Abstract This article examines the contributions of Ghulām ʿAlī “Āzād” Bilgrāmī (1704–1786) to our understanding comparative poetics and Arabic in eighteenth-century Hindustan. It attends Azad’s oeuvre through lenses translation, multilingualism, literary science. Philological analysis reveals how Azad establishes analogues across these three languages that attest adaptive capacity poetics. His...

Centuries of anthropogenic releases have resulted in a global legacy of mercury (Hg) contamination. Here we use a global model to quantify the impact of uncertainty in Hg atmospheric emissions and cycling on anthropogenic enrichment and discuss implications for future Hg levels. The plausibility of sensitivity simulations is evaluated against multiple independent lines of observation, including...

The effect of Italian colonialism on migration to Italy differed according to the pre-colonial social structure, a factor previously neglected by immigration theories. In Eritrea, precolonial Christianity, sharp class distinctions, and a strong state promoted interaction between colonizers and colonized. Eritrean nationalism emerged against Ethiopia; thus, no sharp break between Eritreans and I...

Exploitation of the extensive polymetallic deposits of the Andean Altiplano in South America since precolonial times has caused substantial emissions of neurotoxic lead (Pb) into the atmosphere; however, its historical significance compared to recent Pb pollution from leaded gasoline is not yet resolved. We present a comprehensive Pb emission history for the last two millennia for South America...

La introducción de animales exóticos en la Puna Austral Argentina fue un punto inflexión economía pastoril andina. Las investigaciones llevadas a cabo han demostrado presencia bienes europeos incorporados vida cotidiana y domésticos como caprinos, suidos équidos durante los primeros momentos Colonia temprana. El objetivo principal este trabajo es caracterizar gestión explotación estos su posibl...

This essay turns to and through the Philippine vernacular in order open up possibility of a new materialist regard literature, one that specifically stems from tropics. It proposes opportunity for such tropical materialism rests on onomatopoeism observed vernacular. Onomatopoeia, as material linguistic principle, is recognized here be most instructive reunderstanding folk poetry — texts which d...