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The volume approaches Cuba as a nation that hosts a convergence of extraordinary global developments and, in turn, projects itself onto the world's major cultural, political and economic processes. From different perspectives, ranging from architecture and music to politics and economics, the twenty-one essays presented here embrace the multifaceted interactions between Cuba and foreign imperial strategies during the 19th century, the troublesome formation of national political cultures in the first half of the 20th century, and the multiple global aspects of some of Cuba's choices from the Cold War to the first decade of the present century.
Storia Americana --- Cuba
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Cet ouvrage emmène le lecteur vers les prémisses des relations entre les États-Unis et Cuba. Il explore une période souvent méconnue de ces relations à travers un récit qui oscille entre histoire politique, histoire diplomatique et histoire littéraire. Rahma Jerad considère le contexte politique, économique et intellectuel cubain aussi bien que la question de la traite négrière, alors au centre des débats internationaux.
19th Century --- United States of America --- Cuba
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Esle libro es el fruto de un trabajo colectivo llevado a cabo en el marco del programa internacional de investigación Afrodesc-Afrodescendientes y esclavitudes: dominación, identificación y herencias en las Américas (siglos xv-xxi). Es el resultado de una reflexión realizada por sus integrantes junto con otros investigadores que han trabajado sobre el tema "afro" y contribuido al conocimiento de diversas áreas y temáticas en materia de estudios culturales de afrodescendientes en el Caribe y otras latitudes americanas. La idea central de este conjunto de aportaciones giró alrededor de la siguiente pregunta: ¿Cómo circulan, se producen o se relocalizan en el espacio caribeño los múltiples elementos culturales construidos o identificados como "negros", "afrodescendientes” o "afrocaribeños"? Y éstos, ¿cómo son vistos en el ámbito internacional? Estos ensayos pretenden aproximarse al vasto cuestionamiento que los unifica a partir de una mirada, un tanto heterodoxa, que se fundamenta en un triple enfoque: por una parte se contemplan los fenómenos de circulación globalizada y las lógicas de conexiones culturales que se han producido durante gran parle de la historia contemporánea caribeña. Por otra, se toma en cuenta la interacción múltiple generada por los procesos de producción, institucionalización y mercantilización do elementos culturales caracterizados como “afrodescendientes”. Y todo ello en el espacio regional del Caribe, analizándolo puntualmente desde Cartagena, Veracruz y La Habana, tres ciudades que han desempeñado un papel central en el arribo de poblaciones africanas desde la época colonial y que siguen siendo importantes polos de difusión, transformación y redefinición local de múltiples elementos culturales en la región. La dimensión propiamente "afro" apareció como una de las características comunes al interior de este espacio, ligada a la historia de la esclavitud y de las migraciones más recientes, y como un elemento que había que rehabilitar frente a la visión hispanófila e hispano-centrada, hasta entonces dominante y dominadora. Pero, hasta ese momento, no fue identificada como un principio exclusivo, ni como un motivo de exclusión; más bien abrió la puerta a una reflexión sobre el mestizaje y sus aportes culturales a esta "civilización popular caribeña".
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The essays in this book explore the political, social and cultural complexity of the relations between the United States and Cuba in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They address aspects ranging from the Cuban exiles who from the States forged the independence of their homeland, the profound transformation of Cuban society during the American military occupation of 1898-1902, the coalitions and the conflicts between North American and Cuban feminism, and between the Afro-American racial identity and the Cuban national identity. At the crux of this relationship is the American military intervention of 1898, perceived in Europe at the time as a "war between civilisations", and the legacy of the thought of José Martí.
Storia --- Relazioni internazionali --- Politica estera --- Società --- cubana --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Cuba --- Secolo XX
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El presente libro versa sobre el papel de la Iglesia católica y sus misiones en los Imperios ibéricos del siglo xix y el primer tercio del siglo xx. En concreto, aborda las relaciones entre el poder civil y el eclesiástico en contextos coloniales en un período de intensa modernización de las estructuras imperiales. Con una perspectiva comparada entre los distintos espacios que componían los diferentes imperios, la obra refleja el papel que desempeñan los misioneros como un cuerpo intermedio entre colonizadores y colonizados, siempre en contacto e interacción con las poblaciones locales, así como la compleja relación entre el poder colonial y las misiones religiosas. El indudable apoyo mutuo partía de intereses que eran en parte divergentes, lo cual provocó conflictos en no pocas ocasiones. Todo ello en el marco de una relación Iglesia-Estado que, en las mismas metrópolis, no careció de importantes roces y dificultades.
