Historical geography Books
John Murray Press Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones
'A delightful storybook . . . a portrait of our whole world created from the contents of the ground' Literary Review'A real cabinet of curiosities' Sunday TimesFrom the hematite used in cave paintings to the moldavite that became a TikTok sensation; from the stolen sandstone of Scone to the unexpected acoustics of Stonehenge; from crystal balls to compasses, rocks and minerals have always been central to our story.3,000 years ago Babylonians constructed lapidaries - books that tried to pin down the magical secrets of rocks. In Lapidarium, renowned art critic Hettie Judah explores the unexpected stories behind sixty stones that have shaped and inspired human history, from Dorset fossil-hunters to Chinese philosophers, Catherine the Great to Michelangelo.Discover why alchemists sought cinnabar and sulphur. Unearth the mystery of the tuff statues of Rapa Nui, the lost amber room of Frederick of Prussia and the scandal of Flint Jack. Find out how a Greek monster created coral, moon rock explains the history of Earth's only satellite and obsidian inspired the world's favourite computer game. Stone by stone, story by fascinating story, Lapidarium builds into a dazzling, epoch-spanning adventure through human culture, and beyond.
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd The Zambezi: A History
Book SynopsisThe Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and one of the continent's principal arteries of movement, migration, conquest and commerce. In this book, historian Malyn Newitt quotes rarely used Portuguese sources that throw vivid light on the culture of the river peoples and their relations with the Portuguese creole society of the prazos. Hitherto unused manuscript material illustrates Portuguese and British colonial rule over the people of the long-lived Lunda kingdoms, and the Lozi of the Barotse Floodplain. The Zambezi became a war zone during the 'Scramble for Africa', the struggle for independence and the civil wars that followed the departure of colonial powers. Recent history has also seen the river's wild nature tamed by the introduction of steamers and the building of bridges and dams. These developments have changed the character of the waterway, and impacted--often drastically--the ecological systems of the valley and those settled along its course. 'The Zambezi' traces the history of the communities that have lived along this great river; their relationship with the states formed on the high veldt; and the ways they have adapted to the vagaries of the Zambezi itself, with its annual floods, turbulent rapids and dramatic gorges.Trade Review'Scholarly and readable... a fascinating tale of a creole society created by a fusion of European and African elements, shaped by the geography of the great river.' -- Times Literary Supplement'Few histories of natural landmarks capture the ebbs and flows of the economic, political and social life they engender like this history of the Zambezi. A remarkable tale of a river whose story may come to an end in the face of increased human pressure and global warming.' -- Benedito Machava, Assistant Professor of History, Yale University'A meticulously researched and nuanced longue-durée history of the Zambezi River, which, as Newitt points, has directly or indirectly shaped the destiny of Central Africa. This is an engaging elegy for grandeur of the river's diverse natural environment and the peoples who lived along its shores in rhythms of history.' -- Liazzat Bonate, Lecturer in African History, University of the West Indies'Newitt skilfully weaves travel and observation documents into a rich historical narrative, working his usual talent with Portuguese-language primary sources. As Newitt highlights, thousands of people of many different societies lived along the Zambezi. He tells a multitude of histories.' -- Jeanne Penvenne, Professor Emerita of History, Tufts University'Newitt masterfully connects the past and present through the history of Zambezi valley region, by exploring the influence of rivers on settlement strategies, state formation, environmental change, livelihood strategies, cultural interchange, political conflicts and technological developments.' -- Joel das Neves Tembe, Professor of African and Mozambican History, Eduardo Mondlane University, and former Director of Mozambique Historical Archives'This book demonstrates exactly what a regional historical account can achieve: Newitt relies on exemplary primary sources and colourfully woven quotes, gains insight from the leading historiography--and produces an impressive study of the Zambezi River region. This synthesis will be essential reading for students, scholars and anyone interested in learning about Africa's history from a Zambezi perspective.' -- Alexander Keese, Professor of African and Global History, University of Geneva
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Olympia Publishers Warrens Men
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Olympia Publishers The Phantom People An Epilogue of Absence and Invention
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Icon Books Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a
Book SynopsisFinding Endurance is beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn and a generous and humane reflection on this business of being human. Since the discovery of the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance on the bed of the Antarctic ocean, the world has been enthralled anew by one of the greatest stories of all time. Acclaimed South African writer Darrel Bristow-Bovey, himself a Shackleton aficionado, revisits this dramatic event, which managed to sweep the tide of anger and rancour off the timelines and front pages of the world. He asks how so many ordinary people, who don't know a nunatak from a barquentine, were so moved at the finding of a small wooden ship once sailed by a half-forgotten Irishman? In re-examining the story and its players, he presents new details and a new understanding of the courage and hardship of the Endurance voyage, and reminds us of how extraordinary humans can be. Not all is lost, and what has been lost can be regained: the ocean has given us something back. What's more, we are reminded that miracles still happen: human miracles, performed by flawed people in helpless situations. AUTHOR: Darrel Bristow-Bovey is a prize-winning screenwriter and travel writer and a newspaper and magazine columnist. He's the author of six books which have been translated into seven languages, including Spanish, Estonian and Portuguese. He was born in South Africa, studied under JM Coetzee and Andre Brink, and currently divides his time between Cape Town, the UK and a hillside on the Greek Peloponnese.Trade ReviewFinding Endurance is beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn and a generous and humane reflection on this business of being human. -- Claire Robertson, author of The Spiral House, winner of the 2014 Sunday Times Fiction PrizeTender, heartfelt and lyrical. -- Petina Gappah, author of Out of Darkness, Shining LightEngaging, absorbing and crammed with marvellous stories, Finding Endurance is a tale about exploring the cold, told with much warmth * Mick Herron *I was held spellbound by this recounting of one of the world's great adventure stories. But beyond the gripping polar ordeal, I was moved to the core by tender insights - into love, home, fathers and sons, and the long game of life - that emerge like veins of bright and dark water through the ice. Bristow-Bovey shares a deep knowledge of his subject with great style - and more than a touch of Shackleton's own verve and heart. An exhilarating read. * Henrietta Rose-Innes, author of Green Lion *A wonderful, thoughtful account of the Endurance expedition and its fabled boss: as Darrel Bristow-Bovey points out in these pages, "We should indeed all be such failures as Shackleton." In weaving in a personal story - his father claimed to have sailed south on Endurance - Bristow-Bovey reveals ways in which "the human heart has space for opposite things". I thoroughly enjoyed this book. -- Sara Wheeler, travel writer and biographerWith elegiac considerations of subjects including time, hope, and ice, Finding Endurance is a grace-filled memoir about a father and a resilient Antarctic legend ... complemented by beautiful elements of nature writing, biography, and the heroics of polar exploration ... a tender tribute to family. -- Karen Rigby * Foreword *
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The Historic Towns Trust An Historical Map of Bath
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Haus Publishing A History of the Silk Road
Book SynopsisThe Silk Road is a route from the edges of the European world to the central plains of China. For thousands of years, its history has been a traveller's history, of brief encounters in desert towns, snowbound passes and nameless forts. It was the conduit that first brought Buddhism, Christianity and Islam into China, and the site of much of the 'Great Game' between Victorian empires. Jonathan Clements guides the reader through the trackless wastes of the Taklamakan Desert, its black whirlwinds and dead lakes, its shimmering mirages, lost cities and mysterious mummies, but also its iconic statues and memorable modern pop songs. He explains the truth behind odd tales of horses that sweat blood, defaced statues and missing frescoes, and Marco Polo's stories of black gold that seeps from the earth.
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Double 9 Books Holland the History of the Netherlands
Book SynopsisHolland is a historical novel written by Thomas Colley Grattan. The novel, set against the backdrop of the 16th-century Dutch War of Independence, provides a vivid and dramatic picture of the Dutch people's battle against Spanish authority. Some narratives are brutal and weird, whereas others creep up on you and draw you in slowly. As the title character is so indulgent, readers are forced to keep reading to find out what happens next. The plot concentrates mostly upon Gerard, a Dutch patriot and military leader who becomes a crucial figure in the Dutch independence movement. Gerard's journey takes readers through the conflict's various stages, beginning with the early revolts and uprisings and ending with the establishment of the Dutch Republic. Along the way, the story explores themes of bravery, patriotism, and the continuous spirit of resistance. Grattan's Holland is well-known for its meticulous historical study and attention to detail, which provides readers with an exciting mix of truth and fiction. The book not only recounts a gripping story, but it also illuminates the larger historical and political context of the Dutch struggle for independence. Holland is a historical novel that exhibits Grattan's ability to convey the spirit of a nation's yearning for liberation.
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Oxford University Press,Pakistan In Quest of Jinnah
Book SynopsisThis book is a compilation of previously unpublished and expunged portions of Jinnah: Creator of Pakistan by Hector Bolitho, the first biography of the Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and Bolithoâs own diary and notes, and correspondence with functionaries of the Government of Pakistan and highly placed individuals in Britain, India,
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Orion Publishing Co Civilization of Angkor
Book SynopsisA short history of the ancient civilization of Angkor, home to the spectacular temple of Angkor Wat.In the late sixteenth century a mythical encounter was reported on an elephant hunt in the dense jungle north of the Tonle Sap, or Great Lake, of central Cambodia. King Satha of Cambodia and his retainers were beating a path through the undergrowth when they were halted by stone giants, and then a massive wall. The King, the fable reported, ordered 6,000 men to bring down the wall, thereby exposing the city of Angkor 'lost' for over a century.Subsequent reports from Portuguese missionaries described its four gateways, with bridges flanked by stone figures leading across a moat. There were idols covered in gold, inscriptions, fountains, canals, and 'a temple with five towers, called Angor [sic]'. For four centuries, this huge complex has inspired awe amongst visitors from all over the world, but only now are its origins and history becoming clear.This book begins with the progress of the prehistoric communities of the area and draws on the author¿s recent excavations to portray the rich and expansive chiefdoms that existed at the dawn of civilization. It covers the origins of early states, up to the establishment, zenith and decline of this extraordinary civilization, whose most impressive achievement was the construction of the gilded temple mausoleum of Angkor Wat, in the twelfth century, allegedly by 70,000 people.
