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Legitimacy and Persuasion in the Anglo‐Scottish Wars of the 1540s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The considerable efforts of the invading English to justify their activities and garner support during the Anglo‐Scottish wars of the 1540s are well known. Recent welcome attention to Scottish texts produced during the conflict has begun to correct a previous historiographical imbalance towards English materials.
Amy Blakeway
wiley   +1 more source

Nerium oleander L., a circum-Mediterranean study of the etymological, ecological, historical, mythological, and ethnobotanical roots of its vernacular names. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed
Dafni A, Kleinberger AG, Khatib SA, Petanidou T, Natale A, Cortis P, Kozuharova E, Aytaç B, Blanché C, Benítez G.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

The Consumption of Edible Leaves by Afro-Descendants in French Guiana and Suriname: An Overview of a Constantly Evolving Ethno-Culinary Practice. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Tareau MA, Greene AM, Ansoe-Tareau C, Pinas N, Rapinski M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The ‘Great Frost’ of 1708–9 in Britain and the Condescensions of Posterity

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the ‘great frost’ of 1709 and its impact on economic life in Britain, challenging a popular view that, based on gross domestic product (GDP) estimates, it was catastrophic. It shows that the annual GDP figures for the period have such wide error margins that they cannot establish the scale of the disruption; that the ...
Julian Hoppit
wiley   +1 more source

Andorran ethnomycology: culinary uses and beyond. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed
Álvarez-Puig C, Garnatje T, Niell M, Gras A, Vallès J.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Traditional earthquake resistant techniques for vernacular architecture and local seismic cultures: A literature review

, 2017
J. Ortega, G. Vasconcelos, H. Rodrigues, M. Correia, P. Lourenço   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
wiley   +1 more source

From male caduco to altered consciousness: two Medici recipes through the lens of modern consciousness science. [PDF]

Neurol Sci
Comanducci A.
europepmc   +1 more source