Описание: Focuses on the geographic area where humans originated and first began to make use of the natural world - Earth`s largest landmass, stretching from Portugal across the steppes of Russia and south across Africa to the Cape of Good Hope. By examining the history of human expansion, international scholars and regional experts weave sustainability into core curricular subjects.
Автор: Robin Kundis Craig, John Copeland Nagle, Bruce Pardy, Oswald J. Schmitz, William K. Smith Название: Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability: Ecosystem Management and Sustainability ISBN: 1933782161 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781933782164 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 28829.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Volume 5 of the Encyclopedia of Sustainability explores how we can preserve and restore habitats of all kinds.
Описание: Brings together essays from a group of renowned scholars and well-known environmentalist thinkers. Crucial topics are considered in terms of the future of humanity and its relationship with the natural world, from the outlook for nuclear energy, cities, energy, agriculture, water, food security, mobility, and migration; the role of higher education; and the concept of collective learning.
Автор: Vasey Daniel E Название: Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability: Vol.4 ISBN: 1933782129 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781933782126 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 18208.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Explores how human needs and desires, from sustenance and shelter to recreation and travel, have spurred the consumption of Earth`s material resources. Scientists, ecologists, and other expert authors present the historical impact of commercial activities, discuss the global distribution and use of renewable and nonrenewable resources, and focus on innovative approaches for the future.
Описание: Presents a thorough and accessible overview of the ways in which sustainability is charted worldwide. Some articles introduce basic concepts, such as quantitative versus qualitative data or the weak versus strong sustainability debate; others examine how indicators in specific areas have been applied (or not) to different regions.
Автор: Berghoff Hartmut, Biess Frank, Strasser Ulrike Название: German Histories and Pacific Histories: New Directions ISBN: 1789200288 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789200287 Издательство: Berghahn Рейтинг: Цена: 18361.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Traditionally, Germany has been considered a minor player in Pacific history: its presence there was more limited than that of other European nations, and whereas its European rivals established themselves as imperial forces beginning in the early modern era, Germany did not seriously pursue colonialism until the nineteenth century. Yet thanks to recent advances in the field emphasizing transoceanic networks and cultural encounters, it is now possible to develop a more nuanced understanding of the history of Germans in the Pacific. The studies gathered here offer fascinating research into German missionary, commercial, scientific, and imperial activity against the backdrop of the Pacific’s overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits.
Описание: Provides unprecedented analyses by regional experts and scholars on China, India, and their neighbours. The expanding global economic influence of this region makes these countries vital players in a sustainable future for all citizens of the Earth. Regional coverage includes topics such as business and commerce, environmental and corporate law, and lifestyles and values.
Автор: Cochrane, Ethan E.; Hunt, Terry L. Название: The Oxford handbook of prehistoric Oceania / ISBN: 0199925070 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199925070 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 21780.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania presents the archaeology, linguistics, environment and human biology of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. First colonized 50,000 years ago, Oceania witnessed the independent invention of agriculture, the construction of Easter Island`s statues, and the development of the word`s last archaic states.
Автор: Behlmer George K. Название: Risky Shores: Savagery and Colonialism in the Western Pacific ISBN: 1503605949 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781503605947 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4013.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Why did the so-called "Cannibal Isles" of the Western Pacific fascinate Europeans for so long? Spanning three centuries--from Captain James Cook's death on a Hawaiian beach in 1779 to the end of World War II in 1945--this book considers the category of "the savage" in the context of British Empire in the Western Pacific, reassessing the conduct of Islanders and the English-speaking strangers who encountered them. Sensationalized depictions of Melanesian "savages" as cannibals and headhunters created a unifying sense of Britishness during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These exotic people inhabited the edges of empire--and precisely because they did, Britons who never had and never would leave the home islands could imagine their nation's imperial reach.
George Behlmer argues that Britain's early visitors to the Pacific--mainly cartographers and missionaries--wielded the notion of savagery to justify their own interests. But savage talk was not simply a way to objectify and marginalize native populations: it would later serve also to emphasize the fragility of indigenous cultures. Behlmer by turns considers cannibalism, headhunting, missionary activity, the labor trade, and Westerners' preoccupation with the perceived "primitiveness" of indigenous cultures, arguing that British representations of savagery were not merely straightforward expressions of colonial power, but also belied home-grown fears of social disorder.
Описание: News headlines warn of rivalries and competing nations across Asia and the Pacific, even as powerful new cross-border relations form as never before. This book looks behind the Asia-Pacific curtain: at the new forms of social, economic, and political integration taking place through a global capitalism that is rife with contradictions, inequality, and crisis. We are moved beyond traditional conceptualizations of the inter-state system with its nation-state competition as the core organizing principle of world capitalism and the principal institutional framework that shapes the makeup of global social forces. These important studies examine and debate over how there is a growing transnationality of material (economic) relations in the global era, as well as an emerging transnationality of many social and class relations. How does transnational capitalist class fractions, new middle strata, and labor undergird globalization in Asia and Oceania? How have states and institutions become entwined with such processes? This book provides insight into a field of dynamic change.
Norwegians in colonial Africa and Oceania had varying aspirations and adapted in different ways to changing social, political and geographical circumstances in foreign, colonial settings. They included Norwegian shipowners, captains, and diplomats; traders and whalers along the African coast and in Antarctica; large-scale plantation owners in Mozambique and Hawai’i; big business men in South Africa; jacks of all trades in the Solomon Islands; timber merchants on Zanzibar’ coffee farmers in Kenya; and King Leopold’s footmen in Congo. This collection reveals narratives of the colonial era that are often ignored or obscured by the national histories of former colonial powers. It charts the entrepreneurial routes chosen by various Norwegians and the places they ventured, while demonstrating the importance of recognizing the complicity of such “non-colonial colonials” for understanding the complexity of colonial history.
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