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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Die angemessene Vergütung des Urhebers: Risiken und Grenzen des Buy-out Vertrages im Filmbereich
Seit nunmehr über 15 Jahren prägt die Frage nach der Angemessenheit der Vergütung des Urhebers die Diskussion im Urheberrecht wie kaum eine andere. Der Gesetzgeber widmete sich diesem Thema im Rahmen zweier Reformen und schuf mit den §§ 32 ff. UrhG ein neuartiges Regelungskonzept, mit dem sich die urheberrechtliche Literatur und Rechtsprechung in der Folgezeit intensiv beschäftigte. Amit Datta analysiert die tiefgreifenden Auswirkungen dieser Entwicklungen in rechtlicher und wirtschaftlicher Hinsicht mit Blick auf die gängigen Vertragsformen im Filmbereich. Hierbei zeigt er, weshalb es bisher - entgegen verhaltensökonomischer Erwartungen - noch nicht flächendeckend zu der intendierten Stärkung der vertraglichen Stellung der Urheber gekommen ist. Vor dem Hintergrund der erarbeiteten Ergebnisse hinterfragt Amit Datta das Festhalten an den vorherrschenden Vertragsstrukturen und zeigt - unter Berücksichtigung der vertraglichen Praxis in den USA - Alternativen auf.Die Arbeit wurde mit dem Karlheinz-Quack-Preis 2017 der Juristischen Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ausgezeichnet.
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Grin Publishing Richard Neville Koenigsmacher zum Wohle Englands oder ein machthungriger Thronrauber
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Länder - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 2,1, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Geschichtswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Krieg und Frieden, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Person des Richard Neville, dem 16. Earl of Warwick, dem 6. Earl of Salisbury. Er ging in die Geschichte ein als der Königsmacher. Ein Name, den er sich erarbeitete, indem er die verschiedensten Könige, während der Zeit der Rosenkriege auf den Thron Englands hob. Beispielsweise mit dem Sturz Henry VI und der Einsetzung durch Edward IV, welcher sich aber auch nur als legitimer Thronfolger seines Vater Richard Plantagenet, des Duke of York, sah. Dieser war zwar nie direkt König von England, beanspruchte aber für sich den Thron, da er seiner Meinung nach dem Thron näher stand als jeder Lancaster. Das spätmittelalterliche England ist eins der Themen, die im deutschsprachigen Raum vernachlässigt werden. Zu
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Almuerzo en el café Gotham
Almuerzo en el café Gotham apareció originalmente en la antología Dark Love de 1995 (editada por Nancy A. Collins , Edward E. Kramer y Martin H. Greenberg).Un hombre llamado Steve Davis llega a casa un día y encuentra una carta de su esposa, Diane, que le dice con frialdad que ella lo ha dejado y tiene la intención de divorciarse. La partida de Diane lo impulsa a dejar los cigarrillos y comienza a sufrir abstinencia de nicotina. El abogado de Diane, William Humboldt, llama a Steve con planes de reunirse con los dos para almorzar. Se decide por el café Gotham y fija una fecha.La desesperación del protagonista por un cigarrillo y por su ex es casi insoportable, pero nada comparado con los horrores que le esperan en el moderno restaurante de Manhattan.
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Meteoor BVBA Animal Friends of Pica Pau 3: Gather All 20 Quirky Amigurumi Characters
Say hi to Pica Pau's sweetest friends! Meet Roberto Dachshund, Alberto Seagull, Humboldt Penguin, Horacio Polar Bear, Amalia Giraffe and many more: everyone is a happy member of the bustling Pica Pau family. They're earnest, warmhearted and gentle, and as soon as you've opened the book, you'll feel right at home. Toy maker, character designer and crochet knitter Yan Schenkel has collected the brightest amigurumi around her. In this book, she presents her expert knowledge of amigurumi crochet in 20 precious designs, and she also unveils the secrets to make her most beautiful creations. All patterns contain detailed instructions and are accompanied by step-by-step pictures and explanations of all techniques used, so both beginners and advanced crocheters can easily get acquainted with her amigurumi besties. Discover the phenomenon of Pica Pau and friends.
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Mondadori Electa California Elegance: Portraits from the Final Frontier
From San Francisco s most significant players to the innovation hub of Silicon Valley and the creative buzz of Hollywood, California Elegance brings you the very best of the Golden State. The changing landscapes of San Francisco, the redwood forests of Humboldt, the sands of Death Valley, the wonders of Yosemite, the slopes of Lake Tahoe, the bustle of Silicon Valley, the glamour of Hollywood and so much more are chronicled by Christine Suppes and Frederic Aranda. Through a combination of profiles and stories by Suppes, a lifelong Californian, and photographs by Aranda, the pair depict the unique personalities and natural beauty of the state, as well as its significant sites. Profiles and portraits include Governor Gavin Newsom and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, politicians Willie Brown and Jackie Speier, actor Kirsten Dunst, Glide Memorial Church pastor Cecil Williams, fashion designers Laura and Kate Mulleavy and Johnston Hartig, Queen Sugar author Natalie Baszile, young NASA scientists, social activists, farmers, firefighters, and award-winning astronomer Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz.
£64.00
La situación de las sociedades europeas. La desintegración del êthos y el Estado
[?] el gran problema de Europa en este momento es de civilización. El ocaso de la civilización europea se ha pronosticado muchas veces. Lo diferente esta vez consiste, por una acumulación de señales, datos e indicios, en que empieza a ser sentida masivamente como una posibilidad definitiva: ultima necat. Decía Humboldt que el azar es, junto la necesidad y la libertad humana, el tercer elemento de lo histórico. Y predicciones serias auguran que, de no producirse una variación de la tendencia por causas imprevistas, a partir del año 2020 iniciará Europa su declive inexorable al coincidir diversas circunstancias; el caos sobreviniente acaso solo podría ser contenido por regímenes dictatoriales. Hay un hecho total indiscutible: el mundo entero, que por primera vez está integrado en una sola constelación política, se está reorganizando al margen de Europa. Se cuenta con ella, porque tiene todavía mucho peso por su historia, su cultura, su economía? y por la inercia; pero cada vez menos. El
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University of Toronto Press The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism
Homeopathy was founded in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann who ardently proposed that "like cures like," counter to the conventional treatment of prescribing drugs that have the opposite effect to symptoms. Alice A. Kuzniar critically examines the alternative medical practice of homeopathy within the Romantic culture in which it arose. In The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism, Kuzniar argues that Hahnemann was a product of his time rather than an iconoclast and visionary. It is the first book in English to examine Hahnemann's unpublished writings, including case journals and self-testings, and links to his contemporaries such as Goethe and Alexander von Humboldt. Kuzniar's engaging writing style seamlessly weaves together medical, philosophical, semiotic, and literary concerns and reveals homeopathy as a phenomenon of its time. The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism sheds light on issues that continue to dominate the controversy surrounding homeopathy to this very day.
