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How Colonialism Invented Food Insecurity in West Africa

Sapiens

That’s when British colonizers switched their trade focus from gold to human beings, and the trade of enslaved people intensified in West Africa and across the Atlantic. In addition, colonial economics created food shortages in Banda and across West Africa. Outside forces uprooted that security.

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Teaching the Constitution in the Context of Human Behavior

Teaching American History

“That’s why good teaching about citizenship involves students in an intentional study of human behavior.” For Little, government class entails “constitutional study and human behavior study side by side.” After Little’s students read an excerpt of Federalist 51, he asks them whether Madison’s view of human nature is correct.

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In the Baltics, 85 millimeters separate East from West

Strange Maps

mi) of the Rail Baltica route, now under construction – underlining the economic benefits that will be realised when the connection goes live, from 2030. Total measurable socio-economic benefits have been estimated at €16.2 But their railway network is still stuck in Soviet times.

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The Brandt Line gave us the Global North and South. It needs an update.

Strange Maps

The Brandt Report did more than highlight the world’s North-South divide — it also proposed solutions to the worldwide economic imbalance: The Global North should give economic aid to the Global South, so it could catch up and narrow the wealth gap. This article The Brandt Line gave us the Global North and South. An HDI of 0.8

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Solidarity’s Colonial Dimension

Political Science Now

This piece, written by Ewa Nizalowska, covers the new article by Rouven Symank, “Durkheims Empire: The Concept of Solidarity and its Colonial Dimension.” Rather, he saw mechanical forms of solidarity as already containing all of the elements of organic solidarity, like an embryo that grows into a human being.

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

Sapiens

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! titled “ On the Phenomenon of B t Jobs.”

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. This article is a part of The Conversation’s series on unique courses. For other articles in this series, read here and here. Today’s college students may benefit from an exciting array of subjects to study.