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Morgan, K, NX51424
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/406067Surname: MORGAN. Given Name(s) or Initials: K. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: NX51424. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 41156.246973
Item: [2016.0049.38344] "Morgan, K, NX51424
Towards Abolition: The Final Years of the British Slave Trade, 1783-1807
No full textThis chapter shows that the British transatlantic slave trade in its final quarter century was a thriving affair which delivered more Africans to the Americas than in any previous quarter-century period. The Caribbean remained easily the most important market region for the disembarkation of these captives. British slaving merchants always looked for the best markets from which they could garner good sales and high average prices and, in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic war years between 1793 and 1807, they were able to dispatch slaves to non-Anglophone markets in the French, Dutch and Danish Caribbean as well as to Anglophone destinations. On the eve of the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807, the ‘Guinea’ traffic was still economically viable, despite abolitionist pressures, but the most important British Caribbean destination, Jamaica, was the one island where slave deliveries stood a good chance of continuing and increasing in the future: other British islands in the eastern Caribbean had reached a point in their development where fresh slave imports were not so vital owing to demographic improvements among the black population
Shipping in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic Slave Trade: A Quantitative Study
No full textThis quantitative study of ships in the eighteenth-century British slave trade shows that nearly half were in the 100–200 ton range while just over a further quarter were between 200 and 300 tons, which lay within the normal range of ocean-going merchant vessels. Thus, large ‘Guinea’ vessels of over 300 tons were less frequently deployed, though some existed. Variations existed in the mean tonnage of vessels trading with different West African regions, with the Bight of Biafra and West-Central Africa attracting larger British slave ships than other regions. The main delivery areas in the Americas for slaves taken on British ships – Virginia, the Carolinas, Barbados and Jamaica – all registered an upward trend in the amount of shipping tonnage in the ‘Guinea’ traffic in the eighteenth century. Though eighteen different rigs can be found among eighteenth-century British slave vessels, six rigs were mainly used and, among them, ships were easily the most common, accounting for almost three-fifths of the vessels in the British slave trade. Though most ships were not specifically constructed as slave ships, some specialist vessels were built as such towards the end of the eighteenth century. Copper sheathing helped to protect the hulls of slave vessels from the American Revolutionary War onwards. Most ships in the British slave trade were between eight and ten years old. More armaments and more crew were found on slave ships in war years than in peacetime. The data analysed here show that the shipping in the British slave trade adapted over time to market demands and that, as the eighteenth century progressed, productivity improved in arming and manning those vessels
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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