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diffusion

the process whereby INNOVATIONS are accepted and used by firms and consumers through imitation, licensing agreements or sale of products and patents.
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Lohse has provided a recent review of these diffusionist arguments, concluding that the supporting evidence is weak or has been overturned ([1]: 315-317).
The Earliest Maya Farmers of Peten: New Evidence from Buenavista-Nuevo San Jose, Central Peten Lakes Region, Guatemala
Like subordinationists, diffusionists acknowledged that slavery was an evil institution, but, unlike their colleagues, they believed that the expansion of slavery over a broader territory, when coupled with a colonization program, offered the only mechanism for the system's gradual demise.(22)
"The Deadly Influence of Negro Capitalists": Southern Yeomen and Resistance to the Expansion of Slavery in Illinois
Thomas's "Victorian Transplant" model does not go unchallenged.(36) Those identified as "American Diffusionists" charge that one should not overlook the effects that environmental, materialistic, day-to-day restrictions placed on leisurely frontier living.(37) Both groups acknowledge various influences derived from English cultural traditions, Canadian law enforcement bodies, and American cowboying, but it is the degree to which these influences affected the overall nature of the ranch which is undecided.
Cowboys and cattle barons: status and hierarchy on Alberta's early corporate ranches

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