This essay examines the use of famine-plot rhetoric in the course of disputes over free trade in the French Atlantic during the late eighteenth century. Seeking to discredit officially sanctioned trade monopolies, French plantation owners frequently suggested that the control exercised by metropolitan merchants over transatlantic commerce was responsible for food shortages among the enslaved po...

Urban spaces are often dominated by paved surfaces and ongoing processes of densification; consequently, intensifying the urban heat island effect. In order to strengthen liveability spaces, an adequate amount green is needed. Trees in planters alternative greening solution; however, lack root space due underground infrastructure poses a challenge. Furthermore, temporal aspects such as tree gro...

THL~, beach plum, Prunus maritima, in typical form, is a rugged bush native to the coastal areas of northeastern United States. As part of the wild landscape in that section it is most showy when in flower during May. So white and so bold is its display of bloom that back in ]932 Edgar Anderson and Oliver Ames of the Arnold Arboretum were able to plot the wild distribution of the plant from the...

To realize the real-time monitoring of cotton precision seeding operation process and improve intelligence level planters, based on automatic color matching detection technology visualization technology, this study designs a system for sowing quality planters. The is double-silo turntable type vertical disc hole seed metering device as research carrier, composed missed module module. Among them...

This article examines the geographical corridors for the establishment of rice in seventeenth-century Dutch Guiana. One corridor of introduction is associated with the expulsion of Dutch planters from Brazil in 1644, whose slaves reestablished longstanding subsistence preferences with their exodus to the colony. Another corridor links its introduction to the African Gold Coast, where rice devel...