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Globalization's Shift In Accountability: Textile Suppliers And Merchants In 18th And 21st Century Bangladesh, Margaret Jennings May 2013

Globalization's Shift In Accountability: Textile Suppliers And Merchants In 18th And 21st Century Bangladesh, Margaret Jennings

jenningsmargaret@icloud.com

The British East India Company in the 18th century and Wal-Mart in the 21st century share synonymous business practices: the exchange between a less developed nation's unlimited labor force and a developed country's insatiable appetite for cheap garments. By contrasting two events of corruption charges, the Warren Hastings' Trial of the Century and the Tazreen Factory Fire of 2012 illustrate how the accountability of the exchange between the merchant and the suppliers has shifted.


Ancestors Of Frank Cortez Flores - A Detailed Report, Frank Cortez Flores Mar 2013

Ancestors Of Frank Cortez Flores - A Detailed Report, Frank Cortez Flores

Frank Cortez Flores

I’m in the process of completing the final draft on my biography book, “AN ACCOUNT OF MY LIFE’S BLESSINGS And MY SPANISH ANCESTORS - Among the First Families of New Mexico” that will go out for further editing and for additional information and commentaries to be inserted. I’m still trying to organize an area in the book for additional documents/photos that I still have to scan and upload onto the hard drive/CD for the final print. This has been more of an effort, or so it seems, than researching and writing my PhD dissertation, or at least I’ve put in …


The Great War Heritage: A "Heritage Of One's Own"?, Anne Hertzog Jan 2013

The Great War Heritage: A "Heritage Of One's Own"?, Anne Hertzog

Janie Tremblay

2009. As part of the European cross-border program Inter- reg IV, a research program supported by the Nord department council has been launched by researchers from the University of Lille 3. The aim is to collect the remembrance items and witness accounts from collectors of objects from the two world wars that took place in France so as to be able to conserve and display them.


World War One Centenary 1914-1918, P. Chandler Jan 2013

World War One Centenary 1914-1918, P. Chandler

Janie Tremblay

As the Centenary of World War One approaches it provides many opportunities for cross-curricular working. Listed here are a number of useful sites which offer ideas around what could be planned in school or sites which help with research for preparation for trips or about former pupils. This article reviews the websites of: 1) Imperial War Museum (www.iwm.org.uk), 2) First World War Centenary 1914-1918 (http://www.1914.org), 3) Europeana 1914-1918 (http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en) , 4) Commonwealth War Graves Commission (http://www.cwgc.org), and 5) Oxford University WWI Literature Site (http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit). Adapted from the source document.


Colonial Entanglements And Cultic Heterogeneity On Rome's Germanic Frontier, Karim Mata Jan 2013

Colonial Entanglements And Cultic Heterogeneity On Rome's Germanic Frontier, Karim Mata

karim mata

No abstract provided.


Mapping Jews: Cartography And Topography In Rome's Ghetto, Samuel D. Gruber Dr. Jan 2013

Mapping Jews: Cartography And Topography In Rome's Ghetto, Samuel D. Gruber Dr.

Samuel D. Gruber Dr.

This paper examines how the Ghetto of Rome was represented in the many view-plans and maps of Rome from the 16th through 18th centuries, and how this mapping both tells us much about the physical appearance of the Ghetto and also how it was perceived by others in particular and presented to others more generally.