Natures in Translation. Romanticism and Colonial Natural History, Hardback - Alan Bewell

Ultimately, Natures in Translation demonstrates that-far from being separate from the dominant concerns of British imperial culture-nature was inte...

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Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE) produced in his Natural History a vast compendium of Roman knowledge. Topics included are the mathematics and metrology ...

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Publisher: Somerset Archaeological and Natural History SocietyAuthor(s): Sue BakerIllustration(s): black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 25...

Ecology is the science of ecosystems, of habitats, of our world and its future. In the latest New Naturalist, ecologist David M. Wilkinson explains...

An original and revelatory exploration of the hidden world of slime - the substance upon which we and our world depend.Publisher: Granta BooksAutho...

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A book devoted to the critical decisions, key events, and breakthrough inventions and discoveries that shaped warfare throughout history and the wo...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the construction and contestation of popular culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteen...

This new, interdisciplinary history of romanticism, art and science, reveals how romantic artworks participated in a profound crisis concerning the...

This first complete history of Dr Williams's Trust and Library, deriving from the will of the nonconformist minister Daniel Williams (c.1643-1716) ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Anna (Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany) SailerIllustrat...

DescriptionThroughout British history rivers have been of profound economic, social and cultural importance--yet as we see with increasing frequenc...

The first of two volumes describing Australia's 1200 known species of bryozoans.Publisher: CSIRO PublishingNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 20...

A timely examination of the role of progressive Muslim intellectuals in the Pakistan movement. In Hidden Histories of Pakistan, Sarah Waheed offers...

How history was saved in seventeenth-century Mexico

Jacob Gorender's (1922-2013) 1978 book, Colonial Slavery (O Escravismo Colonial), comes alive for English-language readers thanks to Bernd Reiter a...

This is the story of plant life on Earth, retold through a remarkable record of spectacular fossils. Palaeobotanist Paul Kenrick explains the impor...

Provides the first comprehensive study of the architecture and architectural sculpture of Southern Peru in the late colonial period (1660s-1820s), ...

This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of disper...

The story of ancient cities from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Middle Ages: a tale of war and politics, pestilence and famine, ...

Spectacular, mysterious, elegant, or grotesque, the vertebrate skeletons of Earth's fossil record carry within them the traces of several billion y...

A prelude to Modernism - the diverse era of Romanticism in Germany and RussiaPublisher: Hirmer VerlagAuthor(s): State Tretyakov Gallery MoscowIllus...

Examines the ipact of Roman rule on the city of Lattara, Gaul 500-200 BCE, the development of new social and economic relationships and identity.

Offers new perspectives on the ideals and aims articulated by ancient city founders and their successors, and explores notions of urban ideals in t...

This book offers an innovative engagement with the diverse histories of colonial and indigenous medicines.

Reducere. DescriptionWhite servitude was one of the major institutions in the economy and society of early colonial British America. In fact more than half o...

The Natural History Museum, London is home to one of the world's most important and comprehensive collections of natural history specimens, literat...

An exploration of the culture of public speaking in the Iberian world, which places the classical rhetorical tradition within the context of Iberia...

Built between 1855 and 1860, Oxford University Museum of Natural History is the extraordinary result of close collaboration between Pre-Raphaelite ...

Brings Romanticism into dialogue with current understandings of consciousness.Publisher: Edinburgh University PressIllustration(s): 12 B/W illustra...

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What changes in the material culture can we observe, when a state is overwhelming a local population with soldiers, katoikoi, and civil officials o...

Elegantly and persuasively argues that natural theology was an important presence, not only in the natural histories of the eighteenth and nineteen...

An exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire...

Explores Colombia's violent colonial history by examining three seventeenth-century historical accounts of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day C...

Describes the evolution of military forces at the birth of Colonial North America, from first Jamestown Settlement to the end of the War of the Spa...

Reducere. Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eightee...

If the child is the father of the man, as William Wordsworth so famously declared, then what of the father that child grows to become?

"The Bell Curve", "The Moral Animal", "The Selfish Gene" - these and a host of other books and articles have made a seemingly overwhelming case tha...