£25.99
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Die Patentierung von Tieren: Der Schutz geistigen Eigentums für Erfindungen in der Tierzucht im Rahmen der Biopatentrichtlinie 98/44/EG
Unter dem Slogan "Kein Patent auf Leben" erfährt die Patentierung von Lebewesen in der Öffentlichkeit erhebliche Kritik. Gregor Ischebeck setzt sich speziell mit der rechtlichen Zulässigkeit der Patentierung von Tieren in Deutschland und Europa auseinander. Durch die Anmeldung des so genannten "Harvard-Krebsmaus-Patentes" auf gentechnisch veränderte Versuchstiere und durch die Anmeldung des so genannten "Schweine-Patentes" auf besonders ertragreiche Schweine hat dieses Thema große Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Im Zentrum der Untersuchung steht, welche Patentierungsmöglichkeiten das deutsche und europäische Patentrecht bei Tieren bieten, inwieweit bestehende Beschränkungen mit dem Schutz geistigen Eigentums in Einklang zu bringen sind und welche Regelungsalternativen insbesondere auf Ebene der Patentwirkungen zu einem besseren Interessenausgleich zwischen Erfindern und Nutzern patentgeschützter Tiere führen könnten.Diese Arbeit wurde mit dem Fakultätspreis 2015 des Fachbereichs Rechtswissenschaft der Universität Bonn und dem Konrad-Redeker-Preis 2015 der Juristischen Fakultät der Humboldt Universität ausgezeichnet.
£109.26
Stanford University Press A Life in Shadow: Aimé Bonpland in Southern South America, 1817–1858
French naturalist and medical doctor Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858) was one of the most important scientific explorers of South America in the early nineteenth century. From 1799 to 1804, he worked alongside Alexander von Humboldt as the latter carried out his celebrated research in northern South America, but he later returned to conduct his own research farther south. A Life in Shadow accounts for the entire span of Bonpland's remarkable and diverse career in South America—in Argentina, Paraguay (where he was imprisoned for nearly a decade), Uruguay, and southernmost Brazil—based on extensive archival material. The study reconnects Bonpland's divided records in Europe and South America and delves into his studies of rural resources in interior regions of South America, including experimental cultivation techniques. This is a fascinating account of a man—a doctor, farmer, rancher, scientific explorer, and political conspirator—who interacted in many revealing ways with the evolving societies and institutions of South America.
£55.80
Schiffer Publishing Ltd This Was Logging: Drama in the Northwest Timber Country
"Someday" Big Fred Hewett used to say in his Humboldt Saloon in Aberdeen, Washington, "these pictures will show how the boys used to do it." He knew the day would come when the Pacific Northwest's "Big Woods" would be only a fog-blurred memory and the cry "Logs! More Logs!" would no longer be heard ringing up and down the skidroads. With the superb views of timber photographer Darius Kinsey, comprising more than 200 pictures made from wet plate celluloid negatives, 11" x 14", and processed by his pioneer wife, Tabitha, author Andrews dramatically presents a panorama of lumbering's great days in these woods from 1890 to 1925. Shown in sharp detail are the first axes, 12-foot crosscut saws, the first oxen and horses, the first donkey engines and "lokeys". Then the story continues into the "highball" days, the high production period with the steel tower skidders and miles of steel rigging.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Festschrift zu Ehren von Christian Kirchner: Recht im ökonomischen Kontext
Mit der Festschrift für Christian Kirchner sollte ein außergewöhnlicher akademischer Lehrer und Forscher zu seinem 70. Geburtstag geehrt werden, der in seiner die Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften umfassenden Laufbahn, zuletzt während seiner fast 20-jährigen Tätigkeit als Professor an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, entscheidend zur Entwicklung des modernen Wirtschaftsrechts, insbesondere des Wettbewerbs- sowie des Regulierungsrechts, beigetragen hat. Er gilt als einer der führenden Vordenker der Ökonomischen Theorie des Rechts. Überraschend ist der zu Ehrende am 17. Januar 2014 verstorben. Das Werk ist daher seinem Andenken gewidmet.Für die Festschrift haben zahlreiche renommierte Autoren aus Deutschland sowie unter anderem der Schweiz, den USA und Asien als Freunde, Weggefährten, Schüler und Kollegen Beiträge verfasst, die sich mit Problemen aus den zentralen Arbeitsgebieten des zu Ehrenden wissenschaftlich auseinandersetzen. Schwerpunkte der Beiträge bilden das Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht, Kartellrecht, Recht und Ökonomie der Regulierung sowie Institutionenökonomie. Dabei wird meist ein europäischer oder internationaler Bezug hergestellt und häufig eine wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Sichtweise gewählt.
£347.03
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Torah, Temple, Land: Constructions of Judaism in Antiquity
The present volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in October 2018 at Humboldt University Berlin. The articles reflect the different categories of describing Judaism of the Second Temple Period in view of their sustainability in characterising an ancient religious community in different historical situations and discuss relevant (re)constructions of ancient Judaism in the history of scholarship. Since the Persian period, ancient Judaism existed in a world which was in constant flux regarding its political, social, and religious contexts. Consequently, Judaism was subject to permanent processes of change in its self-perception as well as its external perception. In all complexity, however, the Torah, the Temple(s) as a place where heaven meets the earth, and the 'holy' or 'promised' land as the dwelling place of God's people can be regarded as institutions to which all kinds of Judaism in the Babylonian and Egyptian dispora as well in Israel/Palestine were related in some way or another.
