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Estudios Atacameños, 2016 Aquí se sostiene que la construcción social y administrativa del Norte Grande estaría relacionada con la política salitrera y con la política exterior de Chile después de la Guerra del Pacífico.
Sergio Alberto González Miranda +1 more
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ChemPlusChem, Volume 88, Issue 5, May 2023., 2023 A metal worker's laboratory: from Georg Agricola, De re Metallica, Libri XII, Basel, 1556, illustrating a reverberatory oven similar to what Carl Wenzel would have used to divide his metals in the 1770s. This Perspective essay discusses Wenzel, who was a chemist and an alchemist with deep knowledge of acids, bases and salts, and he was credited with ...
Curt Wentrup
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Migration and innovation in early modern Islamic societies. The case for firearms
History Compass, Volume 21, Issue 5, May 2023., 2023 Abstract The objective of this article is to review the historiography of the relationship between migration and firearms technologies in the early modern Islamic World. By examining historiographical debates on the role of firearms in early modern Islamic societies, we will look at the place of migrants in the historical literature of firearms. During
Rémi Dewière
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Prussian Blue: Chemistry, Commerce, and Colour in Eighteenth‐Century Paris
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 154-186, February 2023., 2023 This essay reconsiders the story of a pigment. Prussian blue, discovered at the beginning of the eighteenth century, is often described as a revolutionary colour that instantly transformed painters’ palettes and practices. Grounded in a ‘thick description’ of the pigment's history in Paris, this article challenges the legendary account of Prussian blue
Charlotte Guichard +2 more
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Mercenaries, Migration and the Crew of the Mary Rose
History, Volume 107, Issue 378, Page 836-860, December 2022., 2022 Abstract This article reconsiders the presence of foreigners in the crew of Henry VIII's ship the Mary Rose in light of recent archaeological investigations of human remains from the wreck. Through an interdisciplinary analysis drawing on archaeological investigation, the artefacts found on board the Mary Rose and historical documents, this study ...
SAMANTHA NELSON, CATHERINE FLETCHER
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Economic Affairs, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 418-441, October 2022., 2022 Abstract The English economy during the sixteenth century was increasingly captured by monopolists, with dire consequences in aggregate. Yet, though many Members of Parliament owned patents of monopoly, on 20 November 1601 the House of Commons agreed, with no voices raised in opposition, to void all such patents.
Terence Kealey
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The Memory of the National and the National as Memory [PDF]
, 2015 This essay seeks to illuminate a different, more encompassing kind of transition than that from dictatorship to post-dictatorship (and its attendant forms of memory of military brutal force and human rights abuses) often privileged by studies of ...
Poblete, Juan
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Consumers’ Knowledge of Food Adulteration and Commonly Used Methods of Detection
Journal of Food Quality, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022 Food adulteration has become a threat to many countries as most individuals have consumed food items without knowing that it has been adulterated, leaving the consumer with various ailments. This study identifies the degree of adulteration in some commonly used food items bought by consumers and the means of detection. The study comprised 384 women who
Edward Ken Essuman +4 more
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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022 Objective. To research the efficacy of Biejiajian pill (BJJ) on diabetes‐associated atherosclerosis and explore its subsequent mechanisms. Methods. Diabetes‐associated atherosclerosis (AS) was established in apolipoprotein E knockout (ApoE−/−) mice using high‐fat diet and streptozotocin. Atorvastatin (ATV, 10 mg/kg/day) or BJJ‐L (BJJ low‐dose, 0.9 g/kg/
Yu Fu +8 more
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The Environmental Institution in Chile, A Political Representation of the Ecological Crisis [PDF]
, 2012 In the present scenario of increasing sustainable global governance for ecological issues, the approval of Law 19.300 “Environmental Bases” 1994 in Chile is presented generally as the beginning of a modernization process of environmental institution ...
Campos Medina, Fernando +1 more
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