The West Bank of Greater New Orleans: A Historical Geography, Richard Campanella
Автор: Duane W. Roller Название: A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo ISBN: 1107180651 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107180659 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 28829.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Geography of Strabo is the primary source for the history of Greek geography. This Guide provides the first English commentary on this long and difficult text, and serves as a companion to the author`s The Geography of Strabo, the first English translation of the work in many years.
Автор: Bernstein, David, Название: How the West was drawn : ISBN: 0803249306 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803249301 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 12415.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. David Bernstein argues that the American West was a collaborative construction between Native peoples and Euro-American empires that developed cartographic processes and culturally specific maps, which in turn reflected encounter and conflict between settler states and indigenous peoples.
Bernstein explores the cartographic creation of the Trans-Mississippi West through an interdisciplinary methodology in geography and history. He shows how the Pawnees and the Iowas—wedged between powerful Osages, Sioux, the horse- and captive-rich Comanche Empire, French fur traders, Spanish merchants, and American Indian agents and explorers—devised strategies of survivance and diplomacy to retain autonomy during this era. The Pawnees and the Iowas developed a strategy of cartographic resistance to predations by both Euro-American imperial powers and strong indigenous empires, navigating the volatile and rapidly changing world of the Great Plains by brokering their spatial and territorial knowledge either to stronger indigenous nations or to much weaker and conquerable American and European powers.
How the West Was Drawn is a revisionist and interdisciplinary understanding of the global imperial contest for North America’s Great Plains that illuminates in fine detail the strategies of survival of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas amid accommodation to predatory Euro-American and Native empires.
Автор: Amundsen Название: The North West Passage ISBN: 1108071597 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108071598 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5386.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Finding a way through the North-West Passage had defeated Arctic explorers during the nineteenth century. First published in Norwegian in 1907, and reissued here in its 1908 English translation, this copiously illustrated two-volume work by Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) recounts the first successful navigation of this challenging sea route.
Описание: An enthusiastic promoter of polar exploration, John Brown (1797-1861) published in 1858 this account of previous Arctic voyages and the searches for the Franklin expedition. It is reissued here in one volume with its 1860 sequel, which covers the 1857-9 expedition that discovered evidence of the missing men.
Описание: Published under a pseudonym in 1824 by Bounty mutineer and naval hydrographer Peter Heywood (1772-1831), this short work surveys accounts of recent Arctic expeditions and concludes that, despite the probable existence of a sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the icy waters would not be navigable for ships.
Автор: Domingues da Silva Daniel B Название: Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780-1867 ISBN: 1107176263 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107176263 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 15365.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book traces the origins of Africans forced into the Atlantic from West Central Africa during the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade. Richly adorned with tables, figures, and vivid quotations, it will appeal to scholars of Africa and the African Diaspora, graduate students, and genealogists.
Автор: Domingues da Silva Daniel B Название: Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780-1867 ISBN: 1316628957 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316628959 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book traces the origins of Africans forced into the Atlantic from West Central Africa during the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade. Richly adorned with tables, figures, and vivid quotations, it will appeal to scholars of Africa and the African Diaspora, graduate students, and genealogists.
Автор: Davis Diana K., Burke Edmund III Название: Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East & North Africa ISBN: 0821420402 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821420409 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 4460.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans, isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often framed written and visual representations of the region. Embedded in these portrayals is the common belief that the environment, in most places, has been deforested and desertified by centuries of misuse. It is precisely such orientalist environmental imaginaries, increasingly undermined by contemporary ecological data, that the eleven authors in this volume question. This is the first volume to critically examine culturally constructed views of the environmental history of the Middle East and suggest that they have often benefitted elites at the expense of the ecologies and the peoples of the region. The contributors expose many of the questionable policies and practices born of these environmental imaginaries and related histories that have been utilized in the region since the colonial period. They further reveal how power, in the form of development programs, notions of nationalism, and hydrological maps, for instance, relates to environmental knowledge production.
Contributors: Samer Alatout, Edmund Burke III, Shaul Cohen, Diana K. Davis, Jennifer L. Derr, Leila M. Harris, Alan Mikhail, Timothy Mitchell, Priya Satia, Jeannie Sowers, and George R. Trumbull IV
Автор: Amundsen Название: The North West Passage ISBN: 1108071600 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108071604 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5861.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Finding a way through the North-West Passage had defeated Arctic explorers during the nineteenth century. First published in Norwegian in 1907, and reissued here in its 1908 English translation, this copiously illustrated two-volume work by Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) recounts the first successful navigation of this challenging sea route.
Описание: In 1746, a privately funded expedition set out from England in search of the North-West Passage. While the expedition was unsuccessful in locating the sea route, it travelled further north than any previous attempt. First published in 1748, this account by Henry Ellis (1721-1806) generated great interest.
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