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The purpose of this study is to investigate the actions of the Royal Navy and of the english corsairs in the Tyrrhenian Sea at the time of the War of the Austrian Succession, thus highlighting the unique aspects of the european corsair war in the Mediterranean. Therefore, the war dimension has been embedded in a wider framework in which war, commerce, diplomacy and health care issues were deeply linked. The corsair war thus emerges as a manifestation of the power relations between the states taken into account: the english monarchy and the Republic of Genoa.

In this article, I analyze the cultural meaning of the emergence of an African migrant literature in Italy at the beginning of the 1990s and its presence today. I put this emergence in dialogue with the construction of Italian identity as white. Through a brief historical account of how this social construction came into being, I verify how African migrant literature contests this (de)racialized myth of “Italianness.” Using Gordon’s concept of “haunting,” I argue that African literature within Italian literature can be read as a manifestation of ghosts: the appearance of a presence that has always been there but was repressed by hegemonic discourses. African literature not only works against subalternity, but also reveals whiteness as imagined and acknowledges a colonial past that has been deleted from the public remembrance. Despite such work, African migrant authors today are still writing against the paradigm of the “arrival,” asking: who is Italian? Who can represent Italian citizens?

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The issue of transport infrastructure in Gran Amazonía involves a complexity of actors and socio-spatial dimensions that give this immense region a prominent role in the face of multiple scales of actions and impacts that transform it in an unprecedented way in this century. The text examines the recent advance of foreign investments in large projects and undertakings linked to the transport sector, alongside the internal and local demands for circulation and accessibility, a framework that involves objectives that are not always convergent, deadlocks and conflicts that have not yet been analyzed on these scales. The approach adopted considers all scales at stake, but deliberately highlights the importance of the regional scale, since this is increasingly decisive in understanding the complexity inherent to the question of infrastructure in the Amazon. By highlighting the region's current position in international logistics and the role of circulation infrastructures in local development, it is considered that the regional scale is directly and indirectly associated with the others, illuminating realities of multiple spatial dimensions that make up the process of Amazonian physical integration and subcontinental. Thus, a more integrated and strategic vision of transport in Gran Amazonía is highlighted in the face of impasses that penetrate borders and development opportunities that could be better used in the region and in South America itself.

Abstract Soft-sediment deformation (SSD) structures are widespread in the sedimentary record, and numerous triggering mechanisms can induce its development, including glaciation, earthquakes, overloading, ground-water fluctuations, and wave movement. The Late Cretaceous Uberaba Formation preserves SSD structures as small- and large-scale load casts and associated flame structures, pseudonodules, and convolute laminations observed in the contact of three well-defined intervals among fine- to coarse-grained lithic and conglomeratic sandstone with fine-grained arkose and mudstone beds. Based on the morphology of the SSD structures, sedimentary facies of the Uberaba Formation, and similarities with previous observations in the geological record and laboratory models, these features are assigned to liquefaction-fluidization processes as the major deformational mechanism triggered by seismic and aseismic agents. We propose that a deformation occurred just after the sedimentation triggered by seismic shock waves and overloading, induced by the sudden deposition of coarse-grained sandy debris on fine-grained sediments. Some of these structures can be classified as seismites, providing evidence of intraplate seismicity within the inner part of the South American Platform during the Late Cretaceous. This seismic activity is likely related to the uplift of the Alto Paranaíba High along reactivations of regional structures inherited from Proterozoic crustal discontinuities and coeval explosive magmatism of the Minas-Goiás Alkaline Province.