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Book Extracts from the Letters and Journal of Daniel Wheeler

Download or read book Extracts from the Letters and Journal of Daniel Wheeler written by Daniel Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Extracts from the Letters and Journal of Daniel Wheeler

Download or read book Extracts from the Letters and Journal of Daniel Wheeler written by Daniel Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The South Seas

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  • Author : Sean Brawley
  • Publisher : Lexington Books
  • Release : 2015-04-21
  • ISBN : 0739193368
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book The South Seas written by Sean Brawley and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South Seas charts the idea of the South Seas in popular cultural productions of the English-speaking world, from the beginnings of the Western enterprise in the Pacific until the eve of the Pacific War. Building on the notion that the influences on the creation of a text, and the ways in which its audience receives the text, are essential for understanding the historical significance of particular productions, Sean Brawley and Chris Dixon explore the ways in which authors’ and producers’ ideas about the South Seas were “haunted” by others who had written on the subject, and how they in turn influenced future generations of knowledge producers. The South Seas is unique in its examination of an array of cultural texts. Along with the foundational literary texts that established and perpetuated the South Seas tradition in written form, the authorsexplore diverse cultural forms such as art, music, theater, film, fairs, platform speakers, surfing culture, and tourism.

Book International Science and National Scientific Identity

Download or read book International Science and National Scientific Identity written by R. W. Home and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively early - though not always under that name - in the Australasian region. An initial lecturing appointment was made at the University of Melbourne immediately after the Second World War, in 1946, and other appointments followed as the subject underwent an expansion during the 1950s and 1960s similar to that which took place in other parts of the world. Today there are major Departments at the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong, and smaller groups active in many other parts of Australia and in New Zealand. 'Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science' aims to provide a distinctive publication outlet for Australian and New Zealand scholars working in the general area of history, philosophy and social studies of science. Each volume comprises a group of essays on a connected theme, edited by an Australian or a New Zealander with special expertise in that particular area. Papers address general issues, however, rather than local ones; parochial topics are avoided. Further more, though in each volume a majority of the contributors is from Australia or New Zealand, contributions from elsewhere are by no means ruled out. Quite the reverse, in fact - they are actively encouraged wherever appropriate to the balance of the volume in question.

Book The Friend

Download or read book The Friend written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hawaiian National Bibliography  1780 1900

Download or read book Hawaiian National Bibliography 1780 1900 written by David W. Forbes and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of the Hawaiian National Bibliography records the transformation of Hawai'i from a feudal system of government to a constitutional monarchy whose autonomy was recognized by the United States and the great powers of Europe. Here are referenced the formation of laws, a constitution, a bill of rights, and government reports. Political entanglements with Great Britain and France, the Provisional Cession of Hawai'i to Great Britain, and the restoration of sovereignty in 1843 are documented. Publications resulting from the United States Exploring Expedition under Captain Charles Wilkes are included. Also listed and described are theater bills, broadsides, and other ephemera, which illuminate the everyday life of the period.

Book The History of the Tahitian Mission  1799 1830  Written by John Davies  Missionary to the South Sea Islands

Download or read book The History of the Tahitian Mission 1799 1830 Written by John Davies Missionary to the South Sea Islands written by C.W. Newbury and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the navigators who finally opened up the Pacific came missionaries, traders and finally administrators. In the early decades of the 19th century Polynesia was a rich field for the curious and the calculating, for writers and adventurers. The pioneer European settlers in Eastern Polynesia were ministers and mechanics sent out on the crest of an Evangelical wave the merged with the currents and eddies of trade and whaling to break down the isolation of the islands and their inhabitants. Among the pioneers was Welshman John Davies (1772-1855) who spent just over 50 years of his life on Tahiti and neighbouring islands. He witnessed the rise of the Pomare dynasty, conversion to Christianity, reaction to attempts at theocratic government, and the gradual encroachment of alien commerce and European rule. His colleagues have made their contribution to the history and anthropology of Polynesia. Davies himself, teacher, linguist and careful observer, wrote his own story of the Mission, its personalities and their contact with the Polynesians, from the early phase of disillusionment through three decades of political and economic change, destruction and reconstruction. From this contact there emerged the uneasy compromise of missionary and indigenous beliefs and institutions that characterized Tahiti and its neighbours before and after the advent of French administration. Davies's manuscript History is here edited and annotated, supplemented by the writings of other missionaries and presented as a contribution to the literature of the Pacific. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1961.

Book Imperial Wine

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  • Author : Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2024-04-23
  • ISBN : 0520402162
  • Pages : 341 pages

Download or read book Imperial Wine written by Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and approachable deep dive into the colonial roots of the global wine industry. Imperial Wine is a bold, rigorous history of Britain’s surprising role in creating the wine industries of Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand. Here, historian Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre bridges the genres of global commodity history and imperial history, presenting provocative new research in an accessible narrative. This is the first book to argue that today’s global wine industry exists as a result of settler colonialism and that imperialism was central, not incidental, to viticulture in the British colonies. Wineries were established almost immediately after the colonization of South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand as part of a civilizing mission: tidy vines, heavy with fruit, were symbolic of Britain’s subordination of foreign lands. Economically and culturally, nineteenth-century settler winemakers saw the British market as paramount. However, British drinkers were apathetic towards what they pejoratively called "colonial wine." The tables only began to turn after the First World War, when colonial wines were marketed as cheap and patriotic and started to find their niche among middle- and working-class British drinkers. This trend, combined with social and cultural shifts after the Second World War, laid the foundation for the New World revolution in the 1980s, making Britain into a confirmed country of wine-drinkers and a massive market for New World wines. These New World producers may have only received critical acclaim in the late twentieth century, but Imperial Wine shows that they had spent centuries wooing, and indeed manufacturing, a British market for inexpensive colonial wines. This book is sure to satisfy any curious reader who savors the complex stories behind this commodity chain.

Book Among Our Books

Download or read book Among Our Books written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sale

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  • Author : Anderson Galleries, Inc
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1908
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 790 pages

Download or read book Sale written by Anderson Galleries, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends  Books

Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends Books written by Joseph Smith and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of Australia

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  • Author : John Alexander Ferguson
  • Publisher : National Library Australia
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN : 9780642990464
  • Pages : 704 pages

Download or read book Bibliography of Australia written by John Alexander Ferguson and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1975 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress

Download or read book Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress (Washington, DC) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of Congress

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress

Download or read book Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress (Washington). and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: