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Planting Power ... Formation in Portugal.Pdf
Promotoren: Dr. F. von Benda-Beckmann Hoogleraar in het recht, meer in het bijzonder het agrarisch recht van de niet-westerse gebieden. Ir. A. van Maaren Emeritus hoogleraar in de boshuishoudkunde. Preface The history of Portugal is, like that of many other countries in Europe, one of deforestation and reafforestation. Until the eighteenth century, the reclamation of land for agriculture, the expansion of animal husbandry (often on communal grazing grounds or baldios), and the increased demand for wood and timber resulted in the gradual disappearance of forests and woodlands. This tendency was reversed only in the nineteenth century, when planting of trees became a scientifically guided and often government-sponsored activity. The reversal was due, on the one hand, to the increased economic value of timber (the market's "invisible hand" raised timber prices and made forest plantation economically attractive), and to the realization that deforestation had severe impacts on the environment. It was no accident that the idea of sustainability, so much in vogue today, was developed by early-nineteenth-century foresters. Such is the common perspective on forestry history in Europe and Portugal. Within this perspective, social phenomena are translated into abstract notions like agricultural expansion, the invisible hand of the market, and the public interest in sustainably-used natural environments. In such accounts, trees can become gifts from the gods to shelter, feed and warm the mortals (for an example, see: O Vilarealense, (Vila Real), 12 January 1961). However, a closer look makes it clear that such a detached account misses one key aspect: forests serve not only public, but also particular interests, and these particular interests correspond to specific social groups. -
Program Abstracts
Program & Book of Abstracts European Society for Population Economics 28th Annual Conference University of Minho, Braga, Portugal 18-21 June 2014 European Society for Population Economics 2014 PRESIDENT James Albrecht Georgetown University, United States of America [email protected] PRESIDENT-ELECT Erik Plug Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands [email protected] TREASURER Marco Caliendo University of Potsdam, Germany [email protected] SECRETARY Laura Hospido Bank of Spain, Spain [email protected] Coordinator Local Organizing Team 28Th ESPE Conference Priscila Ferreira University of Minho, Portugal [email protected] Welcome to the 28th ESPE annual conference at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal It is with great joy and enthusiasm that we welcome you to Braga and to the University of Minho. In the spirit of Aldous Huxley, who suggested that “We can only love what we know”, we would like to introduce you to Braga and to the University of Minho, in the hope that those of you who haven't been here before come to love them as much as we do. Braga was founded by a Celtic tribe known as Bracari over 2000 years ago. The Romans named it Bracara Augusta in honour of Emperor Augustus in the year 15/16 BC and made it the capital of the newly-founded province Gallaecia. After being conquered and re-conquered several times, King Afonso VI of Leon offered it to his daughter Dona Teresa (she was his favourite), who became the mother of the first King of Portugal (D. -
Emigration from England to South Africa
Chapter 11: Emigration from England to South Africa When we landed at Harwich this time there was no trouble with Customs. Out of the dock area our first need was to fill up with petrol and when we did so Nigel was very intrigued and said to me quietly so as not to hurt anyone’s feelings ‘Daddy, They all speak English here!’ Of course, as they were often during the day in Utrecht in the care of a Dutch nanny (after her marriage, Kitty had been replaced by ‘Babs’), they heard a lot of Dutch spoken and understood quite a bit. When Babs took them to the Wilhelminapark (where it was forbidden to walk on the grass!), she would take them to see the ducks and they knew them as ‘eendtjes’ and a passing horse would be referred to as ‘een paard’. Only two days after we returned to England Stuart was being a little fractious when being taken for a walk in his push-chair, or stroller as it seems to be now called, and we attempted to distract his attention from whatever was worrying him by pointing out a passing horse and cart by saying ‘Kijk, Stuart, een paard!’ he replied crossly ‘It isn’t a paard, it’s a horse!’ Life in England was obviously not going to easy because we did not have a home, we only had the car for a few days until I would have to hand it over to Dr Johnson, my replacement for the job in Holland, and all I had to build a practice around was my appointment at the Middlesex which thanks to the introduction of the National Health Service was paid now, but not enough to keep a wife and family of three children. -
Oporto: the Building of a Maritime Space in the Early Modern Period
