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Du xvie au xviiie siècle, l’essor des consommations européennes s’accompagne d’un renouvellement des marchandises disponibles. L’arrivée massive de produits tropicaux alimentaires (sucre, café, tabac), des matières premières du textile (coton, colorants), et des produits manufacturés (cotonnades imprimées, porcelaines) contribue à la transformation des goûts européens.L’objectif de l’ouvrage est de saisir les différentes étapes de la circulation des produits ultramarins : l’arrivée dans les métropoles européennes, la transformation dans les ateliers et les manufactures, la distribution. La diffusion de ces produits lointains, souvent chers et fragiles, permet d’éclairer le fonctionnement des économies européennes, en particulier les capacités d’adaptation des acteurs du commerce et de l’industrie. La redistribution des produits ultramarins traverse les frontières impériales ou étatiques et leur acheminement se poursuit malgré les conflits. Mais l’intégration de ces nouveaux produits dans la consommation et les usages des Européens ne va pas de soi.Pour comprendre comment les produits ultramarins ont été adaptés au goût des Européens, les auteurs réunis dans cet ouvrage ont étudié les stratégies déployées par l’ensemble des acteurs (marchands, épiciers, manufacturiers, négociants). Leurs contributions montrent les différents rythmes de diffusion des produits ultramarins à la période moderne en fonction des espaces européens, urbains et ruraux, connectés ou non à un empire colonial.

Entre los años 1748 y 1754 en la Villa de Santiago de la Monclova de la provincia de Coahuila tuvo lugar una de las causas comunirias más sonadas de la historia de la Inquisición en la Nueva España. Se trataba de una complicidad de hechicería y brujería en donde estaban involucradas muchas mujeres de distintas castas y de distinta condición social.

The only musical work (of any genre) to have given its name to an entire movement, “Free Jazz” remains shrouded in a halo of contradictions and polemics that has obscured its musical reality and sometimes distorted its analysis. Without disputing its manifesto value or its revolutionary character in many respects, the present book proposes to situate this album - with its unique format and instrumentation - in its time and in the musical journey of Ornette Coleman and his partners. It looks at the finer points (pre-existing themes, individual and collective improvisation) in the light of the two existing takes, and also shows how the album draws on the new technological resources available to recording (particularly stereophony). An overview is also given of the reception of “Free Jazz” and its immediate and more distant consequences. Ultimately, the book invites readers to reflect on how a “historic” album is invented, but also, despite its still puzzling nature today, to risk listening to it fully and attentively.

By re-examining the political thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen, this book offers a reflection on the nature of modern democracy and the question of its legitimacy. Pedro T. Magalhães shows that present-day elitist, populist and pluralist accounts of democracy owe, in diverse and often complicated ways, an intellectual debt to the interwar era, German-speaking, scholarly and political controversies on the problem(s) of modern democracy. A discussion of Weber’s ambivalent diagnosis of modernity and his elitist views on democracy, as they were elaborated especially in the 1910s, sets the groundwork for the study. Against that backdrop, Schmitt’s interwar political thought is interpreted as a form of neo-authoritarian populism, whereas Kelsen evinces robust, though not entirely unproblematic, pluralist consequences. In the conclusion, the author draws on Claude Lefort’s concept of indeterminacy to sketch a potentially more fruitful way than can be gleaned from the interwar German discussions of conceiving the nexus between the elitist, populist and pluralist faces of modern democracy. The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy will be of interest to political theorists, political philosophers, intellectual historians, theoretically oriented political scientists, and legal scholars working in the subfields of constitutional law and legal theory. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315157566, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

A folclorização é um fenómeno cultural da modernidade. Operando com as noções de folclorismo e de folclorização, a presente obra pretende equacionar os parâmetros de um processo que conduziu à mobilização e integração das populações rurais na nação. Este efeito integrador estender-se-ia também à diáspora lusa. Uma perspectiva múltipla presidiu à organização do volume: abordar o folclore como cultura expressiva, avaliar o seu papel na sociedade e apresentar elementos para facultar uma visão comparada. Os capítulos tratam os seguintes tópicos: políticas da cultura, eventos, constituição de patrimónios, associativismo, representação da tradição, protagonistas, artefactualidade, lugares, turismo e diáspora. A amplitude das abordagens adoptadas nos artigos resulta da filiação disciplinar variada dos seus autores: antropologia, etnomusicologia, história, musicologia histórica, perfomance studies e sociologia.

