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Food shortages did occur in pre-colonial times and environmental stochasticity impacted production and livelihoods. However, production, trading and social systems had evolved along trajectories driven by local context. Hence, food shortages were transitory rather than permanent. The imposition of external ...
Speaking of employment and stability, did it ever occur to anyone who came up with the concept of outsourcing? who would be shrewd enough to destroy local tax bases and communities? Who would encourage illegal immigration to further squeeze already shrinking labor markets? Sounds like the work ...
Flabbergasted I stammered a ‘yes, how did you know?’ She said someone called her and had my wallet in their possession, and asked me to contact him. I explained I was about to run into an important meeting and couldn’t do it, but could she arrange somehow (in fact, I had to wa...
It did occur to me after posting my comments that it’s better to just call the Christians I have in mind “Christian nationalists”, because there is a non-trivial portion of Christian fundamentalists who are not presenting the problems I’m talking about. ...
Finally, there is the fourth element of the purported Iranian axis— the Hezbollah-controlled Shiite communities of southern Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley in the northeast. Like everything else in the Middle East, Hezbollah is a product of historical European imperialism, Islamic confessional ...
Encounter with the dietetic advice of other cultures did not revive belief in water's vitalist properties; rather, that advice was assimilated to new expectations that beverages, especially water, should maintain a cool body and temperament. These transformations took place in an imperial context. ...
As my time in Japan went on, I began getting the very distinct impression that in spite of being treated wonderfully, I wasnotpart of the club. Nor did it seem that anyone had any interest in helping me to join it. When it comes to anything beyond the Outer Shell—who the Japanese ...