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Incentives in Merchant Empires: Portuguese and Dutch Labor Compensation [PDF]
The different organizational structure of the Portuguese and Dutch merchant empires affected their ability to monitor workers. I test the theoretical implications of these differences using micro data of overseas workers' compensation from the sixteenth ...
Rei, Claudia
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Reframing the Nineteenth Century
Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2018 No longer determined exclusively by the economic fortunes of the empire, the history of the nineteenth‑century Portuguese colonies in India and the Indian Ocean region has been sufficiently elaborated for some heuristic frameworks to emerge. Histories of
Rochelle Pinto +2 more
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Walking upright here : countering prevailing discourses through reflexivity and methodological pluralism : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Nursing at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2002 Knowledge development takes place in the context of competing political, social and economic frameworks that often reflect dominant group values, practises and ideologies.
DeSouza, Ruth Noreen Argie
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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The Portuguese Seaborne Empire: 1415-1825. [PDF]
The Hispanic American Historical Review, 1970 Bailey W. Diffie, C. R. Boxer
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The Long Road: An Analysis of the 1557 Book of Mirrors by Seydi Ali Reis
, 2012 In 1552, Piri Reis was relieved from the Admiralty of the Ottoman Imperial Navy. Seydi Ali Reis was appointed to replace him and his assignment was to return fifteen galleys from Basra to Egypt. This should have been a relatively short journey.
Weiss, Julian N.
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Alynna Lyon - Associate Professor of Political Science travels to Portugal [PDF]
, 2011 In 1996, Oporto, Portugal was classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The city is one of the oldest within Europe and displays the legacies of the once powerful Portuguese empire, the antiquities of Portuguese culture, as well as a modern urban ...
Lyon, Alynna
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Out of the labyrinth? Television memories of revolution and return in contemporary Portugal [PDF]
, 2016 This essay examines Portuguese contemporary memories of the end of colonialism as represented in the 2013 television series, Depois do Adeus. It argues, first, that a popular series such as this can perform useful memory work in society, and, second ...
Ribeiro de Menezes, Alison
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Animal Conservation, EarlyView.We have found evidence of behavioural barriers for both hybridization and disease transmission between European wildcats and domestic cats. This includes hierarchical interspecies exclusion enforced by wildcats, as well as sexual selection exerted by wildcat females.
Jose María Gil‐Sánchez +4 more
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Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2017 This article deals with communications between the Portuguese Crown and the governors of the captaincies of America on the 1798’s reform of the Maritime Post.
Mayra Guapindaia
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