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The first bear raid and squeeze: Isaac Le Maire and the Dutch East India Company

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract In 1609, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) faced a bear raid by a syndicate of short sellers led by Isaac Le Maire, a former director. We reconstruct the forward trade between 1607 and 1611, the actions taken by the syndicate members, and the responses to these actions by the company.
Oscar Gelderblom   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Speculative Unity in Hegel's Restrictive Identity Claim

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Hegel identifies thought with the ‘in itself’ of things. It is common to read the statement as an unrestricted claim regarding Hegel's metaphysical view of reality. I argue it should be read as the expression of what speculative truth achieves.
Ana Vieyra
wiley   +1 more source

[The oldest old and climate change: an emerging field of research]. [PDF]

open access: yesBundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz
Höppner G, Brandt M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Life and Death in Schelling's Philosophy of Nature

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract F. W. J. Schelling's philosophy of nature (Naturphilosophie) has received significant renewed interest and reappraisal. This research has – like the majority of work in the philosophy of nature and the history of science more generally – focused on Schelling's understanding of life, but eschews any discussion of death.
Dalia Nassar
wiley   +1 more source

The stone and the shadow: peasant and aristocratic land appropriation in early medieval Galicia (north‐west Iberia)

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
This paper explores the social dynamics of land appropriation in early medieval Galicia (north‐west Iberia), focusing on the central role labour played in narratives and practices. To that end, it analyses the entire regional corpus of more than one thousand charters dating before 1100, whose distinctive scriptural practices offer exceptional insight ...
Andrea Aparicio Lozano
wiley   +1 more source

Morality and the early medieval marketplace in the decrees of the Council of Paris, 829

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
In summer 829, a group of bishops met at Paris with instructions from Emperor Louis the Pious to discuss the ailments of the Carolingian Empire. The decrees of this council include a series of chapters on economic abuses that collectively represent one of the most important sources on early medieval commercial relations.
Rory Naismith
wiley   +1 more source

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