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Word Across the Water
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Word Across the Water

In Word Across the Water, Tom Smith brings the histories of Hawai'i and the Philippines together to argue that US imperial ambitions towards these Pacific archipelagos were deeply intertwined with the work of American Protestant missionaries. As self-styled interpreters of history, missionaries produced narratives to stoke interest in their cause, locating US imperial interventions and their own evangelistic projects within divinely ordained historical trajectories. As missionaries worked in the shadow of their nation's empire, however, their religiously inflected historical narratives came to serve an alternative purpose. They emerged as a way for missionaries to negotiate their own status between the imperial and the local and to come to terms with the diverse spaces, peoples, and traditions of historical narration that they encountered across different island groups. Word Across the Water encourages scholars of empire and religion alike to acknowledge both the pernicious nature of imperial claims over oceanic space underpinned by religious and historical arguments, and the fragility of those claims on the ground.

Natural Selection and Beyond
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 509

Natural Selection and Beyond

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 - 1913) was one of the late nineteenth century's most potent intellectual forces. His link to Darwin as co-discoverer of the principle of natural selection alone would have secured him a place in history, but he went on to complete work entitling him to recognition as the 'father' of modern biogeographical studies, as a pioneer in the field of astrobiology, and as an important contributor to subjects as far-ranging as glaciology, land reform, anthropology and ethnography, and epidemiology. Beyond this, many are coming to regard Wallace as the pre-eminent field biologist, collector, and naturalist of tropical regions. Add to that the fact that he was a vocal suppor...

Genealogy and memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and their descendants
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 625
The London Gazette
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1192

The London Gazette

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1850
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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London Gazette
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 42

London Gazette

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1917
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1000

Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1937
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Biodiversity Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 490

Biodiversity Studies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Science librarian Smith (Western Kentucky U.) cites literature both on the biological study of diversity itself, and on the socio-natural science of diversity conservation. The main part lists over 5,700 monographs and articles, and the second identifies a selection of over 100 special issues of serial publications in which the main theme is related to biodiversity studies. The entries include ratings of the number of citations the work has received in the literature, and key words. The indexes are by general subject, geography, and organism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Debrett's Illustrated Peerage and Baronetage, Titles of Courtesy and the Knightage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2210

Debrett's Illustrated Peerage and Baronetage, Titles of Courtesy and the Knightage

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1921
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Includes an unpaged appendix, "royal warrant holders," and 19 a "war honours supplement."

History of the Descendants of Peter Spicer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 706

History of the Descendants of Peter Spicer

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1911
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Polk's Crocker-Langley San Francisco City Directory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1516

Polk's Crocker-Langley San Francisco City Directory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1888-05
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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