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Faithlife Corporation In This Way We Came to Rome: With Paul on the
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Tours Inside the Snow Globe: Ottawa Monuments and
Book SynopsisThe toppling of monuments globally in the last few years has highlighted the potency of monuments as dynamic and affectively-loaded participants in society. In the context of Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, monuments inspire colonial and imperial nostalgia, compelling visitors to consistently re-imagine Canada as a white, Anglophone nation, built through the labour of white men: politicians, soldiers, and businessmen. At the same time, Ottawa monuments allow for dominant affective relationships to the nation to be challenged, demonstrated through subtle and explicit forms of defacement and other interactions that compel us to remember colonial violence, pacifism, violence against women, racisms.Organized as a series of walking tours throughout Ottawa, the chapters in Tours Inside the Snow Globe demonstrate the affective capacities of monuments and highlight how these monuments have ongoing relationships with their sites, the city, other monuments, and local, deliberate, national, and casual communities of users. The tours focus on the lives of a monument to an unnamed Indigenous scout, the National War Memorial, Enclave: the Women’s Monument, and the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights. Two of the tours offer analyses of the ambivalent representations of women and Indigeneity in Ottawa’s statue landscape.Table of Contents Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: 1: Gichi Zibi Omaami Winini Anishinaabe 2: The Upside-down Astrolabe Tour 3: The Agora Tour 4: The Poppy Tour 5: The Mica Tour 6: Laura Secord’s Tour 7: The Placard Tour Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Mrs Stone & Dr Smellie: Eighteenth-Century
Book SynopsisHow did midwives deliver women in the past? What was their understanding of anatomy and physiology? How did they cope with unnatural presentations, haemorrhage, miscarriage and stillbirths, constipation? Were lives being prolonged and risks diminished? Midwifery case notes offer a considerable source of evidence, which, when used with care and imagination, help to tackle these questions. Mrs Stone & Dr Smellie demonstrates this in a fascinating way by analysing the work of two well-known midwives. Sarah Stone’s A Complete Practice of Midwifery was published in London in 1737. Mrs Stone had been a midwife in Bridgwater, Taunton and Bristol before moving to London in the late 1730s. Her book collects 43 case notes mainly from her Somerset practice. It is probably unique in providing a female midwife’s perspective on childbirth in provincial England in the eighteenth century. Although often mentioned by medical historians, literary scholars have given it most attention by reading it as a feminist text. But A Complete Practice reproduced in full within this book, is a detailed, albeit selective, account of the problems faced by midwifes, what they could do for their women, and how likely they were to succeed. William Smellie (1697-1763) occupies a pivotal position in the history of midwifery, not only in Britain, but also in the wider international community. He published a textbook in 1751 and two collections of case notes in 1754 and 1764. an analysis of the 278 London cases. Woods and Galley offer a ‘thick description’ of Smellie’s practice, the problems he faced, the people he dealt with, how he combined domiciliary clinical practice with advanced instruction, and the way in which he presented his work to a wider community for their enlightenment. Compulsory reading for those working on the history of medicine and midwifery, demography and social history, Mrs Stone and Dr Smellie is an engaging final study by the late internationally-renowned scholar Professor Robert Woods, FBA.Trade ReviewReviews 'The case-notes are fascinating if sometimes rather gruesome reading, admirably set in context and interestingly discussed. The analysis is meticulous, insightful and wide-ranging even if I do not agree with all of the conclusions, and the book is an extremely valuable addition to the literature, particularly for a very welcome consideration of outcomes as well as the development of knowledge and practice.' Alice ReidTable of Contents List of figures List of tables Preface 1. Midwives, their women and patients 2. Reading case notes 3. Sarah Stone, Somerset midwife 4. Mrs Stone’s Complete Practice 5. William Smellie, man-midwife and instructor 6. Dr Smellie’s London cases 7. The new obstetrics 8. Other cases from London, 9. Midwifery through case histories Appendices Glossary Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh
