scholarly journals WOMEN INVESTORS AND THE VIRGINIA COMPANY IN THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 853-874 ◽  
Author(s):  
MISHA EWEN
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Sugar Trade ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Investment Portfolios ◽  
Early English

AbstractThis article explores the role of women investors in the Virginia Company during the early seventeenth century, arguing that women determined the success of English overseas expansion by ‘adventuring’ not just their person, but their purse. Trading companies relied on the capital of women, and yet in seminal work on Virginia Company investors women have received no attention at all. This is a significant oversight, as studying the women who invested in trading companies illuminates broader issues regarding the role of women in the early English empire. This article explores why and how two women from merchant backgrounds, Rebecca Romney (d. 1644) and Katherine Hueriblock (d. 1639), managed diverse, global investment portfolios in the period before the Financial Revolution. Through company records, wills, letters, court depositions, and a surviving church memorial tablet, it reconstructs Romney's and Hueriblock's interconnected interests in ‘New World’ ventures, including in Newfoundland, the North-West Passage Company, Virginia colony, and sugar trade. Studying women investors reveals how trade and colonization shaped economic activity and investment practices in the domestic sphere and also elucidates how women, in their role as investors, helped give birth to an English empire.

The Role of Women in Early English Nonconformity

1983 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Greaves
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Full Membership ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Patriarchal Family ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Early English

The involvement of English women in the radical Protestant movements of the 1640s and 1650s has attracted the attention of a number of modern historians. The hub of such studies is Keith Thomas's provocative 1958 essay, “Women and the Civil War Sects,” which focuses on the expanded role of women in these groups and on the way in which sectarian views indirectly undermined the patriarchal family. More recently, Dorothy Ludlow has studied female preachers in this period, insisting that they were not fanatics but sober women with a distinctive sense of Christian calling who claimed full membership in the Christian community. The more well-known women, such as Anne Hutchinson and Mary Cary, have been the subject of recent studies in their own right. For the period after 1660, Pamela Volkman has examined the contrasting ways in which male and female converts to the sects were depicted, noting that women were more likely to be accused of emotional volatility, immorality, or even insanity than were men. These studies have progressed to the point that we are in no danger of overlooking the role of women in English Nonconformity in the mid-seventeenth century.

scholarly journals THE PROJECTION OF WOMEN IN THE TRADITIONAL SOCIETY OF THE NORTH CAUCASUS AND IN THE CIVILIZED SPACE OF EUROPE

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 742-750
Author(s):  
Boris Magomet-Gireyevich Kharsiyev
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Mutual Assistance ◽  
Natural Properties ◽  
The North ◽  
Caucasian Family ◽  
Role Of Women

As part of social anthropology, we explore the role of women in the local culture of the North Caucasian peoples, as well as the importance of the role of women in European society, through comparative analysis. Without a doubt, a man has more power as a keeper of the house, the hearth and family members. At the same time, women often have considerable informal power, especially in the domestic sphere. With the collapse of the traditional family and family relationships, the nation is degrading. The conditions of existence and development of the Caucasian family were completely different from European family existentialism. If the traditional community is built on mutual assistance tolerance, mutual assistance, then the modern European community on rationalism. It is noteworthy that the national (traditional) and world (global) culture, two worlds. In each of them, women play a significant role, determined by its natural properties.

The Northern Factor in Ashanti History: Begho and the Mande

1961 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivor Wilks
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
West Africa ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Trade Route ◽  
Subsequent Rise ◽  
Brong Ahafo Region ◽  
Brong Ahafo

In this paper I shall be concerned first with the early spread of Mande (or Mali, or Mandingo) peoples, carrying with them Islam, into the area of the later Ashanti, and secondly, with the importance of this for an understanding of the subsequent rise of the Ashanti kingdom in the later seventeenth century. Thirty Years ago Duncan-Johnstone pointed out that ‘it was Mandingo influence that first brought Ashanti in tough with the Moslem world to the north”, and more recently Goody has stressed the role of Mande-speaking peoples, and especially of the Dyula traders, in the spread of Islam southwards along the ‘great trade route from the Niger down to Begho in the north-west corner of present-day Ashanti’. As Goody has noted, this movement of Mande speakers is reflected in a general way on the modern linguistic map of West Africa, in the line of Dyula and related Mande-tan languages that extends from the Middle Niger between Jenne and Bamako south to the Banda and Wenchi districts, in the Brong-Ahafo Region of the present Ghana.

Conditional and Other Functions of Forms in /-(zα(.))r/ in Abkhaz

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-71
Author(s):  
George Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Semantic Feature ◽  
Finite Form ◽  
North West ◽  
Verbal Noun ◽  
The North ◽  
Morphological Segmentation ◽  
The Future

AbstractProtases ('if'-clauses) in the North West Caucasian language Abkhaz are mostly marked by either /-r/ or /-zα.r/, depending on the tense and/or type of verb (Stative or Dynamic) concerned. The article presents examples of this conditional usage and the role of protasis-type forms in both temporal and interrogative expressions as well as in complementiser-function. The complementisers in question share the semantic feature of irrealis with conditionals. A rhotic element is also found in the non-finite form of the Future I tense, in the Masdar (verbal noun), and in such converbs as the Purposives, the Resultative and the Future Absolute. The article attempts to link the semantic notions of futurity, potentiality, indefiniteness or general irrealis to the rhotic element and asks what might have been the historical development resulting in the forms attested today and thus their original morphological segmentation.