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HarperCollins Publishers The Wolf Hall Picture Book
Book SynopsisA photography book that is a vital accompaniment to the many fans of Hilary Mantel's bestselling Wolf Hall TrilogyAt the very beginning of the twentieth century, Zola said, 'In my view you cannot claim to have really seen something till you have photographed it.'' The act of photographing, at least for a moment, distinguishes its object and estranges it from its context . . . Every stroke of the pen releases a thousand pictures inside the writer's head. This book has made some of them visible.' Hilary MantelHilary Mantel, Ben Miles, the stage's celebrated Thomas Cromwell, and his brother, photographer George Miles, spent many years exploring the locations we know Thomas Cromwell visited and inhabited Putney, Austin Friars, Wolf Hall, the Tower of London to capture the faint traces of Tudor England and his extraordinary life. Accompanied with extracts from The Wolf Hall Trilogy, some of them published here for the first time, and including a stunning new essay by its author, these phoTrade Review Praise for the Wolf Hall trilogy ‘The most masterful story telling imaginable’ Graham Norton ‘Very few writers manage not just to excavate the sedimented remains of the past, but bring them up again into the light and air so that they shine brightly once more before us. Hilary Mantel has done just that’ Simon Schama, Financial Times ‘Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall novels make 99 per cent of contemporary literary fiction feel utterly pale and bloodless by comparison’ The Times ‘So original and disconcerting that it will surely come to be seen as a paradigm-shifter’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Hers are books that refuse to shy away from the underside of life … Hilary Mantel is one of our bravest as well as our most brilliant writers’ Olivia Laing, Observer ‘It is the making of our English world, and who can fail to be stirred by it?’ Helen Dunmore, author of Birdcage Walk ‘Succeeds brilliantly in every particle … it’s an imaginative achievement to exhaust superlatives’ Spectator ‘Mantel in the voice of Cromwell is inspired. When she is in full flow as a novelist, creating scenes and inventing dialogue, she is more convincing than rendering a recorded scene from history’ Philippa Gregory, Sunday Express ‘Mantel has redefined what the historical novel is capable of . . . Taken together, her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century’ Observer, Stephanie Merritt
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Harvard University Press Demarcating Japan
Book SynopsisHistories of remote islands around Japan are usually told through the prism of territorial disputes. In contrast, Takahiro Yamamoto contends that the transformation of the islands from ambiguous border zones emerged out of multilateral power relations. Demarcating Japan shows the crucial role of nonstate actors in formulating a territory.
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Ohio University Press The Green Archipelago Forestry in Preindustrial
Book SynopsisThis inaugural volume in the Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History is the paperback edition of Conrad Totman’s widely acclaimed study of Japan’s environmental policies over the centuries.ProfessorTrade Review“This book is a seminal work. It is impassioned, timely history that contributes by its sweep, subject, and approach. Because the author examines a wide variety of factors, including economics, politics, institutions, population, culture, and the environment, the book is a model of sound historical thinking.” * Journal of Asian Studies *
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Cork University Press Atlas of the Irish Revolution
Book SynopsisThe Atlas of the Irish Revolution is a landmark publication that presents scholarship on the revolutionary period in a uniquely accessible manner. Featuring over 200 original maps and 300 images, the Atlas includes 120 contributions by leading scholars from a range of disciplines. They offer multiple perspectives on the pivotal years from the 1912 Home Rule crisis to the end of the Irish Civil War in 1923. Using extensive original data (much of it generated from newly-released archival material), researchers have mapped social and demographic change, political and cultural activity, state and non-state violence and economic impacts. The maps also portray underlying trends in the decades before the revolution and capture key aspects of the revolutionary aftermath. They show that while the Irish revolution was a 'national' event, it contained important local and regional variations that were vital to its outcomes. The representation of island-wide trends stand alongside street-level, parish, county and provincial studies that uncover the multi-faceted dynamics at play.The Atlas also captures the international dimensions of a revolution that occurred amidst the First World War and its tumultuous aftermath. Revolutionary events in Ireland received global attention because they profoundly challenged the British imperial project. Key revolutionaries operated transnationally before, during and after the conflict, while the Irish diaspora provided crucial support networks. The often neglected roles of women and workers are illuminated, while commentators consider the legacies of the revolution, including collective memories, cultural representations and historical interpretations. The Atlas of the Irish Revolution brings history to life for general readers and students, as well as academics. It represents a ground-breaking contribution to the historical geography of these compelling years of conflict, continuity and change.Table of ContentsCONTENTSPreface President Michael D. HigginsINTRODUCTIONSection I BEFORE THE REVOLUTIONChapter 1 Nineteenth-century Ireland: transformed contexts and class structures (Willie Smyth)Chapter 2 Conflict, Reaction and Control in the Nineteenth Century: the archaeology of revolution (Willie Smyth)Box: Arrests Made Under the Protection of Persons and Property Act, between March 1881 and July 1882 (Frank Rynne)Case study: Living Conditions in 1911 as Reflected in the Census Record Urban and Rural Examples (Catriona Crowe)Chapter 3 Irish Elites: continuity and change (Peter Hession)Chapter 4 Violence and Moderation: the dilemmas of constitutional nationalism (Patrick Maume)Case study: Ranch War (Patrick Cosgrove)Chapter 5 Literary Revival (Margaret Kelleher)Case study: Theatre and the Coming Revolution (Lionel Pilkington)Chapter 6 The Gaelic Revival (Timothy McMahon)Box: The Coming Revolution: 1913 Oireachtas, Galway (Dara Folan)Chapter 7 Horace Plunkett, the Co-operative Movement and the Cultural Revival (Ray O'Connor and Noreen Byrne)Chapter 8 A Revolutionary Generation (Roy Foster)Case study: The Irish Republican Brotherhood (Owen McGee)Chapter 9 Feminism and Nationalism: women and political activism (Margaret Ward)Section II CRISIS Chapter 10 The Home Rule crisis (Frank Callanan)Case study: Curragh Mutiny (Frank Callanan)Chapter 11 'Ulster Will Fight' (Timothy Bowman)Case study: Ulster Solemn League and Covenant, 1912 (Martin Mansergh)Box: Ulster Women's Unionist Council (Diane Urquhart)Chapter 12 'They have rights who dare maintain them': the Irish Volunteers, 1913-15 (Gerry White)Box: Na Fianna Eireann (Marnie Hay)Case study: 'An Abundance of First Class Recruits': The GAA and the Irish Volunteers 1913-15 in County Kerry (Richard McElligott)Chapter 13 The Irish Volunteers in County Galway: evolution, growth and pre-revolutionary configuration, 1913-16 (Mark McCarthy and Shirley Wrynn)Chapter 14 Larkin, Connolly and the Cause of Labour (Emmet O'Connor)Case study: Lockout 1913 (Padraig Yeates)Box: The Irish Citizen Army 1913-16 (Ann Matthews)Box: The Labour Movement in Belfast, 1900-16 (John Gray)Section III WORLD WAR and the EASTER RISINGChapter 15 Ireland and the 'Greater War' (John Horne)Case study: Gallipoli (Myles Dungan)Box: Funeral of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (Gabriel Doherty)Chapter 16 The Battle of the Somme and the Ulster Protestant Imagination (Phillip Orr)Chapter 17 Ireland's War and the Easter Rising in a European Context (Jerome aan de Weil)Case study: Rebellion, Objects, Empire and 1916 (Nicholas Allen)Chapter 18 The Easter Rising (Fearghal McGarry)Case study: Child Casualties 1916 (Joe Duffy) Box: The Irish Citizen Army in the Rising (Ann Matthews)Chapter 19 1916 Proclamation (John A. Murphy)Case study: Court Martial and Executions (Brian Barton)Box: The Rebel King Brothers of Liverpool (Padraig King)Chapter 20 Staging the Rising (Clair Wills)Case study: The Easter Rising in the French Press (Grace Neville)Chapter 21 Ernest Kavanagh (James Curry)Chapter 22 Britain's Irish Question (Ronan Fanning)Section IV THE RISING TIDE Chapter 23 A Political Revolution (Michael Laffan)Case study: Reorganiation of the Irish Volunteers, 1917 (John Borgonovo)Case study: Imprisonment, 1915-18 (William Murphy)Chapter 24 The Conscription Crisis and the General Election of 1918 (Pauric Travers)Case study: 'The day when Irish Labour found itself': the general strike against conscription, 23 April 1918 (Fiona Devoy-McAuliffe)Chapter 25 The First Dail (Mary Daly)Case study: Commission of Inquiry into Resources and Industries (Mary Daly)Case study: The Democratic Programme of the First Dail (Ruan O'Donnell)Section V WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (1)MILITARY DIMENSIONSChapter 26 The War of Independence (Joost Augusteijn)Case study: Brothers-In-Arms: The Tormeys (John Sheehan)Chapter 27 The British Army in Ireland (William Sheehan)Chapter 28 The Royal Irish Constabulary, Black and Tans and Auxiliaries (D.M. Leeson)Box: Reprisals (D.M. Leeson)Case study: Irish Newspapers (Ian Kenneally)Chapter 29 The Irish Republican Army (John Borgonovo)Chapter 30 Cumann na mBan in the War of Independence (Marie Coleman)Chapter 31 Ambushes in the War of Independence 1919-1921 (William Kautt)Chapter 32 Capture of Brigadier General Lucas (Aideen Carroll and Tom Toomey)Chapter 33 Michael Collins and the Intelligence War (Michael Foy)Box: Florence O'Donoghue (John Borgonovo)Box: Paddy O'Donoghue and Violet Gore's Wedding Photograph (John O'Connell)Case study: 'Spies and