This is a completely revised and updated edition of SR Books' classic text, Problems in Modern Latin American History. This book has been brought up to date by Professors John Charles Chasteen and James A. Wood to reflect current scholarship and to maximize the book's utility as a teaching ...
in either its original Aristotelian sense or in its more recent extended sense. If one is interested in questions about the nature of being, the first causes of things, the identity of physical objects, or the nature ofcausation(the last two problems belong tometaphysicsin its modern sense ...
but a lexicographer must collect citations for them in order to record the early history of a word that may later become naturalized. Some words may remaindenizensfor centuries, Murray pointed out, such asphenomenontreated as Greek,genusas Latin, andaide-de-campas French. When a word is bor...
Antiquarianism can be seen as a product of humanism, a case most cogently argued in Joseph M. Levine,Humanism and History: Origins of Modern English Historiography(Ithaca NY, 1987), chpt. 3. Also Ferguson,Clio Unbounda general study of the impact of the Renaissance on English views of the ...
Since the military’s intervention in politics has been a major focus of attention in both Chapters 1 and 3, this second theoretical chapter will begin by placing my substantive conclusions into the context of theories on the high frequency of army interventions in the polities of peripheral and...
Those that followed in their wake made American pre-eminence in technology possible. Space travel was a fascination for me long after the Mercury astronauts had made their mark in history. I was only aware of them through later documentaries. As a young boy in the 60’s, there was ...
This basic truth is proven by the fact that modern The Act of Parliament in its current state, that civilised first world nations such as Canada, the created the National Council for the Maltese USA, Australia and New Zealand do not possess Language, gives the said Council absolute a ...
1985.Sweetness and power: The place of sugar in modern history. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. Google Scholar Mooney, P.R. 1983. The law of the seed: Another development and plant genetic resources.Developmental Dialogue 1/2. Munoz, J.M., E. Braun Menendez, J.C. Fasciolo, and L.F. ...
2.1. The Socio-Environmental and Human Health Issues Related to the Use of Agrochemicals in Brazil The total number of inhabitants on the planet should exceed the current 7.7 billion to 9.7 billion in 2050, which is why high-scale food production is a factor of great importance for all sector...