This comprehensive volume explores cutting-edge research across diverse planetary environments, from the hydrocarbon-rich surface of Saturn's moon Titan to the dust-laden ejecta of dying stars, revealing fundamental connections between stellar evolution and planetary system formation. Through high-precision observations, advanced modeling techniques, and rigorous theoretical frameworks, the book examines how complex physical and chemical processes shape planetary bodies and their atmospheres across our solar system. Readers will discover how methane cycles drive surface erosion and lake formation on Titan in ways remarkably analogous to Earth's hydrological cycle, yet operating under vastly different conditions. The volume demonstrates how planetary nebulae serve as crucial agents of interstellar enrichment, recycling stellar-processed material that ultimately becomes incorporated into new generations of planets. Detailed analyses of plasma dynamics at Venus illuminate the mechanisms by which solar wind momentum transfers to unmagnetized planetary atmospheres through wave-particle interactions. High-precision polarimetric measurements reveal subtle longitudinal variations across icy satellite surfaces, providing insights into volcanic activity, magnetospheric processing, and compositional heterogeneities that reflect each moon's unique geological history. This interdisciplinary approach integrates atmospheric science, stellar astrophysics, plasma physics, and remote sensing techniques to address fundamental questions about planetary evolution and solar system dynamics. The book offers valuable contributions to understanding dust formation and survival mechanisms, energy balance in planetary atmospheres, and the optical properties of regolith-covered surfaces. Researchers in planetary science, astrophysics, and comparative planetology will find this volume an essential resource, while graduate students will appreciate the comprehensive treatment of observational methods and modeling approaches. By bridging multiple scales, from microscopic dust grains to global atmospheric circulation, this work exemplifies the integrative nature of modern planetary science and advances our understanding of how diverse worlds function within the broader cosmic context.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the first artificial heart valve, which was implanted in 1952 by Charles Hufnagel to treat a 30-year-old woman with severe aortic regurgitation in an era when the concept of direct valve repair or replacement did not exist. It is remarkable how far we have come since then in terms of managing heart valve disease, not only in terms of advances in surgical techniques or choice of prostheses for different valve pathology but also in terms of transcatheter therapy and minimally invasive surgical approaches. This book reviews important and major milestones in managing different valve pathologies with a focus on aortic and tricuspid valve diseases.

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Development provides an especially sensitive window whereby environmental contaminants can have significant and lasting effects on the morphology and function of many organs and systems. The importance of understanding developmental effects of environmental contaminants extends not only to developmental stages, but also to encompass the hypotheses of the developmental or fetal origins of adult disease. Such effects of environmental contaminants during development extend to health outcomes that can persist in adulthood, first become apparent in adulthood, or manifest in adulthood but only after a second hit/stressor. The diverse nature of possible environmental contaminants, ranging from persistent organic pollutants to emerging contaminants of concern, along with the diverse range of health implications, including autism, diabetes, cancer, infertility, and lower urinary tract function, make understanding developmental effects of environmental contaminants an ever growing and important field of study.This Special Issue aims to explore a variety of topics in line with the aims and scope of Toxics. Specifically, topics related to the developmental effects of environmental contaminants and/or their metabolites on the molecular, cellular, tissue, organ, organ system or organism, including mechanisms of toxicity, metabolism, risk assessment and management, as well as multiple stressor impacts in the context of aging or disease progression following developmental exposures.