informers beware!' - IRA executions of alleged civilians spies during the War of Independence (Padraig Og O Ruairc)Chapter 34 Imprisonment and the War of Independence (William Murphy)Box: Hunger Strikes (Justin Stover)Chapter 35 The War of Independence and the Burning of Irish Country Houses, 1921 (Terence Dooley)Section VI. WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (2)POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVESChapter 36 Politics in a Time of War (Michael Laffan) Case study: Dail Courts: a case study of mid Cork 1920-22 (Niall Murray)Box: The Belfast Boycott (Robert Lynch)Chapter 37 Making the Case for Irish Independence (Arthur Mitchell)Case study: Press Coverage from Abroad (Oliver O'Hanlon)Box: The Irish Bulletin (Ian Kenneally)Chapter 38 Losing a War it Never Fought: labour, socialism and the War of Independence (Donal O Drisceoil)Box: Land, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in the West of Ireland (Tony Varley)Chapter 39 The Catholic Church (Brian Heffernan)Chapter 40 The Friends of Irish Freedom (Michael Doorley)Case study: The Irish Revolution in Great Britain (Darragh Gannon)Chapter 41 The British perspective (Ronan Fanning)Section VII WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (3)REGIONAL PERSPECTIVESChapter 42 The Geography of the War of Independence (David Fitzpatrick)Chapter 43 Munster: a military overview (John O'Callaghan)Box: Creamery Attacks (Proinnsias Breathnach)Chapter 44 Cork (John Borgonovo)Box: An IRA Observation Post at Candroma, County Cork (Aidan Harte and Colm Chambers)Case study: Limerick (John O'Callaghan)Chapter 45 Leinster (Marie Coleman)Chapter 46 Dublin (Padraig Yeates)Case study: Longford (Marie Coleman)Chapter 47 Connacht (Conor MacNamara)Chapter 48 Sligo (Michael Farry)Case study: 'The terror' in Galway Town (Conor MacNamara)Chapter 49 Ulster (Robert Lynch)Chapter 50 Belfast (Robert Lynch)Case study: Tyrone (Fearghal McCluskey)Section VIII TREATY and CIVIL WAR Case study: The Anglo-Irish Treaty (Michael Kennedy)Chapter 51 The Politics of the Treaty Split and Civil War (Bill Kissane)Box: The IRA Convention, April 1922 (John Borgonovo)Chapter 52 Civil War: the opening phase (Michael Hopkinson)Box: Free State Versus Republic: the opposing armed forces in the Irish Civil War (Gerry White)Chapter 53 Final Phase of the Civil War (Michael Hopkinson)Case study: Michael Collins and the Civil War (T. Ryle Dwyer)Case study: Everyday Violence in the Civil War (Gemma Clark)Box: Imprisonment During the Civil War (William Murphy)Chapter 54 Locating the 'Lost Legion': IRA emigration and settlement after the revolution' (Gavin Foster)Section IX AFTER THE REVOLUTIONOUTCOMES AND LEGACIESChapter 55 Fatalities in the Irish Revolution (Andy Bielenberg)Chapter 56 The Irish Revolution and its Aftermath: the economic dimension (Eoin McLaughlin)Box: Ireland, India and Empire: international impacts of the Irish revolution (Kate O'Malley) Chapter 57 Southern Irish Protestant Experiences of the Revolution (Andy Bielenberg)Chapter 58 The Irish Free State: politics and government (J.J. Lee)Case study: Culture and Society (Terence Brown)Case study: Legion of the Rearguard: The IRA after the revolution (Brian Hanley)Box: Civil War Continued? The Blueshirts versus the IRA (Brian Hanley)Case study: Women in the Free State: gender and the legacy of revolution (Margaret Ward)Chapter 59 'Cold House': The Unionist counter-revolution and the invention of Northern Ireland (Brendan O'Leary)Case study: The Boundary Commission (Robert Lynch)Box: The IRA in the North (Brian Hanley)Case study: Women in Northern Ireland (Myrtle Hill)Section X HISTORY, MEMORY AND CULTUREChapter 60 Cultures of Commemoration: remembering the First World War in Ireland (Heather Jones)Chapter 61 Commemoration and the Irish Revolution (Roisin Higgins)Case study: 'Insurrection' on Irish Television (Luke Gibbons)Box: The Easter Lily (Roisin Kennedy)Chapter 62 The Historiography of the Irish Revolution (Gearoid O Tuathaigh)Case study: The Bureau of Military History (Eve Morrison)Case study: The Military Service Pensions Collection (Marie Coleman)Chapter 63 The Rebel Song (Fintan Vallely)Case study: The Gaelic Athletic Association and the Revolution (William Murphy)Chapter 64 Stories of the Irish Revolution (Frances Flanagan)Chapter 65 The Visual Culture of the Revolution (Roisin Kennedy)Box: The Death of Cuchulainn in the GPO (Roisin Kennedy)Case study: Film and the Irish Revolution (Kevin Rockett)
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Oxford University Press Red Star over the Black Sea
Book SynopsisNâzim Hikmet (1902-1963) is best known as a poet and communist whose daring flight by motorboat from Turkey to the Eastern Bloc captured international headlines in 1951. One of the most important poets to have written in the Turkish language, Nâzim Hikmet''s dramatic life story is fascinating in its own right, but also intersects with the story of the broader twentieth century. James H. Meyer situates Nâzim Hikmet within the broader context of Turkish communist border-crossers, individuals whose lives would go on to be shaped significantly by their ability, inability, or need to traverse the frontier. Born at the turn of the twentieth century and coming of age in the early 1920s, the women and men from Nâzim Hikmet''s generation were the last of the Ottomans. Children of empire, they had grown up in an era of porous frontiers, but by the time they reached their third decade, these borders had begun to close.Drawing upon an enormous amount of previously untapped archival materials and personal papers from Moscow, Istanbul, Amsterdam, and Washington, DC, Meyer has written a biography of Nâzim Hikmet unlike any other. A book of world history wrapped inside a life story, Red Star over the Black Sea shows how changing attitudes toward borders and the people who cross them impacted a late imperial generation all the way up to the final years of the Cold War.
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Yale University Press Islands and Cultures
Book SynopsisA uniquely collaborative analysis of human adaptation to the Polynesian islands, told through oral histories, biophysical evidence, and historical recordsTrade Review“Islands and Cultures is very important in its content, voice, and coverage. Each chapter is rich with new ideas, and every author brings a different kind of evidence to explore their focal place and peoples.”—Eleanor Sterling, director, Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology“This book seeks—and at times finds—the confluence where the waters of Western knowledge and Pacific indigenous knowledge meet. Humanity’s future path is there, a path by which our Mother the Earth and all of her descendants may yet thrive.”—Justice Sir Joe Williams, New Zealand Supreme Court“Islands and Cultures provides a unique contribution in demonstrating how the ideology, epistemology, and science of Polynesian worldviews are woven together to create and maintain the living universe.”—Joseph P. Brewer II, University of Kansas
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Taylor & Francis Historical Atlas of the United States
Book SynopsisThis work uses the geography of the United States to portray the history of the land and its people. An indispensable tool for students and educators alike, this book is destined to become a classic in the field.Trade Review'Chapter introductions are well written... The cartography...clearly depicts the subject matter... The atlas is balanced and comprehensive in coverage... Recommended. General readers and undergraduates.' - Choice'A useful companion... [with] currency and unique content.' - Booklist/RBB'Well conceived as an historical reference resource... An excellent resource for many projects... I would strongly recommend the Historical Atlas of the United States for college and university libraries and historians.' - Western Association of Map Libraries Information BulletinTable of ContentsSections include: North America * First Americans * Contact, Exploration by Europeans * Colonial Expansions and Settlements * Colonial Contention * The Eve of War * Revolution and War * The New State * People of the New Nation * The State Expands * War of 1812 * Westward Ho * War in the West Discovery and Migrations * The State of Union * The Civil War * Reconstruction and Expansion * Course of Empire * The American Crusade * The Engine of War * Post-War America, At Home and Abroad * The New World Order
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Ohio University Press How Green Were the Nazis
Book SynopsisThe Nazis created nature preserves, championed sustainable forestry, curbed air pollution, and designed the autobahn highway network as a way of bringing Germans closer to nature. How Green Were the Nazis?:Trade Review“Perhaps one of the greatest values of this book is to underscore once again the fact that environmentalism as a political belief system has never been value-free and thus has been able to take vastly different political forms.” * Technology and Culture *“Instead of courting controversy, How Green Were the Nazis? both draws on, and contributes to, recent trends in the historiography of the Third Reich. It treats the regime not as a ‘historical aberration’ but as a barbaric mutation of modernity that displayed ‘a mixture of atavistic and avante-garde ideas’ in environmental as in other policy areas.” * Environment and History *“The environmental ideas, policies, and consequences of the Nazi regime pose controversial questions that have long begged for authoritative answers. At last, a team of highly qualified scholars has tackled these questions, with dispassionate judgment and deep research. Their assessment will stand for years to come as the fundamental work on the subject and provides a new angle of vision on 20th-century Europe’s most disruptive force.”“An invaluable English introduction to the history of conservation in the Third Reich.”“The thesis brought forward by the editors regarding the ‘modernity’ of National Socialism is exciting.... The volume raises key questions and provides a very good basis for engaging with the history of conservation under Nazi rule.” * Historische Zeitschrift *“The picture that emerges is of a regime that seemed intent early on to protect the environment yet abandoned conservation as soon as serious war preparation commenced in 1936.... In introducing us to conservationists who threw in their lot with the Nazi regime, the volume does remind us that the desire to protect nature must be accompanied by an equally strong commitment to social justice and human rights.” * H-German *