£141.70
Oro Editions A Botany of Violence
From germ theory to plantation logic, this book charts the 528-year legacy of global, colonial powers in the violent search for the elusive Cinchona plant of South America, the only known natural cure for malaria in the world. Stolen by the Jesuits in the 17th century, smuggled abroad by Britain and Holland during the 18th century, mapped by German explorer Alexander von Humboldt in the 19th century, and exploited by global pharma in the 20th century, the Cinchona plant and the story of its powerful quinine extract not only lie at the base of modern civilisation but trace the deep roots of Indigenous, territorial resistance back to the Amazon and the Andes. Using the unfamiliar format of an illustrated historical timeline, the chronological organisation of images and stories presented as unique spatial evidence offer counter-narratives to the conventional bounded map of the nation state and the distancing of the past that often overshadows and obscures realities of the present-future.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Sketchbook Traveler Hudson Valley: Hudson Valley
Learn about artists and writers who explored it before you! Plein air basics are unpacked with sample works by the author, and pages of high-quality art paper provide open space for creating your own journal practice. Keeping visual journals has been popular for centuries, among artist-travelers like Albrecht Durer, J. M. W. Turner, Katsushika Hokusai, and David Hockney. Explorers like Jacques le Moyne, Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, and Marianne North also recorded their journeys in sketchbooks and diaries. Topographical drawing was essential. Knowing what destinations looked like helped travelers know they had arrived. Carrying this concept to the next level, Sketchbook Traveler expands plein air painting beyond the range of easels and backpacks, providing educators with instructional concepts, and giving professional artists new (and old) ways to hone mobile sketching skills. Inviting readers to explore their surroundings through drawing and writing, Sketchbook Traveler is a field guide to mindful engagement with personal experience in ways that make every day an adventure.
£20.69
Thames & Hudson Ltd The Great Naturalists
From Classical times to the 19th century, the great quest to discover and define the intoxicating diversity of the natural world attracted a host of intrepid thinkers and explorers. Aristotle and Linnaeus set out to classify nature; Joseph Banks and von Humboldt made perilous journeys to collect and record it. Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered bacteria with a homemade microscope and James Hutton revealed the immense age of the Earth. Mary Anning hunted fossils; others insects, birds and plants. Georges Cuvier pondered extinction, and Charles Darwin proclaimed the origin of species. With their radical thinking and commitment to close observation, these pioneers laid foundations for the specialist scientists of today. Here thirty-nine of them are brought vividly to life by an array of experts, with illustrations from the unmatched archive of the Natural History Museum, London.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Armsbearing and the Clergy in the History and Canon Law of Western Christianity
The history of the vexed relationship between clergy and warfare is traced through a careful examination of canon law. In the first millennium the Christian Church forbade its clergy from bearing arms. In the mid-eleventh century the ban was reiterated many times at the highest levels: all participants in the battle of Hastings, for example, who had drawn blood were required to do public penance. Yet over the next two hundred years the canon law of the Latin Church changed significantly: the pope and bishops came to authorize and direct wars; military-religious orders, beginning with the Templars, emerged to defend the faithful and the Faith; and individual clerics were allowed to bear arms for defensive purposes. This study examines how these changes developed, ranging widely across Europe and taking the story right up to the present day; it also considers the reasons why the original prohibition has never been restored. Lawrence G. Duggan is Professor of History at the University of Delaware and research fellowof the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
£75.00
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Armsbearing and the Clergy in the History and Canon Law of Western Christianity
The history of the vexed relationship between clergy and warfare is traced through a careful examination of canon law. In the first millennium the Christian Church forbade its clergy from bearing arms. In the mid-eleventh century the ban was reiterated many times at the highest levels: all participants in the battle of Hastings, for example, who had drawn blood were required to do public penance. Yet over the next two hundred years the canon law of the Latin Church changed significantly: the pope and bishops came to authorize and direct wars; military-religious orders, beginning with the Templars, emerged to defend the faithful and the Faith; and individual clerics were allowed to bear arms for defensive purposes. This study examines how these changes developed, ranging widely across Europe and taking the story right up to the present day; it also considers the reasons why the original prohibition has never been restored. LAWRENCE G. DUGGAN is Professor of History at the University of Delaware and research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
£24.99
Siruela Tumbas de poetas y pensadores El Ojo del Tiempo Spanish Edition
Cees Nooteboom, un viajero incansable, visita a sus muertos amados allá donde se encuentren para entablar diálogos con ellos, para verificar sus palabras, su inmortalidad. Peregrinó a la tumba de Neruda en Chile, a las de Vallejo y Cortázar en París, a la de Antonio Machado en Collioure, a la de Stevenson en Samoa y a la de Kawabata en Japón; a las de Keats y Shelley en Roma, en el cementerio de los extranjeros, donde también reposan el hijo de Goethe y uno de los hijos de Wilhelm von Humboldt; a las de Thomas Mann, James Joyce y Elias Canetti en Zúrich; a las de Balzac, Proust y Nerval en el cementerio de Père Lachaise de París; a las de Brecht y Hegel, que están enterrados en un pequeño camposanto en Berlín.Una obra extremadamente sugerente y reveladora de una de las más destacadas figuras de la literatura contemporánea.
£30.77
University of New Mexico Press Whither the Waters: Mapping the Great Basin from Bernardo de Miera to John C. Frémont
Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713–1785) is remembered today not only as colonial New Mexico’s preeminent religious artist, but also as the cartographer who drew some of the most important early maps of the American West. His “Plano Geographico” of the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin, revised by his hand in 1778, influenced other mapmakers for almost a century. This book places the man and the map in historical context, reminding readers of the enduring significance of Miera y Pacheco. Later Spanish cartographers, as well as Baron Alexander von Humboldt, Captain Zebulon Montgomery Pike, and Henry Schenck Tanner, projected or expanded upon the Santa Fe cartographer’s imagery. By so doing, they perpetuated Miera y Pacheco’s most notable hydrographic misinterpretations. Not until almost seventy years after Miera did John Charles Frémont take the field and see for himself whither the waters ran and whither they didn’t.