Pensar o perdão é fazer uma navegação às profundezas da falta e descobrir a marca do absurdo com que ela sela a vida humana. E, desde esse fundo tenebroso, reinventar uma vida. Se de todo ele é possível, o perdão será dom transbordante no seio de uma dívida dolorosa. Mas não se chega da dívida ao dom sem passar pela reinvenção do sentido. Porque o passado é irreversível. O que resta é a leitura com que ele é olhado, que pode ser recriada. E recriadora. Face ao irreversível e ao imperdoável, o perdão representará uma reconfiguração na história de uma vida. Dom desproporcional, excessivo, transcendente, o perdão mostra-se como renarração, luto, promessa, reconhecimento e hospitalidade. Dá-se como caminho de acolhimento do outro, do outro inimigo, do outro culpado, na recriação de uma vida e do viver juntos. Talvez só nele se dê o milagre de fazer do inimigo um amigo.

In a context of growing concern about the impacts of climate change and increasing alarmism toward migration phenomena, the possibility of "environmental migration" attracts considerable attention. What are the (in)desired effects of such an encounter? This volume sets out to decolonize the imaginary, seeking to deconstruct privilege (primarily that of the researcher), and use intersectional, decolonial, and feminist lenses to decentralize the image and construct new paradigms about narratives about the nexus between climate change and migration. The goal is to accompany readers to a new concept, that of Panicocene, the age of panic, a time when the two phenomena that characterize the contemporary meet in a unique narrative, an emergency squared that causes stasis and ineptitude. Panicocene thus encapsulates both the state of the art of research conducted in recent years and the starting point for future research. Panicocene, in fact, is also the title of the Marie Curie Global Fellowship project, which investigates the narratives and imaginaries of the nexus between the climate crisis and mobilities, to which the book provides an initial critical reflection.

Au cours des vingt dernières années, les études théâtrales en France se sont éloignées à la fois d'une étude littéraire des textes et d'une approche purement linguistique et sémiotique des spectacles. Elles se sont efforcées de suivre et de décrire la pratique de la scène en vue d'une meilleure connaissance du phénomène théâtral. Cette étude rend compte de cette profonde mutation de la théorie, de la sémiologie et de la pratique de l'art dramatique, en analysant systématiquement texte, acteu...

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The vision related to the territorial project of the navigable canal, which was supposed to connect the cities of Florence, Prato and Pistoia and, passing through the Nievole Valley, reach the Arno and then the sea, stems from the study of some drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, dating from around 1503-1504. The article retraces the reading of the various signs found, in which there appears to be a mixture between the dimension of cartographic survey and the project idea, in a dialectic between territorial potential and criticalities, according to the multidisciplinary approach to territorial science that was explored by Leonardo.

Los textos presentados reflejan de muy buena manera la tradición del pensamiento social y de producción sociológica que interesa en ALAS. Su diversidad y sus oscilaciones, que los acercan o alejan de las formas hegemónicas de producción de conocimientos, son un claro signo de la porfiada complejidad social que nos acompaña. Desde Latinoamérica y Caribe podría contribuirse con mucha evidencia comparativa sobre, por ejemplo, los conflictos, desigualdades y precariedades sociales y su tratamiento -temas que bien van conociendo y experimentando europeos, chinos y estadounidenses. También con estudios sobre los efectos sociales que se relacionan con rápidos e inequitativos crecimientos económicos que han dado lugar al creciente protagonismo político de los sectores medios emergentes, sobre las vulnerabilidades de la variante neoliberal del capitalismo contemporáneo, o de cómo las aspiraciones de los individuos y sus familias se procesan con mejores posiciones de consumo dando lugar a vidas cotidianas que se desenvuelven, sin respiro, bajo un futuro pleno de incertidumbres. Así el pensamiento social y las ciencias sociales regionales podrían hacer importantes aportes e incluso anticipar tendencias globales.