Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal's Empire, 1450-1700, Hardcover - Hugh Cagle

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DescriptionFrom the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almos...

Publisher: University of California PressIllustration(s): 42 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 322Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 178 x 253 x 31C...

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Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has increased in recent years and has played an important part in the ...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingBy the mid-15th century the Byzan...

The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a m...

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A moving memoir of a young nurse's experience trekking with a local health team in rural Nepal, Beyond the Next Village chronicles how, after arriv...

Population Politics in the Tropics explores fears of population decline and policies in Portuguese Angola from 1890-1945. Utilising a wide range of...

DescriptionThe long-awaited second edition of this classic textbook expands on the first edition to include advances made in the last four decades,...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Virginia (McMaster University, Canada) AksanIllustration(s): 12 Line drawings, black and white; 10 Halfto...

DescriptionLiving in Paradise brims with the best of tropical residential designs. Architecture and interior design experts Annie Kelly and Tim Str...

This major new survey treats the most important trends during the latter years of the Ottoman Empire. In this second edition, Donald Quataert has u...

DescriptionWhat ever happened to the legend of El Dorado, the tale of the mythical city of gold lost in the Amazon jungle? Charlotte Rogers argues ...

Reducere. It was August 27, 1885. In a hospital in Lima, Peru, a student named Daniel Carrion was preparing to infect himself with a dreaded disease . . . He...

Concerned with rhetoric's role in shaping knowledge, culture, and society, this book shows how writers of both sexes engaged the discourse of learn...

Reducere. This thoroughly revised third edition of an award-winning book offers a keen insight into how the Scientific Revolution happened and why. Covering ...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Kwasi KonaduNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141 x 213 x 23Cover type: Paperb...

Hugh Aldersey-Williams transports us to the Dutch Golden Age - a time of immense scientific and artistic innovation - in this histo-biography of Ch...

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Examines the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. This work captures the mult...

Beginning with the return of the remnants of Magellan's circumnavigation in 1522 and ending with Charles' death in 1558, the author brings to life ...

Reducere. If you want to learn about the most important source of inspiration and symbolism to modern-day India, then keep reading...The Maurya Empire, which...

Drawing on hundreds of sources, this innovative book combines the history of scholarship, science, philosophy and religion to demonstrate how chang...

Describes the conquest of Paraguay and the River Plate, of the Yucatan in Mexico, the only partial conquest of Chile, and battles with the French o...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 142 bw illusNumber of pages: 328Collection: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern ArchitecturePublicati...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A broad overview of hunting of wildlife for food (wild meat, bushmeat) in the most biodiverse regions of the world. This book is invaluable for adv...

Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncove...

Discover some of the inspirational men and women who have received Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine from 1901 to the present day, am...