Book SynopsisThis innovative book explores how the making of Edinburgh as an influential Enlightenment capital depended on a series of spatial processes that extended across urban, regional, national and global scales. Edinburgh was an Enlightenment city of regional, national and global influence. But how did the people of Enlightenment Edinburgh understand and order their world? How did they encounter, compare and produce different kinds of spaces, from the urban to the world scale? And how did this city set the universal standards by which other places should be judged and transformed? The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh answers these questions by exploring the thousands of urban plans, county surveys, travel accounts and encyclopaedias that passed through a busy Edinburgh bookshop over four decades. It reveals how these geographical publications were produced and shared, and sheds light on the people who bought and used them - including moral philosophers, silk merchants, school teachers, ship's surgeons and slave owners. This is the story of how specific methods of mapping space came ultimately to predict and organize it, creating a new world in Edinburgh's image. By connecting global processes of knowledge production to intimate accounts of its reception in the city, this book deepens our understanding of the Scottish Enlightenment and the world it made.Trade ReviewA rich and highly original interpretation of geography and print culture in late eighteenth-century Edinburgh. * Richard B. Sher, author of The Enlightenment and the Book *Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh is destined to become a landmark book for scholars of the eighteenth century, the Scottish Enlightenment and the urban history of science. * Stéphane Van Damme, Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure *The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh represents a substantial contribution to Enlightenment studies, the history of geography, and historical-cultural geography. It merits attention from scholars and students in each of these fields, and from historians of science concerned with scientific practice in the Age of Reason. * ISIS: A JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY *Highly readable and well-structured with subtle and convincing arguments, critically but sympathetically marshalling evidence from a range of historical figures from book readers and subscribers to travellers, geographers and natural philosophers whose personalities are winningly conveyed. Dodds' approach provides an exciting template of how similar local to global studies of Enlightenment towns might be undertaken. * SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: Mapping Enlightenment from an Edinburgh Bookshop I PLANNING: EDINBURGH AND THE NEW TOWN 1. Projecting: Cadastral Mapping and the Genesis of the New Town 2. Combining: Mapping Old, New and Soon 3. Dividing: Properties of the Plan Beyond 4. Extending: Progress and the Enlightenment Capital II SURVEYING: EDINBURGH AND ITS ENVIRONS 5. Counting: Political Arithmetic in the Parish of Cramond 6. Generalising: County Connections and Enclosures 7. Overviewing: Distant Perspectives in the Borders 8. Subscribing: Patronising Surveys and Provincial Libraries III TRAVELLING: EDINBURGH AND THE NATION 9. Piecing: Pre- and Post-Tour Epistles for Thomas Pennant's Scotland 10. Improving: Robert Heron's Journey through the Commerce of Print 11. Moving: Sarah Murray and her Travelling Readers 12. Trading: Routes in Scotland IV COMPILING: EDINBURGH AND THE WORLD 13. Summarising: Global Knowledge in an Elite High School 14. Supplementing: The Encyclopædia Britannica's Sources 15. Accessioning: The Family Collection 16. Institutionalising: Edinburgh Medical Students and Surgeons' Societies in the Nineteenth-Century World CONCLUSION: Universalising Enlightenment Edinburgh Bibliography Index
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Collective Ink These Chivalrous Brothers – The Mysterious