Understanding Societies in War

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul D. Escott
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Irregular Warfare ◽  
The South ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The North ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Democratic Parties ◽  
The Impact

This chapter emphasizes the analysis of the wartime forces in both sections that affected unity or division. It raises questions about the roots of the large amount of internal violence or irregular warfare in the South. For the North, it probes the nature of nationalism and asks about that section’s social, political, and religious divisions. Factors affecting both the Republican and the Democratic Parties of the North deserve new attention, as do the role of women in both sections, ethnic groups in the North especially, and the impact of emancipation and racism.

scholarly journals Theoconomy: An ethical paradigm for economic prosperity

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann Walters ◽  
Koos Vorster ◽  
Riaan Rheeder ◽  
Jan Venter
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
New World ◽  
Research Study ◽  
World Order ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Global Ethics ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
New Framework

The Parliament of the World’s Religions made a call to the international society to find shared values that could effectively direct the new world order that is characterised by its polycentric and heterogenous character. In response to the call and informed by the Global Ethics Project, a research study was conducted under the auspices of the Unit for Reformational Theology and the Development of the Society, at the North-West University, South Africa. The study focused on how the global economy could be organised differently in order to address the severe anomalies of superficial ethics of materialism, instant gratification and the philosophy of futility that underlies the unfettered consumerism of the secular age. The study therefore searched for a new framework of flourishing or an ethic paradigm for economic prosperity. The study introduces a new ethics labelled Theoconomy. In this article, the epistemology and ontology of the research study are expounded.

scholarly journals P05 Involving patients in the discussion about results from the National Early Inflammatory Arthritis Audit

Rheumatology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (Supplement_2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Wade ◽  
Jack Loh ◽  
Joshua Withers ◽  
Sarah Fish ◽  
Elizabeth MacPhie
Keyword(s):  
Rheumatoid Arthritis ◽  
Inflammatory Arthritis ◽  
First Year ◽  
Quality Improvements ◽  
North West ◽  
Patient Support Group ◽  
Patient Pathway ◽  
The North ◽  
Early Inflammatory Arthritis

Abstract Background The National Early Inflammatory Arthritis Audit (NEIAA) has provided the opportunity for rheumatology services to benchmark the care they provide. It provides a mechanism to identify where services can make improvements and to raise awareness about inflammatory arthritis. We felt it important to share our results with patients and involve patients in the discussion about how we improve the service we deliver. This project outlines how we went about doing this. Methods Data submitted to the NEIAA online tool were downloaded for analysis. This included all patients recruited during the first year of the audit. Results were presented initially to the Rheumatology Multi-Disciplinary Team. Driver diagrams were developed by the team and areas for improvement identified. A patient poster for the waiting area was also developed. This provided information about our performance in the audit and what changes we were looking to make. Results, driver diagrams and the patient poster were then presented to our National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS) patient support group at one of their lunchtime meetings. We met again two weeks later with members from the patient group to get feedback on the driver diagrams and patient poster. Results Results from the first year of the audit demonstrated that there was significant room for improvement across all seven quality standards. Driver diagrams identified areas for improvement across the whole patient pathway. Forty-five patients and carers attended the lunchtime meeting presentation. Patients identified various areas where they could get involved with improving the patient pathway. These included putting up posters in the community to raise awareness about rheumatoid arthritis and running another Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Day. Other proposals were to provide more lunchtime meetings to improve understanding about the condition and management and promote aspects of self-management and developing the role of the Expert Patient locally to support newly diagnosed patients. The patient poster received lots of positive comments, it was suggested that we remove any statistics which might cause alarm and be difficult to interpret and to focus on what quality improvements had already happened locally. Conclusion Involving patients in the discussion has been a fascinating and rewarding experience. Patients have been empowered and their input has been valued. Patients have provided additional suggestions as to how they can get involved to support the service and improve the patient pathway. The patient poster now tells a positive story and acknowledges our unsatisfactory performance in the first year of the audit and more importantly focuses on what we are doing to improve the service we deliver. Disclosures O. Wade None. J. Loh None. J. Withers None. S. Fish None. E. MacPhie Other; EM is the secretary of the North West Rheumatology Club; meetings are supported by an unrestricted educational grant from UCB.

NORTH WEST SHELF 3-D SEISMIC—A DECADE OF DEVELOPMENTS

1993 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 315
Author(s):  
P.S. Vaughan
Keyword(s):  
Joint Venture ◽  
Spatial Sampling ◽  
Seismic Surveys ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Technological Developments

Woodside as Operator, on behalf of three Joint Venture groups, over the last decade has acquired eight 3-D seismic surveys covering some 4 600 km2 over the Rankin Trend and Dampier Sub-Basin Production Licences and Exploration Permits on the North West Shelf of Australia. This area represents approximately 45 per cent coverage of the present Woodside operated acreage in the area. The acquisition, processing and interpretation technology and also the benefits derived from the 3-D technique have changed remarkably since the first North West Shelf 3-D survey in 1981. This paper focusses on the main technological developments in 3-D seismic, particularly involving multi-source and streamer technology, increased spatial sampling and interpretation techniques which have changed the role of 3-D seismic in Exploration strategies through the 1980s and into the 1990s.

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