Demos writes how she is pressed to ""put off her Indian blankets " and adopt "English dress" and "her unwillingness to lodge inside her brother's home.""6 Eunice's appearance and acceptance of Indian lifestyle causes a cultural conflict between herself and the people from whence she came which can be best displayed in a journal passage which states, " . . . ... This differing view of faith was a key issue that divided the different peoples. ...

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African Agency and Resistance If demand for slave-grown produce, social identity, and the Atlantic environment were three key factors shaping the traffic, the agency of Africans comprised a fourth major influence, but one which has received less attention from historians. ... Early Slaving Voyages With the key forces shaping the traffic briefly described, we can now turn to a short narrative of the slave trade. ...

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benefits and threats of globalisation Introduction There are processes in the international order--driven by revolutions in communication and information technology--that exhibit seemingly inexorable globalising tendencies while, at the same time, there are a range of actions, adopted by states and non state actors alike, that attempt to resist these often ill defined phenomena captured by the all embracing notion of 'globalisation'. For example, the long term tendency towards freer trade, electronic commerce and the seemingly uncontrollable power of deregulated capital markets do...

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