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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Atlantic trade"”.
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The tropical Atlantic trade winds as related to droughts in northeastern Brazil
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, 1981.
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Maritime Sensibility: Sentimentalism, Racial Capitalism, and a Critique of the American Maritime Genre
… discourse of financial speculation within the Atlantic trade system that Equiano engages in his narrative—these engagements are what I term “maritime sensibility,” a potentially insurgent countercurrent to the dominant discourse of financial speculation. In chapters three and four I track the …
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Three Essays on Tariff and Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade and U.S. Market Access to China
International trade encourages innovation, boosts development, reduces poverty, creates new markets, enhances competitiveness, improves product quality, and expands the consumer choice set. This dissertation is composed of three papers examining barriers to agricultural trade. The first two papers …
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The Kongolese Atlantic: Central African Slavery & Culture from Mayombe to Haiti
<p>In my dissertation, "The Kongolese Atlantic: Central African Slavery & Culture from Mayombe to Haiti," I investigate the cultural history of West Central African slavery at the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the late eighteenth century. My research focuses on the Loango Coast, a …
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Of His Bones are Coral Made: Submerged Cultural Resources, Site Formation Processes, and Multiple Scales of Interpretation in Coastal Ghana
… cultural remains related to historical maritime trade. Remote sensing surveys in 2009 led to the identification of three sites related to maritime trade, adding significantly to the two previously known sites, which include a circa 1650 shipwreck, referred to as the Elmina Wreck, and the remains …
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Archaeology and Settlement Histories Along the Pra River, Southern Ghana, Circa 500 B.C. – Ad 1970
… local and the emerging global processes of the Atlantic world played out within the settlement histories of these communities. The assemblage of European trade materials including ceramics, pipes, glass beads, and liquor bottles, and local materials like pottery, stone beads, and lithics from …
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Archaeology And Settlement Histories Along The Pra River, Southern Ghana, Circa 500 B.C. – Ad 1970
… local and the emerging global processes of the Atlantic world played out within the settlement histories of these communities. The assemblage of European trade materials including ceramics, pipes, glass beads, and liquor bottles, and local materials like pottery, stone beads, and lithics from …