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"The modus operandi of men like Hawkins was to sail to Guinea, acquire a cargo of enslaved people, by force and/or barter, and ship them to the Spanish Caribbean and Mexico.91 Here, Hawkins would claim inclement weather had forced him to the area (a tactic used by many illicit traders), offer platitudes to local officials and sometimes promise to help clear out foreign pirates from the area.92 In return, he asked the Spanish to purchase his enslaved people. If that failed, he became aggressive, after which the local elites, often under-manned and in relatively lightly defended settlements, would agree to purchase his human cargo."

Gary Paul Baker, Craig Lambert, ‘William Fowler’, Sir William Garrard, Sir John Hawkins and the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic Slave Trade, The English Historical Review, 2024;, cead213, doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead213 @histodon @histodons @earlymodern

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"The article asks whether people on the right of the ideological spectrum appraise the past, present, and future differently from people on the left. The data show that this is so in the case of the past: In all countries examined, right- compared to left-wing supporters evaluated the past as being more positive. In the United States and Poland, and possibly also in the United Kingdom (although in the latter country the results of the regression analysis are not confirmed by the Pearson correlation), an effect emerges also when considering the good-prospect future scenario: This was evaluated more positively on the left."

Rigoli, F. (2024). Ideology shapes evaluation of history within the general population. Political Psychology, 00, 1–23. doi.org/10.1111/pops.12971 @psychology

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"Modern imperialism is embodied by industrial capitalism, which prioritizes resource extraction and maximizing profit. This paradigm is deeply embedded in the fabric of global affairs, influencing international trade, political dynamics, and the economic frameworks of nations".

Charles Fletcher, William J Ripple, Thomas Newsome, Phoebe Barnard, Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Aishwarya Behl, Jay Bowen, Michael Cooney, Eileen Crist, Christopher Field, Krista Hiser, David M Karl, David A King, Michael E Mann, Davianna P McGregor, Camilo Mora, Naomi Oreskes, Michael Wilson, Earth at risk: An urgent call to end the age of destruction and forge a just and sustainable future, PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 4, April 2024, pgae106, doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae @economics @climatechange @politicalscience

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"It is about the Land according to the redefined Judaism that emerged in the centuries following the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE. This Judaism replaced the temple cult with Torah study - a study that pertained in part to that very temple cult, that became a portable homeland, and that reconfigured the Land."

Cordoni, C. (01 Mar. 2024). Reconfiguring the Land of Israel, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/9789004696761 [Accessed 02 April 2024]. @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (78)

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"We propose that early humans knew that elephants consistently walked along the same paths to waterholes and used this information to hunt/ambush elephants along these paths. In the course of hunting/ambushing elephants, humans repeatedly utilized specific quarry sites along the trails in preparation for butchering the large game."

Finkel, M., Barkai, R. Quarries as Places of Significance in the Lower Paleolithic Holy Triad of Elephants, Water, and Stone. Arch (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s11759-024-094 @archaeodons

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"In this paper we examine multiple discrete emotions people experience in reaction to climate change, and assess the strength of these emotions as predictors of support for different types of mitigation and adaptation policies."

Myers TA, Roser-Renouf C, Leiserowitz A, Maibach E (2024) Emotional signatures of climate policy support. PLOS Climate 3(3): e0000381. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0 @climatechange

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"Can you be authentic if you lie about what you value, believe, or feel? This brief article explores this question and the unique stances on honesty that different notions of authenticity take."

Leuenberger, M. (2024) ‘The Authentic Liar’, Think, 23(67), pp. 27–30. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S1477175623000 @philosophy

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"In this paper, I examine if and how Aristotle’s philosophy of geometry can account for the geometers’ practices and way of talking."

Chiara Martini, Geometrical Changes: Change and Motion in Aristotle’s Philosophy of Geometry, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, October 2023, Pages 385–394, doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoad018 @philosophy

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"Here we combine genetic evidence and palaeoecological models to infer the geographic location that acted as the Hub for our species during the early phases of colonisation of Eurasia."

Vallini, L., Zampieri, C., Shoaee, M.J. et al. The Persian plateau served as hub for Homo sapiens after the main out of Africa dispersal. Nat Commun 15, 1882 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-461 @archaeodons @anthropology @biology @science

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🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 "Leading up to the War of American Independence, a debate began in the Dutch Republic on how neutrality could be advantageously defined to promote commerce without becoming involved in wars of ‘entangling alliances'. The actors in this debate would produce arguments that were later adopted by members of George Washington’s cabinet."

Ariane Viktoria Fichtl (2024) Idea(s) of Dutch Neutrality in the American Debate on Neutral Rights (1793–1807), Global Intellectual History, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2024. @histodon @histodons

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"We compare per capita ratios with an approach based on regression, a widely used statistical procedure that eliminates many of the problems with ratios and allows for straightforward data interpretation."