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Saint Philip Street Press Entre MersOutremer
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Anthropocene
Book SynopsisThis book is devoted to the Anthropocene, the period of unprecedented human impacts on Earth's environmental systems, and illustrates how Geographers envision the concept of the Anthropocene. This edited volume illustrates that geographers have a diverse perspective on what the Anthropocene is and represents. The chapters also show that geographers do not feel it necessary to identify only one starting point for the temporal onset of the Anthropocene. Several starting points are suggested, and some authors support the concept of a time-transgressive Anthropocene. Chapters in this book are organized into six sections, but many of them transcend easy categorization and could have fit into two or even three different sections. Geographers embrace the concept of the Anthropocene while defining it and studying it in a variety of ways that clearly show the breadth and diversity of the discipline.This book will be of great value to scholars, researchers, and students interestTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Anthropocene Part 1: Definitions and Conceptual Considerations 1. The Anthropocene: The One, the Many, and the Topological 2. The Geoethical Semiosis of the Anthropocene: The Peircean Triad for a Reconceptualization of the Relationship between Human Beings and Environment 3. Placing the Anthropos in Anthropocene 4. The Inhumanities 5. Language and Groundwater: Symbolic Gradients of the Anthropocene 6. Agri-Food Systems and the Anthropocene 7. On Decolonizing the Anthropocene: Disobedience via Plural Constitutions Part 2: Historical Perspectives on the Anthropocene 8. Nothing New under the Sun? George Perkins Marsh and Roots of U.S. Physical Geography 9. Synchronizing Earthly Timescales: Ice, Pollen, and the Making of Proto-Anthropocene Knowledge in the North Atlantic Region 10. Geographic Thought and the Anthropocene: What Geographers Have Said and Have to Say Part 3: Physical Geography and the Anthropocene 11. Floodplain and Terrace Legacy Sediment as a Widespread Record of Anthropogenic Geomorphic Change 12. Hotter Drought as a Disturbance at Upper Treeline in the Southern Rocky Mountains 13. Onset of the Paleoanthropocene in the Lower Great Lakes Region of North America: An Archaeological and Paleoecological Synthesis 14. Identifying a Pre-Columbian Anthropocene in California 15. Wetland Farming and the Early Anthropocene: Globally Upscaling from the Maya Lowlands with LiDAR and Multiproxy Verification 16. Putting the Anthropocene into Practice: Methodological Implications Part 4: Natural Hazards, Disasters, and the Anthropocene 17. The Changing Nature of Hazard and Disaster Risk in the Anthropocene 18. Seismic Shifts: Recentering Geology and Politics in the Anthropocene 19. Understanding Urban Flood Resilience in the Anthropocene: A Social–Ecological–Technological Systems (SETS) Learning Framework Part 5: The Environment and Environmental Degradation 20. Reframing Pre-European Amazonia through an Anthropocene Lens 21. Forests in the Anthropocene 22. Abandoning Holocene Dreams: Proactive Biodiversity Conservation in a Changing World 23. Re-envisioning the Toxic Sublime: National Park Wilderness Landscapes at the Anthropocene 24. Climate Necropolitics: Ecological Civilization and the Distributive Geographies of Extractive Violence in the Anthropocene 25. Cultures and Concepts of Ice: Listening for Other Narratives in the Anthropocene 26. Ruins of the Anthropocene: The Aesthetics of Arctic Climate Change 27. The New (Ab)Normal: Outliers, Everyday Exceptionality, and the Politics of Data Management in the Anthropocene Part 6: The Anthropocene and Geographic Education 28. What Does That Have to Do with Geology? The Anthropocene in School Geographies around the World 29. Geographic Education in the Anthropocene: Cultivating Citizens at the Neoliberal University
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Cambridge University Press A Voyage to the SouthSeas in the Years 17401 Containing a Faithful Narrative of the Loss of His Majestys Ship the Wager on a Desolate Island Cambridge Library Collection Maritime Exploration
Book SynopsisThe tale of the ill-fated HMS Wager gripped the public's imagination, feeding its taste for dramatic accounts of survival against the odds. Part of George Anson's squadron that had been sent to harass Spanish ships in the Pacific, she was wrecked after rounding Cape Horn in 1741. The majority of the survivors, led by ship's gunner John Bulkeley, mutinied against their irascible and unpredictable captain and chose to make their own way home in what would become one of the most hazardous journeys ever recorded. Their journey took them over 2,000 miles in an open boat through ferocious seas, enduring starvation and extreme privation. Two years after the disaster, the thirty remaining men arrived back in England. Bulkeley and ship's carpenter John Cummins published this account in 1743. Also reissued in this series is the 1768 account of John Byron, who had been midshipman aboard the Wager.Table of ContentsDedication; Preface; A voyage to the South-Seas.
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Cambridge University Press Ice Ages
Book SynopsisWhat causes Ice Ages? How did we learn about them? What were their affects on the social history of humanity? Allan Mazur''s book tells the appealing history of the scientific ''discovery'' of Ice Ages. How we learned that much of the Earth was repeatedly covered by huge ice sheets, why that occurred, and how the waning of the last Ice Age paved the way for agrarian civilization and, ultimately, our present social structures. The book discusses implications for the current ''controversies'' over anthropogenic climate change, public understanding of science, and (lack of) ''trust in experts''. In parallel to the history and science of Ice Ages, sociologist Mazur highlights why this is especially relevant right now for humanity. Ice Ages: Their Social and Natural History is an engrossing combination of natural science and social history: glaciology and sociology writ large.Trade Review'Allan Mazur takes us on a fascinating journey through two million years of Earth history and human history, linking the two through a lucid description of the great Ice Age fluctuations in climate. This is a book for all readers interested in our shared human career, and in how the dynamic surface of the Earth has influenced that career through the ages.' Peter Bellwood, Australian National University'Allan Mazur gives us a masterful exemplar of the history of science. He shows specialists from several disciplines and nonspecialists with just a modicum of science how diverse paths of inquiry over recent human history have revealed the details of prehistory going far back into geological time. He shows us how more detail is known than might have been imagined when the scientific work began in the 18th century. Not since Simon Winchester's Krakatoa has the science of geology been so absorbing! More importantly, Mazur shows both how ice ages – large and small, long and short – and their endings have changed human history, and how our short-sightedness about their causes and effects is going to change future human history, for the worse … unless the right people learn the lessons of this book.' Alex Rosenberg, Duke University'Living on a warming planet, we struggle to imagine that it was periodically covered by vast sheets of ice. Allan Mazur, a master of calm, companionable, and often humorous prose, guides us through the various efforts humans - plucky survivors of the Pleistocene - have made to understand the Earth as well as their transformative and, it now turns out, damaging presence on it. An impressive synthetic effort, blending science and cultural history, Mazur's excellent Ice Ages gives us the tools necessary to participate knowledgeably in debates about climate disruption.''… this captivating and accessible read provides substantial detail about Earth's recent geologic past and its inhabitants, past and present. … Highly recommended.' Christoph Irmscher, Indiana University; author of Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science'This absolutely fascinating book weaves together the complicated strands of human endeavor that led to the great scientific discovery of ice ages on Earth. It should be read by everyone interested in the current pressing problem of global climate change, both natural and human induced.' George Denton, University of Maine'… this captivating and accessible read provides substantial detail about Earth's recent geologic past and its inhabitants, past and present … Highly recommended.' C. A. McRoberts, ChoiceTable of Contents1. In the Beginning; 2. 'Bursting the Limits of Time'; 3. Darwin's Revolution; 4. Discovering an Age of Ice; 5. Why Does Climate Change? Orbits; 6. Dating Ice Age Climates; 7. Why Does Climate Change? Carbon Dioxide; 8. Why Does Climate Change? Continental Drift and Ocean Currents; 9. Ecce Homo; 10. How Did Extinct Hominins Behave?; 11. Life in the Paleolithic; 12. Extinction of Ice Age Mammals in Near Time; 13. The Agrarian Transformation; 14. Rise of Civilizations; References; Index.
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The University of North Carolina Press Citizens and Rulers of the World
Book SynopsisBy delving into the complex, cross-generational exchanges that characterize any political project as rampant as empire, this thought-provoking study focuses on children and their ambivalent, intimate relationships with maps and practices of mapping at the dawn of the American Century'.
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Edinburgh University Press Nile
Book SynopsisThis book narrates the history of cities that appeared and disappeared on the banks of the river Nile the world's longest river system over four millennia.