Oporto: The Building of a Maritime Space in the Early Modern Period Amândio Jorge Morais Barros Instituto de História Moderna da Universidade do Porto [email protected] Abstract During the 16th century, while the Portuguese Crown was concentrating its best efforts on exploring the Cape sea route (“The India Run”), as well as the far-eastern circuits, from Lisbon, commercial shipping agents from other Portuguese seaports sought alternative outlets for their business. It was due to the existence of ports such as Oporto, Viana do Castelo, Vila do Conde, etc., long considered to be minor, that the Portuguese Kingdom was able to make its definitive contribution to the formation of the first Atlantic system. The present essay follows a tendency in modern historiography and pays attention to one particular case: that of the evolution of the city of Oporto, the building and organization of its seaport, its inclusion in an international port system, the mobility of its merchant fleet and the extent of their enterprise. The influence of the Oportan maritime space was felt across the Atlantic world and helped to improve European trade and the economic system of that period. Keywords Atlantic system, Early Modern period, maritime space, navigation, Oporto; seaport, shipbuilding, shipping, trade 1. The present essay consists of a brief summary of a thesis on the subject, which was defended at Oporto University, in the Faculty of Humanities, on October 20, 2004. Traditionally, the study of both Portuguese and Iberian overseas trade, considered mainly from a macro-economic perspective, has been based upon research into sea routes, predominant colonial products, the rise and fall of different types of merchandise and trade circuits. -
Kimberley Draft EIR Rev 1 - 01 June 11 LK.Docx
MAINSTREAM RENEWABLE POWER Construction of a CSP and CPV/ PV Plant in, Kimberley, Northern Cape Province of South Africa Draft Environmental Impact Report - Ref #12/12/20/2024 Issue Date: 2 June 2011 Revision No.: 1 Project No.: 10273 Date: 2 June 2011 Construction of a CSP and CPV/ PV Plant in, Kimberley, Northern Document Title: Cape Province of South Africa: Draft Environmental Impact Report Author: Faith Kalibbala; Lucy Chimoyi Revision Number: 1 Checked by: Liesl Koch, Kelly Tucker Approved: Liesl Koch, Kelly Tucker Signature: For: SiVEST Environmental Division COPYRIGHT IS VESTED IN SiVEST IN TERMS OF THE COPYRIGHT ACT (ACT 98 OF 1978) AND NO USE OR REPRODUCTION OR DUPLICATION THEREOF MAY OCCUR WITHOUT THE WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE AUTHOR MAINSTREAM RENEWABLE POWER prepared by: SiVEST Environmental Draft Environmental Impact Report Revision No. 1 3 June 2011 Page 1 Y:\10000\10273 CSP Solar EIA\Reports\EIA phase\EIR\Kimberley Site\Kimberley Draft EIR rev 1 - 01 June 11 LK.docx KEY PROJECT INFORMATION FARM DESCRIPTION 21 DIGIT SURVEYOR GENERAL CODE Portion 5 of the Farm De Hoop No 65 C03700000000006500005 Portion 10 of the Farm De Hoop No 65 C03700000000006500010 Portion 11 of the Farm De Hoop No 65 C03700000000006500011 Remainder of Farm 193 C03700000000019300000 Remainder of the Farm Droogfontein No 62 C03700000000006200000 Portion 1 of the Farm Droogfontein No 62 C03700000000006200001 Remainder of Farm 196 C03700000000019600000 TITLE DEEDS: Attached as Appendix 1 PHOTOGRAPHS OF SITE: General Characteristics of the study area MAINSTREAM -
"Weapon of Starvation": the Politics, Propaganda, and Morality of Britain's Hunger Blockade of Germany, 1914-1919
Wilfrid Laurier University Scholars Commons @ Laurier Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive) 2015 A "Weapon of Starvation": The Politics, Propaganda, and Morality of Britain's Hunger Blockade of Germany, 1914-1919 Alyssa Cundy Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd Part of the Diplomatic History Commons, European History Commons, and the Military History Commons Recommended Citation Cundy, Alyssa, "A "Weapon of Starvation": The Politics, Propaganda, and Morality of Britain's Hunger Blockade of Germany, 1914-1919" (2015). Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive). 1763. https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/1763 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by Scholars Commons @ Laurier. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive) by an authorized administrator of Scholars Commons @ Laurier. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A “WEAPON OF STARVATION”: THE POLITICS, PROPAGANDA, AND MORALITY OF BRITAIN’S HUNGER BLOCKADE OF GERMANY, 1914-1919 By Alyssa Nicole Cundy Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Western Ontario, 2007 Master of Arts, University of Western Ontario, 2008 DISSERTATION Submitted to the Department of History in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Doctor of Philosophy in History Wilfrid Laurier University 2015 Alyssa N. Cundy © 2015 Abstract This dissertation examines the British naval blockade imposed on Imperial Germany between the outbreak of war in August 1914 and the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles in July 1919. The blockade has received modest attention in the historiography of the First World War, despite the assertion in the British official history that extreme privation and hunger resulted in more than 750,000 German civilian deaths. -
Portuguese Family Names
