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, 1958 Concurrent with the political and diplomatic developments just described, and exercising a significant influence upon them, there occurred a vast overseas expansion of Western Civilization.
Bloom, Robert L. +6 more
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Winston Churchill and South Africa: An Enduring, yet Debatable Connection, 1899–1955
History, EarlyView.Abstract The article traces Churchill's engagement with South Africa, from his time as a newspaper correspondent during the Anglo‐Boer War to his services in both Liberal and Conservative cabinets as well as, ultimately, his premiership. The discussion highlights three phases in this relationship.
LUVUYO WOTSHELA
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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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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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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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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Back from Shingly: revisiting the premodern history of Jews in Kerala [PDF]
, 2018 Jewish history in Kerala is based on sources mainly from the colonial period onward and mostly in European languages, failing to account for the premodern history of Jews in Kerala. These early modern sources are based on oral traditions of Paradeśi Jews
Gamliel, Ophira
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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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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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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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