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Manchester University Press Protest and the Politics of Space and Place,
Book SynopsisThis book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers’ rights in northern England from 1789 to 1848. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. It offers historical parallels for contemporary debates about protests in public space and democracy and anti-globalisation movements. In response to fears of revolution from 1789 to 1848, the British government and local authorities prohibited mass working-class political meetings and societies. Protesters faced the privatisation of public space. The ‘Peterloo Massacre’ of 1819 marked a turning point. Radicals, trade unions and the Chartists fought back by challenging their exclusion from public spaces, creating their own sites and eventually constructing their own buildings or emigrating to America. New evidence of protest in rural areas of northern England, including rural Luddism, is also uncovered.Trade Review'... a well-written and thoroughly researched addition to the scholarship on historical protest. Katrina Navickas makes a strong case for the significance of space and place to the historical study of protest, and the book will, therefore, be of value to any historian, geographer, or social scientist interested in protest and political movements.'Hannah Awcock, Journal of Historical Geography, May 2016 '...a very impressive study, thoughtful and persuasive, laced with insights and interesting detail'Adrian Randall, University of Birmingham, Social History Journal, Issue 4, May 2016‘Navickas not only examines the ways in which local elites organised carefully choreographed and highly ritualised public displays of loyalty, but also traces their systematic attempts to exclude radicals and their ideas from the civic body politic. Her ‘thick’ descriptions of the loyalist violence and intimidation…are not only chilling in their detail, but are redolent of E. P. Thompson’s classic ‘The Making of the English Working Class’ in the way in which local detail is tellingly deployed both to illustrate and add nuance to a more general argument.’Reviews in History, Dr Mike Sanders, University of Manchester, September 2016‘The book remains interesting and informative throughout, and on the whole it is both well-organized and well-written. The research basis is better than solid. This book has merits that outweigh its weaknesses, and for anyone wishing to know more about British popular politics between 1789 and 1848 it will be essential reading.’ Michael Turner, Appalachian State University, Labour/Le Travail 78 Volume 78, Fall 2016‘Readable and fascinating, Katrina Navickas book might be particularly of interest to modern day activists and historians in the North (particularly Manchester) but I expect it will also become a much studied book for social historians trying to understand the historic struggles that have shaped, quite literally, the world we live and struggle in today.’Resolute Reader‘Navickas is to be congratulated for producing a work of prodigious scholarship, the conclusions of which repay close attention by any scholar of modern popular protest and politics.’Matthew Roberts, Sheffield Hallam University, Parliamentary History‘Anyone interested in the long eighteenth century will welcome this fine monograph on a subject at the heart of debates on the ‘popular’ history of the period. The topics of ‘space and place’ have been around for some time, from the work of Mark Harrison (1988), James Vernon (1993), Paul Halliday (1998), Steve Poole (1999) and James Epstein (2003), but they have never been treated with the depth of research and the generosity of scope that are provided here. Katrina Navickas drills more deeply into the world of protest than any of her predecessors and her perceptive research is presented in a lively and readable narrative.’Frank O’Gorman, University of Manchester, English Historical Review‘This is an impressive volume that brings together recent research and insights aboutthe uses of space to provide a convincing analysis of the importance of theconcept to patterns of radical continuity between the late eighteenth andmid-nineteenth-century.’ Anthony Taylor, Sheffield Hallam University, Journalof Social History‘Protest and the Politics of Space and Place offers a fresh look at the struggles that swept across England from the time of the French Revolution to the heydays of Chartism. The book combines recent theoretical debates on the construction and restriction of public space with a rich and very detailed study of past movements fighting for democratic participation and civil rights in northern England. The sheer amount and breadth of archival evidence presented here is astonishing. From small town records to collections held at the British Library, Katrina Navickas draws on a variety of materials that make the book empirically rich without getting lost in detail.’Philipp Reick, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, H-Soz-Kult‘What Katrina Navickas has achieved in The Protest and Politics of Space and Place, 1789–1848 is to argue cogently and clearly for historians to consider the importance of geographic conceptions of space and place. […] Navickas’ work demonstrates the continued fruitfulness of historical research that draws inspiration from sister disciplines. It is a worthwhile read for scholars and students, alongside those fascinated in understanding the radical history of now stable and peaceful communities.’Dr Marc Collinson, University of Bangor, Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire'Navickas admirably employs “space” as a conceptual category for understanding British reform movements, showing how protesters creatively reimagined space and their place in it as they reimagined government. Conversely, the government’s “restricting their ability to meet and to speak in public space” kept it an active category of contestation for both sides (p. 311). This book is effective as a close-to-the-ground history of how Britons found ways to resist an unequal and repressive governing system. […] Navickas offers a rich and well-researched study of six decades of public protest, impressively integrating primary source work (including citations from twenty-six archives) alongside syntheses of many historians’ studies. This work will remain useful for future scholars studying protest in industrializing England for both its focus and erudition.'H-Net Reviews -- .Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Spaces of exclusion, 1789–18301. Spaces of exclusion and intrusion in the 1790s2. Defending the liberty to meet, 1795–18193. Peterloo and the changing definition of seditious assemblyVignette 1: Radical localesPart II: Spaces of the body politic in the 1830s and 1840sPrelude: The Reform crisis, 1830–24. Embodied spaces and violent protest5. Contesting new administrative geographiesVignette 2: Processions6. Constructing new spacesPart III: Region, neighbourhood and the meaning of place7. The liberty of the landscape8. Rural resistance9. Making Moscows, 1839–48Vignette 3: New horizons in AmericaConclusionSelect bibliographyIndex
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Olympia Publishers Years After Midnight
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The Historic Towns Trust An Historical Map of Perth
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Sandstone Press Ltd The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration
Book SynopsisFifty stories of adventure and exploration over more than two hundred years of human history. The Great Horizon features those who set out to conquer new territories and claim world records alongside those who contributed to our understanding of the world all but accidentally. Published in association with the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and with full access to their extensive records, the book includes unique images and insights from the RSGS archives, along with never-before seen material.Trade Review‘The result is a book you could easily sit down and read from cover to cover... A thoroughly worthwhile book...’ * Undiscovered Scotland *‘Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into the lives and achievements of some amazingly brave people... A great way to be introduced to the people behind the names we were introduced to as children: Scott, Amundsen, Heyerdahl and so many more.’ * The Bookbag *‘Unique images and never-before-seen material...’ * Scots Magazine *‘Spanning 150 years of exploration and adventure, there's some weight to this book, and rightly so ... Through [Woolf's] words we get an inkling of what drove these pioneers, how they engaged with the people they met, and what it would have been like to journey alongside them.’ * Scottish Mountaineer *
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Hooghly: The Global History of a River
Book SynopsisThe Hooghly, a distributary of the Ganges flowing south to the Bay of Bengal, is now little known outside of India. Yet for centuries it was a river of truly global significance, attracting merchants, missionaries, mercenaries, statesmen, labourers and others from Europe, Asia and beyond. 'Hooghly' seeks to restore the waterway to the heart of global history. Focusing in turn on the role of and competition between those who struggled to control the river--the Portuguese, the Mughals, the Dutch, the French and finally the British, who built their imperial capital, Calcutta, on its banks--the author considers how the Hooghly was integrated into global networks of encounter and exchange, and the dramatic consequences that ensued. Travelling up and down the river, Robert Ivermee explores themes of enduring concern, among them the dynamics of modern capitalism and the power of large corporations; migration and human trafficking; the role of new technologies in revolutionising social relations; and the human impact on the natural world. The Hooghly's global history, he concludes, may offer lessons for India as it emerges as a world superpower.Trade Review'Brisk and judicious, "Hooghly" sets out to make the case for regarding a short river in Bengal as a crucible of global exchange. Based on original sources throughout, it succeeds quite brilliantly.' -- John Keay, author of 'India: A History''A rare and fascinating narrative of the Bengal delta, tracing the dynamic confluence of imperialist politics, mercantile ambition and economic progress that flowed through these waters. A history buff's delight and a stimulating narrative of a global melting-point, bubbling into life through Ivermee's detailed yet fluid rendition. Vivid, colourful and compelling.' -- Shashi Tharoor, Indian MP and author of 'Inglorious Empire'‘[A] compelling, scholarly and engagingly written account of the Hooghly [that] more than makes up for our lack of familiarity with Indian rivers other than the Ganges… Ivermee combines historical knowledge and erudition with a sense that history is not made simply by great men and impressive events, but by hordes of lesser human beings and smaller events which, taken together, change the way history progresses.’'A compelling book, which uses the history of a river to tell a story about the connection and conflict of people from different worlds. "Hooghly" is both an excellent introduction to the history of Bengal, and a comment on the limited nature of all claims to power, in the face of human diversity and the force of nature. Essential reading.' -- Jon Wilson, Professor in Modern History, King’s College London, and author of 'India Conquered''Not a history of the river but how the Hooghly made history, attracting Portuguese, Muslim, English, French, and Danish settlements, all drawing in global networks of trade, radical ideas, literature, and technology. An unusual and fascinating approach.' -- Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, author of 'The Great Uprising in India 1857-58: Untold Stories, Indian and British' and 'Portraits in Princely India, 1700-1947'
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Hachette Livre - BNF Histoire Et Géographie de Madagascar Depuis La
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University of British Columbia Press Unstable Properties Aboriginal Title and the
