The institution of the raw-silk trade at the Yokohama foreign settlement in the early Meiji era : the economic meaning of the 'Rengou-Kiito-Niazukaris... Starting with the assumption that institutions play an important role in economic development, this paper aims to analyze the institutional st...
Selective new British recruitment policies screened out all “nonmartial” (meaning previously disloyal) Indian castes and ethnic groups from armed service and mixed the soldiers in every regiment, thus permitting no single caste or linguistic or religious group to again dominate a British Indian ...
Gaps in conservation assessments leave many reptile species with little or no population data14, meaning that many species could be being traded despite risks to population viability, especially if sourced from wild populations. At least 21 species have had their entire wild populations harvested by ...
and Arab (ālūwwa) are loanwords from the Indic names (Greppin1988; Schafer1963; Yule and Burnell1903). In Arabic medico-pharmacological literature, agarwood is reported asūda synonym for ġālūǧanborrowing through Greekagallochum(âgáloxon) (Kahl2011). The main Malay name is kayugă...
Yet from ancient times Southeast Asia has been considered by its neighbors to be a region in its own right and not merely an extension of their own lands. The Chinese called it Nanyang and the Japanese Nan’yō, both names meaning “South Seas,” and South Asians used such terms as Suvar...