Book SynopsisThe story of the 1882 Palmer Sinai Expedition, a spying and terrorist mission that ended in the murder of its participants and was one of the great cause celebre of the nineteenth century. Just before sunset on August 8th 1882 HMS Cockatrice, a small paddle wheel gunboat, appeared off the Egyptian shore. A rowing boat was lowered down its side and slowly moved towards the beach. On its arrival, six men and a teenage boy alighted. Three of the group were British, all dressed as Arabs, two were Bedouin tribesmen, one a Jew and one a Syrian. The following morning, this mismatched party set off for the desert, taking with them two boxes of dynamite and GBP3,000 in gold coin. Five of them were never seen again. An historical 'who-done-it', an adventure story, a history of the Anglo-Egyptian War and a biography of those involved in the controversy, /These Chivalrous Brothers/ explores the gulf between the Imperial ideal and reality and provides an insight into the character of the men who built the Empire. Through the biographies, it also throws light on such disparate topics as the early history of spying, spiritualism, female hysteria, biblical archaeology, various African uprisings, the Boer War and the hunt for 'Jack the Ripper'.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Making Sense of Place: Multidisciplinary
Book SynopsisEssays dealing with the question of how "sense of place" is constructed, in a variety of locations and media. The term "sense of place" is an important multidisciplinary concept, used to understand the complex processes through which individuals and groups define themselves and their relationship to their natural and cultural environments, and which over the last twenty years or so has been increasingly defined, theorized and used across diverse disciplines in different ways. Sense of place mediates our relationship with the world and with each other; it providesa profoundly important foundation for individual and community identity. It can be an intimate, deeply personal experience yet also something which we share with others. It is at once recognizable but never constant; rather it isembodied in the flux between familiarity and difference. Research in this area requires culturally and geographically nuanced analyses, approaches that are sensitive to difference and specificity, event and locale. The essayscollected here, drawn from a variety of disciplines (including but not limited to sociology, history, geography, outdoor education, museum and heritage studies, health, and English literature), offer an international perspectiveon the relationship between people and place, via five interlinked sections (Histories, Landscapes and Identities; Rural Sense of Place; Urban Sense of Place; Cultural Landscapes; Conservation, Biodiversity and Tourism). Ian Convery is Reader in Conservation and Forestry, National School of Forestry, University of Cumbria; Gerard Corsane is Senior Lecturer in Heritage, Museum and Galley Studies, International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University; Peter Davis is Professor of Museology, International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University. Contributors: Doreen Massey, Ian Convery, Gerard Corsane, Peter Davis, David Storey, Mark Haywood, Penny Bradshaw, Vincent O'Brien, Michael Woods, Jesse Heley, Carol Richards, Suzie Watkin, Lois Mansfield, Kenesh Djusipov, Tamara Kudaibergonova, Jennifer Rogers, Eunice Simmons, Andrew Weatherall, Amanda Bingley, Michael Clark, Rhiannon Mason, Chris Whitehead, Helen Graham, Christopher Hartworth, Joanne Hartworth, Ian Thompson, Paul Cammack, Philippe Dubé, Josie Baxter, Maggie Roe, Lyn Leader-Elliott, John Studley, Stephanie K.Hawke, D. Jared Bowers, Mark Toogood, Owen T. Nevin, Peter Swain, Rachel M. Dunk, Mary-Ann Smyth, Lisa J. Gibson, Stefaan Dondeyne, Randi Kaarhus, Gaia Allison, Ellie Lindsay, Andrew RamsayTable of ContentsIntroduction: Making Sense of Place - Gerard Corsane and Peter Davis and Ian Convery Land, Territory and Identity - David Storey Viewing the Emergence of Scenery from the Lakes - Mark Haywood Cumbrians and their 'ancient kingdom': Landscape, Literature and Regional Identity - Penny Bradshaw Gypsies, Travellers and Place: a co-ethnography - Ian Convery and Vincent O'Brien Rural People and the Land - Michael Woods and Jesse Heley and Carol Richards and Suzie Watkin Hill farming identities and connections to place - Lois Mansfield Place, Culture and Everyday Life in Kyrgyz Villages - Vincent O'Brien and Kenesh Djusipov and Tamara Kudaibergenova Local renewables for local places? Attitudes to renewable energy and the role of communities in place-based renewable energy development - Jennifer Rogers Local renewables for local places? Attitudes to renewable energy and the role of communities in place-based renewable energy development - Ian Convery Local renewables for local places? Attitudes to renewable energy and the role of communities in place-based renewable energy development - Eunice Simmons Local renewables for local places? Attitudes to renewable energy and the role of communities in place-based renewable energy development - Andrew Weatherall Health, People and Forests - Amanda Bingley Achieving Memorable Places... 'Urban Sense of Place' for successful urban planning and renewal? - Michael Clark The Place of Art in the Public Art Gallery: A Visual Sense of Place`` - Rhiannon Mason The Place of Art in the Public Art Gallery: A Visual Sense of Place - Chris Whitehead and Helen Graham Survival sex work: vulnerable, violent and hidden lifescapes in the North East of England - Joanne & Christopher Hartworth Survival sex work: vulnerable, violent and hidden lifescapes in the North East of England - Ian Convery Gardens, Parks and Sense of Place - Ian Thompson Gardens: places for nature and human-nature interaction - Paul Cammack and Ian Convery The Image Mill: A Sense of Place for a Museum of Images - Philippe Dubé Making Sense of Place and Landscape Planning at the Landscape Scale - Maggie Roe Cultural Landscape and Sense of Place: community and tourism representations of the Barossa - Lyn Leader-Elliot Territorial cults as a paradigm of place in Tibet - John Studley Heritage and sense of place: amplifying local voice and co-constructing Meaning - Stephanie K. Hawke Sense of Place in Sustainable Tourism: A Case Study in the Rainforest and Savannahs of Guyana - Gerard Corsane Sense of Place in Sustainable Tourism: A Case Study in the Rainforest and Savannahs of Guyana - D Jared Bowers Placing the Maasai - Mark Toogood Nature Tourism: Do bears create a sense of place? - Owen Nevin and Peter Swain and Ian Convery What's Up? Climate change and our relationship with the hills - Rachel Dunk and Mary-Ann Smyth and Lisa. J Gibson Nature conservation, rural development and ecotourism in central Mozambique: which space do local communities get? - Stefaan Dondeyne Nature conservation, rural development and ecotourism in central Mozambique: which space do local communities get? - Randi Kaaarhus Nature conservation, rural development and ecotourism in central Mozambique: which space do local communities get? - Gaia Allison Rainforests, Place and Palm Oil in Sabah, Borneo - Ellie Lindsay and Andrew Ramsey and Ian Convery and Eunice Simmons Afterword: Untying the Rope - Josephine Baxter
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Local Place and the Arthurian Tradition in
Book SynopsisThe first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales. Places have the power to suspend disbelief, even concerning unbelievable subjects. The many locations associated with King Arthur show this to be true, from Tintagel in Cornwall to Caerleon in Wales. But how and why did Arthurian sites come to proliferate across the English and Welsh landscape? What role did the medieval custodians of Arthurian abbeys, churches, cathedrals, and castles play in "placing" Arthur? How did visitors experience Arthur in situ, and how did their experiences permeate into wider Arthurian tradition? And why, in history and even today, have particular places proven so powerful in defending the impression of Arthur's reality? This book, the first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales, provides an answer to these questions. Beginning with an examination of on-site experiences of Arthur, at locations including Glastonbury, York, Dover, and Cirencester, it traces the impact that they had on visitors, among them John Hardyng, John Leland, William Camden, who subsequently used them as justification for the existence of Arthur in their writings. It shows how the local Arthur was manifested through textual and material culture: in chronicles, notebooks, and antiquarian works; in stained glass windows, earthworks, and display tablets. Via a careful piecing together of the evidence, the volume argues that a new history of Arthur begins to emerge: a local history.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Place and the defence of Arthur 1. 'Thise were his places and his habitacions': Arthur in situ in the fifteenth century 2. Contentious places: Reconciling Arthurian places in the fifteenth century 3. The Best of the West: John Leland's West Country Arthur 4. Locating Arthur in England and Wales: John Leland, John Prise, and Elis Gruffydd 5. Placing Arthur in William Camden's Britannia Coda: Arthur's local renaissance?
