Realm between Empires: The Second Dutch Atlantic, 1680–1815, by Wim Klooster & Gert Oostindie

examining the relationship between fear of negative evaluation and communication strategies by iranian efl learners

the purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between fear of negative evaluation (fne) and communication strategies (css) among iranian efl learners. it was aimed to examine the differences in the use of communication strategies between speakers with high or low degree of fear of negative evaluation. the current study was a case study consisting of 10 english learners at...

Turning Points in Leadership: Shipping Technology in the Portuguese and Dutch Merchant Empires

This paper discusses the implications of organizational control on the race for economic leadership in merchant empires. Poor organizations have reduced incentives to invest, which in turn stifle technological improvements making leaders lag behind new entrants. Portugal’s large ships carried more merchandize and were more fitting of the monarch’s grandiose preferences, but they also were more ...

Between VP Adjuncts and Second Pole in Dutch. A corpus based survey regarding the complements between VP adjuncts and second pole in Dutch

In Dutch, verbs are situated at fixed places in the sentence. Those places are called the first and second pole. VP adjuncts seem to function as some kind of pivot place in between these poles. This article investigates, by means of corpus research in the Spoken Dutch Corpus (CGN), which elements are intervening between these VP adjuncts and the second pole. Attention is particularly paid to th...

Nations, Conglomerates, and Empires: The Tradeoff between Income and Sovereignty

Nations, Conglomerates, Why after the breakup of such multinational states as and Empires the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia -whose The Tradeoff between Income republicsjustified their and Sovereignty decision by claiming that they wanted to regain their Branko Milanovic sovereignty did the new states express strong desire to join the European Union, thus dissipating the very sove...

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