Cuba --- Filipinas --- Guinea Ecuatorial --- Imperios ibéricos --- Mozambique --- órdenes religiosas --- sociedad colonial
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Außenpolitik --- Brasilien --- Brazil --- Cuba --- Ecuador --- foreign policy --- geopolitics --- Geopolitik --- international relations --- Internationale Beziehungen --- Kuba --- Lateinamerika --- Latin America --- Russia --- security policy --- Sicherheitspolitik
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Sugar, Steam and Steel is about cane sugar and the transformation of an Indonesian island into the â Oriental Cubaâ during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Between the 1830s and the 1880s, sweetener manufacture in Dutch-controlled Java â the crown jewel of the erstwhile Netherlands Indies â drew decisively away in matters of technology and sugar science from other Asian centres of production which had once equaled or, more often, surpassed it in terms of both output and know-how. Along with its larger and altogether more famous Caribbean counterpart, Javaâ s industry came to occupy a position at the apex of the trade in what had become by this date a key global commodity.
industrial project --- nederlandsche handel-maatschappij --- nineteenth century --- g. roger knight --- oriental cuba --- wonopringgo --- vacuum pan --- sugar manufacture --- sugar factories --- dutch colonialism --- suikerlords --- java sugar --- sugar --- thomas edwards --- java --- 1800s
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La globalización, en sus formas contemporáneas, tiene un impacto sin precedentes en el desplazamiento de prácticas religiosas que antes estuvieron profundamente ancladas en tradiciones, territorios y grupos sociales específicos, sobre todo etnonacionales. Esla obra examina los procesos de transnacionalización de diferentes religiones que recorren en sentido contrario las rutas y los intercambios entre África, Europa y América. Las etnografías contenidas en este volumen describen tradiciones religiosas que viajan en el equipaje de los migrantes para refundar comunidades diaspóricas; religiones afroamericanas que debido a su fama internacional ampliaron y transnacionalizaron su red de parentesco ritual dando paso a la iniciación de nuevos adeptos; misiones cristianas que emprenden la reconquista del viejo continente; circulación de ritos y símbolos en circuitos mercantiles globales que ofrecen segmentos de las tradiciones religiosas reconvertidas en mercancías artísticas, terapéuticas, mágicas y turísticas; y finalmente, fronteras que atravesaron y con ellas transnacionalizaron prácticas religiosas étnicas y nacionales. Todas estas dinámicas de movilización transnacional son objeto de estudios a partir de los cuales analizamos nuevas formas de crear redes, circuitos y liderazgos; pero también nuevos impulsos para fundar naciones imaginadas que atraviesan y trascienden los Estados-nación modernos.
antropología religiosa --- Argentina --- Brasil --- movimiento de personas --- Cuba --- culto a los santos --- danza --- diáspora --- Estados Unidos --- etnia --- evangelización --- Gabón --- grupo religioso --- ruta migratoria --- México --- migración internacional --- globalización --- Nahua --- Portugal --- práctica religiosa --- ritual --- Ruanda --- secta --- Soninké --- transnacionalización --- Yoruba
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Religion and Politics: New Developments Worldwide features ten articles about recent developments in the interaction of Religion and Politics in various countries of Asia, Africa, Europe, and both North and South America. Most articles focus on one country, and including China, South Korea, India, Nigeria, Malaysia, France, and Cuba. Others address issues across regions such as Latin America, Southeast Asia, or the Middle East. The fifteen contributors are scholars from diverse disciplines as well as diverse regions of Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Subjects include the Indian government’s favoritism for Hinduism over rival religions; the way the Sikhs of India avoid the religion–politics divide; the way the Western media fails to fully understand the Chinese government’s policies on religious minorities; the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo demonstrations in France; religious attitudes toward tax politics in South Korea as well as among Christians compared to Muslims; how to lessen the radicalization of Muslims in Southeast Asia; whether Nigeria should encourage its Muslims to be active in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation; the spiritual role played by the permaculture movement in Cuba; and how the former tendency of scholars to polarize religion and politics is no longer viable, especially in Latin America.