£85.50
Bodleian Library Town: Prints and Drawings of Britain Before 1800
Book SynopsisProvincial towns in Britain grew in size and importance in the eighteenth century. Ports such as Glasgow and Liverpool greatly expanded, while industrial centres such as Birmingham and Manchester flourished. Market towns outside London developed as commercial centres or as destinations offering spa treatments as in Bath, horse racing in Newmarket or naval services in Portsmouth. Containing over 100 images of towns in England, Wales and Scotland, this book draws on the extensive Gough collection in the Bodleian Library. Contemporary prints and drawings provide a powerful visual record of the development of the town in this period, and finely drawn prospects and maps – made with greater accuracy than ever before – reveal their early development. This book also includes perceptive observations from the journals and letters of collector Richard Gough (1735–1809), who travelled throughout the country on the cusp of the industrial age.Trade Review“A treasure trove of a book and an excellent starting point for anyone seeking to understand what British towns in the eighteenth century looked like.” * Peter Borsay, Aberystwyth University *
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Harvard University Press Ukraine under Western Eyes: The Bohdan and
Book SynopsisFrom the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, the geopolitical placement of Ukraine drew the attention of some of Europe’s most influential cartographers. Many of these maps, including ones of exceptional rarity, were collected by the Ukrainian scholar and journalist Bohdan Krawciw. Krawciw traced the physical and aesthetic depiction of Ukraine across its changing borders as a means of self-recognition and as a cultural and political history of the contested nation and its peoples. Of special interest are his maps of Ukraine from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, at the crossroads of four empires: Habsburg, Ottoman, Russian, and Soviet. As part of his personal archive, Krawciw’s maps were bequeathed to Harvard University upon his death in 1975. This book serves as both a catalog of his collection and a description of how the maps he collected serve as an invaluable source for Ukraine’s history and a symbol of Ukrainian national identity. The book contains nearly 100 examples from the collection, many in full color, as well as indices listing maps by cartographer and by place name.
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Arc Medieval Press Remapping Travel Narratives, 1000-1700: To the
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West Virginia University Press The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872
Book SynopsisOne of the first new interpretations of West Virginia’s origins in over a century—and one that corrects previous histories’ tendency to minimize support for slavery in the state’s founding. Every history of West Virginia’s creation in 1863 explains the event in similar ways: at the start of the Civil War, political, social, cultural, and economic differences with eastern Virginia motivated the northwestern counties to resist secession from the Union and seek their independence from the rest of the state. In The Fifth Border State, Scott A. MacKenzie offers the first new interpretation of the topic in over a century—one that corrects earlier histories’ tendency to minimize support for slavery in the state’s founding.Employing previously unused sources and reexamining existing ones, MacKenzie argues that West Virginia experienced the Civil War in the same ways as the border states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware. Like these northernmost slave states, northwestern Virginia supported the institution of slavery out of proportion to the actual presence of enslavement there. The people who became West Virginians built a new state first to protect slavery, but radical Unionists and escaping slaves forced emancipation on the statehood movement. MacKenzie shows how conservatives and radicals clashed over Black freedom, correcting many myths about West Virginia’s origins and making The Fifth Border State an important addition to the literature in Appalachian and Civil War history.Trade Review“A refreshing new look at how West Virginia became a state. I can see The Fifth Border State appealing widely to scholars of the Civil War era.”—William Hal Gorby, West Virginia UniversityTable of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Northwestern Virginia’s Path towards Reconciliation, 1829–1851 2. Northwestern Virginia on the Defensive, 1851–1860 3. Northwestern Virginia in the Secession Crisis, January to July 1861 4. The Conservative Phase of the West Virginia Statehood Movement, August 1861 to February 1862 5. The Radical Phase of the West Virginia Statehood Movement, March 1862 to June 1863 6. West Virginia under Radical Rule, June 1863 to December 1869 Epilogue: West Virginia Redeemed, 1870–1872 Appendix A: An Appeal of the People of West Virginia to Congress, Suggesting for the Consideration of Members Material Facts Appendix B: Report of the Minority to Lincoln’s Border State Emancipation Plan, July 15, 1862 Notes
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Coldest Coast: The 1873 Leigh Smith
