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Go-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil
Doña Marina (La Malinche) ...Pocahontas ...Sacagawea—their names live on in historical memory because these women bridged the indigenous American and European worlds, opening the way for the cultural encounters, collisions, and fusions that shaped the social and even physical landscape of the modern Americas. But these famous individuals were only a few of the many thousands of people who, intentionally or otherwise, served as "go-betweens" as Europeans explored and colonized the New World. In this innovative history, Alida Metcalf thoroughly investigates the many roles played by go-betweens in the colonization of sixteenth-century Brazil. She finds that many individuals created physical ...
Convict Labor in the Portuguese Empire, 1740-1932
Forced convict labor provided the Portuguese with solutions to the growing criminal population at home and the lack of infrastructure in Angola and Mozambique. In Convict Labor in the Portuguese Empire, Timothy J. Coates examines the role of large numbers of convicts in Portuguese Africa from 1800 until 1932. This work examines the numbers, rationale, and realities of convict labor (largely) in Angola during this period, but Mozambique is a secondary area, as well as late colonial times in Brazil. This is a unique, first study of an experiment in convict labor in Africa directed by a European power; it will be welcomed by scholars of Africa and New Imperialism, as well as those interested in law and labor.
Strangers Within
A comprehensive study of the New Christian elite of Jewish origin—prominent traders, merchants, bankers and men of letters—between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries In Strangers Within, Francisco Bethencourt provides the first comprehensive history of New Christians, the descendants of Jews forced to convert to Catholicism in late medieval Spain and Portugal. Bethencourt estimates that there were around 260,000 New Christians by 1500—more than half of Iberia’s urban population. The majority stayed in Iberia but a significant number moved throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East, coastal Asia and the New World. They established Sephardic communities in North Africa, the Ottoman...
Provenance and Possession
A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance Italy In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of "goods" from Portuguese trading voyages—fruits of empire that included luxury goods, exotic animals and even enslaved people. Many historians hold that this imperial "opening up" of the world transformed the way Europeans understood the global. In this book, K.J.P. Lowe challenges such an assumption, showing that Italians of this era cared more about the possession than the provenance of their newly acquired global goods. With three detailed case st...
Albrecht Dürer and the Depiction of Cultural Differences in Renaissance Europe
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Dürer’s depictions of human diversity, focusing particularly on his depictions of figures from outside his Western European milieu. Heather Madar contextualizes those depictions within their broader artistic and historical context and assesses them in light of current theories about early modern concepts of cultural, ethnic, religious and racial diversity. The book also explores Dürer’s connections with contemporaries, his later legacy with respect to his imagery of the other and the broader significance of Nuremberg to early modern engagements with the world beyond Europe. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance studies and Renaissance history.
Exotic Animal Emergency and Critical Care Medicine
Exotic Animal Emergency and Critical Care Medicine delivers the most relevant and current information required by general veterinary practitioners and veterinary specialists in treating emergent and critical exotic patients. Covering the management of common emergency presentations in exotic companion mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians, each section discusses triage and stabilization, diagnostics, nutrition and fluid therapy, analgesia, anesthesia, monitoring, CPR, and euthanasia. The book includes quick reference tables, species-specific drug formularies, and illustrations of exotic animal emergency procedures and techniques. The information contained within is based on an extensive r...
Exotic Animal Nutrition, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Exotic Animal Practice, E-Book
In this issue of Veterinary Clinics: Exotic Animal Practice, guest editor Dr. Amanda Ardente brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Exotic Animal Nutrition. Top experts discuss topics such as key nutritional factors of commercially available diets for companion small rodents; key nutritional factors and obesity prevention in companion psittacine birds; insectivore nutrition; interpretation of serum analytes for nutritional evaluation; and more. Contains 10 relevant, practice-oriented topics, including important nutritional considerations for hindgut fermenters; key nutritional factors in ferret nutrition; important considerations for chelonian nutrition; effective weight loss and ...
Death and Gender in the Early Modern Period
IIn premodern Europe, the gender identity of those waiting for Doomsday in their tombs could be reaffirmed, readjusted, or even neutralized. Testimonies of this renegotiation of gender at the encounter with death is detectable in wills, letters envisioning oneself as dead, literary narratives, provisions for burial and memorialization, the laws for the disposal of those executed for heinous crimes and the treatment of human remains as relics.
Communication Design and Branding
This book gathers new empirical findings fostering advances in the areas of communication design and branding, with a special emphasis of interdisciplinary approaches showing how to combine knowledge in those fields to improve businesses in a digital, global world. Gathering original, peer-reviewed contributions written by designers, computer scientists, marketer and product managers, this book provides both the communication and branding communities with a timely snapshot of current strategies and best-practices to improve different kinds of business through design. By highlighting current challenges, it is also intended to inspire and foster collaboration between different groups, in both university and industry.
Pediatrics, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Exotic Animal Practice, E-Book
In this issue of Veterinary Clinics: Exotic Animal Practice, guest editors Drs. João Lemos Brandão and Peter M. DiGeronimo bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Pediatrics. Each chapter in this issue covers the natural history of the species, clinically relevant development milestones of juvenile animals, husbandry (including housing, social grouping, and diet), common diseases of juvenile animals, and recommended preventative care (e.g., anti-parasitics, sterilization, vaccinations, etc.). - Contains 15 relevant, practice-oriented topics including rabbits, rodents; psittacines; wildlife; hedgehogs; reptiles; behavioral development and conditioning of juvenile animals; clinical nutrition of juvenile exotic animals; and more. - Provides in-depth clinical reviews on pediatrics, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. - Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
