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(Dis)Placing Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 229

(Dis)Placing Empire

Illustrated with case studies of British colonialism in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Ireland and New Zealand in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book uncovers the complex and unstable spaces of meaning which were central to the experience of emigrants, settlers, expatriates and indigenous peoples at different time/place moments under British rule.

Official Congressional Directory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1198

Official Congressional Directory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Politics of Trafficking
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 233

The Politics of Trafficking

Provides a historical, ethnographic account of the first movement to combat trafficking in women and girls for prostitution, initiated at an international congress in 1899, offering insights into gender and sexuality in global politics.

N.Y. Supreme Court, General COurt
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1430

N.Y. Supreme Court, General COurt

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

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Geography and Genealogy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 199

Geography and Genealogy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Genealogy has become a widely popular pursuit, as millions of people now research their family history, trace their forebears, attend family reunions and travel to ancestral home sites. Geographers have much to contribute to the serious study of the family history phenomenon. Land records, maps and even GIS are increasingly used by genealogical investigators. As a cultural practice, it encompasses peoples' emotional attachments to ancestral places and is widely manifest on the ground as personal heritage travel. Family history research also has significant potential to challenge accepted geographical views of migration, ethnicity, socio-economic class and place-based identities. This volume is possibly the first ever book to address the geographical and scholarly aspects of this increasingly popular social phenomenon. It highlights tools and information sources used by geographers and their application to family history research. Furthermore, it examines family history as a socio-cultural practice, including the activities of tourism, archival research and DNA testing.

A Thirst for Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 568

A Thirst for Empire

"Tea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. Over centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes--in land use, labor systems, market practices, and social hierarchies--the effects of which are with us even today. A Thirst for Empire takes a vast and in-depth historical look at how men and women--through the tea industry in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa--transformed global tastes and habits and in the process created our modern consumer society. As Erika Rappaport shows, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries the boundaries of the tea industry and the British Empire overl...

Heritage, Memory and the Politics of Identity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 166

Heritage, Memory and the Politics of Identity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The study of the cultural landscape has gained momentum in recent years, revealing new insights to geographers, archaeologists, sociologists and architects. The cultural landscape is often viewed as an emblematic site and thus a key player in the heritage process. This book explores the overlapping and often complex relationships between identity, memory, heritage and the cultural landscape. It provides an overview of new approaches in the study of these relationships, combined with evidence from Ireland, England, Scotland and the United States. These case studies demonstrate the significance of the past in the contemporary construction of identity narratives and draw attention to the powerful role of monuments and parades as sites of cultural heritage. The focus then shifts to the way in which heritage has become politicized for various ends, demonstrating the changing perception of particular heritage sites and buildings, and the role that this has played in constructing and reconstructing particular identities.

Mission & Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 441

Mission & Science

Science as an instrument to justify religious missions in secular society The relationship between religion and science is complex and continues to be a topical issue. However, it is seldom zoomed in on from both Protestant andCatholic perspectives. By doing so the contributing authors in this collection gain new insights into the origin and development of missiology. Missiology is described in this book as a “project of modernity,” a contemporary form of apologetics. “Scientific apologetics” was the way to justify missions in a society that was rapidly becoming secularized. Mission & Sciencedeals with the interaction between new scientific disciplines (historiography, geography, ethnology, anthropology, linguistics) and new scientific insights (Darwin’s evolutionary theory, heliocentrism), as well as the role of the papacy and what inspired missionary practice (first in China and the Far East and later in Africa). The renewed missiology has in turn influenced the missionary practice of the twentieth century, guided by apostolic policy. Some “missionary scholars” have even had a significant influence on the scientific discourse of their time.

Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military and Naval ...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1720

Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military and Naval ...

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1903
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Official Congressional Directory, 1997-1998
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1204

Official Congressional Directory, 1997-1998

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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