... care to ensure reproduction in this scattered microhabitat. Behavioral traits observed in the bromeliad crab are highly suggestive of eusocial behavior. It lives in large colonies consisting of the colony mother and her offspring. Older offspring participate in colony defense, and young adult females...

... Anglo Celtic elite gender issues Macdonald John A Smith Arnold Vietnam War social issues Canada British Empire British colony Canadian history imperialists In a groundbreaking article published in 1954 J. M. S. Careless divided English-Canadian historians into three distinct schools...

...This chapter examines the government and political history of Newfoundland during the period from 1869 to 1949. Newfoundland was the smallest of the colonies of settlement (in terms of population) to become a self-governing dominion. Though its politics, culture, and society were similar...

...This chapter examines the historical ambivalence of French Canadians to the British Empire. French Canadians had many reasons to feel ambivalent about the British Empire. This is because throughout the time of French colonial rule, the French settlements in North America faced almost continual...

...This chapter examines the housing of Pilgrim settlers in Plymouth Colony. There were three major types of Pilgrim houses, which may be distinguished with respect to floor plans and means of construction. These include the housing similar to what the English called a cottage, the story-and-a-half...

...This chapter examines the clothing of Pilgrim settlers in Plymouth Colony. The clothing in common use among the settlers was surprisingly diverse in terms of type, materials, method of manufacture, and recognized values. Like household furnishings, clothes represented money in the bank and many...

...This chapter examines the relationship between parents and children in Plymouth Colony. It explains that the parent-and-child relationship in the colony involved a set of reciprocal obligations. Children were required to respect their parents, and this requirement was supported by law. On the other...

...This chapter examines master-and-servant relations in Plymouth Colony. It explains that servants in the fullest sense were integrated into the basic day-to-day functioning of the household. Their masters assumed full responsibility for meeting the essential needs of their servants, and Colony...

...This chapter examines extended family, or wider-kin, connections in Plymouth Colony. Though Plymouth households were basically nuclear in structure, the sources from the period show a considerable degree of interconnection among kin. These include the matter of physical contiguity, particularly...

...This chapter examines the tradition concerning infancy, childhood, and childbirth in Plymouth Colony. Delivery usually took place at home, and tradition has it that the inner room in the familiar house plan was also known as the borning room, in reference to its special use in times of childbirth...

...This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the family of the Pilgrim settlers in Plymouth Colony. From the very beginning of settlement at Plymouth, the family was nuclear in its basic composition, and it has not changed in this respect ever since. The typical household...

..., Spanish pyrites became a focus of German attention. It also discusses Hisma's main project known as MONTANA, which intended to turn Spain into an economic colony, a source of raw materials for German industry, and particularly those sectors concerned with rearmament, as well as a buyer of German...

...The spread of the Roho religion went through ten critical months in its fight for survival under the control of the missionary as a colony due to political dominance. Because of Mango's limited freedom from his exile, Lawi, his nephew served as the preacher of their faith resulting in an unfounded...

...After Crockett Johnson died, Ruth Krauss struggled to live a life without him. She tried to cope, seeking a way forward. She decided to move out of their home and stayed with Dick and Betty Hahn in Baltimore. Krauss applied for a fellowship at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire...

...This chapter examines the advent of native title in Australia. In the Australian settler colony, native title figures in the liberal imagination as a moment where some sort of hybridization of sovereignty could be achieved. However, once historicized in this context, it signifies not a pluralistic...

... for much of the period since up to 1990. It refutes the erstwhile claim that Taiwan was tainted by its period as a Japanese colony and therefore not really Chinese. It then recounts the various campaigns employed by the Kuomintang government in China from the 1920s to 1949 and in Taiwan from 1945 to 2000...

... coca plants to their Javanese colony. From that point on, shored up by support from the Koloniale Bank of Amsterdam, coca leaf production on the island steadily expanded, and in 1920 Java exported 1,700 tons of coca. When the Japanese occupation of British and Dutch colonies cut off the Asian coca...

... War lobby in London military intelligence the Warlike party as war’s origin Hong Kong as a British colony Treaty of Nanking The year 1834 was not one of great change to the Sino-British relations, as scholars of the Opium War wanted it to be. ¹ When Napier went to Canton that year...

...Bureaucracies made domination in its ordinary forms and left a little room for history in the heroic mode. The colonial bureaucracies of the British Empire necessitate the study because they illuminate three major sides of the colonial state, and these are as follows: (1) its mode of operation; (2...

...This chapter describes Reverend James Read's accident as he was about to cross the Cape Colony's eastern border at the Sundays River. The description goes thus. His horse suddenly slips on a muddy slope and falls on all fours, trapping itself between two small trees. Read runs his hands over his...