The Enclosure of Knowledge. Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660-1800, Hardback - James D. (University of Exeter) Fisher

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Surveys 'mobile readers' in the age of the British Empire to explore what books meant to shipboard readers, Scottish emigrants, convicts en route t...

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During the pivotal 19th-century 'decade of reform', British politicians wrestled over the best ways to address Irish agrarian violence - branded as...

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In this thought-provoking volume, Eran Fisher interrogates the relationship between algorithms as epistemic devices and modern notions of subjectiv...

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A timely anthropological examination of the effect of land claims settlements and co-management of resources on the Kluane First Nation of the Sout...

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