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“…European powers, including Spain, the Netherlands, England, and Denmark, carved up the Caribbean Sea into a cultural patchwork. …”

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“…0A study of the cross-fertilization of historical writing in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, The Globe on Paper reconstructs a set of imaginative accounts worked out from Mexico to the Moluccas and Peru, and from the shops of Venetian printers to the rival courts of Spain and England. The pages of this book teem with humanists, librarians, missionaries, imperial officials, as well as forgers and indigenous chroniclers. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Thomas Aquinas, summa theologica (1267-73) -- Thomas Mun, England's treasure by foreign trade -- Sir William Petty, a treatise of taxes and contributions -- John Locke, two treatises of government (1690) and some considerations of the consequences of the lowering of interest, and raising the value of money -- Richard Cantillon, essai sur la nature du commerce en generale -- Francois Quesnay, tableau economique -- Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, reflections on the formation and distribution of wealth -- Bernard Mandeville, Fable of the bees -- The classical school -- Introduction -- David Hume, political discourses (on money, interest, and the balance of trade) -- Adam Smith, wealth of nations -- Jeremy Bentham, an introduction to the principles of morals and legislation (1789), manual of political economy (1795), anarchical fallacies (1795), principles of the civil code -- Thomas Malthus, essay on population -- Henry Thornton, paper credit -- David Ricardo, the high price of bullion -- Jean Baptiste Say, a treatise on political economy -- David Ricardo, principles of political economy and taxation -- Thomas Malthus, principles of political economy -- James Mill, elements of political economy -- Nassau Senior, an outline of political economy -- J.S. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter Three: Evolution of the European System of Providing for Casualties in the Age of Enlightenment: France and Britain as the Antecedents of the American System of Care France: From the Monarchy to the Republic and on; L'Hôtel des Invalides; The French Revolution; Napoleon Bonaparte; The Restoration to the Second Empire; The Evolution of the English System; Medical Care in the Army Under the Tudors; Disabled Veterans in Elizabethan England; The English Civil Wars; The Restoration; Great Britain's Army from the Glorious Revolution to the Napoleonic Wars; Care for Veterans…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Wildlife Forensics; Contents; Developments in Forensic Science; About the Editors; List of Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Wildlife Ownership; Introduction; Ancient Rome and the Concept of Res Nullius; Common Law England: The King's Ownership; The New World: Hunting for the Market; Management: The Property Right of States; Federal Law and the Regulatory State; Globalization: Working toward Worldwide Conservation Practices; Conclusion; Cases Cited; References; 2 Society for Wildlife Forensic Science; Introduction; Formation of the Society; The Code of Ethics…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Skill research in the Ethnographic Museum -- Visual cultures of Africa: Collections, museums andexhibitions from conservation to conversation -- Stefan Eisenhofer "Fetish figures" (minkisi) from Central Africa and Catholic holy figures from Europe -- Mark Evans Émigrés and African art in England -- Njeri Gachihi, Frauke Gathof, Clara Himmelheber, Lydia Nafula, Leonie Neumann, Philemon Nyamanga, and Juma Ondeng' Visualizing the Kenyan collections in Western museums. …”