£25.95
ISTE Ltd Biogeography: An Integrative Approach of the Evolution of Living
The recent progress in analytical methods, aided by bringing in a wide range of other disciplines, opens up the study to a broader field, which means that biogeography now goes far beyond a simple description of the distribution of living species on Earth.Originating with Alexander von Humboldt, biogeography is a discipline in which ecologists and evolutionists aim to understand the way that living species are organized in connection with their environments. Today, as we face major challenges such as global warming, massive species extinction and devastating pandemics, biogeography offers hypotheses and explanations that may help to provide solutions.This book presents as wide an overview as possible of the different fields that biogeography interacts with. Sixteen authors from all over the world offer different approaches based on their specific areas of knowledge and experience; thus, we intend to illustrate the vast number of diverse aspects covered by biogeography.
£137.95
Hodder & Stoughton Standing Alone: A Matt Standing thriller from the bestselling author of the Spider Shepherd series
'The action scenes are deftly choreographed and Standing is an engaging protagonist' Financial TimesWhat makes a good man become an assassin?A Navy SEAL has gone rogue, selling his skills to the highest bidder as a professional assassin. Ryan French no longer cares who he kills so long as the price is right. His former bosses want him taken down, but they're not prepared to get their hands dirty so they need a Brit to do the job.SAS trooper Matt "Lastman" Standing is a lethal killing machine with experience in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Plus he's worked with French in the past. It's not a mission he wants, but Standing made a bad choice in his past and it has come back to haunt him. Now he's hunting French in the lawless Wild West forests of Humboldt County, where the US produces most of its legal - and illegal - cannabis.But French isn't the only predator in the wilderness - there are Mexican cartels, Russian Mafia and Hungarian gangsters - and Standing has to overcome them all to get to his target.
£8.99
Thames & Hudson Ltd The Great Journeys in History
Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong: these are some of the greatest travellers of all time. This book chronicles their stories and many more, describing epic voyages of discovery from the extraordinary migrations out of Africa by our earliest ancestors to the latest voyages into space. In antiquity, we follow Alexander the Great to the Indus and Hannibal across the Alps; in medieval times we trek beside Genghis Khan and Ibn Battuta. The Renaissance brought Columbus to the Americas and the circumnavigation of the world. The following centuries saw gaps in the global maps filled by Tasman, Bering and Cook, and journeys made for scientific purposes, most famously by von Humboldt and Darwin. In modern times, the last inhospitable ends of the earth were reached – including both poles and the world's highest mountain – and new elements were conquered. With evocative photographs, paintings and portraits, The Great Journeys in History reveals the stories of those who were there first, who explored the unexplored and who set out into the unknown, bringing alive the romance and thrill of travel.
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De mi vida Desde la mesa del dibujante y otros escritos
Se publican en este volumen "De mi vida" (Aus meinem Leben), un texto que fue componiéndose en sucesivas adiciones entre 1911 y 1952, y "Desde la mesa del dibujante" (1939), además de breves fragmentos autobiográficos que aparecieron en diversas publicaciones de Kubin. Si en "De mi vida" narra con toda sinceridad una trayectoria biográfica que va desde la infancia hasta la vejez, desde las travesuras iniciales hasta los problemas físicos causados por la edad, y destaca los efectos del paso del tiempo, en "Desde la mesa del dibujante" articula los momentos biográficos con acontecimientos y reflexiones sobre su propio trabajo, sobre la condición del dibujante y del ilustrador, pero también sobre el mundo que ha creado, su naturaleza crepuscular.La presente edición, en textos traducidos directamente del alemán, ha sido preparada por Sela Bozal, profesora de la Universidad Humboldt (Berlín), que ha revisado la traducción y escrito una amplia introducción.La capacidad para crear form
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Goethe y la experiencia de la naturaleza
Johann Wolfgang Goethe no solo fue el máximo exponente de su época como escritor. Su obra da cuenta además de una minuciosa dedicación a la investigación de las ciencias naturales y de una vida profundamente marcada por la naturaleza.Con una enorme fuerza narrativa, Stefan Bollmann explora en esta biografía la olvidada visión goethiana del mundo natural y nos ofrece a su vez una imagen de Goethe completamente nueva. Dedicado al estudio de diversos campos, que fueron la base intelectual de su amistad con figuras como Alexander von Humboldt, la vida de este genio nos revela no solo la importancia de la experiencia al aire libre, sino la idea del entorno natural visto como una totalidad orgánica y cambiante que depende de la interconexión de todas las formas de vida en la Tierra.Un libro que no solo nos muestra lo que Goethe representó en el contexto de la época, sino cómo el conocimiento de la naturaleza puede ser una fuente para comprender nuestra humanidad.
£23.94
La vida fuera de uno mismo
Cómo el arte, la literatura, la filosofía pueden llevarnos más allá de los límites de nuestro yo y hacernos descubrir quiénes somos en realidad.Como una experiencia capaz de barrer nuestra rutina, como una fractura olvidada, la aventura puede encender nuestros deseos silenciados. En un adictivo cuerpo a cuerpo con algunos textos fundamentales de la cultura occidental y las lecturas más originales de la contemporaneidad, Pietro Del Soldà pone en diálogo nuestros problemas cotidianos con las Historias de Heródoto, las intuiciones del sociólogo Georg Simmel con la Odisea de Kazantzakis, el teatro de Sartre con el Platón más autobiográfico y la sabiduría irónica de Montaigne. En un fascinante diario de viaje a través de los siglos y los continentes, el autor nos muestra cómo los griegos defendieron sus ideales de libertad en el campo de batalla de Maratón; en Sudamérica, seguimos los pasos de Alexander von Humboldt, precursor de una idea de la naturaleza que no pode
£20.19
Greystone Books,Canada Seaweed, an Enchanting Miscellany
A beautifully illustrated ode to the most sensuous family of water plants.Seaweed is so familiar, and yet we know so little about it. Even its names—pepper dulse, sea lettuce, bladderwrack—are mystifying.In this exquisitely illustrated portrait, poet and artist Miek Zwamborn shares discoveries of seaweed’s history, culture, and science. We encounter its medicinal and gastronomic properties and long history of human use, from the Neolithic people of the Orkney islands to sushi artisans in modern Japan. We find seaweed troubling Columbus on his voyages across the Atlantic and intriguing Humboldt in the Sargasso Sea. We follow its inspiration for artists from Hokusai to Matisse, its collection by Victorians as pressed specimens in books, its adoption into fashion and dance, and its potential for combating climate change, as a sustainable food source and a means of reducing methane emissions in cattle.And, of course, we learn how to eat seaweed, through a fabulous series of recipes based around these “truffles of the seas.”
