‐day southern Iraq), the First Caliph ʿUmar (634 ‐ 644 CE) introduced a new approach to the distribution of ghanīmah (spoils of war), leaving ...
Öznur Özdemir, Mehmet Asutay
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Sex-ratio dependent execution of queens in polygynous colonies of the ant Formica exsecta [PDF]
, 2003 Formica exsecta has become an important model system for studying intraspecific variation in sex ratios. Patterns of sex allocation in polygynous (multiple queen per nest) populations of F.
Brown, W. D. +2 more
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New Phytologist, EarlyView.Summary Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are widespread plant symbionts that enhance nutrient acquisition and influence ecosystem productivity. Previous chromosome‐level assemblies of the model species Rhizophagus irregularis revealed a two‐compartment genome architecture (active A and repressed B chromatin compartments), yet its conservation across ...
Ken Mugambi +10 more
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Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary and the Ossian controversy [PDF]
, 2017 A study of the influence of the controversy about Macpherson's Ossian poems on Scott's novel The ...
Leask, Nigel
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Why Joanna Baptista Sold Herself into Slavery: Indian Women in Portuguese Amazonia, 1755-1798
, 2012 In 1780, in Belem, Brazil, Joanna Baptista sold herself into slavery. This article probes Joanna’s motives and situates her actions not only in the milieu of slaveholding Brazil, but also in the more specific context of Portuguese Amazonia during the ...
Sommer, Barbara A.
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School Enrollment and Living Arrangements of Children in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract School enrollment has increased in many sub‐Saharan African countries over recent decades, alongside substantial socioeconomic and demographic transitions. However, gains in educational enrollment have not been equal, raising questions about the determinants of access to and variability in school enrollment. The living arrangements of children
Maria Pohl, Ewa Batyra, Albert Esteve
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