Book SynopsisThis book describes the 1873 voyage of the British explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith, based on the diaries and photographs of Lieutenant Herbert C. Chermside, who joined the expedition of the seas around Svalbard. Chermside’s photographs, long believed lost, have recently been uncovered in Sweden and are being curated there by the Grenna Museum. The three unpublished diaries of Herbert Chermside were lent to the Scott Polar Research Institute in 1939 by Mrs. Benjamin Leigh Smith. For the first time, Chermside’s diaries are published in their entirety, with the original photographs shown alongside modern images of the same locations. This includes the first photographic record of the north coast of Svalbard, images that are today being used as comparative data for the study of climate change in the archipelago.The diaries have been fully transcribed and edited. Introductory chapters are included, written by specialists in the history of exploration, history of science, and the history of photography from Penn State University, the University of Gothenburg, and UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, as well as contributors from the UK and Germany.This volume is published in association with Grenna Museum, which will present Chermside’s photographs in a 2022 exhibit on Leigh Smith and A.E. Nordenskiold.Table of ContentsForeword by Charlotte Moore, author and descendent of Benjamin Leigh SmithForeword by Håkan Jorikson, Director of Grenna Museum (Swedish)Introduction: Herbert C. Chermside and his chronicle of Benjamin Leigh Smith’s 1873 exploration of Spitzbergen by P.J. CapelottiOne: The 19th century exploration of Spitzbergen by Susan BarrTwo: Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld and the Swedish expedition of 1872-73 by Urban WråkbergThree: Axel W. Engvall and Leigh Smith’s rescue of Nordenskiöld by Anders LarssonFour: Alfred Eaton and the biological collections of Leigh Smith’s 1873 expedition by C.L. DevlinFive: Chermside's observations of marine mammals during a Spitzbergen hunt by C.L. DevlinSix: Chermside’s Arctic birds by Magnus ForsbergSeven: The discovery of Chermside’s Spitzbergen photographs by Håkan Jorikson and Anders LarssonEight: Chermside’s Spitzbergen imagery, then and now by Tyrone Martinsson and Andreas UmbreitNine: Chermside’s diary of Leigh Smith’s 1873 expedition edited by P.J. CapelottiAppendix 1: Spitzbergen/Svalbard Place Names, 1873 and currentAcknowledgements
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Trivent Publishing Mapping Ptolemaic Dacia
Book SynopsisThis volume is a contribution to the decipherment of Ptolemy's universal map, with focus on the territory known as Dacia. The information provided by Ptolemy was translated into modern data considering local features and complying with certain general principles. The difficulty of this task consisted in the way the ancient manuscripts transmitted the original location coordinates, as well as in the way Ptolemy patched together information from ancient itineraries and other sources.The author of this volume conceived a general formula for mapping Dacia based on the information found in the two oldest sources he used. Furthermore, he determined local patterns with the help of the other sources – therefore, defining locations resulted in a better determination of the surrounding relative positions. This information, as well as the correlation of the Ptolemaic locations with archaeological findings, provides an increased recognition of Ptolemaic Dacia, while also contributing to exposing the Ptolemaic universal map.Table of Contents Introduction CHAPTER 1. General Ptolemaic Principles CHAPTER 2. Ptolemaic and Modern Earth Models. Initial Methodological Framework CHAPTER 3. Ptolemaic Poleis and Places in Dacia and in Adjacent areas. What We Know CHAPTER 4. Establishing Local Working Algorithms CHAPTER 5. Calculating the Coordinates of Some Dacian Poleis from the Established Grid CHAPTER 6. A Synthesis on the Local Ptolemaic Patterns in Dacia CHAPTER 7. SWOT Analysis CHAPTER 8. Limits, Rivers, Tribes and Neighbours of Ptolemaic Dacia Conclusive remarks Bibliography List of Figures List of Tables Index
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NIAS Press Community Still Matters: Uyghur Culture and
Book SynopsisJust as global perceptions of Xinjiang have shifted dramatically, so too has scholarship on the history, culture, and politics of the Uyghur homeland experienced a sea-change. A field once dominated by philology and geopolitical analysis has, since the 1990s, become a site of vibrant interdisciplinary practice. Uyghur studies - particularly research on gender, family, and the village economy - are now often found at the intersection of anthropological fieldwork, discursive analysis, textual studies, and social history. This volume collects a series of studies on these themes, drawing upon the innovative work of one of the field's leading figures, Ildiko Beller-Hann. The result is a snapshot both of the Uyghur region (and beyond) in the midst of change, and of a field of scholarship that is evolving as the voices of people from the region themselves increasingly come to the fore. More than a reflection on the genealogy of this field's knowledge and methodologies, this is a celebration of scholarly community - and of the people at its center.
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NIAS Press Community Still Matters: Uyghur Culture and
Book SynopsisJust as global perceptions of Xinjiang have shifted dramatically, so too has scholarship on the history, culture, and politics of the Uyghur homeland experienced a sea-change. A field once dominated by philology and geopolitical analysis has, since the 1990s, become a site of vibrant interdisciplinary practice. Uyghur studies - particularly research on gender, family, and the village economy - are now often found at the intersection of anthropological fieldwork, discursive analysis, textual studies, and social history. This volume collects a series of studies on these themes, drawing upon the innovative work of one of the field's leading figures, Ildiko Beller-Hann. The result is a snapshot both of the Uyghur region (and beyond) in the midst of change, and of a field of scholarship that is evolving as the voices of people from the region themselves increasingly come to the fore. More than a reflection on the genealogy of this field's knowledge and methodologies, this is a celebration of scholarly community - and of the people at its center.
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Leiden University Press Ishikawa Sanshir’s Geographical Imagination:
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Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Zheng He's Art of Collaboration: Understanding
Book Synopsis""Know your enemies, know yourself"", advised Sun Zi in his famous Art of War (AoW). In contrast, the legendary Admiral Zheng He would have said, ""Know your collaborators, know yourself"", and this would be the essence of his Art of Collaboration (AoC). This book offers a fresh new approach to doing business and providing leadership in the twenty-first century, where Zheng He's peaceful and win-win collaborative paradigm present in his AoC provides an alternative to the aggressive and antagonistic mindset inherent in Sun Zi's AoW. The author has culled from the existing literature on the historical, cultural, diplomatic, and maritime-oriented Zheng He, connected the dots of his discovery of a managerial Zheng He, and wrote this book to present both the big message of Zheng He's Art of Collaboration as well as an understanding of Zheng He's specific work as a leader and manager.
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NUS Press Marriage Migration in Asia: Emerging Minorities at the Frontiers of Nation-States
Book SynopsisMen are disadvantaged in the marriage markets of many Asian countries, and in some cases their response is to look abroad for a partner. Receiving countries for marriage migrants include Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, while the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and parts of mainland China supply wives to these territories. In the absence of uniform international regulations concerning the rights and obligations of partners, such unions are treated differently in different jurisdiction. In extreme cases migrants or their children become stateless, and when marriages break down, migrants sometimes face major legal problems.In such circumstances, marriage migrants are often portrayed as powerless, uneducated victims. Rejecting this perspective, the authors in this volume explore the agency of women who migrate abroad to acquire opportunities unavailable to them in their homelands. They show that the trajectories of marriage migrants are often not a simple movement from home to destination but can involve return, repeated, or extended migrations, and that these transitions that can alter geographies of power in economics, nationality or ethnicity. Based on features shared by many marriage migrants, the book identifies them as an emerging minority at the frontier of the nation-state, a group whose status may well carry over to future generations.