£18.01
Lagartos huracanados y calamares plásticos
Por lo general, la naturaleza suele revelarse como algo fascinante a pesar del cambio climático, pero a veces lo hace, asombrosamente, a causa de él. Algunos lagartos abaniquillos (del género Anolis), por ejemplo, han ampliado las almohadillas de los dedos para agarrarse mejor a los árboles debido a la creciente frecuencia de los huracanes. Las poblaciones del calamar de Humboldt van en aumento porque la temperatura elevada del agua altera de tal modo su desarrollo que los pescadores los confunden con otra especie y los devuelven al mar. Las flores silvestres que Thoreau conoció en Walden Pond florecen ahora varias semanas antes en primavera, y hay aves que él jamás contempló por allí y hoy se han convertido en residentes permanentes porque migran desde el sur a medida que aumenta la temperatura.En Lagartos huracanados y calamares plásticos Thor Hanson explora los extraordinarios medios a través de los cuales las plantas y animales están respondiendo a la crisis climá
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Curating Transcultural Spaces: Perspectives on Postcolonial Conflicts in Museum Culture
Curating Transcultural Spaces asks what a museum which enables the presentation of multiple perspectives might look like. Can identity be global and local at the same time? How may one curate dual identity? More broadly, what is the link between the arts and processes of identity construction? This volume, an indispensable source for the process of engaging with colonial history in Germany and beyond, takes its starting point from the 'scandal' of the Humboldt Forum. The transfer of German state collections from the Ethnological Museum and the Museum for Asian Art, located at the margins of Berlin in Dahlem, into the centre of Germany's capital indicates the nation’s aspiration of purported multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism; yet the project’s resurrection of the site’s former Prussian city palace, which was demolished during the GDR, stands in opposition to its very mission, given that the Prussian rulers benefited from colonial exploitation. By examining the contrasting successes of other projects, such as the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC, Curating Transcultural Spaces compellingly argues for the necessity of taking post-colonial thinking on board in the construction of museum spaces in order to generate genuine exchange between multiple perspectives.
£85.00
The University of Chicago Press The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon
In the years immediately following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment's emphasis on mechanics and questioned the rising power of machines, seeking a return to the organic unity of an earlier age and triggering the artistic and philosophical movement of romanticism. Previous scholars have viewed romanticism and industrialization in opposition, but in this groundbreaking volume John Tresch reveals how thoroughly entwined science and the arts were in early nineteenth-century France and how they worked together to unite a fractured society. Focusing on a set of celebrated technologies, including steam engines, electromagnetic and geophysical instruments, early photography, and mass-scale printing, Tresch looks at how new conceptions of energy, instrumentality, and association fueled such diverse developments as fantastic literature, popular astronomy, grand opera, positivism, utopian socialism, and the Revolution of 1848. He shows that those who attempted to fuse organicism and mechanism in various ways, including Alexander von Humboldt and Auguste Comte, charted a road not taken that resonates today.
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El tercer paraíso
PREMIO ALFAGUARA DE NOVELA 2022Una novelaque abre una puerta a la esperanza de hallar en lo pequeño un refugio frente a las tragedias colectivas (Del acta del jurado)Se acerca el confinamiento de 2020 y el protagonista siente la tentación de retirarse a su cabaña en las afueras de Buenos Aires para hacer frente desde allí a lo que pueda venir. Mientras espera, cultiva un jardín con todo tipo de plantas y flores. Su amor por la naturaleza le lleva a indagar en la formación del pensamiento científico, el nacimiento de la botánica y la gran aventura de las expediciones europeas del siglo XVIII. Al mismo tiempo, rememora la historia de su familia, que fue arrancada de cuajo de sus raíces en Daglipulli, Chile, por la dictadura de Pinochet.Poco a poco este escenario singular se ve inundado por el recuerdo de las humildes dalias que plantaba su abuela Alba, la presencia exuberante y amenazadora de la selva amazónica con la que se encontró Humboldt en 1799 y la se
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JOVIS Verlag Bauakademie Berlin
Armin Linke’s night photography reveals the vacancy of the Bauakademie as a trace of Schinkel in Berlin’s urban fabric. The rudimentary replica of the corner construction raises questions about the future use and form of this centrally located site. Despite current majority support in Parliament for a reconstruction of the historical envelope―analogous to the recently completed Humboldt Forum―there are clearly more differentiated ideas among architects and urban society in Berlin about the future of the Bauakademie building. There is strong resistance to the appropriation of this important institution and building task by representational politics, that actually threaten to obscure more historical traces than they are supposed to make visible with the motto “As much Schinkel as possible”. At this important moment, Bauakademie Berlin offers conceptual perspectives for a contemporary Bauakademie in the form of texts, architectural drawings, and artist’s photographs. With texts by Sandra Bartoli, Stefanie Endlich, Philipp Oswalt, Tanja Scheffler, Dubravka Sekulić, Axel Sowa, Stephan Trüby, and Andreas Zeese. Photographs by Armin Linke and Gili Merin
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Heyday Books Grave Matters: The Controversy over Excavating California's Buried Indigenous Past
How do we reconcile the sanctity of Indigenous burial grounds with the desire to study them? Whether by curious Boy Scouts and “backyard archaeologists” or competitive collectors and knowledge-hungry anthropologists, the excavation of Native remains is a practice fraught with injustice and simmering resentments. Grave Matters is the history of the treatment of Native remains in California and the story of the complicated relationship between researcher and researched. Tony Platt begins his journey with his son’s funeral at Big Lagoon, a seaside village in pastoral Humboldt County in Northern California, once O-pyúweg, a bustling center for the Yurok and the site of a plundered native cemetery. Platt travels the globe in search of the answer to the question: How do we reconcile a place of extraordinary beauty with its horrific past? Grave Matters centers the Yurok people and the eventual movement to repatriate remains and reclaim ancient rights, but it is also a universal story of coming to terms with the painful legacy of a sorrowful past. This book, originally published in 2011, is updated here with a preface by the author.