Book SynopsisUnstable Properties convincingly argues that the so-called land question in British Columbia cannot be resolved without understanding the fundamentally unstable ideological foundation of land and title arrangements on which the province rests.Trade ReviewThis is critical reading for legal scholars and anyone interested in Indigenous rights. -- S. Perreault, CHOICE ConnectA welcome addition to a literature that has been dominated by lawyers, historians, journalists, and political scientists. -- Bruce McIvor, UBC * BC Studies *The principles explored here are relevant to planners everywhere. * Plan Canada *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Paper Claims1 The Invention of British Columbia2 Calder, Churn, and Destabilization: 1973–973 Unsettled in the Wake of Delgamuukw4 The Politics of Refusal and the End of the Political Path, 2004–145 Property, Territory, Sovereignty, and CitizenshipConclusion: Reconciliation and Reimagining British ColumbiaReferences; Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The New Nature of Maps
Book SynopsisIn this new reading of maps and map making, Harley undertakes a surprising journey into the nature of the social and political unconscious.Trade ReviewThe father of critical cartography, and therefore the idea that a map should be understood as more than just a set of directions, was J. B. Harley... The New Nature of Maps... display[s] great erudition. -- Nicholas Lemann New Yorker Harley was an iconoclast, subverting traditional approaches to map-making by drawing together art history, literature, philosophy and visual culture. It's a view that can now be savored in his collected essays, The New Nature of Maps. -- Nick Saunders New Scientist With supreme tact, sympathetic insight into Harley's personality and his own deft scholarship, Laxton has produced... a book worthy of Harley. -- Catherine Delano-Smith Nature Inlcuding Andrew's introduction... we have a debate within the volume, not only postmodernism and its critique, but also other examples of Harley's anit-positivist and anti-Eurocentric approach alongside a potent understanding of the processes and problems of map making. -- Jeremy Black Imago Mundi The 'new nature' of maps reflects the sea change in the discipline of the history of cartography that has occurred, to a remarkable degree instigated by Brian Harley. -- John Cloud Technology and Culture 2003Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: Meaning, Knowledge, and Power in the Map Philosophy of J.B. Harley, by J. H. Andrews 1 Text and Contexts in the Interpretation of Early Maps 2 Maps, Knowledge, and Power 3 Silences and Secrecy: The Hidden Agenda of Cartography in Early Modern Europe 4 Power and Legitimation in the English Geographical Atlases of the Eighteenth Century 5 Deconstructing the Map New England Cartography and the Native Americans 7 Can There Be a Cartographic Ethics
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Common Land in Britain: A History from the Middle
Book SynopsisThe first authoritative survey of the history of common land in Great Britain from the medieval period to present day. More than a million hectares of Britain has the status of common land, most of it consisting of semi-natural environments of mountain, moorland, wetland or heath. Formerly much more extensive, common land was, and in many places remains, an integral part of the pastoral economy. Even where it is no longer used by farmers, it plays an increasingly important role in modern life, as recreational space and for its value for nature conservation. This book provides for the first time an authoritative survey of the history of common land across all three nations of Great Britain from medieval times to the present day. It charts how commons have been viewed and valued across the centuries, how they have been used, and how their vegetation has changed, highlighting parallels and differences between the histories of common land in England, Scotland and Wales. It traces the distinctive legal status of common land and the management regimes which regulated the exercise of common rights; considers the role of commons as spaces for communal gatherings and as a resource for the poor; charts the loss of common land (but also its persistence) during the era of enclosure in the century 1760-1860; and explores the changing conceptions of the value and right use of commons since the nineteenth century, and the impact this has had on their ecological character. Eight case studies of individual commons illustrate the richness of common landscapes and their history at local level. They include crofters' common grazings in Sutherland, mountain commons in the Lake District and Snowdonia, lowland commons in Co. Durham, Herefordshire and the New Forest, turbary allotments in Lincolnshire, and the urban commons of Wimbledon and Putney Heath.Trade ReviewGood maps and figures accompany each [case study], and Winchester's background as an historical geographer is evident throughout the book in the well-thought-out illustrative material. Also to be commended are the excellent footnotes, which together with the Select Bibliography flag myriad place-specific studies. A marvellous study. -- Paul Stamper, University of Leicester * Landscapes *Winchester captures what we know of the origins of this much misunderstood but cherished category of land and then proceeds to chart people's interaction with it over several centuries. Winchester draws on his own expertise and the work of others to document a rich history. The book is beautifully illustrated with maps, photographs, and archival sources. Winchester reminds us that common land has always and will continue to mean different things to different people. -- Frances Kerner * Open Space *The author deserves much credit, however, for his skilful navigation of a subject which aroused passions and provoked controversy in the past and still does. This is an important book. * THE LOCAL HISTORIAN *It stands alone as a singularly ambitious and impressive study, more detailed and comprehensive and wider ranging than anything that has come before. By combining an unrivalled range of material from the middle ages to the present and by offering a close, generous reading of existing work on British commons [...].Winchester's book will be the go-to reference for all those interested in every facet of common land. * AGRICULTURAL HISTORY REVIEW *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I. Common Threads 1. Commons in the British Landscape 2. Custom and Law: The Genesis of Common Land 3. Managing Communal Resources 4. Commons as Communal Spaces 5. Living on the Edge: Commons and the Poor 6. The Age of 'Improvement': Privatisation and the Reconfiguration of Common Land 7. The Commons Reinvented 8. The Changing Face of Common Land since 1860 Part II. A Kaleidoscope of Common Landscapes: Eight Case Studies9. North Assynt Common Grazings, Sutherland 10. Nether Wasdale Common, Cumberland 11. Cockfield Fell, Co. Durham 12. Isle of Axholme Turbary Allotments, Lincolnshire 13. Llanllechid Mountain and Aber Mountain, Caernarvonshire 14. Bringsty Common and Bromyard Downs, Herefordshire 15. Ibsley Common and Rockford Common, New Forest, Hampshire 16. Wimbledon Common and Putney Heath, Surrey Conclusion: Common Ground Select Bibliography Index
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NUS Press Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the
Book SynopsisThe eastern archipelagos of Southeast Asia stretch from Mindanao and Sulu in the north to Bali in the southwest and New Guinea in the southeast. Many of the inhabitants of this area are often described as “people without history,” in part because colonial borders long ago cut across shared underlying patterns of relations. Yet many of these societies were linked to transoceanic trading systems for millennia. Indeed, some of the world’s most prized commodities once came from territories which were either “stateless” or under the tenuous control of loosely structured polities in this region. In this book, trade provides the integrating framework for local and regional histories that cover more than three hundred years, from the late sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, when new technologies and changing markets helped lead to Western dominance. This book presents theories from the social sciences and economics that can help liberate scholars from dependence on states as narrative frameworks. It will also appeal to those working on wider themes such as global history, state formation, the evolution of markets, and anthropology. Trade Review“In this epic work, Heather Sutherland brings decades of scholarship to bear on her examination of three centuries of trade on the periphery of Asia…. This is an attractive and well-laid-out book. Sutherland's scholarship has created a masterful work that will be appreciated by all interested in maritime Southeast Asia's colonial and pre-colonial past.” - Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic SocietyTable of Contents List of Maps List of Images Preface Chapter 1: Introduction PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS Chapter 2: The Cradle of Geography Chapter 3: Encounters Chapter 4: Patchwork Polities PART TWO: GLIMPSED HISTORIES Chapter 5: Commodity Wars before 1684 Chapter 6: Ungovernable Tides, 1684–1784 Chapter 7: Pivotal Decades, 1784–1819 Chapter 8: Equivocal Policies, Converging Trade, 1819–47 Chapter 9: Free Trade and Phantom Fleets, 1847–69 Chapter 10: Steam and Capital, 1869–1906 Chapter 11: In Retrospect Appendix Bibliography Index
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Adventures Unlimited Press Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings Evidence of
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Princeton University Press Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
Book SynopsisSpans archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire, and no more than two standard scales (1:500,000 and 1:1,000,000) are used to represent most regions. This title brings the ancient past back to life in an unforgettably vivid and inspiring way.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2000 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Multivolume Reference Work in the Humanities, Association of American Publishers "[The Barrington Atlas] is the best geography of the ancient world ever achieved... [I]t reveals the world inhabited or reached by the Greeks and Romans from 1000 B.C. to A.D. 640 in thrilling detail, and a color code lets us track changes through 16 centuries. The collective learning poured into this project is almost intimidating to contemplate, and the fact that it could be completed testifies to extraordinary planning, dedication and courage... [T]he cartography is luminous, the printing superb and the binding strong and supple... [T]his magnificent book is likely to become a powerful engine of learning and discovery for many years."--D.J.R. Bruckner, New York Times Book Review "I doubt that it will ever be superseded... [T]he clarity and sheer beauty of the maps in the Barrington Atlas, for which Princeton University Press and the printers in Palladio's Vicenza deserve the highest credit and praise, make the main volume a joy to handle. The fold-out of the entire ancient Mediterranean world, Map 1 'Mare Internum,' is to die for... [T]his remarkable atlas ... has made a major contribution to re-establishing cartography as one of the basic sub-disciplines within classical studies."--Paul Cartledge, Times Higher Education Supplement "This atlas is an indispensable tool for historians concerned with ancient times. But it is also a source of great pleasure for the amateur, the lover of literature."--Bernard Knox, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Beautifully produced with an exquisite combination of scholarly precision and the highest level of cartographic art, this atlas is one of the greatest achievements in 20th-century Greek and Roman scholarship--and it probably will never be superseded."--Publishers Weekly "[An] essential tool for anyone interested in classical antiquity... It provides, for the first time in recent history, a single bound volume that maps the entire classical world... Superbly edited."--Library Journal ("Best Reference Sources, 2000") "[A] wonderful guide to the wordless lessons of antiquity. Everyone who studies Greece and Rome owes [the makers of the Barrington Atlas] a personal debt."--Peter Stothard, editor of the Times Literary Supplement, naming the Barrington Atlas "My Book of the Decade" in the Globe and Mail (2009) "[A] remarkable achievement... This unique resource is the most comprehensive atlas published on ancient Greece and Rome."--Booklist "[A] vast achievement... Richard Talbert can be proud of his editorship: the collective effort, academic and technical, that has gone into the realisation of this gigantic project ... almost defies the imagination. It is even more impressive in that his teams had to work virtually from scratch. Their chief goal was to fill a notorious gap, and they have done so with exemplary skill."--Peter Green, London Review of Books "The Barrington Atlas is a major contribution to scholarship, extensive in scale, reliable and up to date, and so laid out as to be really helpful to the user."--Jasper Griffin, New York Review of Books "[N]o decent academic or public library should be without this marvelous work... [A] magnificent achievement."--Guy Halsall, New Scientist "[A] definitive work."--Peter Jones, BBC History "This atlas will be indispensable to scholars in classical studies. My only caution is that, at eight pounds, a sturdy coffee table is required for its use."--Judith A. Tyner, Geographical Review
