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François Péron
An ambitious and meticulously researched biography, this title details the life of famed scientist Francois Peron--from his early years spent in the French revolutionary army to an ambitious medical student who gained a place as an assistant zoologist on Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australian waters. Discussing the expedition--which was famously marked by the vexed relationship between Peron and Baudin--this life story tells of Peron's profound achievements, including the pioneering observations in zoological, oceanographic, and ethnographic studies. A balanced assessment of the difficult yet engaging relationship between Peron and Baudin, this biography also acts as an analysis of the conduct of science during some of the most turbulent years in French history.
The Lost Australia of Francois Peron
Life of F. Peron; concentrates on work in Baudin Expedition, quotes extensively from Peron's papers; contact with Aborigines of Vasse R., Port Cygnet, Bruny Is., Oyster Bay (Maria Is.) King Is., King George Sound, Peron Peninsula; notes on physical appearance; dwellings (Port Cygnet, Peron Pen.); utensils, boats, cooking of shellfish (Port Cygnet); mausoleums (Maria Is.) killing of elephant seals (King Is.); contact with Malays on north-west shelf; includes index.
Clash of Cultures
Brian Fagan investigates the impact that European contact had on a number of societies around the world. Each case describes the pre-European culture, the short term impact of contact and the enduring changes caused by the clash of cultures.
Race, Culture, and Evolution
"We have, at long last, a real historian with real historical skills and no intra-professional ax to grind. . . . All these pieces show the virtues one finds missing in . . . nearly all of anthropological history work but [Stocking's]: extensive and critical use of archival sources, tracing of real rather than merely plausible intellectual connections, and contextualization of ideas and movements in terms of broader social and cultural currents. Stocking writes very clearly; attacks important topics—race and evolution, the influence of scientism, the interaction between anthropology and other disciplines; and is methodologically very sophisticated. Though his main theme is the development of racialism and of opposition to it, his book bears on a range of issues very much alive in anthropology. . . . I would think no apprentice anthropologist ought to be pronounced a journeyman until he or she has absorbed what Stocking has to say."—Clifford Geertz, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Experimental Inquiries
The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively early -- though not always under that name -- in the Australasian region. An initial lecturing appointment was made at the University of Melbourne imme diately after the Second World War, in 1946, and other appointments followed as the subject underwent an expansion during the 1950s and 1960s similar to that which took place in other parts of the world. Today there are major Departments at the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong, and smaller groups active in many other parts of Australia and in New Zealand. 'Austr...
The Naturalist’s Library. Mammalia. Amphibious Carnivora
Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
The Naturalists Library: Amphibious Carnivora
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
The Naturalist's Library. Mammalia. The Natural History of the Amphibious Carnivora
Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.
