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Book A Voyage To New Holland   c  In the Year 1699

Download or read book A Voyage To New Holland c In the Year 1699 written by William Dampier and published by . This book was released on 1709 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Voyage To New Holland   c  In the Year 1699

Download or read book A Voyage To New Holland c In the Year 1699 written by and published by . This book was released on 1703 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Book prices Current

Download or read book Book prices Current written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forts and Fortification in Wallacea

Download or read book Forts and Fortification in Wallacea written by Sue O'Connor and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘This volume presents ground-breaking research on fortified sites in three parts of Wallacea by a highly regarded group of scholars from Australia, Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States. In addition to surveying and dating defensive sites in often remote and difficult terrain, the chapters provide an important and scholarly set of archaeological and ethnohistoric studies that investigate the origin of forts in Wallacea. Socio-political instability from climate events, the materialisation of indigenous belief systems, and the substantial impact of imperial expansion and European colonialism are examined and comprise a significant addition to our knowledge of conflict and warfare in an under-studied part of the Indo-Pacific. The archaeological record for past conflict is frequently ambiguous and the contribution of warfare to social development is mired in debate and paradox. Authors demonstrate that forts and other defensive constructions are costly and complicated structures that, while designed and built to protect a community from a threat of imminent violence, had (and have) complicated life histories as a result of their architectural permanence, strategic locations and traditional cultural and political significance. Understanding why conflict outbreaks – like human colonisation – often appear in the past as a punctuated event can best be approached through long-term records of conflict and violence involving archaeology and allied historical disciplines, as has been successfully done here. The volume is essential reading for archaeologists, cultural heritage managers and those with an interest in conflict studies.’ — Professor Geoffrey Clark, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra.

Book Catalogue

Download or read book Catalogue written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Naturalists at Sea

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  • Author : Glyn Williams
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2013-10-22
  • ISBN : 0300182201
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Naturalists at Sea written by Glyn Williams and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the “long eighteenth century,” naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrative flora and fauna unknown at home, these men set out eagerly to collect and catalogue, study and document an uncharted natural world./div DIV /div DIV This enthralling book is the first to describe the adventures and misadventures, discoveries and dangers of this devoted and sometimes eccentric band of explorer-scholars. Their individual experiences are uniquely their own, but together their stories offer a new perspective on the extraordinary era of Pacific exploration and the achievements of an audacious generation of naturalists. Historian Glyn Williams illuminates the naturalist’s lot aboard ship, where danger alternated with boredom and quarrels with the ship’s commander were the norm. Nor did the naturalist’s difficulties end upon returning home, where recognition for years of work often proved elusive. Peopled with wonderful characters and major figures of Enlightenment science—among them Louis Antoine de Bouganville, Joseph Banks, John Reinhold Forster, Captain Cook, and Charles Darwin—this book is a gripping account of a small group of scientific travelers whose voyages of discovery were to change perceptions of the natural world./div

Book Catalogue of Works  Papers  Reports  and Maps  on the Geology  Palaeontology  Mineralogy  Mining and Metallurgy  Etc  of the Australian Continent and Tasmania

Download or read book Catalogue of Works Papers Reports and Maps on the Geology Palaeontology Mineralogy Mining and Metallurgy Etc of the Australian Continent and Tasmania written by Robert Etheridge and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Book Bulletin of the British Museum  Natural History

Download or read book Bulletin of the British Museum Natural History written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A New Voyage and Description of the Jsthmus of America  2  Ed  to which are Added the Natural History of Those Parts by a Fellow of the Royal Soc  and Davis s Expedition to the Gold Mines in 1702

Download or read book A New Voyage and Description of the Jsthmus of America 2 Ed to which are Added the Natural History of Those Parts by a Fellow of the Royal Soc and Davis s Expedition to the Gold Mines in 1702 written by Lionel Wafer and published by . This book was released on 1704 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America

Download or read book A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America written by Lionel Wafer and published by . This book was released on 1704 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A catalogue of a large and curious collection of books  in which is included the fine Italian library of     mr  Pheringer  Which will be sold July 1780

Download or read book A catalogue of a large and curious collection of books in which is included the fine Italian library of mr Pheringer Which will be sold July 1780 written by Payne Thomas and son and published by . This book was released on 1780 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Foreign Bodies

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  • Author : Bronwen Douglas
  • Publisher : Anu Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Foreign Bodies written by Bronwen Douglas and published by Anu Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The collection investigates the reciprocal significance of Oceania for the science of race, and of racial thinking for Oceania, during the two centuries after 1750, giving 'Oceania' a broad definition that encompasses the Pacific Islands, Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, and the Malay Archipelago. We aim to denaturalize the modernist scientific concept of race by means of a dual historical strategy: tracking the emergence of the concept in western Europe at the end of the eighteenth century, its subsequent normalization, and its practical deployment in Oceanic contexts; and exposing the tensions, inconsistencies, and instability of rival discourses. Under the broad rubrics of dereifying race and decentring Europe, these essays make several distinctive and innovative contributions. First, they locate the formulation of particular racial theories and the science of race generally at the intersections of metropolitan biology or anthropology and encounters in the field a relatively recent strategy in the history of ideas. We neither dematerialize ideas as purely abstract and discursive nor reduce them to social relations and politics, but ground them personally and circumstantially in embodied human interactions."--Provided by publisher.

Book A History of Australia

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  • Author : Mark Peel
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-12-22
  • ISBN : 1350306711
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book A History of Australia written by Mark Peel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid, multi-dimensional history considers the key cultural, social, political and economic events of Australia's history. Deftly weaving these issues into the wider global context, Mark Peel and Christina Twomey provide an engaging overview of the country's past, from its first Indigenous people, to the great migrations of recent centuries, and to those living within the more anxiously controlled borders of the present day. This engaging textbook is an ideal resource for undergraduate students and postgraduate students taking modules or courses on the History of Australia. It will also appeal to general readers who are interested in obtaining a thorough overview of the entire history of Australia, from the earliest times to the present, in one concise volume.

Book Catalogue of the Books  Manuscripts  Maps and Drawings in the British Museum  Natural History

Download or read book Catalogue of the Books Manuscripts Maps and Drawings in the British Museum Natural History written by British Museum (Natural History). Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Curious Minds

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  • Author : Peter Macinnis
  • Publisher : National Library Australia
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0642277540
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Curious Minds written by Peter Macinnis and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2012 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curious Minds: The Discoveries of Australian Naturalists looks at the long line of naturalists who have traversed Australia in search of new plants and animals. Identifying and classifying the unfamiliar plants and animals was their biggest challenge - the early ones were frequently wrong but later naturalists were able to build on and learn from previous mistakes. In time, a new breed of homegrown naturalists emerged. This succession of curious minds would help to foster pride in a developing nation, as well an interest in the preservation of natural history. Curious Minds brings to life the stories of the naturalists and settlers who made the unfamiliar familiar and who contributed to developments in natural science. Among the names are Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, Amalie Dietrich, Ludwig Leichhardt, Ferdinand von Mueller, Ellis Rowan, John Lewin and John and Elizabeth Gould. Beautifully illustrated with images from the collection of the National Library of Australia, the publication is a loving tribute to the courageous and inquisitive men and women who led by example.