Search results for "COLON"

Scrivere fra le due guerre: riflessi socio-letterari del colonialismo italiano

2017

The Italian colonial cravings, born after the end of Risorgimento, continued until the end of the Great War, dragging the country into a series of conquering wars, culminating in that of Libya. The growth of nationalist ideology, fueling those cravings, found nourishment in the fascist regime. The expansive drives within an ideology aimed to the pride of a nation and the skillful manipulation of public opinion, obtained by the organization of a powerful propaganda machine, convinced the Italians that even the Kingdom of Italy had the right to equip itself, like other European countries, with a colonial empire. Intellectuals and writers - with few exceptions - have never left, in the years 1…

The Representation of the Colonial Space in H. R. Haggard's King Solomon's Mines. The Image of the Landscape as a Portrait of a Female Character

2007

Mio Dio, puniscimi perché ho peccato! Rapporti illegittimi e senso di colpa negli anni dell'Impero

2017

The triad 'colonialism, guilt and consequent punishment, payable with mental or physical illness if not with death’, is frequently detectable in the literary texts that focus on the latest phase of Italian Colonialism. The interpretative approach proposed in this paper, is founded on two historical and social phenomena that characterized the second decade of the Fascist period, such as, the propaganda and the subsequent counter-propaganda, and the collaborationist relationship between Church and State that pivot, in literary imagination, in the metaphor of disease as a result of divine punishment for human sins. The examined novels – Tempo di uccidere di Ennio Flaiano (1947), Un mattino a I…

Altre storie. memoria dell'Italia in Eritrea

2008

Una indagine sulla memoria coloniale italiana attraverso la raccolta di storie di vita apre la strada a una revisione critica che nella tradizione di studi italiana è ancora in gran parte da fare. Per quanto negli ultimi decenni questo processo sia stato avviato, l’immagine degli “Italiani brava gente” continua ad avere corso, con una formula retorica che tenta di dissimulare il colonialista nel colonizzatore, l’imperialista nel civilizzatore. Questo libro propone otto storie, raccolte ad Asmara, che narrano la vicenda coloniale intrecciandola ai ricordi personali e filtrandola attraverso la loro testualizzazione. Nella dialettica tra memoria e identità, queste narrazioni suscitano interrog…

El tráfico de esclavos y la esclavitud a la base del surgimiento y desarrollo del sistema capitalista.

2008

Garcia Cantus, Dolores - Lola.G-Cantus@uv.es En este artículo se examinan las causas y consecuencias de la expansión colonial, iniciada en el continente africano mediante la captura y trata de esclavos. Las relaciones de este sistema con la esclavitud en el Mundo árabe y sus repercusiones en la economía europea y americana. Así mismo, se analizan las diferencias respecto a la esclavitud en el Mundo árabe, durante las últimas décadas del siglo XVIII y en los siglos XIX y XX. This paper examines the causes and consequences of colonial expansion launched in the African continent with the capture and trading of slaves. It also studies the relations of this system with slavery in the Arab world,…

Predictors of surgical outcomes of minimally invasive right colectomy: the MERCY study

2022

PURPOSE: The optimal approach for minimally invasive (MIS) right colectomy remains under debate. This study aimed to describe surgical trends in the treatment of nonmetastatic right colon cancer and to identify predictors of short-term surgical outcomes. METHODS: A retrospective multicenter cohort study of Minimally-invasivE surgery for oncologic Right ColectomY (MERCY) was conducted on patients who underwent laparoscopic or robotic right colectomy between 2014 and 2020. Classification tree approach was used to describe the extracorporeal (EA) or intracorporeal (IA) anastomosis choice. Mixed-model regressions were used to identify patient- and surgery-related factors predictive of postopera…

A Strange Case of Left Bowel Ischemia after Right Hernioplasty

2010

We report the first observed case of a young man who suffered of large and unsuspected left bowel ischemia following an elective right open hernioplasty. A 54-year-old man had a 2-year history of right inguinal reducible mass and was admitted to hospital for an elective day case open inguinal hernioplasty for a direct right inguinal hernia. Apart from mild hypertension controlled with ACE inhibitor, he was medically fit and well. The patient was submitted to open tension-free mesh repair with polypropylene preshaped mesh with local infiltration anesthesia and additive sedation with midazolam. The local anesthesia and surgery were uneventful and he was discharged home on the same day as per …

Survival and growth of transplantedFontinalis dalecarlica (Bryophyta) in controlled flow and short-term regulated flow sites in the Perhonjoki River,…

1999

Impoundment, channelisation and short-term regulation of the Perhonjoki river have caused changes in the distribution and abundance of aquatic mosses. While some moss species have colonised the beds in the channelised and short-term regulated part of the river, Fontinalis spp. are mainly restricted to the sites above the power plant where flow variability is low. Therefore, as a first step towards gaining a better understanding of the factors contributing to the distribution and abundance of Fontinalis dalecarlica (Bruch & Schimp, Fontinalaceae) in the Perhonjoki, a transplant experiment was conducted to test whether short-term flow regulation restricts the survival and growth of this speci…

The Spread of English

2013

English descends from a set of Germanic dialects spoken 4,000 years or so ago in a small area of the far south of Scandinavia. The arrival of Germanic speakers on the island of Britain a millennium and a half ago led to the growth of the language we now call English. This language remained confined to this island for most of its history and, indeed, was not spoken in all parts of the island until extremely recently. During the last five centuries native-speaker English also spread to the Western Hemisphere and then to the Southern Hemisphere, leading to the development of new varieties of the language in the colonised areas, but also to the massive loss of indigenous languages in the Americ…

Invasion history and genetic population structure of riverine macroinvertebrates.

2005

Summary Macroinvertebrate communities of large rivers have experienced dramatic species turnovers in the last decades, which still go on. The analysis of genetic population structure plays a central role in understanding and predicting these biological invasions. Two points of view are considered: the influence of the invasion history on the genetic structuring and the potential implications of genetic structure for future invasibility. Expectations about selectively neutral genetic variation in simple invasion models are compared to case studies of amphipods and Dreissena. The genetic patterns of one amphipod species of the Gammarus fossarum complex yield strong evidence for a stepwise reg…