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Ignotum Press The Map and the Manuscript: Journeys in the Mysteries of the Two Rennes
Book SynopsisIn his debut book, author Simon M. Miles offers an entirely new perspective on one of the most compelling mysteries of our time. He documents an investigation over more than twenty years into the "affair of Rennes", a tangle of puzzles that has fascinated readers and researchers alike for half a century. A minor riddle of local history centred on a tiny village in the south of France became a global phenomenon, yet its secrets have remained tightly sealed. Until now. Amongst a sequence of breakthrough original insights, "The Map and the Manuscript" reveals for the first time the traces of a remarkable artefact of the ancient world, a geometrical complex laid out with impressive accuracy and at large scale between certain peaks, churches and chateaux in the landscape of the Pyrenees mountains. This discovery leads to a far-reaching exploration across a rich expanse of topics, from sacred geography to French poetry, from alchemy to dreams, from the Temple of Delphi to the streets of Paris, from hidden designs in old books to secret codes in manuscripts. While no prior knowledge is required or assumed, for those familiar with the many questions surrounding the twin villages of Rennes-le-Chateau and Rennes-les-Bains, this book will come as a revelation. It includes complete solutions to core riddles at the heart of the affair, including the famous parchments and the mysterious book and map written by the local priest. It also reveals the true identity of the author of the enigmatic poem Le Serpent Rouge, and opens this obscure yet deeply significant work to understanding at last. Richly illustrated with over 140 full-colour images, "The Map and the Manuscript" decisively resolves several longstanding literary and esoteric problems in the affair of Rennes, and also makes a significant contribution to a wider reappraisal of the capabilities of landscape architects in the ancient world. A mystery is solved, while an even greater one is revealed.Table of ContentsPrologue: A Dream in Athens Introduction Part One:Identification Chapter One: On the Path Chapter Two: Le Serpent Rouge Chapter Three: First Inklings Chapter Four: Sightlines Chapter Five: Sacred Geography Chapter Six: Converging Circles Chapter Seven: The Number of the Famous Seal Part Two: Orientation Chapter Eight: The Zodiac of Rennes-les-Bains Chapter Nine: The Cromlech of Rennes-les-Bains Chapter Ten: Delphi, Apollo and the Python Chapter Eleven: Confirmation from the Team Part Three: Solution Chapter Twelve: Geographic Cryptography Chapter Thirteen: The Riddle of the Parchments Chapter Fourteen: The Arques Square Part Four: Transmission Chapter Fifteen: Grand Voyager of the Unknown Chapter Sixteen: Dreams, Alchemy and the Omphalos Chapter Seventeen: Imprint of a Seal Chapter Eighteen: A Walk in the Woods Chapter Nineteen: Reassembling the Scattered Stones Epilogue: Coda to a Dream Appendices Appendix I: The Parchment Text Decipherments Appendix II: List of Figures Appendix III: The Text of Le Serpent Rouge Appendix IV: Chronology of Key Texts Appendix V: Bibliography
£19.95
Princeton University Press Barrington Atlas MapbyMap Directory TwoVolumes
Book SynopsisSpans archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire, and no more than two standard scales (1:500,000 and 1:1,000,000) are used to represent most regions. This title provides information about every place or feature in the Barrington Atlas.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2000 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Multivolume Reference Work in the Humanities, Association of American Publishers "[The Barrington Atlas] is the best geography of the ancient world ever achieved... [I]t reveals the world inhabited or reached by the Greeks and Romans from 1000 B.C. to A.D. 640 in thrilling detail, and a color code lets us track changes through 16 centuries. The collective learning poured into this project is almost intimidating to contemplate, and the fact that it could be completed testifies to extraordinary planning, dedication and courage... [T]he cartography is luminous, the printing superb and the binding strong and supple... [T]his magnificent book is likely to become a powerful engine of learning and discovery for many years."--D.J.R. Bruckner, New York Times Book Review "I doubt that it will ever be superseded... [T]he clarity and sheer beauty of the maps in the Barrington Atlas, for which Princeton University Press and the printers in Palladio's Vicenza deserve the highest credit and praise, make the main volume a joy to handle. The fold-out of the entire ancient Mediterranean world, Map 1 'Mare Internum,' is to die for... [T]his remarkable atlas ... has made a major contribution to re-establishing cartography as one of the basic sub-disciplines within classical studies."--Paul Cartledge, Times Higher Education Supplement "This atlas is an indispensable tool for historians concerned with ancient times. But it is also a source of great pleasure for the amateur, the lover of literature."--Bernard Knox, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Beautifully produced with an exquisite combination of scholarly precision and the highest level of cartographic art, this atlas is one of the greatest achievements in 20th-century Greek and Roman scholarship--and it probably will never be superseded."--Publishers Weekly "[An] essential tool for anyone interested in classical antiquity... It provides, for the first time in recent history, a single bound volume that maps the entire classical world... Superbly edited."--Library Journal ("Best Reference Sources, 2000") "[A] wonderful guide to the wordless lessons of antiquity. Everyone who studies Greece and Rome owes [the makers of the Barrington Atlas] a personal debt."--Peter Stothard, editor of the Times Literary Supplement, naming the Barrington Atlas "My Book of the Decade" in the Globe and Mail (2009) "[A] remarkable achievement... This unique resource is the most comprehensive atlas published on ancient Greece and Rome."--Booklist "[A] vast achievement... Richard Talbert can be proud of his editorship: the collective effort, academic and technical, that has gone into the realisation of this gigantic project ... almost defies the imagination. It is even more impressive in that his teams had to work virtually from scratch. Their chief goal was to fill a notorious gap, and they have done so with exemplary skill."--Peter Green, London Review of Books "The Barrington Atlas is a major contribution to scholarship, extensive in scale, reliable and up to date, and so laid out as to be really helpful to the user."--Jasper Griffin, New York Review of Books "[N]o decent academic or public library should be without this marvelous work... [A] magnificent achievement."--Guy Halsall, New Scientist "[A] definitive work."--Peter Jones, BBC History "This atlas will be indispensable to scholars in classical studies. My only caution is that, at eight pounds, a sturdy coffee table is required for its use."--Judith A. Tyner, Geographical Review
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Cambridge University Press An Account of the Arctic Regions Volume 1
Book SynopsisPublished in 1820, this two-volume guide to the Arctic was written by distinguished scientist and explorer William Scoresby (17891857). Volume 1 is a geographical survey of the region and includes information on ice conditions, weather, zoology, and the question of a northern passage between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Remarks on the celebrated question, of the existence of a sea-communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, by the north; with an account of the progress of discovery in the Northern Regions; 2. Descriptive account of some of the Polar countries; 3. Hydrographical survey of the Greenland Sea; 4. An account of the Greenland or Polar ice; 5. Observations on the atmospherology of the Arctic regions; particularly relating to Spitzbergen and the adjacent Greenland Sea; 6. A sketch of the zoology of the Arctic regions; Appendices.
£46.54
University of British Columbia Press The Reluctant Land
Book SynopsisDescribes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the 15th century to the Confederation years of the late 1860s and early 1870s. This work shows how a deeply indigenous land was reconstituted in European terms, and how European ways were recalibrated in this non-European space.Trade ReviewTrial lawyers attending on Aboriginal claims will find this text usefully covers the history from 1500 forward, showing the changes from an Indigenous populated land to one organized on European terms. -- Ronald F. MacIsaac * The Barrister, Issue No.89 *This is a welcome antidote to the simplistic renderings of early Canadian history we are exposed to in high school social studies courses, political speeches and CBC mini-series. […] Harris has crafted a deeply insightful account of the history of what would become Canada. […] The Reluctant Land will be used in historical geography courses for many years to come – but it’s more than that, because Harris set himself the task of writing a scholarly book accessible to the general reader. […] Encountering The Reluctant Land is like listening to a series of articulate public lectures, organized on a regional basis, allowing for an exploration of each part of the country, in turn. -- Raymon Torchinsky * BC Bookworld, Vol.23, No.1, Spring 2009 *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Lifeworlds, circa 15002 The Northwestern Atlantic, 1497-16323 Acadia and Canada4 The Continental Interior, 1632-17505 Creating and Bounding British North America6 Newfoundland7 The Maritimes8 Lower Canada9 Upper Canada10 The Northwestern Interior, 1760-187011 British Columbia12 Confederation and the Pattern of CanadaIndex
£26.99
Cambridge University Press An Account of the Arctic Regions Volume 2
Book SynopsisPublished in 1820, this two-volume guide to the Arctic was written by distinguished scientist and explorer William Scoresby (17891857). Volume 2 focuses on the history, development, and methods of whaling in the polar regions and includes the account of a whaling voyage in 1816.Table of Contents1. Chronological history of the northern whale-fisheries; 2. Comparative view of the origin, progress, and present state of the whale-fisheries of different European nations; 3. Situation of the early whale-fishery. Manner in which it was conducted, and the alterations which have subsequently taken place; 4. Account of the modern whale-fishery, as conducted at Spitzbergen; 5. Account of the Davis' Strait whale-fishery, and a comparison with that of Greenland, with statements of expences and profits of a fishing ship; 6. Method of extracting oil and preparing whalebone, and remarks on the uses to which the several products of the whale-fishery are applied; 7. Narrative of proceedings on board of the ship Esk, during a whale-fishing voyage to the coast of Spitzbergen, in the year 1816; Appendix; Index.
£41.79
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Problem of Nature
Book SynopsisThis book considers how nature - in both its biological and environmental manifestations - has been invoked as a dynamic force in human history. It shows how historians, philosophers, geographers, anthropologists and scientists have used ideas of nature to explain the evolution of cultures, to understand cultural difference, and to justify or condemn colonization, slavery and racial superiority. It examines the central part that ideas of environmental and biological determinism have played in theory, and describes how these ideas have served in different ways at different times as instruments of authority, identity and defiance. The book shows how powerful and problematic the invocation of nature can be.Table of ContentsForeword. 1. Introduction. 2. The Place of Nature. 3. Reappraising Nature. 4. Environment as Catastrophe. 5. Crossing Biological Boundaries. 6. The Ecological Frontier. 7. The Environmental Revolution. 8. Inventing Tropicality. 9. Colonizing Nature. Conclusion. Guide to Further Reading. Index.
