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The UK’s modern slavery legislation: An early assessment of progress (2017)
Journal Article
Craig, G. (2017). The UK’s modern slavery legislation: An early assessment of progress. Social Inclusion, 5(2), 16-27. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v5i2.833

In 2015, the Westminster UK government introduced a Modern Slavery Act described by its proponents as ‘world-leading’. This description was challenged at the time both inside and outside the UK. Two years on, it is possible to make a preliminary asse... Read More about The UK’s modern slavery legislation: An early assessment of progress.

Our Hands and Hearts are Joined Together”: Friendship, Colonialism, and the Cherokee People in Early America (2017)
Journal Article
Smithers, G. (2017). Our Hands and Hearts are Joined Together”: Friendship, Colonialism, and the Cherokee People in Early America. Journal of Social History, 50(4), 609-629. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shw066

The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries proved transformative for Cherokee people. At the dawn of the eighteenth century, Cherokees lived in towns and nurtured strong regional affiliations that were overlaid with the sacred obligations associat... Read More about Our Hands and Hearts are Joined Together”: Friendship, Colonialism, and the Cherokee People in Early America.

Theism and contrastive explanation (2017)
Journal Article
Came, D. (2017). Theism and contrastive explanation. European journal for philosophy of religion, 9(1), 19-26. https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v9i1.1862

I argue that there could not be grounds on which to introduce God into our ontology. My argument presupposes two doctrines. First, we should allow into our ontology only what figures in the best explanation of an event or fact. Second, explanation is... Read More about Theism and contrastive explanation.

Aeolian empires: the influence of winds and currents on European maritime expansion in the days of sail (2017)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2017). Aeolian empires: the influence of winds and currents on European maritime expansion in the days of sail. Environment and History, 23(2), 163-196. https://doi.org/10.3197/096734017X14900292921734

Historiography has paid insufficient attention to the influence of winds and currents. The rise of Western European states to global dominance and world empires from the sixteenth century is usually characterised as maritime but should more fittingly... Read More about Aeolian empires: the influence of winds and currents on European maritime expansion in the days of sail.