Green Imperialism. Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860, Paperback - ***

The first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, especially its colonial and global aspects, Green Imperialism highlig...

Reducere. In Regeneration Through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and tradi...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Jiat-Hwee (National University of Singapore, Singapore) ChangIllustration(s): 6 Line drawings, black and ...

Reducere. We have been shockingly bad at using our Bibles and our brains when it comes to conservation and the environment. Unhinged environmentalism is not ...

Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour - Alexandre G. Mitchell

Examines the nineteenth-century royal tour from the perspectives of various historical actors - including royals, politicians and indigenous people...

Few of us have what it takes to go 'all the way' on the green scale. This title sets out your choices on a scale from 'completely green' to 'not ev...

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Reducere. The contemporary and mythological worlds collide in this 4th thrilling Pegasus adventure with a feisty female heroine. A deadly plague has struck O...

This is a revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers shows that it was the integrat...

World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected...

Reducere. Independent Publisher Book AwardsWe don't have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. And this book, which takes aim at cherished assumpti...

Reducere. Roger Williams purchased the fertile Aquidneck Island from the Narragansett tribe in 1637. It was here that Anne Hutchinson, along with William Cod...

Reducere. For those who eagerly awaited its periodic appearance, it was more than a publication: it was a way of life. The Whole Earth Catalog billed itself ...

In this revealing study, now available in a revised and expanded new edition, Christopher Wood shows how Altdorfer prised landscape out of its subs...

Reducere. Did rebel angels take on human bodies to fulfill their lust for the "daughters of men"?Did these fallen angels teach men to build weapons of war?Th...

American environmentalism historically has been associated with the interests of white elites. By examining negotiations of racial and ethnic ident...

Reducere. Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue credited with establishing the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the post col...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kojin KarataniTranslator: Joseph a. MurphyIn Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy--published originally in Japanese and n...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): David WhitehouseIllustration(s): Ill.Number of pages: 182Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 154 x 228...

Reducere. The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has l...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Minimal Selfhood and the Origins of Consciousness, R.D.V. Glasgow seeks to ground the logical roots of consciousness in what he has p...

Reducere. Pharaoh Akhenaten, who reigned for seventeen years in the fourteenth century B.C.E, is one of the most intriguing rulers of ancient Egypt. His odd ...

Reducere. DescriptionWith limited resources to contextualize masculinity in colonial Mexico, film, literature, and social history perpetuate the stereotype a...

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In the sixth century BC, Anaximander of Miletus, an associate of Thales, initiated Western philosophy and science with a theory of how the world or...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Eike ExnerIllustration(s): 10 colour, 50 black & white imagesNumber of pages: 270Publication date: 20...

In the sixth century BC, Anaximander of Miletus, an associate of Thales, initiated Western philosophy and science with a theory of how the world or...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Claudia LosiIllustration(s): 72 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 152Publication date: 2021Dimension...

How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in India Dur...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Elisabeth AndersonIllustration(s): 22 b/w illus. 14 tables.Number of pages: 384Collection: Princeto...

Reducere. How children and children's literature helped build America's empire America's empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twent...

Offers a vision of how Islam first evolved. This title argues that the origins of Islam lie in what we may call the Believers' movement begun by th...

Reducere. In this wide-ranging yet concise study, Alain de Benoist brings his incisive intelligence and wide erudition to bear on the fiercely debated subjec...

How did representative institutions become the central organs of governance in Western Europe? What enabled this distinctive form of political orga...

This book is about the origins of agriculture and plant domestication that occurred in the Neolithic Near East 10, 500 years ago. It is directed no...

Reducere. In the quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stant...

Reducere. Lukas Prize ProjectWinner of the Bancroft Prize King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New Engl...

Reducere. Evil walked the earth when angels fell. Evil stalks us now in disembodied spirits; immortal wraiths once clothed in flesh when angel and women bred...

How could enslaved women assert legal claims to personhood, wages, and virtue when the law regarded them as mere property? Fractional Freedoms tell...

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