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Lusitanization and Bakhtinian Perspectives on the Role of Portuguese in Angola and East Timor
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Makoni, Sinfree Bullock; Severo, Cristine – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
A vast amount of literature addresses issues surrounding English and French in colonial and post-colonial communities. However, relative to the spread of English and French language ideology, a limited amount of literature exists on Lusitanization (i.e. the spread of Portuguese colonial ideology by Portugal during colonialism and the role of…
Descriptors: Language Role, Portuguese, Foreign Policy, Foreign Countries
Testing the Protestant Ethic Thesis with Quantitative Historical Data: A Research Note
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Sanderson, Stephen K.; Abrutyn, Seth B.; Proctor, Kristopher R. – Social Forces, 2011
We provide a test of the thesis that Protestantism influenced the development of modern capitalism by using quantitative data from 1500 through 1870. Results show that during this period the percentage of a country's population that is Protestant is unrelated to both its level of per capita GDP and the average rate of its annual growth in per…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Protestants, Work Ethic, Social Systems