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Hardpress Publishing A Voyage to the Isle of France the Isle of Bourbon and the Cape of Good Hope With Observations and Reflections Upon Nature and Mankind 1
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Anagrama El Motin de la Naturaleza
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Oxford University Press All Possible Worlds
Book SynopsisUpdated and revised to include theoretical and other developments, bibliographical additions, new photographs and illustrations, and expanded name and subject indexes, the fourth edition of All Possible Worlds: A History of Geographical Ideas is the most complete and comprehensive book of its kind. The text also features a layout and readability that make the material easy to navigate and understand. The book investigates the ways in which the subject of geography has been recognized, perceived, and evaluated, from its early acknowledgment in ancient Greece to its disciplined form in today''s world of shared ideas and mass communication. Strong continuities knit the Classical Period to the Age of Exploration, then carry students on through Varenius to Humboldt and Ritter--revealing the emergence of the new geography of the Modern Period. The history of American geography--developed in seven of the twenty chapters--is strongly emphasized pursuant to the formal origins of geography in Trade Review"Since its first appearance in 1972, All Possible Worlds has become an indispensable reference text for courses in the history of geography. Offering a broad historical sweep of the scholarly record from classical, medieval, and modern times, it also affords succinct summary accounts of twentieth-century geography and geographers in North America and in a wide range of countries. This new edition, carefully revised and updated by Geoffrey Martin, with its ample illustrations and expanded index, promises a welcome maintenance of this highly laudable contribution to cross-cultural understanding in the practice of geography internationally."--Anne Buttimer, President of the International Geographical Union, 2000-2004"What a pleasure! All Possible Worlds is back. Geoffrey Martin's work is a wonderful 'tour de force'-a clear panorama of the evolution of geography from Greece to the present with a fair view on its emerging trends both in the English-speaking world and elsewhere."--Paul Claval, University of Paris, Sorbonne"This book--a study in the history of geographical thought--sweeps majestically from the ancient Greeks to the present. It has been published in four languages other then English and has been the most comprehensive work on the subject since its inception in 1972 when I first used it as the text in my 'Nature of Geography' course. This is essential reading for all geographers."--Peter Nash, University of Waterloo, Canada"After thirty-odd years, All Possible Worlds remains without peer: a uniquely valuable treasure for anyone curious about the evolution of geographic thought and achievement throughout the world from ancient times to a troubled present. Perhaps what is most remarkable about this chronicle is the judicious manner with which the author deals with endlessly contentious philosophies and methodologies. We have here an essential item for the library of every serious geographer."--Wilbur Zelinsky, The Pennsylvanuia State UniversityTable of ContentsPREFACE; PART ONE: CLASSICAL; PART TWO: MODERN
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Historical Geographies of Anarchism Early Critical Geographers and PresentDay Scientific Challenges Routledge Research in Historical Geography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Interpreting the Landscape
Book SynopsisMost places in Britain have had a local history written about them. Up until this century these histories have addressed more parochial issues, such as the life of the manor, rather than explaining the features and changes in the landscape in a factual manner. Much of what is visible today in Britain''s landscape is the result of a chain of social and natural processes, and can be interpreted through fieldwork as well as from old maps and documents.Michael Aston uses a wide range of source material to study the complex and dynamic history of the countryside, illustrating his points with aerial photographs, maps, plans and charts. He shows how to understand the surviving remains as well as offering his own explanations for how our landscape has evolved.Trade Review'...an interesting and stimulating account' - - Current Archaeology'...this is a book written to engage the interest of a wide readership, and it deserves to succeed' - - Antiquaries Journal'...an attractively presented and profusely illustrated book' - - Landscape Research'... a fascinating and lavishly-illustrated account' - 3rd Stone'[Aston] succeeds in putting over a series of potentially complex concepts in a straight-forward manner. The numerous illustrations and wealth of aerial photography enhance the text superbly.' - The Ley HunterTable of ContentsChapter 1 How do we know what we know?; Chapter 2 Early landscapes; Chapter 3 Estates and boundaries; Chapter 4 Status in the landscape; Chapter 5 Deserted villages and offer; Chapter 6 Surviving villages; Chapter 7 Farms and hamlets; Chapter 8 Sites and patterns; Chapter 9 Land uses; Chapter 10 Field systems; Chapter 11 Communications — the links between; Chapter 12 What does It all mean?;
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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 The Sugar Cane Industry 6001950 An Historical Geography from its Origins to 1914 12 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 12
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