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Book Journal of Voyages and Travels by the Rev  Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet  Esq

Download or read book Journal of Voyages and Travels by the Rev Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet Esq written by Daniel Tyerman and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of Voyages and Travels by the Rev  Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet  Deputed from the London Missionary Society  to Visit Their Various Stations in the South Sea Islands  China  India Etc  Between the Years 1821 and 1829  Compiled from Original Documents

Download or read book Journal of Voyages and Travels by the Rev Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet Deputed from the London Missionary Society to Visit Their Various Stations in the South Sea Islands China India Etc Between the Years 1821 and 1829 Compiled from Original Documents written by James Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of Voyages and Travels by the Rev  Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet  Esq

Download or read book Journal of Voyages and Travels by the Rev Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet Esq written by Daniel Tyerman and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Colonial Frontiers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lynette Russell
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2001-08-10
  • ISBN : 9780719058592
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Colonial Frontiers written by Lynette Russell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging collection explores the formation, structure, and maintenance of boundaries and frontiers in settler colonies. Looking at cross-cultural interactions in the settler colonies of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and America. the contributors illuminate the formation of new boundaries and the interaction between settler societies and indigenous groups.

Book Five Emus to the King of Siam

Download or read book Five Emus to the King of Siam written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western exploitation of other peoples is inseparable from attitudes and practices relating to other species and the extra-human environment generally. Colonial depredations turn on such terms as ‘human’, ‘savage’, ‘civilised’, ‘natural’, ‘progressive’, and on the legitimacies governing apprehension and control of space and landscape. Environmental impacts were reinforced, in patterns of unequal ‘exchange’, by the transport of animals, plants and peoples throughout the European empires, instigating widespread ecosystem change under unequal power regimes (a harbinger of today’s ‘globalization’). This book considers these imperial ‘exchanges’ and charts some contemporary legacies of those inequitable imports and exports, transportations and transmutations. Sheep farming in Australia, transforming the land as it dispossessed the native inhabitants, became a symbol of (new, white) nationhood. The transportation of plants (and animals) into and across the Pacific, even where benign or nostalgic, had widespread environmental effects, despite the hopes of the acclimatisation societies involved, and, by extension, of missionary societies “planting the seeds of Christianity.” In the Caribbean, plantation slavery pushed back the “jungle” (itself an imported word) and erased the indigenous occupants – one example of the righteous, biblically justified cultivation of the wilderness. In Australia, artistic depictions of landscape, often driven by romantic and ‘gothic’ aesthetics, encoded contradictory settler mindsets, and literary representations of colonial Kenya mask the erasure of ecosystems. Chapters on the early twentieth century (in Canada, Kenya, and Queensland) indicate increased awareness of the value of species-preservation, conservation, and disease control. The tension between traditional and ‘Euroscientific’ attitudes towards conservation is revealed in attitudes towards control of the Ganges, while the urge to resource exploitation has produced critical disequilibrium in Papua New Guinea. Broader concerns centering on ecotourism and ecocriticism are treated in further essays summarising how the dominant West has alienated ‘nature’ from human beings through commodification in the service of capitalist ‘progress’.

Book Monthly Review  Or  New Literary Journal

Download or read book Monthly Review Or New Literary Journal written by Ralph Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Economies of Representation  1790000

Download or read book Economies of Representation 1790000 written by Leigh Dale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although postcolonialism has emerged as one of the most significant theoretical movements in literary and cultural studies, it has paid scant attention to the importance of trade and trade relations to debates about culture. Focusing on the past two centuries, this volume investigates the links among trade, colonialism, and forms of representation, posing the question, 'What is the historical or modern relationship between economic inequality and imperial patterns of representation and reading?' Rather than dealing exclusively with a particular industry or type of industry, the contributors take up the issue of how various economies have been represented in Aboriginal art; in literature by North American, Caribbean, Portuguese, South African, First Nations, Australian, British, and Aboriginal authors; and in a diverse range of writings that includes travel diaries, missionary texts, the findings of the Leprosy Investigation Commission, early medical accounts and media representations of HIV/AIDS. Examining trade in commodities as various as illicit drugs, liquor, bananas, tourism, adventure fiction, and modern Aboriginal art, as well as cultural exchanges in politics, medicine, and literature, the essays reflect the widespread origins of the contributors themselves, who are based throughout the English-speaking world. Taken as a whole, this book contests the commonplace view promoted by some modern economists-that trade in and of itself has a leveling effect, equalising cultures, places, and peoples-demonstrating instead the ways in which commerce has created and exacerbated differences in power.

