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Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
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Cardio-Vascular Disease and Cancer
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 2015 Objective: To report the level of utilization of clinical preventive services by older adults in Jamaica and to identify independent factors associated with utilization.
K. Mitchell-Fearon DrPh +6 more
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Book Review: Bindi: Multifaceted Lives of Indo-Caribbean Women [PDF]
, 2014 Review of Bindi: Multifaceted Lives of Indo-Caribbean Women by Rossanne Kanhai; Kingston: University of the West Indies Press ...
Roopnarine, Lomarsh
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The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 5-7, January/March 2025.
Deborah Mabbett
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Between famine and freedom: Food prices during the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945–9
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates how the Indonesian War of Independence (1945‒9) influenced staple food prices, and how fluctuations in those prices, in turn, shaped the trajectory and dynamics of the conflict. We compiled a dataset comprising more than 8600 prices for staple foods covering the entire Indonesian archipelago from 1939‒49, allowing us to
Ingrid de Zwarte +2 more
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Rickettsia africae in the West Indies
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006 Rickettsia africae is the agent of African tick-bite fever, a mild but common disease of local persons and tourists in Africa. The major vector of this spotted fever group rickettsia is most likely Amblyomma variegatum, the tropical bont tick, which has ...
Patrick J. Kelly
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Vespidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Puerto Rico, West Indies [PDF]
, 2011 The vespid fauna of Greater Puerto Rico is reviewed (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Three new species are described, Ancistrocerus isla Carpenter, Euodynerus jeitita Carpenter and Genaro, and Omicron aridum Carpenter and Genaro.
Carpenter, James M., Genaro, Julio A.
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Considerations on the genus Schizachyrium (Poaceae:Andropogoneae) in Central America and West Indies, and confirmation of the occurrence of S. glaziovii [PDF]
, 2015 Schizachyrium (Poaceae-Andropogoneae) includes ca. 60 species, 10 of them previously cited for Central America and 13 for West Indies. The confirmation of the occurrence of Schizachyrium glaziovii in these regions is reported here, expanding its northern
Peichoto, Myriam Carolina +1 more
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Industrial Relations Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper we explore the representative strategies of different trade unions within the UK platform economy, and the efforts to build legitimacy among a disparate workforce. Using data from multiple in‐depth research projects, we find that independent unions and self‐organised groups are competing to build representative claims from the ...
Mathew Johnson +2 more
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