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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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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 223-237, June 2022., 2022 Abstract The Anglo‐Venetian Giustiniana Wynne, Countess of Rosenberg Orsini, best known for her novel Les Morlaques (1788), had epistolary relations with friends from the Veneto as well as across Europe and is therefore part of the network of the European Republic of Letters.
Rotraud von Kulessa
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Studia Linguistica, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 13-55, April 2022., 2022 Abstract This contribution focuses on indefinite arguments in object position. We address this topic from the point of view of the crosslinguistic variation within the Romance continuum, especially looking at Northern Italian Dialects (NIDs). The target is to describe the distribution of the different possible realizations of this kind of arguments in ...
Francesco Pinzin, Cecilia Poletto
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Em busca de" outros" espaços livres de edificação
Paisagem e Ambiente, 2006 Reflete-se sobre os espaços livres de edificação em face de sua distribuição e configuração no urbano, em sua condição de elemento integrador de convívio.
Miranda Martinelli Magnoli
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‘Your flexible friend’: the bill of exchange in theory and practice in the fifteenth century†
The Economic History Review, Volume 74, Issue 4, Page 873-891, November 2021., 2021 Abstract The bill of exchange was the most important written instrument in the international financial world of the later middle ages. Using the evidence of nearly 2,000 bills of exchange, protested bills of exchange, and letters of advice recorded in the ledgers of Filippo Borromei & Partners of Bruges and London, 1436–8, we argue that it was a far ...
Jim Bolton, Francesco Guidi‐Bruscoli
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Rádios comunitárias: ativismos e resistência nas redes sociais [PDF]
Cadernos NAUI, 2022 A proposta deste trabalho é apresentar a experiência do Movimento Nacional de Rádios Comunitárias, que formou uma rede de 890 rádios durante as eleições de 2018.
Maria Inês Amarante
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Comunicação e Sociedade, 2013 Considerando os novos cenários em rede definidos por tecnologias e serviços da internet e da World Wide Web, propomos, utilizando media interactivo, mais concretamente, agentes multimedia on-line em rede com características multi-utilizador, desenvolver «
Óscar Mealha +15 more
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A ADMINISTRAÇÃO DO TEMPO LIVRE [PDF]
Lua Nova: Revista de Cultura e Política, 2016 Resumo A conferência de Theodor W. Adorno sobre o conceito e a prática do "tempo livre", publicada em Stichworte, em 1969, foi proferida numa época de pleno emprego. A gradativa redução da jornada normal de trabalho, sinalizando e consolidando uma tendência de longo prazo, inspirou uma série de conjecturas acerca de uma possível mudança nas estruturas ...
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