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Diversion Books River of Darkness: The Deadly First Voyage
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed author of Conquistador and Labyrinth of Ice charts one of history’s greatest expeditions, a legendary 16th-century adventurer’s death-defying navigation of the Amazon River. In 1541, Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and his lieutenant Francisco Orellana searched for La Canela, South America’s rumored Land of Cinnamon, and the fabled El Dorado, “the golden man.” Quickly, the enormous expedition of mercenaries, enslaved natives, horses, and hunting dogs were decimated through disease, starvation, and attacks in the jungle. Hopelessly lost in the swampy labyrinth, Pizarro and Orellana made the fateful decision to separate. While Pizarro eventually returned home in rags, Orellana and fifty-seven men continued into the unknown reaches of the mighty Amazon jungle and river. Theirs would be the greater glory. Interweaving historical accounts with newly uncovered details, Levy reconstructs Orellana’s journey as the first European to navigate the world’s largest river. Every twist and turn of the powerful Amazon holds new wonders and the risk of death. Levy gives a long-overdue account of the Amazon’s people—some offering sustenance and guidance, others hostile, subjecting the invaders to gauntlets of unremitting attacks and signs of terrifying rituals. Violent and beautiful, noble and tragic, River of Darkness is riveting history and breathtaking adventure that will sweep readers on a voyage unlike any other. Trade ReviewPraise for Buddy Levy and River of Darkness “In River of Darkness, Buddy Levy recounts Orellana's headlong dash down the Amazon. Like Mr. Levy's last book, Conquistador, about the conquest of Mexico, River of Darkness presents a fast-moving tale of triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds. . . . Though impromptu, the expedition was one of the most amazing adventures of all time.” —Wall Street Journal “River of Darkness immediately takes its place as the definitive book on one of the great voyages into the unknown of all time, Orellana's accidental first descent of the Amazon. Not only is it a solid contribution to the scholarly literature on Amazonia, but it is a riveting and irresistible read, narrative history of a literary quality rarely encountered that compares with Alan Moorehead's great books on the Nile. Bravissimo!” —Alex Shoumatoff, contributing editor, Vanity Fair; publisher, DispatchesFromTheVanishingworld.com, and author of In Southern Light, The Rivers Amazon, and The World is Burning “In River of Darkness, Buddy Levy proves that the scariest stories are the true ones. Filled with fascinating details and the terror that comes with exploring something for the very first time, this is history coming back to life.” —Brad Meltzer, bestselling author of The Book of Fate and The Inner Circle“Buddy Levy’s compulsively readable book about the first European descent through the Amazon puts us right next to the vampire-bat-and-mosquito-bitten conquistadors and on a wild ride through the mighty river and a force of nature down to the Atlantic Ocean.”—Andrés Reséndez, author of National Book Award Finalist The Other Slavery and Conquering the Pacific “Buddy Levy is one of those rare and gifted authors whose books are virtual time machines that effortlessly transport us back through centuries. In River of Darkness, we participate in one of history’s signal explorations, Francisco Orellana’s descent of the Amazon River. We see blood, smell smoke, hear screams of joy and agony. Levy’s impeccably researched book is at once harrowing adventure and revealing history. Better than any in recent memory, River of Darkness sheds new light—and reveals the darkest aspects—of the Conquistadors’ brave and bloody New World forays.” —James M. Tabor, Author of Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth “In this fluid account, Levy narrates the story of the conquistadors who become the first Europeans to navigate the length of the Amazon River. After plundering the Inca empire, Gonzalo Pizarro and Francisco Orellana set out from Quito with an expedition of soldiers and Indian slaves in search of El Dorado. The two explorers became separated and the expedition quickly became lost in the jungle, then decimated by disease, starvation, and native attacks. Desperate, Orellana and the remaining conquistadors built a large boat and sailed downriver. Realizing that he would be unable to wait for Pizarro, Orellana set his sights on the Atlantic Ocean thousands of miles away. Levy does a fine job of organizing an enormous amount of historical material and balancing the accounts of Orellana and Pizarro after they separated. As one conflict follows another in rapid succession, they tend to blur into each other, though Levy provides enough descriptive detail and pacing to differentiate between the various native groups and aspects of the river. He also addresses the new archeological research that is changing our understanding of the cultures of the pre-Columbian Amazon Basin.” —Publishers Weekly “An exciting, well-plotted excursion down the Amazon River with the early Spanish conquistador. . . . [A] richly textured account of the rogue, rebel and visionary whose discovery still resonates today.” —Kirkus Reviews “A rollicking adventure . . . Levy successfully conveys the Amazon’s power and majesty, while shedding light on the futility of humanity’s attempt to tame it.” —The A.V. Club
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D Giles Ltd America's Eden: Newport Landscapes through the
Book SynopsisIn 1789, Jedidiah Morse described Newport and its environs as the “Eden of America” in the First Geography of the United States. In the nineteenth century landscape architects such as Frederick Law Olmsted created dramatic gardens by the sea for his wealthy clients, and artists from John Frederick Kensett to Henry James and Thornton Wilder celebrated the city as a verdant paradise in painting, poetry, and prose. America’s Eden: Newport Landscapes through the Ages builds on the city’s iconic reputation as a centuries-old paradise, and establishes Newport as a cultural landscape of national significance. The comprehensive history from European settlement to the present day is illustrated by a treasure trove of rare period maps, paintings and photographs by prominent artists, and drawings and sketches by leading designers. Ten chapters discuss topography, geology, and climate; the history of the city from the early days of colonial New England, through the Gilded Age estates, to the 21st century. A chapter on Living Legends emphasises the importance of Newport’s historic trees. The book serves as a critical resource guide encompassing landscape architecture, fine art, tree and plant propagation, and the conservation of natural sites. A rich story of art, history, design and horticulture awaits readers among the gardens, gazebos and trees of Newport.Table of ContentsForeword; Acknowledgments; A Note from the Author; Introduction: America’s Eden; A Land Blessed and Cursed: Topography, Geology, and Climate; From Eden to Eternity: An Historical Overview; Paradise of New England: The Colonial Era and Early Republic; Case Study Seeing, or Recording the Land: Changing Perspectives on Mapping Newport; Genteel Landscapes: Romantic Villas and Rustic Views; Case Study The Horticulturists; Case Study Touro Park; The Art of Scenery: Design in the Age of the Picturesque; The Gilded Age: Estate Gardens and Urban Forests; Case Study Blooming Beauty; Floral Culture and Fashion during the Gilded Age; Working Landscapes: Gardeners and Greenhouses; The Age of the New: Modernism in the Landscape; Living Legend: Newport’s Historic Trees; Case Study The Sentinels of Eden; An Arborist’s View of Newport and Its Trees; Eden Preserved and Propagated; Conclusion: The Legacy and Future of Eden; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Picture Credits.
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Zeticula Ltd Kintyre Country Life
Book SynopsisWhen it was first published in 1987, this picture of the lives of country folk from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth completed a trilogy on the history and culture of the author's native Kintyre. The material, from both oral and written sources, tells of everyday lives - working the land, raising livestock, building and furnishing homes, finding fuel and preparing food and celebrating special days. There are also accounts of sheep-stealing, shinty battles, and violent encounters between excise-men and the distillers - and smugglers - of illicit whisky. Illustrated with maps of the peninsula and photographs and reproductions taken or collected by the author
£14.96
Birlinn General Scotland: Mapping the Nation
Book SynopsisWinner of the Saltire Society Research Book of the Year Whilst documents and other written material are obvious resources that help shape our view of the past, maps too can say much about a nation's history. This is the first book to take maps seriously as a form of history, from the earliest representations of Scotland by Ptolemy in the second century AD to the most recent form of Scotland's mapping and geographical representation in GIS, satellite imagery and SATNAV. Compiled by three experts who have spent their lives working with maps, Scotland: Mapping the Nation offers a fascinating and thought-provoking perspective on Scottish history which is beautifully illustrated with complete facsimiles and details of hundreds of the most significant manuscript and printed maps from the National Library of Scotland and other institutions, including those by Timothy Pont, Joan Blaeu and William Roy, amongst many others.Trade Review'mixes lavish illustration with academic rigour and engaging anecdotes' * Sunday Herald *'much more than a visual treat . . . elegantly written, thoroughly referenced and exsquisitely presented' * TES, Scotland *'Some books are simply so magnificent in their scope and execution you know they are destined to become classics from the moment you open the cover and begin to turn the pages. "Scotland: Mapping the Nation" is one of those books' * Undiscovered Scotland *
£29.75
McGill-Queen's University Press Death in the Snow
Book SynopsisTrade Review“In all the annals of Spanish conquests in the Americas, there is no one to compare with Pedro de Alvarado. This brutal conquistador took a fleet, and many reluctant Guatemalan Mayas, to muscle in on Pizarro’s conquest of the Inca Empire. Defeated by forests, mountains, volcanic eruption, and adverse weather, Alvarado was bought off in a deal to rival one between modern Mafia families. George Lovell tells this lurid, little-known story with clarity and élan.” John Hemming, author of The Conquest of the Incas“As George Lovell vividly reveals, Alvarado’s ambitions were boundless, as was his willingness to make Indigenous peoples on two continents suffer for those ambitions. How to tell such a tale of tenacity and tragedy without surrendering to the temptation to turn it into a swashbuckling adventure? Lovell pulls it off by keeping a close and careful eye on his primary sources, skillfully teasing out a history that never glorifies yet remains utterly gripping.” Matthew Restall, author of Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest and When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting That Changed History“Drawing from Spanish chronicle sources, archival materials, and transcribed primary source collections, Lovell delivers a highly readable, biographically driven narrative of the little-known episode, and throughout he centers its lamentable consequences on thousands of people because of Alvarado’s rapaciousness.” Hispanic American Historical Review"Accompanied by a rich array of maps and photographs taken directly by the author in the main places of Alvarado's expedition, Lovell's accurate narrative is based on a large and solid bibliography that ranges between Anglophone and Ibero-American studies." Storicamente“The history of Pedro de Alvarado is highly illustrative of the intrigues that grew out of conquistadors’ ambitions but are rarely mentioned in the “official” history. W. George Lovell masterfully recreates an episode of the conquest that shows what occurred behind the scenes … .” The Americas
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