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The University of Chicago Press The Essential Naturalist: Timeless Readings in Natural History
Like nearly every area of scholarly inquiry today, the biological sciences are broken into increasingly narrow fields and subfields, their practitioners divided into ecologists, evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, paleontologists, and much more. But all these splintered pieces have their origins in the larger field of natural history - and in this era when climate change and relentless population growth are irrevocably altering the world around us, perhaps it's time to step back and take a new, fresh look at the larger picture. "The Essential Naturalist" offers exactly that: a wide-ranging, eclectic collection of writings from more than eight centuries of observations of the natural world, from Leeuwenhoek to E. O. Wilson, from von Humboldt to Rachel Carson. Featuring commentaries by practicing scientists that offer personal accounts of the importance of the long tradition of natural history writing to their current research, the volume serves simultaneously as an overview of the field's long history and as an inspirational starting point for new explorations, for trained scientists and amateur enthusiasts alike.
£40.00
James Currey African Theatre 8: Diasporas
This volume in the African Theatre series celebrates the African theatrical diaspora from Brazil to Tasmania, and Canada to Cuba, and also includes the playscript Messing with the Mind by Egyptian writer and director Khaled El-Sawy. Diasporas', as used in the title of this volume, refers to a multitude of groups and communities with widely differing histories, identities and current locations. This book brings together essays on theatre by people of Africandescent in North America, Cuba, Italy, the UK, Israel and Tasmania. Several chapters present overviews of particular national contexts, others offer insights into play texts or specific performances. Offering a mix of academic andpractitioner's points of views, Volume 8 in the African Theatre series analyses and celebrates various aspects of African diasporic theatre worldwide. Guest Editors: CHRISTINE MATZKE, Lecturer in African Literatures and Cultures, Humboldt-University, Berlin; and OSITA OKAGBUE, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Drama, Goldsmiths, University of London. Series Editors: Martin Banham, Emeritus Professor of Drama & Theatre Studies,University of Leeds; James Gibbs, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, University of the West of England; Femi Osofisan, Professor of Drama at the University of Ibadan; Jane Plastow, Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds;Yvette Hutchison, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick
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Stanford University Press The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation
The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation provides an account of the long arc of dispossession from the British Romantic period to today. Lenora Hanson glimpses histories of subsistence (such as reproductive labor, vagrancy and criminality, and unwaged labor) as figural ways of living that are superfluous—simultaneously more than enough to live and less than what is necessary for capitalism. Hanson treats rhetorical language as an archive of capital's accumulation through dispossession, in works by S.T. Coleridge, Edmund Burke, Mary Robinson, William Wordsworth, Benjamin Moseley, Joseph Priestley, and Alexander von Humboldt, as well as in contemporary film and critical theory. Reading riots through apostrophe, enclosure through anachronism, superstition and witchcraft through tautology, and the paradoxical coincidence of subsistence living with industrialization, Hanson shows the figural to be a material record of the survival of non-capitalist forms of life within capitalism. But this survival is not always-already resistant to capitalism, nor are the origins of capital accumulation confined to the Romantic past. Hanson reveals rhetorical figure as entwined in deeply ambivalent ways with the circuitous, ongoing process of dispossession. Reading both historically and rhetorically, Hanson argues that rhetorical language records histories of dispossession and the racialized, gendered distribution of the labor of subsistence. Romanticism, they show, is more contemporary than ever.
£72.90
Bodleian Library Volcanoes: Encounters through the Ages
For centuries, volcanic eruptions have captured our imaginations. Whether as signposts to an underworld, beacons to ancient mariners, or as an extraordinary manifestation of the natural world, volcanoes have intrigued many people, who have left records of their encounters in letters, reports and diaries and through sketches and illustrations. This book tells the stories of volcanic eruptions around the world, using original illustrations and first-hand accounts to explore how our understanding of volcanoes has evolved through time. Written accounts include Pliny’s description of the 79 CE eruption of Vesuvius, stories recounted by seventeenth-century sea-farers, and reports of expeditions made by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century natural historians, including Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin. Illustrations range from fragments of scrolls, buried in the great eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii, to Athanasius Kircher’s extraordinarily detailed sketches, made in the seventeenth century, to the spectacular London sunsets caused by Krakatoa’s eruption in 1883. They also include the first photograph of a volcanic eruption and twenty-first-century imaging of Santorini. These varied and compelling accounts enrich our perspective on current studies of volcanoes and challenge us to think about how we might use our contemporary understanding of volcanology to prepare for the next big eruption.
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Bard Graduate Center, Exhibitions Department The Museum in the Cultural Sciences - Collecting, Displaying, and Interpreting Material Culture in the Twentieth Century
In early twentieth-century Berlin, the museumsdebate was set into motion with Wilhelm von Bode's sweeping proposal to reorganize a group of the city's museums. Between 1907 and 1910, two particularly striking series of articles appeared in the journal Museumskunde: Journal for the Administration and Technology of Public and Private Collections. The first was a six-part essay by Otto Lauffer on history museums and the second was a ten-part piece by Oswald Richter regarding ethnographic museums, and both initiated a century of important dialogue. Presented together here as Collecting, Displaying, and Interpreting Material Culture, these first full English translations of the two book-length articles remain unequalled presentations about the different implications of art, historical, and ethnographic museums. They show how sophisticated the discussion of museums and museum display was in the early twentieth century, and how much could be gained from revisiting these reflections today. Accompanied with short commentaries by a group of museum professionals, these translations and associated commentaries allow for an intervention and intensification of the current level of debate about museums, one that will further invigorated by the opening of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin in 2019.
