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History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 2, Page 251-271, June 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This article argues that, in the fourteenth century, there was a wave of nostalgia that was provoked by extreme structural change: this was a moment of demographic catastrophe (with famine and plague), endemic warfare, economic fluctuation, intensified urbanization, and intellectual and spiritual novelties.
Hannah Skoda
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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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EVASION: Prison Escapes and the Predicament of Incarceration in Rio de Janeiro
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 36-59, February 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This article examines Brazil's project of incarceration through the figure of evasion (evasão)—the act of escaping prison custody, often temporarily. Evasion traces a path across the borders of captivity and freedom, as people routinely flee confinement, only to return of their own accord.
DAVID C. THOMPSON
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Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.Resumo Objetivo Avaliar os efeitos diretos, indiretos, mediadores e moderadores sobre o desempenho de atividades e a participação de crianças e adolescentes com paralisia cerebral (PC), sob a perspectiva da Classificação Internacional de Funcionalidade, Incapacidade e Saúde (CIF).
Déborah E Fontes +5 more
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Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.Resumo Objetivo Descrever a implementação da estratégia de envolvimento do público baseada nas normas do Reino Unido para o envolvimento do público em pesquisa no Registro Brasileiro de Paralisia Cerebral (RB‐PC). Métodos Realizamos um estudo participativo, exploratório, sequencial, de métodos mistos.
Luana Cristina da Silva +11 more
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Atlantic trade and the West African market economy: New evidence from cowry imports, 1650–1905
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, billions of cowries arrived in West Africa, leaving one of the few quantitative traces available for historians to measure the Atlantic trade's impact on the precolonial market economy. Yet, current estimates substantially underestimate the volume of cowry imports.
María José Pont Cháfer
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 375-392, September 2026.Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
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Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 7, July 2026.Linking environmental pathogen detection with host infection patterns can improve surveillance of diseases involving environmental transmission, particularly where direct host sampling is logistically challenging. This approach enables the identification of areas of elevated transmission risk and supports targeted monitoring and management under ...
Ananda Brito de Assis +9 more
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TAXON, Volume 75, Issue 3, June 2026.Abstract During their voyage to the Americas (1799–1804), Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland described and collected American flora, fauna, minerals and other objects. After returning to Europe, they published several works, including Monographie des Melastomacées, initiated by Bonpland to classify this complex botanical family.
Marina Ramos de Azevedo +1 more
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Subsistence Through Disappearance: Theology of the Unseen in the Films of Michelangelo Antonioni
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT The present study contends that the theology of Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960s cinema is structured by a reductio ad absurdum logic, whereby the presence of certain qualities is proven by the portrayal of their absence. It is argued that Antonioni's intention to show what is by specifying what is not may have been rooted in a modernist ...
Vuk Uskoković
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