Kratochvíl Lukáš and Havlíček Jan. 2024 The fallacy of global comparisons based on per capita measures. R. Soc. Open Sci.11: 230832. 230832. doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230832 @science

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"In this way, La Marmotta is causing a literal sea change in our view of those first Neolithic farming groups. It was always difficult to understand how they could have travelled around all Mediterranean Europe. The Marmotta canoes are not only outstanding evidence of how they achieved that but also an example of the complexity of those societies from the viewpoint of their social and technical organisation."

Gibaja JF, Mineo M, Santos FJ, Morell B, Caruso-Fermé L, et al. (2024) The first Neolithic boats in the Mediterranean: The settlement of La Marmotta (Anguillara Sabazia, Lazio, Italy). PLOS ONE 19(3): e0299765. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0 @archaeodons @anthropology

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"Despite these advancements, the study finds that lexicography remains relevant, especially for less-documented languages where AI falls short, but human lexicographers excel in data-sparse environments. It argues for the importance of lexicography in promoting linguistic diversity and maintaining the integrity of lesser-known languages."

Lew, R. Dictionaries and lexicography in the AI era. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 426 (2024). doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-028 @linguistics

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"In this paper, we apply the methods of graph theory to reveal hidden relations within the corpus of the Hebrew Bible texts. The structure of relations between different texts was studied based upon their interpretation of the otherworld and the afterlife. We have identified 43 most relevant texts that contained concepts related to the notion of the otherworld and constructed a graph representing the relations between the considered texts."

Tantlevskij, I.R., Evmenova, E. & Gromov, D. Identification of the network structure of the Hebrew Bible texts based upon the notion of the otherworld and the afterlife. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 411 (2024). doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-029 @linguistics @philosophy @religion

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"Having mapped and reconstructed Hegel's conception of colonialism through his writings and lectures, the article argues that his account of Europe's modern colonial expansion is based primarily on economic considerations, rather than on civilizational assumptions proclaiming the spiritual superiority of European peoples—to which Hegel nevertheless subscribes."

Mascat, J.M.H. (2024) ‘Hegel, Colonialism and Postcolonial Hegelianism’, Hegel Bulletin, pp. 1–24. doi: doi.org/10.1017/hgl.2024.10. @philosophy

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"The author argues that a cadre of Southern theologians rejected the liberal heritage of the United States and redefined the relationship between the individual and state. Southern clerical fascists reconceived of an alternative modernity that reflected God’s precepts. Slaves, laborers, and slave masters all had a mandate to guide secular and spiritual progress."

Roel Reyes, S. (2021). ‘Christian Patriots’: The Intersection Between Proto-fascism and Clerical Fascism in the Antebellum South. International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity 9, 1-4, 82-110, Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/22130624-00219 [Accessed 10 March 2024] @histodon @histodons

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🇯🇵 "Finally, I will attempt to shed light on the historical forces and scenarios that might return Japanese ultranationalists to the center of political influence and power in the Japanese state and overturn Japan’s postwar pacifist constitution and noninterventionist military foreign policy."

Skya, W. A. (2023). The Other Japan: Back to Japan’s Religious Roots for a New Japanese Nationalism? Journal of Right-Wing Studies, 1(1). dx.doi.org/10.5070/RW3.1500 Retrieved from escholarship.org/uc/item/53w44 @histodon @histodons

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🇩🇪 "Using an inductive approach, we asked 987 German citizens to describe what being German means for them. A latent class analysis of content-coded responses revealed four classes: a heritage-based identity class with a strong focus on language and culture (39%), an ideology-based identity class that revolves around democracy, welfare, freedom, and economy and safety (19%), a legal-formalistic identity class that is mostly concerned with the legal requirement for obtaining and holding citizenship of national identity (26%), and a trait-based identity class describing personality-traits that are supposed to be typical for Germans (16%)."

Ditlmann, R. K., & Kopf-Beck, J. (2019). The Meaning of Being German: An Inductive Approach to National Identity. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 7(1), 423-447. doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v7i1.557 @psychology

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"Our results show that presenting the success rate of previous raters works as an incentive to evaluate information more accurately, but that monetary bonuses provide the strongest increase in accuracy, and that only remuneration is associated with a greater use of external resources (e.g., search engines) that have been shown to meaningfully improve evaluation of new content."

Ronzani, P., Panizza, F., Morisseau, T., Mattavelli, S., & Martini, C. (2024). How different incentives reduce scientific misinformation online. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-131 @science @psychology

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"Taken together, the essays reveal the dynamics of what the editors call an "imperial commons," a lively, empire-wide print culture. They show that neither empire nor book were stable, self-evident constructs. Each helped to legitimize the other."

Hofmeyr, Isabel, and Antoinette Burton. Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons. 1 ed., Durham: Duke University Press, 2015., doi.org/10.1353/book.70934. @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (77)

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