scholarly journals History of the Desert Flora of the Old World

Nature ◽  
1927 ◽  
Vol 120 (3031) ◽  
pp. 820-820
Keyword(s):  
Old World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Desert Flora

scholarly journals Old World Homecomings: Campaigns of Ancestral Tourism and Cultural Diplomacy, 1945–66

2021 ◽  
pp. 002200942098684
Author(s):  
Adam Hjorthén
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Marshall Plan ◽  
Old World ◽  
Subsequent Transformation ◽  
Political Incentives ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Economies ◽  
Roots Tourism

This article examines the history of ancestral tourism and its development as a form of cultural diplomacy between 1945 and 1966. The phenomenon often referred to as ‘roots tourism’ has during the last decades increased in popularity, especially in Old World countries that historically have sent large numbers of people to North America. While previous scholarship has focused on its existential dimensions and its relation to the twenty-first century tourism and heritage economies, this article looks at how ancestral tourism grew out of European attempts at expanding the tourism industry after 1945. It studies the international spread of ‘person-to-person’ programs that sought to turn travelers into ‘ambassadors’, and the subsequent transformation of such initiatives into ‘homecoming’ campaigns through notions of co-descent, targeting Americans of European descent. By exploring the case of the 1966 Homecoming Year campaign in Sweden, the article shows that the attraction of ancestral tourism was grounded in its ability to combine economic and political incentives articulated in the Marshall Plan. It developed out of a liberal-democratic ideology that vested individual travelers with diplomatic agency. In the process, European tourist agencies calcified the notion that ancestral tourism served not only individual experiences, but also national economies and international relations.

Language as a Key to Latin American Historiography

1955 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-539
Author(s):  
Richard M. Morse
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
New World ◽  
Old World ◽  
History Of

Latin americanists have in recent years become increasingly concerned with constructing the basis for a unified history of Latin America. Frequently this enterprise leads them to contemplate the even larger design of a history of the Americas. While the New World may still be, in Hegel’s words, “a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of old Europe,” it is now recognized as having an independent heritage; its history is no longer experienced as “only an echo of the Old World.”

scholarly journals Phylogeny and Evolutionary History of Old World Suboscine Birds (Aves: Eurylaimides)

2006 ◽  
Vol 3544 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT G. MOYLE ◽  
R TERRY CHESSER ◽  
RICHARD O. PRUM ◽  
PETER SCHIKLER ◽  
JOEL CRACRAFT
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Old World ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Early diversification of sperm size in the evolutionary history of the old world leaf warblers (Phylloscopidae)

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 777-789 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Supriya ◽  
M. Rowe ◽  
T. Laskemoen ◽  
D. Mohan ◽  
T. D. Price ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Old World ◽  
Early Diversification ◽  
History Of ◽  
Leaf Warblers ◽  
Sperm Size

Stone Tools

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Stone Tool ◽  
History Of Archaeology ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Old World ◽  
Material Culture Studies ◽  
History Of

The focus of this article is stone tools. The history of stone tool research is linked integrally to the history of archaeology and the study of the human past, and many of the early developments in archaeology were connected with the study of stone artefacts. The identification of stone tools as objects of prehistoric human manufacture was central to the development of nineteenth-century models of prehistoric change, and especially the Three Age system for Old World prehistory. This article draws on concepts derived from interdisciplinary material culture studies to consider the role of the artefact after being discarded. It suggests that it is impossible to understand the meaning or efficacy of stone tools without understanding their ‘afterlives’ following abandonment. This article aims to complement contemporary metrical studies of the identification of stone tools and the description of their production. A brief history of the stone tools is explained and this concludes the article.

The genus Capsicum (Solanaceae) in Africa

Bothalia ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 14 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 845-848 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. H. Eshbaugh
Keyword(s):  
Wild Species ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
New World ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Old World ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
Local Phenomenon ◽  
History Of ◽  
Genus Capsicum ◽  
Large Acreage

The genus Capsicum (Solanaceae) includes approximately 20 wild species and 4-5 domesticated taxa commonly referred to as ‘chilies’ or ‘peppers’. The pre-Colombian distribution of the genus was New World. The evolutionary history of the genus is now envisaged as including three distinct lines leading to the domesticated taxa. The route of Capsicum to the Old World is thought to have followed three different courses. First, explorers introduced it to Europe with secondary introduction into Africa via further exploratory expeditions; second, botanical gardens played a major role in introduction; and third, introduction followed the slave trade routes. Today, pepper production in Africa is of two types, vegetable and spice. Statistical profiles on production are difficult to interpret, but the data available indicate that Nigeria, Egypt, Tunisia and Ghana are the leading producers. Production is mainly a local phenomenon and large acreage is seldom devoted to the growing of peppers. The primary peppers in Africa are C.  annuum and C.  frutescens.

scholarly journals Recombination Gives a New Insight in the Effective Population Size and the History of the Old World Human Populations

2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Melé ◽  
Asif Javed ◽  
Marc Pybus ◽  
Pierre Zalloua ◽  
Marc Haber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Population Size ◽  
Effective Population Size ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Effective Population ◽  
Old World ◽  
History Of

The Persistence of Mutual Influence: Europe and Latin America in the 1820s

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Brown ◽  
Gabriel Paquette
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Old World ◽  
History Of

The independence of Latin America from colonial rule in the first decades of the nineteenth century is generally held to have broken the bonds which had linked Europe to the Americas for three centuries. This article contends that a re-examination of the decade of the 1820s reveals the persistence, as well as the reconfiguration, of connections between the Old World and the New after the dissolution of the Iberian Atlantic monarchies. Some of these multi-faceted connections are introduced and explored, most notably commercial ties, intellectual and cultural influences, immigration, financial obligations, the slave trade and its suppression, and diplomatic negotiations. Recognition and appreciation of these connections has important consequences for our understandings of the history of the Atlantic World, the ‘Age of Revolutions’, and Latin American Independence itself.

scholarly journals Old World and New World Phasmatodea: Phylogenomics Resolve the Evolutionary History of Stick and Leaf Insects

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Simon ◽  
Harald Letsch ◽  
Sarah Bank ◽  
Thomas R. Buckley ◽  
Alexander Donath ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary History ◽  
New World ◽  
Old World ◽  
History Of
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