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Odor and Power in the Americas: Olfactory Consciousness from Columbus to Emancipation

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In this paper, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of homonymity in homonym identification, which is called homonym-based homonymization............................................................................................................................. ii
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The Practice Of Everyday Life

Juliane Jung
TL;DR: The the practice of everyday life is universally compatible with any devices to read and is available in the digital library an online access to it is set as public so you can download it instantly.

Comfort, cleanliness and conveniencethe social organization ofnormality

TL;DR: Shove as discussed by the authors investigated the evolution of these changes, as well as the social meaning of the practices themselves, concluding that routine consumption is controlled by conceptions of normality and profoundly shaped by cultural and economic forces, and that habits are not just changing, but are changing in ways that imply escalating and standardizing patterns of consumption.
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Imperial White: Race, Diaspora, and the British Empire

TL;DR: In this article, Mohanram shows how British imperial culture shaped the colonies but how the imperial rule of colonies shifted and gave new meanings to what it meant to be British, and how the whiteness in Britishness was constructed by the presence of empire.
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Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865

TL;DR: Tropics of Haiti as discussed by the authors examines Haiti's war of independence through the eyes of its actual and imagined participants, observers, survivors, and cultural descendants, and shows how nineteenth-century attempts to paint Haitian independence as the result of a racial revolution coincide with present-day desires to render insignificant and 'unthinkable' the second independent republic of the New World.
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Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field

TL;DR: This article used digital humanities strategies to integrate the scope and methods of book and publishing history with issues and debates in literary studies, including trends and cycles in the gender of novelists, the formation of fictional genres and literary canons, and the relationship of Australian literature to other national literatures.
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African Talking Drums and Oral Noetics

Walter J. Ong
- 21 Jan 1977 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the use of acoustic speech surrogates in African drum language adaptation, which is a way of reproducing, in a specially styled form, the sounds of the words of a given spoken language.