Portuguese Family Names GERALD M. MOSER 1 Point Cabrillo reflects the Spanish spelling of the nickname of J oao Rodrigues Oabrilho - "the I(id," perhaps a play on words, if the Viscount De Lagoa was correct in assuming that this Portuguese navigator was born in one of the many villages in Portugal called Oabril (Joao Rodrigues Oabrilho, A Biographical Sketch, Lisbon, Agencia Geral do mtramar, 1957, p. 19). 2 Oastroville, Texas, -- there is another town of the same name in California - was named after its founder, Henry Oastro, a Portuguese Jew from France, who came to Providence, R.I., in 1827. From there he went to Texas in 1842, launching a colonization scheme, mainly on land near San Antonio. I came upon the story in the Genealogy Department of the Dallas Public Library, on the eve of reading to the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese a paper on "Cultural Linguistics: The Case of the Portuguese Family Names" (December 28, 1957). The present article is an enlarged version of that paper. 30 38 Gerald M. Moser versational style as 0 Gomes alfaiate, ("that Tailor Gomes"), same manner in which tradesmen and officials were identified in the Lis- . bon of the fifteenth century (see Appendix 2). E) A fifth type of family name exists in Portugal, which has not yet been mentioned. It includes names due to religious devotion, similar to but. not identical with the cult of the saints which has furnished so many baptismal names. These peculiar devotional names are not used as first names in Portugal, although some of them are commonly used thus in Spain. -
Social Mobility in Portugal (1860–1960): Operative Issues and Trends
Continuity and Change 24 (3), 2009, 513–546. f Cambridge University Press 2009 doi:10.1017/S026841600999018X Social mobility in Portugal (1860–1960): operative issues and trends HELDER ADEGAR FONSECA AND PAULO EDUARDO GUIMARA˜ ES* ABSTRACT. This article presents the results of a study of social mobility in Portugal from the 1860s to the 1960s. Four distinct social contexts were examined by refer- ence to selected criteria, and marriage records were used as the source for data collection and analysis. The HISCO coding scheme was followed to allow compari- sons of intergenerational mobility, stratification, and social change. We present the methodological and operative issues inherent in the hermeneutics of the sources used, identifying difficulties in the process of coding arising from the use of a common language to locate individuals in society. We shall offer an opinion on the pace of Portuguese social mobility during the period. 1. INTRODUCTION Social historians must admit to a huge void in our knowledge of occu- pational and social mobility in Portuguese historiography for the long periods from the Liberal Age (1850–1890), with its industrial and material progress, the age of inconstancy and of the Liberal Crisis (1890–1920s), until the time of Dictatorship (1926–1974), which brought authoritarian stability and the beginning of a golden age of modern economic growth (1950–1973).1 After the Civil War (1832–1834), the institutional constraints on capi- talist development that persisted from the ancie´n regime were removed and the country became fully integrated into the world economy led by Britain. Wine and agricultural products, cork, mineral ores, and tinned fish be- came the major export products, while an internal market developed and * Both of the Research Centre in Political Sciences and International Relations, University of E´vora. -
UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations
UCLA UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title The Fabian Child: English and American Literature and Socialist Reform, 1884-1915 Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2q169884 Author Hollander, Amanda Farrell Publication Date 2015 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles The Fabian Child: English and American Literature and Socialist Reform, 1884-1915 A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in English by Amanda Farrell Hollander 2015 © Copyright by Amanda Farrell Hollander 2015 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION The Fabian Child: English and American Literature and Socialist Reform, 1884-1915 by Amanda Farrell Hollander Doctor of Philosophy in English University of California, Los Angeles, 2015 Professor Joseph E. Bristow, Chair “The Fabian Child: English and American Literature and Socialist Reform, 1884-1915” intervenes in current scholarship that addresses the impact of Fabian socialism on the arts during the fin de siècle. I argue that three particular Fabian writers—Evelyn Sharp, E. Nesbit, and Jean Webster—had an indelible impact on children’s literature, directing the genre toward less morally didactic and more politically engaged discourse. Previous studies of the Fabian Society have focused on George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and Beatrice Webb and Sidney Webb to the exclusion of women authors producing fiction for child readers. After the Fabian Society’s founding in 1884, English writers Sharp and Nesbit, and American author Webster published prolifically and, in their work, direct their socialism toward a critical and deliberate reform of ii literary genres, including the fairy tale, the detective story, the boarding school novel, adventure yarns, and epistolary fiction. -
The Plastic Surgeons of Southern Africa and the History of Aprassa