religiosity --- religion --- tax equity --- exchange equity --- horizontal equity --- vertical equity --- Cuba --- permaculture --- nature spirituality --- religion and politics --- theories of religion --- deradicalization --- moderate education --- parent culture --- contextualization --- Southeast Asia --- religion --- religiosity --- ethics --- redistribution --- property rights --- economic inequality --- government --- subsidy --- tax --- public finance --- Latin America --- religion --- politics --- methodology --- theory --- Nigeria --- Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) --- foreign policy --- secularity --- economic aids --- Charlie Hebdo --- Je Suis Charlie --- January 11th 2015 --- French Republic --- secularism --- terrorism --- fraternity --- Akal Takhat --- British Raj --- halem? r?j --- Khalsa --- m?r?-p?r? --- religion and politics --- secularism --- SGPC --- Akali Dal --- Punjab --- Hindutva --- religious conversion --- ghar wapsi --- mass conversion --- India --- Dalit --- religion and politics --- People’s Republic of China --- Uyghurs --- Xinjiang --- Tibet
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Natural products hold a prominent position in the current discovery and development of drugs and have diverse indications for both human and animal health. Plants, in particular, play a leading role as a source of specialized metabolites with medical effects. Other organisms, such as marine and terrestrial animals and microorganisms, produce very important drug candidate molecules. Specialized metabolites from these varied natural sources can be used directly as bioactive compounds or drug precursors. In addition, due to their broad chemical diversity, they can act as drug prototypes and/or be used as pharmacological tools for different targets. Some examples of natural metabolites that have been developed into useful medical drug are cardiotonic digoxin from Digitalis sp., antimalarial artemisinin from Artemisia annua, anti-cancer taxol from Taxus sp., or podophyllotoxin from Podophyllum peltatum, which served as a synthetic model for the anti-cancer etoposide. The study of natural products is still attracting great scientific attention and their current importance, as a valuable lead for drug discovery, is undebatable. I cordially invite authors to contribute original articles, as well as survey articles, that give the readers of Molecules **MOLECULES NEEDS TO BE ITALICIZED** updated and new perspectives on natural products in drug discovery, including but not limited to natural sources, identification and separation of bioactive phytochemicals, standardization, new biological targets, pre-clinical and clinical trials, pharmacological effects/side effects, and bioassays.
cytotoxicity-guided --- phenolic derivatives --- Dryopteris fragrans --- chemical derivatization --- immuno-regulation activity --- Imperata cylindrica --- HPLC --- ESI-MS/MS --- growth inhibitory activity --- cancer --- cardamonin --- antinociceptive --- TRPV1 --- glutamate --- opioid --- siphonous green algae --- sulfated coumarins --- Dasycladus vermicularis --- isolation and quantification --- Orobanche s.l. --- Orobanchaceae --- Lamiales --- natural products --- secondary metabolites --- phenylpropanoid glycosides --- phenylethanoid glycosides --- bioactivities of natural products --- chemosystematics --- FSE --- T2DM --- GLUT4 --- Ca2+ --- L6 cell --- marine peptides --- proliferation --- migration --- angiogenesis --- zebrafish --- antioxidant activity --- flavonoids --- isoflavones --- phenolics --- proanthocyanidins --- Trifolium --- Leea indica --- HPLC-ESI-microTOF-Q-MS/MS --- phenolics --- dihydrochalcones --- Humulus lupulus --- prenylated phenolic compounds --- antimicrobial agents --- methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus --- Leishmania mexicana mexicana --- Trypanosoma brucei brucei --- Astragalus boeticus L. --- spectroscopic analysis --- cytotoxic activity --- human colon cancer cell lines --- acetylated astragalosides --- Fabaceae --- aging --- cancer --- cardiovascular disease --- dementia --- diabetes --- inflammation --- oxidative stress --- Harpagophytum procumbens --- devil’s claw --- harpagoside --- spagyric tincture --- antioxidant activity --- Cleistocalyx operculatus --- 2?,4?-dihydroxy-6?-methoxy-3?,5?-dimethylchalcone (DMC) --- pPancreatic cancer --- PANC-1 --- ACE inhibitory peptide --- antihypertensive --- bioactive peptides --- hypertension --- marine resources --- terpenes --- terpenoids --- antimicrobial resistance --- synergy --- Phyllanthus orbicularis --- C-glycoside --- flavonoid --- natural products --- traditional medicine --- Cuba --- Phyllanthus chamacristoides --- chromatography --- mass spectrometry --- NMR --- circular dichroism --- stereochemistry --- Fideloside --- cytokines --- anti-inflammatory activity --- metabolomics --- multivariate data analysis --- molecular network --- Bacopa monnieri --- LC-MS --- diabetic neuropathy --- neuropathic pain --- glucosinolates --- Eruca sativa --- glucoerucin --- H2S --- Kv7 potassium channels --- artemisinin --- Physcomitrella patens --- sesquiterpenoids --- malaria --- biotechnology --- ketamine --- psychosis --- cerebellum --- celastrol --- oxidative stress --- NADPH oxidases --- n/a
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