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Through America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 530

Through America

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The Book Fancier
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

The Book Fancier

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1886
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Hunting for Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Hunting for Empire

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11-01
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

Hunting for Empire offers a fresh cultural history of sport and imperialism. Greg Gillespie integrates critical perspectives from cultural studies, literary criticism, and cultural geography to analyze the themes of authorship, sport, science, and nature. In doing so he produces a unique theoretical lens through which to study nineteenth-century British big-game hunting and exploration narratives from the western interior of Rupert's Land. Sharply written and evocatively illustrated, Hunting for Empire will appeal to students and scholars of culture, sport, geography, and history, and to general readers interested in stories of hunting, empire, and the Canadian wilderness.

Special Maps of Persia 1477-1925
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 484

Special Maps of Persia 1477-1925

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-01-30
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume complements the best-seller and award-winning General Maps of Persia. Cyrus Alai continued his research and collected further material to produce this volume, covering every map of that region, other than general maps.

Miscellaneous
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 786

Miscellaneous

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1884
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Nature of Tomorrow
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

The Nature of Tomorrow

An examination of how Western visions of endless future growth have contributed to the global environmental crisis For centuries, the West has produced stories about the future in which humans use advanced science and technology to transform the earth. Michael Rawson uses a wide range of works that include Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, the science fiction novels of Jules Verne, and even the speculations of think tanks like the RAND Corporation to reveal the environmental paradox at the heart of these narratives: the single-minded expectation of unlimited growth on a finite planet. Rawson shows how these stories, which have long pervaded Western dreams about the future, have helped to enable an unprecedentedly abundant and technology-driven lifestyle for some while bringing the threat of environmental disaster to all. Adapting to ecological realities, he argues, hinges on the ability to create new visions of tomorrow that decouple growth from the idea of progress.

Cattle Plague
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 806

Cattle Plague

Cattle Plague: A History is divided into five sections, dealing with the nature of the virus, followed by a chronological history of its occurrence in Europe from the Roman Empire to the final 20th century outbreaks; then administrative control measures through legislation, the principal players from the 18th century, followed by an analysis of some effects, political, economic and social. Then follows attempts at cure from earliest times encompassing superstition and witchcraft, largely Roman methods persisting until the 19th century; the search for a cure through inoculation and the final breakthrough in Africa at the end of the 19th century. The last section covers the disease in Asia and Africa. Appendices cover regulations now in force to control the disease as well as historical instructions, decrees and statutes dating from 1745-1878.

The Ethnographic State
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

The Ethnographic State

France and the sociology of Islam, 1798-1890 -- The Algerian origins of Moroccan studies, 1890-1903 -- The political origins of the Moroccan colonial archive, 1900-1912 -- When paradigms shift : political and discursive contexts of the Moroccan question -- Tensions of empire : institutional contexts of research -- Social research in the technocolony : the colonial archive institutionalized, 1912-25 -- Berber policy : tribe and state -- Urban policy : Fez and the Muslim city -- The invention of Moroccan Islam -- From Moroccan Islam to the ethnographic state.

Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 844

Publishers' circular and booksellers' record

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1882
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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