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Homo sapiens, industrialisation and the environmental mismatch hypothesis. [PDF]
ABSTRACT For the vast majority of the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, a range of natural environments defined the parameters within which selection shaped human biology. Although human‐induced alterations to the terrestrial biosphere have been evident for over 10,000 years, the pace and scale of change has accelerated dramatically since the onset
Longman DP, Shaw CN.
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Regimes of Temporality: China, Tibet and the Politics of Time in the Post-2008 Era [PDF]
While the politics of time are an important dimension of Chinese state discourse about Tibet, it remains insufficiently explored in theoretical and practical terms.
Kehoe, S., Kehoe, S.
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Main transition strategies and its logic: Actors, alternatives and prospects [PDF]
In the article author deals with ideological background of two transition strategies under the influence of three grand ideologies: liberalism conservativism, Marxism. Two prevailing strategies of shock therapy and gradualism are revisited with reference
Brdar Milan M.
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In the huge literature on the “peasant issue” one of its important aspects still remains unstudied—the elite’s vision of the ideal liberated peasant. Whom a former serf was expected to become: a rationalized market producer, a bearer of historical values
Igor Khristoforov
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L’abolition du servage vue à travers quelques publications d’Europe occidentale
This communication focuses on insights from three very different authors, a famous Russian, Alexander Herzen, and two lesser known Germans, Malwida von Meysenbug and Aurelio Buddeus. Herzen moved to London in August 1852.
Michel Cadot
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On the Specificity of “Obligatory Relations” of the Kalmyks
The article is devoted to social interactions research, particularly to dependency relations in the Kalmyk society of the 17th–19th centuries in the context of a discussion about social structure of nomadic people.
Aleksandr N. Komandzhaev +2 more
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PEASANTS AND LANDLORDS IN THE SYSTEM OF SERFDOM RELATIONS IN PRE-PETRINE RUSSIA
The evolution of landowners ‘ ownership rights to land and peasants in Russia of the XVII century has been considered. Throughout the century, there has been a tendency to strengthen local land ownership in Russia, which was expressed in the legal and ...
O. Yu. Yakhshiyan
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On the causes of the African slave trade [PDF]
This paper offers an integrated analysis of the forces shaping the emergence of the African slave trade over the early modern period. We focus our attention on two questions.
Acemoglu +50 more
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Cases of Peasants in the South of Russia in the 20s of the 17th Century
Introduction. Among the materials of the Belgorod Stol of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA), there is an extensive set of documents related to disputes over peasants who fled to the South of Russia from uyezds of other regions of the ...
Denis A. Lyapin
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Leibeigenschaft und Grundherrschaft im mittelalterlichen Mitteleuropa
Serfdom and Lordship in Medieval Central Europe The following seminar-paper is about the prime importance of serfdom and lordship in medieval times. It will examine the close bonds between the lords of the manor and their bondmen, without idealising ...
Magdalena Pernold
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