Download or read book Empire and Underworld written by Miranda Frances Spieler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French Revolution invented the notion of the citizen, but it also invented the noncitizen—the person whose rights were nonexistent. The South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for these outcasts of the new French citizenry, and an experimental space for the exercise of new kinds of power and violence against marginal groups.
Download or read book French Guiana France written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to French Guiana written by Gilad James, PhD and published by Gilad James Mystery School. This book was released on with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French Guiana is an overseas department and region of France located on the northeastern coast of South America. It is bordered by Brazil to the east and south and Suriname to the west. The capital of French Guiana is Cayenne, and the largest city is Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni. French Guiana has a population of approximately 300,000 people, who are mostly of mixed African and European descent. French Guiana has a tropical climate, with high temperatures and humidity throughout the year. The region is known for its biodiversity, with a large number of plant and animal species found only in French Guiana. French Guiana is considered to be one of the wealthiest and most developed countries in South America. The economy is primarily based on the export of natural resources, such as gold, oil, and timber. The government of French Guiana is heavily subsidized by France, which provides funding for education, healthcare, and social services. French Guiana is also home to the Guiana Space Centre, which is a rocket launch site that is jointly operated by the French government and the European Space Agency. Overall, French Guiana is a unique and culturally rich region of South America that is known for its natural beauty and economic prosperity.
Download or read book Space in the Tropics written by Peter Redfield and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-12-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title compares the current space programme in French Guiana to the earlier penal colony of Devil's Island, highlighting cultural realignments in nature behind the evolution of global technology in a tropical rainforest.
Download or read book Orchids of French Guiana written by Dariusz L. Szlachetko and published by Gantner Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guiana and the Shadows of Empire written by Joshua R. Hyles and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of the three Guianas, now known as Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. Though histories of each of the countries exist, this is the first work in a century to consider the three countries as a group, and thus the first to present the history of all three as a comparative and overarching study. Special emphasis has been given to the story of how each colony was administered by Britain, the Netherlands, and France respectively, and how these differing colonial administrative policies have given rise to three vastly different cultures. Because the geographical area of the Guianas is relatively small, the indigenous population at the time of contact was relatively uniform across the area, and the external pressures on the three colonies over their histories exhibited significant similarities, the book presents the Guianas as an ideal laboratory in which to study the effects of imperialism and cultural assimilation practices. The book also briefly considers the present political and cultural status of the three polities and makes some projections about their possible futures. In all, the book presents a complete history from prehistory until the present day covering the entirety of the Guianas region, relating a colorful history from a little-studied corner of the world.
Download or read book French Guiana written by Marion Morrison and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the geography, history, arts, religion, and everyday life in French Guiana.
Download or read book French Guiana written by Allan Carpenter and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1970 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to French Guiana past and present--the people, the land, natural resources, industry, and culture.
Download or read book Lianas of the Guianas written by Bruce Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lianas (woody vines) are iconic symbols of tropical forests around the world. These plants use the energetically expensive investment of trees in woody stems to gain relatively inexpensive access to the light-rich canopy. The evolution of a climbing habit has occurred in many unrelated plant groups using twining and clasping shoots or specialized structures such as tendrils, hooks, spines, adhesive roots, and internal stem anatomy. Lianas contribute significantly to tropical forest diversity (25-40% of species), carbon sequestration, biomass, plant-animal interactions and forest gap dynamics. Although they are often considered pests in commercial forestry, woody climbers are important to many traditional peoples as medicines, subsistence fibers and non-timber forest products. Largely due to their inaccessibility, lianas and other climbers remain among the most poorly documented lifeforms in the tropics. 0This book aims to facilitate learning and identification of woody climbers of the Guianas (Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname) for specialists and non-specialists by using an image-rich format, common and scientific names, simplified botanical terminology, and character icon guides, and by describing ecology and uses.
Download or read book Guiana British Dutch and French written by James Rodway and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book French Guiana written by Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to the Vascular Plants of Central French Guiana written by Scott A. Mori and published by New York Botanical Garden Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part one of a two-part guide to the vascular plants of central French Guiana. In this installment, 12 species of lycopods (Lycophyta), 182 species of ferns (Pterophyta), the one gymnosperm (Gnetophyta), & the 426 species in 27 families of monocotyledons (Magnoliophyta class Lililopsida) native or naturalized to central French Guiana are keyed & described. An annotated & well-illustrated list of species with outstanding ecological or morphological features of use in plant identification is included. Three maps, 165 line illustrations, 240 color photographs, & a glossary providing definitions of technical terms used to describe plants in northeastern South America facilitate the use of this guide. The specimen database of seed plants of central French Guianais now available for access over the internet.
Download or read book Exploring Language in a Multilingual Context written by Bettina Migge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposing a new methodological approach to documenting languages spoken in multilingual societies, this book retraces the investigation of one unique linguistic space, the Creole varieties referred to as Takitaki in multilingual French Guiana. It illustrates how interactional sociolinguistic, anthropological linguistic, discourse analytical and quantitative sociolinguistic approaches can be integrated with structural approaches to language in order to resolve rarely discussed questions systematically (what are the outlines of the community, who is a rightful speaker, what speech should be documented) that frequently crop up in projects of language documentation in multilingual contexts. The authors argue that comprehensively documenting complex linguistic phenomena requires taking into account the views of all local social actors (native and non-native speakers, institutions, linguists, non-speakers, etc.), applying a range of complementary data collection and analysis methods and putting issues of ideology, variation, language contact and interaction centre stage. This book will be welcomed by researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, fieldwork studies, language documentation and language variation and change.
Download or read book Monkeys of the Guianas written by Russell A. Mittermeier and published by Conservation International Tropical Pocket Guide Series. This book was released on 2008 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laminated identification guide illustrating the appearance and behaviors of 8 species of extant nonhuman primates (tamarins, capuchins, sakis, Guianan black spider monkey, and Guianan red howler monkey) in Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.
Download or read book French Guiana written by France. Ambassade (U.S.). Service de presse et d'information and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book French Guiana written by United States. Defense Mapping Agency. Topographic Center and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buruli Ulcer written by Gerd Pluschke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major objective of this open access book is to summarize the current status of Buruli Ulcer (BU) research for the first time. It will identify gaps in our knowledge, stimulate research and support control of the disease by providing insight into approaches for surveillance, diagnosis, and treatment of Buruli Ulcer. Book chapters will cover the history, epidemiology diagnosis, treatment and disease burden of BU and provide insight into the microbiology, genomics, transmission and virulence of Mycobacterium ulcerans.