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Ivan R Dee, Inc Footsteps in the Jungle: Adventures in the Scientific Exploration of American Tropics
Jonathan Maslow here portrays thirteen scientists whom he calls “the luckiest men and women of all time”—the explorers who first mapped the tropical regions of the Americas and discovered the glorious biological orgy that is nature in the tropics. They were the first to color the chorus of tropical birds; the first to know the swiftness of the jaguar; the first to learn the loves of the orchid family and to collect the daunting variety of moths and butterflies and beetles; the first to run the rivers of the Amazon, to climb the Andes, and to dive the coral reefs of the Caribbean; and the first to unearth the ruins of America’s pre-Columbian civilizations. “They were and are,” Mr. Maslow writes, "the Indiana Joneses of science, plunging ahead often recklessly on the path to discovery—and emerging with fabulous tales of scientific adventure...an antidote to the dismal late-twentieth-century image of bloodless scientists separated from nature." From Alexander von Humboldt to Daniel Janzen, Mr. Maslow invites you to tag along into the field as he follows the explorers on their voyages and expeditions, offering a companion guide to their discoveries and a context for their imaginative quests.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Mountains and the German Mind: Translations from Gessner to Messner, 1541-2009
The first scholarly English translations of thirteen vital texts that elucidate the central role mountains have played across nearly five centuries of Germanophone cultural history. Mountains have occupied a central place in German, Swiss, and Austrian intellectual culture for centuries. This volume offers the first scholarly English translations of thirteen key texts from the Germanophone tradition of engagement with mountains. The selected texts span over 450 years, ranging from the early modern period to the postmodern era, and encompass several discursive modes of the mountain experience including geographical descriptions, philosophical meditations, aesthetic deliberations, and autobiographical climbing narratives. Well-known figures covered in this translational sourcebook include Conrad Gessner, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, G.W.F. Hegel, Alexander von Humboldt, Georg Simmel, Leni Riefenstahl, and Reinhold Messner. Each text is accompanied by a critical introduction that places the translated text within a broader cultural context. The dual translational-interpretational approach offered in this volume is intended to stimulate new international and interdisciplinary dialogue on the cultural history of mountains and mountaineering. Sean Ireton (University of Missouri) and Caroline Schaumann (Emory University) are also the editors of Heights of Reflection: Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century (2012).
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The University of Chicago Press The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter
Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This knowledge rests not only on the recordings of seismographs, but also on the observations of eyewitnesses to destruction. During the nineteenth century, a scientific description of an earthquake was built of stories - stories from as many people in as many situations as possible. Sometimes their stories told of fear and devastation, sometimes of wonder and excitement. In "The Earthquake Observers", Deborah R. Coen acquaints readers not only with the century's most eloquent seismic commentators, including Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Karl Kraus, Ernst Mach, John Muir, and William James, but also with countless other citizen-observers, many of whom were women. Coen explains how observing networks transformed an instant of panic and confusion into a field for scientific research, turning earthquakes into natural experiments at the nexus of the physical and human sciences. Seismology abandoned this project of citizen science with the introduction of the Richter Scale in the 1930s, only to revive it in the twenty-first century in the face of new hazards and uncertainties. "The Earthquake Observers" tells the history of this interrupted dialogue between scientists and citizens about living with environmental risk.
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Hodder & Stoughton Standing Alone: A Matt Standing thriller from the bestselling author of the Spider Shepherd series
'The action scenes are deftly choreographed and Standing is an engaging protagonist' Financial Times'The quick-fire pace of a classic Leather guys-with-guns thriller that again hits the target' The SunWhat makes a good man become an assassin?A Navy SEAL has gone rogue, selling his skills to the highest bidder as a professional assassin. Ryan French no longer cares who he kills so long as the price is right. His former bosses want him taken down, but they're not prepared to get their hands dirty so they need a Brit to do the job.SAS trooper Matt "Lastman" Standing is a lethal killing machine with experience in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Plus he's worked with French in the past. It's not a mission he wants, but Standing made a bad choice in his past and it has come back to haunt him. Now he's hunting French in the lawless Wild West forests of Humboldt County, where the US produces most of its legal - and illegal - cannabis.But French isn't the only predator in the wilderness - there are Mexican cartels, Russian Mafia and Hungarian gangsters - and Standing has to overcome them all to get to his target.
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The University of Chicago Press Richard Owen: Biology without Darwin
In the mid-1850s, no scientist in the British Empire was more visible than Richard Owen. Mentioned in the same breath as Newton and championed as Britain's answer to France's Cuvier and Germany's von Humboldt, Owen was, as the "Times" declared in 1856, the most 'distinguished man of science in the country'. But a century and a half later, Owen remains largely obscured by the shadow of the most famous Victorian naturalist of all, Darwin. Publicly marginalized by his contemporaries for his critique of natural selection, Owen suffered personal attacks that undermined his credibility long after his name faded from history. With this innovative biography, Nicolaas Rupke resuscitates Owen's reputation. Arguing that Owen should no longer be judged by the evolution dispute that figured in only a minor part of his work, Rupke stresses context, emphasizing the importance of places and practices in the production and reception of scientific knowledge. Dovetailing with the recent resurgence of interest in Owen's life and work, Rupke's book brings the forgotten naturalist back into the canon of the history of science and demonstrates how much biology existed with, and without, Darwin.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Geographia Literaria – Studies in Earth, Ethics, and Literature
By sensing the fundamental ideas of earth and the earth-thought, this collection seeks to negotiate with and react to the underlying semasiological or psycho-geographical principle of geopoetics that cuts across varied and at times conflicting schools. From reading some geopoetical texts to understanding the idea of earth in Humboldt and Marx-Engels, topolitics in Tintin, reef-thinking, geopoet(h)ics and Asiabodh, the volume tries to perceive how we poetically exist with the earth. Isn't literature, taking a cue from Hölderlin, a symptom of the way "man lives poetically on the earth"? How is our body and psyche integral parts of the earth-thought? How does literature deal with the concepts of space and place? How literature enables us to comprehend the underlying principle of geopoetics -- the principle of finding art in earth? These are some of the critical questions which this volume seeks to explore. Literature exemplifies a geographical consciousness - an "intimate and subjective" experience of the earth. This book is an attempt to conceive this eclectic infusion of art and earth, so that we are able to ensure that the world of the art always remains in touch with the earth of the world. Let us, through this book, un-earth this deep-rooted spatiality and geographicality in literature. Let us imitate earth through art, as this is the only place where we can live.
