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Migration to Australia, the transition from sail to steam, and the SS Great Britain

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The transition from sail to steam for emigrant ships on the route to Australia took place in the early 1880s. From the 1850s, a string of steamship ventures failed, but with one outstanding exception. Brunel's iconic ship the SS Great Britain made 32 voyages to Australia from 1852 to 1875 with a total of nearly 16,000 passengers. Among the key
Timothy J. Hatton
wiley   +1 more source

Swamped: On Depression and Vision

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “Swamped” cracks open my experience of depression by exploring how a specific place—a swamp—acted on me to bring social and emotional injuries, but also modes of seeing that ultimately moved me out of the depression, to the fore. In writing from this specific place, I build on moments in which something—a desire for beauty, the luminosity of ...
Petra Rethmann
wiley   +1 more source

Race in the Metabolic Rift: The Metaphor and Materiality of Whiteness

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView.
Abstract If metabolic rifts are ruptures, chasms, or divisions, what happens inside them? Shifting attention from multi‐scalar socio‐ecological and corporeal metabolisms towards the internal dynamics of rupture, this paper returns to the origins of metabolic thought to see what happens at the bottom of these clefts within nature.
Archie Davies
wiley   +1 more source

Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

What can lithics tell us about hominin technology's ‘primordial soup’? An origin of stone knapping via the emulation of Mother Nature

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract The use of stone hammers to produce sharp stone flakes—knapping—is thought to represent a significant stage in hominin technological evolution because it facilitated the exploitation of novel resources, including meat obtained from medium‐to‐large‐sized vertebrates. The invention of knapping may have occurred via an additive (i.e., cumulative)
Metin I. Eren   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of diet on renal stone formation. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Family Med Prim Care
Ghoneim SH   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Perspectives on technology: All STEPS count – an integrated framework for net zero urological care

open access: yesBJU International, EarlyView.
Objective To present a narrative review of evidence to guide the delivery of high‐quality, low‐carbon urological care using a structured framework. Methods Academic and policy papers which outline actions focused on decarbonising urological care and surgical care more broadly were identified and reviewed.
Jamie Hyde   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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