A Criminal Trial at Sea in 1582

That a ship's captain may exercise supreme powers when at sea has been recognized since maritime laws were first formulated. But when Francis Drake summarily executed Thomas Doughty in Patagonia in 1578 there were serious misgivings at home, and the commanding officer of the next long distance expedition was hedged about with carefully thought out restrictions, and ordered, save ia the last resort, to bring any serious offender home as a prisoner. This voyage was organized and financed by the Earl of Leicester, Drake and a number of City merchants, its objective being to open up trade with the Far East by a voyage round the Cape. It had originally been intended to put Martin Frobisher in command, but for reasons unknown a gentleman and soldier of fortune, who had been with him on the second and third voyages to the Northwest Passage, Captain Edward Fenton, was substituted for Frobisher. This caused murmuring among the sailors who evidently thought poorly of him. And he did indeed turn out a weak, vacillating leader, though full of his own importance, so that the voyage was a failure, and two of his ships actually left him.

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The Archaeological Record of Indian Ocean Engagements

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935413.013.46 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Sunil Gupta

Keyword(s):

Indian Ocean ◽

Bay Of Bengal ◽

Far East ◽

Archaeological Record ◽

Neutral Model ◽

Long Distance ◽

Archaeological Evidence ◽

Deep Time ◽

Exchange Networks ◽

The Far East

With the Bay of Bengal littoral as its focus, this chapter reviews the archaeological evidence for human expansions, migrations, formation of exchange networks, long-distance trade, political impulses, and transmissions of technocultural traditions in deep time, from around 5000 bc to 500 ad. In doing so, the author offers the idea of the Bay of Bengal Interaction Sphere, a “neutral” model of analysis that sets aside the constraints of the old Indianization debate for South-Southeast Asian interaction and situates the Bay within a broader global framework extending from the Mediterranean to the Far East in a new narrative of contact and change.

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Director Jeffery Jeturian

Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media ◽

10.15353/kinema.vi.993 ◽

2002 ◽

Author(s):

Yvonne Ng

Keyword(s):

Far East ◽

After School ◽

Film Production ◽

Film Festival ◽

Critical Success ◽

The Far East ◽

Production Assistant ◽

The University ◽

At Home

DIRECTOR JEFFERY JETURIAN IN CONVERSATION WITH YVONNE NG Born in 1959, Filipino director Jeffrey Jeturian won critical acclaim with his first feature drama, I Wish It Were Love (Sana pag-ibig na) in 1998. His second film Fetch a Pail of Water (Pila-balde, 2000), about life in the slums, received the Gold Award at the 2000 Worldfest International Film Festival in Houston, Texas and enjoyed commercial and critical success at home. It has played at numerous festivals, among them the Far East Film festival in Udine, Italy where this meeting with the filmmaker took place. Kinema: How did you get into filmmaking?Jeffery Jeturian: I studied broadcasting communication at the University of Philippines. That was supposed to be for television but right after school I went into film production. I started out as a production assistant and worked my way up into being a director. I worked as a script...

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The Far East taiga forest: unrecognized inhospitable terrain for migrating Arctic-nesting waterbirds?

PeerJ ◽

10.7717/peerj.4353 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

pp. e4353 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Xin Wang ◽

Lei Cao ◽

Inga Bysykatova ◽

Zhenggang Xu ◽

Sonia Rozenfeld ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Far East ◽

Migration Routes ◽

Long Distance ◽

The Far East ◽

Waterbird Species ◽

Taiga Forest ◽

Migration Strategies ◽

And Migration ◽

Migrating Birds ◽

First Time

The degree of inhospitable terrain encountered by migrating birds can dramatically affect migration strategies and their evolution as well as influence the way we develop our contemporary flyway conservation responses to protect them. We used telemetry data from 44 tagged individuals of four large-bodied, Arctic breeding waterbird species (two geese, a swan and one crane species) to show for the first time that these birds fly non-stop over the Far East taiga forest, despite their differing ecologies and migration routes. This implies a lack of suitable taiga refuelling habitats for these long-distance migrants. These results underline the extreme importance of northeast China spring staging habitats and of Arctic areas prior to departure in autumn to enable birds to clear this inhospitable biome, confirming the need for adequate site safeguard to protect these populations throughout their annual cycle.

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Military Service and Adventures in the Far East

10.1017/cbo9781139178747 ◽

2009 ◽

Author(s):

Daniel Henry Mackinnon

Keyword(s):

Military Service ◽

Far East ◽

The Far East

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Is there a regional culture in Russia? Opportunities of using a sociocultural approach in economics

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2020-7-108-126 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 108-126 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

V. A. Bryzgalin ◽

Е. N. Nikishina

Keyword(s):

Far East ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Regional Culture ◽

Russian Regions ◽

Geographical Patterns ◽

Cross Cultural Differences ◽

The Far East ◽

Sociocultural Approach ◽

Critical Issues ◽

Russian Universities

The paper investigates cross-cultural differences across Russian regions using the methodology of G. Hofstede. First, it discusses the most common approaches in measuring culture and the application of the Hofstede methodology in subnational studies. It identifies the critical issues in measuring culture at the regional level and suggests several strategies to address them. Secondly, the paper introduces subregional data on individualism and uncertainty avoidance using a survey of students across 27 Russian universities. The data allow to establish geographical patterns of individualism in Russia. It is demonstrated that collectivism is most prevalent in the Volga region, while individualism characteristic becomes stronger towards the Far East. The findings are robust to the inclusion of various controls and different specifications of the regression model. Finally, the paper provides a discussion about the potential of applying the sociocultural approach in economics.

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