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Princeton University Press The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 43: 11 March to 30 June 1804
After the congressional session ends, Jefferson leaves Washington and goes home to Monticello, where his ailing daughter Mary dies on 17 April. Among the letters of condolence he receives is one from Abigail Adams that initiates a brief resumption of their correspondence. While in Virginia, Jefferson immerses himself in litigations involving land. Back in the capital, he finds that he must reconcile differing opinions of James Madison and Albert Gallatin to settle a claim for diplomatic expenses. He corresponds with Charles Willson Peale about modifications to the polygraph writing machine. He prepares instructions for an expedition to explore the Arkansas and Red Rivers. William Clark and Meriwether Lewis send him maps and natural history specimens from St. Louis. Alexander von Humboldt visits Washington. News arrives that a daring raid led by Stephen Decatur Jr. has burned the frigate Philadelphia to deprive Tripoli of its use. Jefferson is concerned that mediation by Russia or France to obtain the release of the ship's crew could make the United States appear weak. Commodore Samuel Barron sails with frigates to reinforce the squadron in the Mediterranean. Jefferson appoints John Armstrong to succeed Robert R. Livingston as minister to France and attempts to persuade Lafayette to move to Louisiana. In Paris, Napoleon is proclaimed Emperor of the French. Jefferson has "brought peace to our Country and comfort to our Souls," John Tyler writes from Virginia.
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The University of Chicago Press The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon
In the years immediately following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment's emphasis on mechanics and questioned the rising power of machines, seeking a return to the organic unity of an earlier age and triggering the artistic and philosophical movement of romanticism. Previous scholars have viewed romanticism and industrialization in opposition, but in this groundbreaking volume John Tresch reveals how thoroughly entwined science and the arts were in early nineteenth-century France and how they worked together to unite a fractured society. Focusing on a set of celebrated technologies, including steam engines, electromagnetic and geophysical instruments, early photography, and mass-scale printing, Tresch looks at how new conceptions of energy, instrumentality, and association fueled such diverse developments as fantastic literature, popular astronomy, grand opera, positivism, utopian socialism, and the Revolution of 1848. He shows that those who attempted to fuse organicism and mechanism in various ways, including Alexander von Humboldt and Auguste Comte, charted a road not taken that resonates today. Essential reading for historians of science, intellectual and cultural historians of Europe, and literary and art historians, "The Romantic Machine" is poised to profoundly alter our understanding of the scientific and cultural landscape of the early nineteenth century.
£80.00
Stanford University Press The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation
The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation provides an account of the long arc of dispossession from the British Romantic period to today. Lenora Hanson glimpses histories of subsistence (such as reproductive labor, vagrancy and criminality, and unwaged labor) as figural ways of living that are superfluous—simultaneously more than enough to live and less than what is necessary for capitalism. Hanson treats rhetorical language as an archive of capital's accumulation through dispossession, in works by S.T. Coleridge, Edmund Burke, Mary Robinson, William Wordsworth, Benjamin Moseley, Joseph Priestley, and Alexander von Humboldt, as well as in contemporary film and critical theory. Reading riots through apostrophe, enclosure through anachronism, superstition and witchcraft through tautology, and the paradoxical coincidence of subsistence living with industrialization, Hanson shows the figural to be a material record of the survival of non-capitalist forms of life within capitalism. But this survival is not always-already resistant to capitalism, nor are the origins of capital accumulation confined to the Romantic past. Hanson reveals rhetorical figure as entwined in deeply ambivalent ways with the circuitous, ongoing process of dispossession. Reading both historically and rhetorically, Hanson argues that rhetorical language records histories of dispossession and the racialized, gendered distribution of the labor of subsistence. Romanticism, they show, is more contemporary than ever.
£23.39
Leuven University Press Working Through Colonial Collections: An Ethnography of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin
Reckoning with colonial legacies in Western museum collections What are the possibilities and limits of engaging with colonialism in ethnological museums? This book addresses this question from within the Africa department of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. It captures the Museum at a moment of substantial transformation, as it prepared the move of its exhibition to the Humboldt Forum, a newly built and contested cultural centre on Berlin's Museum Island. The book discusses almost a decade of debate in which German colonialism was negotiated, and further recognised, through conflicts over colonial museum collections. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork examining the Museum's various work practices, this book highlights the Museum's embeddedness in colonial logics and shows how these unfold in the Museum's everyday activity. It addresses the diverse areas of expertise in the Ethnological Museum - the preservation, storage, curation, and research of collections - and also draws on archival research and oral history interviews with current and former employees. Working through Colonial Collections unravels the ongoing and laborious processes of reckoning with colonialism in the Ethnological Museum's present - processes from which other ethnological museums, as well as Western museums more generally, can learn. Free ebook available at OAPEN Library, JSTOR, Project Muse, and Open Research Library
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New Directions Publishing Corporation An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to travel West from Europe to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Rugendas did in fact become one of the best of the nineteenth-century European painters to venture into Latin America. However this is not a biography of Rugendas. This work of fiction weaves an almost surreal history around the secret objective behind Rugendas' trips to America: to visit Argentina in order to achieve in art the "physiognomic totality" of von Humboldt's scientific vision of the whole. Rugendas is convinced that only in the mysterious vastness of the immense plains will he find true inspiration. A brief and dramatic visit to Mendosa gives him the chance to fulfill his dream. From there he travels straight out onto the pampas, praying for that impossible moment, which would come only at an immense pricean almost monstrously exorbitant price that would ultimately challenge his drawing and force him to create a new way of making art. A strange episode that he could not avoid absorbing savagely into his own body interrupts the trip and irreversibly and explosively marks him for life.
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