Download or read book Preliminary Notes on the Birds and Mammals Collected by the Menage Scientific Expedition to the Philippine Islands written by Frank Swift Bourns and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Expeditions in the Long Nineteenth Century written by Jörn Happel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the processes of scientific, cultural, political, technical, colonial and violent appropriation during the 19th century. The 19th century was the century of world travel. The earth was explored, surveyed, described, illustrated, and categorized. Travelogues became world bestsellers. Modern technology accompanied the travelers and adventurers: clocks, a postal and telegraph system, surveying equipment, and cameras. The world grew together faster and faster. Previously unknown places became better known: the highest peaks, the coldest spots, the hottest deserts, and the most remote cities. Knowledge about the white spots of the earth was systematically collected. Those who made a name for themselves in the 19th century are still read today. Alexander von Humboldt or Charles Darwin made the epoch a scientific heyday. Ida Pfeiffer or Isabelle Bird (Bishop) traveled to distant continents and took their readers at home on insightful journeys. Hermann Vámbéry or Sir Richard Burton got to know the most remote languages and regions. There are countless travel reports about a fascinating century, which, with surveying and exploration, also brought colonial conquest and exploitation into the world. In ten individual studies, the authors explore travelers from all over the world and analyze their successes. The unifying element of all the studies is the experience of distance and its communication by means of travelogues to the armchair travelers who have stayed at home. This volume will be of value to students and scholars both interested in modern history, social and cultural history, and the history of science and technology.
Download or read book The Philippine Journal of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memorial number was issued with v.7.
Download or read book A Review of the Philippine Land Mammals in the United States National Museum written by Ned Hollister and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Occasional Papers written by Minnesota academy of science and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the United States National Museum written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall written by Royal Geological Society of Cornwall and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 6, includes the society's annual reports for 1844-46.
Download or read book Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society written by Massachusetts Horticultural Society and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Scientific Papers written by Royal Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Scientific Papers 1800 1900 ser 4 1884 1900 written by Royal Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transactions and Proceedings written by Massachusetts Horticultural Society and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes list of members.
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Zoological Society of London written by Zoological Society of London. Library and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contributions to Philippine Ornithology pt 1 written by Dean Conant Worcester and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pox written by Michael Willrich and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of how America's Progressive-era war on smallpox sparked one of the great civil liberties battles of the twentieth century. At the turn of the last century, a powerful smallpox epidemic swept the United States from coast to coast. The age-old disease spread swiftly through an increasingly interconnected American landscape: from southern tobacco plantations to the dense immigrant neighborhoods of northern cities to far-flung villages on the edges of the nascent American empire. In Pox, award-winning historian Michael Willrich offers a gripping chronicle of how the nation's continentwide fight against smallpox launched one of the most important civil liberties struggles of the twentieth century. At the dawn of the activist Progressive era and during a moment of great optimism about modern medicine, the government responded to the deadly epidemic by calling for universal compulsory vaccination. To enforce the law, public health authorities relied on quarantines, pesthouses, and "virus squads"-corps of doctors and club-wielding police. Though these measures eventually contained the disease, they also sparked a wave of popular resistance among Americans who perceived them as a threat to their health and to their rights. At the time, anti-vaccinationists were often dismissed as misguided cranks, but Willrich argues that they belonged to a wider legacy of American dissent that attended the rise of an increasingly powerful government. While a well-organized anti-vaccination movement sprang up during these years, many Americans resisted in subtler ways-by concealing sick family members or forging immunization certificates. Pox introduces us to memorable characters on both sides of the debate, from Henning Jacobson, a Swedish Lutheran minister whose battle against vaccination went all the way to the Supreme Court, to C. P. Wertenbaker, a federal surgeon who saw himself as a medical missionary combating a deadly-and preventable-disease. As Willrich suggests, many of the questions first raised by the Progressive-era antivaccination movement are still with us: How far should the government go to protect us from peril? What happens when the interests of public health collide with religious beliefs and personal conscience? In Pox, Willrich delivers a riveting tale about the clash of modern medicine, civil liberties, and government power at the turn of the last century that resonates powerfully today.