THE PLASTIC SURGEONS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA AND THE HISTORY OF APRASSA: Section 1: The Beginnings of Plastic Surgery in South Africa Section 2: The Founding of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of Southern Africa Section 3: The early meetings of APSSA 1957 to 1971 Section 4: The University Academic Departments and Divisions of Plastic Surgery Section 5: Annual General Meetings and Congresses Section 6: Invited Lecturers Section 7: Office Bearers / Executive Committees Section 8: Past and Senior Plastic Surgeons Section 9: Honorary Members Section 10: Present Members Page 1 Section 1: The beginnings of Plastic Surgery in South Africa International warfare and the two World Wars in particular did little to benefit Mankind, but they undoubtedly did play a role in the development of the speciality of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Prior to World War 2, there were no recognised nor registered plastic surgeons in South Africa. Jack Penn, a graduate of the University of Witwatersrand Medical School in 1931, trained as a general surgeon in Great Britain. He also spent time in the United States, where he was exposed to some of the American pioneers of Plastic Surgery. He returned to South Africa in 1937 to practice as a surgeon in Johannesburg and he joined the South African Medical Corps with an expressed interest in Plastic Surgery. When the second World War broke out, he was sent back to England and he spent most of 1940 learning plastic surgical techniques from the four British masters at the time – Harold Gillies, Archibald Mc Indoe, Pomfret Kilner and Rainsford Mowlem. On his return to South Africa, with the assistance of the Oppenheimer family in Johannesburg, he established the Brenthurst Military Hospital for Plastic Surgery in their home. -
Strategies for Conservation of Rare and Endemic
Strategies for Conservation of Rare and Endemic Species: Characterization of Genetic and Epigenetic Variation and Unusual Reproductive Biology of Coastal Species from Limonium ovalifolium and Limonium binervosum Complexes (Plumbaginaceae) TESE APRESENTADA PARA OBTENÇÃO DO GRAU DE DOUTOR EM BIOLOGIA ANA SOFIA DA SILVA VALBORDO RÓIS ORIENTADORA: Dr. Ana Cristina Delaunay Caperta COORIENTADOR: Dr. Timothy F. Sharbel Júri: Presidente: Reitor da Universidade de Lisboa Vogais: Doutora Maria Wanda Sarujine Viegas Professora Catedrática Instituto Superior de Agronomia da Universidade de Lisboa Doutor João Carlos Mano Castro Loureiro Professor Auxiliar Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologias da Universidade de Coimbra Doutor Octávio Fernando de Sousa Salgueiro Godinho Paulo Professor Auxiliar Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Doutor Jorge Henrique Capelo Gonçalves Investigador Auxiliar Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária Doutora Ana Cristina Delaunay Caperta Investigadora Auxiliar Instituto Superior de Agronomia da Universidade de Lisboa LISBOA 2014 Strategies for Conservation of Rare and Endemic Species: Characterization of Genetic and Epigenetic Variation and Unusual Reproductive Biology of Coastal Species from Limonium ovalifolium and Limonium binervosum Complexes (Plumbaginaceae) TESE APRESENTADA PARA OBTENÇÃO DO GRAU DE DOUTOR EM BIOLOGIA ANA SOFIA DA SILVA VALBORDO RÓIS ORIENTADORA: Dr. Ana Cristina Delaunay Caperta COORIENTADOR: Dr. Timothy F. Sharbel Júri: Presidente: Reitor da Universidade de Lisboa Vogais: -
Guest Handbook
PORTUGAL: PORTO, MINHO & DOURO VALLEY Guest Handbook A Self-Guided Walking Adventure Table of Contents Daily Itinerary ........................................................................... 4 Tour Facts at a Glance ........................................................... 14 Traveling To and From Your Tour .......................................... 18 Information & Policies ............................................................ 22 Portugal & Madeira at a Glance ............................................. 26 Packing List ........................................................................... 33 800.464.9255 / countrywalkers.com 2 © 2018 Otago, LLC dba Country Walkers Travel Style Our Self-Guided Walking Adventures are ideal for travelers with an independent spirit who enjoy exploring at their own pace. We provide authentic accommodations, luggage transfers, and some meals, along with comprehensive Route Notes, detailed maps, and 24-hour emergency assistance. This gives you the freedom to focus on the things that matter to you—no group, no guide, and no set schedule to stand in the way of enjoying your adventure, your way. Overview The northern reaches of Portugal exude a rural beauty unlike anywhere else. At once rugged and peaceful and wholly magnificent, the steep granite mountains of Minho and gentle hills of the Douro Valley each embody a distinct Portuguese spirit and exploring them by foot is a true privilege. You’ll begin in the spellbinding province of Minho, a rich patchwork of soaring slopes and emerald- green terraces criss-crossed and climbed by ancient, rugged shepherd trails that link tiny secluded stone villages. This is the most contemplative, and immersive, way to experience rural Portugal: your solitude is part of the adventure as Garrano horses, Cachena cattle and a shepherd tending his flock may be your only companions. Pathways then point to the Douro River Valley, where vintners have been producing Portugal’s prized port wines for generations.