Book A World Between Waves

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frank Stewart
  • Publisher : Island Press
  • Release : 2012-07-11
  • ISBN : 1597269239
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book A World Between Waves written by Frank Stewart and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-07-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A World Between Waves is a collection of essays on the natural history of Hawaii by some of America's most renowned writers. It is a testament to the biological and geological wealth of this unique and threatened island landscape, and a passionate call to action on behalf of what may soon be gone.

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 Quarterly Register

Download or read book The Quarterly Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section with title: Journal of the American Education Society, which was also issued separately.

Book Inventing Politics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Juri Mykkanen
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2003-05-31
  • ISBN : 9780824814861
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Inventing Politics written by Juri Mykkanen and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-05-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did early nineteenth-century foreigners understand Hawaiian chiefly politics? What kinds of cultural resources did Hawaiians themselves have to make sense of their own structures of domination and those of the West? What was the outcome in political terms of the encounter between Hawaiians and foreigners? To answer these questions, this volume takes readers on an ethnographic journey through Hawaii's early contact period. It begins by exploring the translation work done by American Protestant missionaries, who played a central role in bridging cultural differences between Hawaiians and Westerners. Evangelicalism and liberal capitalism set the stage for constructing political images of a "pagan" society, and the present work follows the subsequent evolution and transformation of these images. Inventing Politics is a theoretical statement of a new kind of political anthropology. Through an extensive use of primary sources, including many contemporary Hawaiian-language newspapers and dictionaries, it argues that what informs our current understanding of politics was already present in the early nineteenth-century encounters between Hawaiians and foreigners--a reading that translates seemingly apolitical events into the language of politics and speaks to the fundamental question of whether politics is a functional aspect of every society or an invention based on specific cultural meanings and interests.

Book The American Quarterly Register

Download or read book The American Quarterly Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Economies of Representation  1790   2000

Download or read book Economies of Representation 1790 2000 written by Dr Helen Gilbert and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although postcolonialism has emerged as one of the most significant theoretical movements in literary and cultural studies, it has paid scant attention to the importance of trade and trade relations to debates about culture. Focusing on the past two centuries, this volume investigates the links among trade, colonialism, and forms of representation, posing the question, 'What is the historical or modern relationship between economic inequality and imperial patterns of representation and reading?' Rather than dealing exclusively with a particular industry or type of industry, the contributors take up the issue of how various economies have been represented in Aboriginal art; in literature by North American, Caribbean, Portuguese, South African, First Nations, Australian, British, and Aboriginal authors; and in a diverse range of writings that includes travel diaries, missionary texts, the findings of the Leprosy Investigation Commission, early medical accounts and media representations of HIV/AIDS. Examining trade in commodities as various as illicit drugs, liquor, bananas, tourism, adventure fiction, and modern Aboriginal art, as well as cultural exchanges in politics, medicine, and literature, the essays reflect the widespread origins of the contributors themselves, who are based throughout the English-speaking world. Taken as a whole, this book contests the commonplace view promoted by some modern economists-that trade in and of itself has a leveling effect, equalising cultures, places, and peoples-demonstrating instead the ways in which commerce has created and exacerbated differences in power.

Book The Edinburgh Review  Or Critical Journal

Download or read book The Edinburgh Review Or Critical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Quarterly Register of the American Education Society

Download or read book The Quarterly Register of the American Education Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section with title: Journal of the American Education Society, which was also issued separately. Cf. American quarterly register, v. 15, 1843, "Advertisement."