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Book Riebeeck s Journal   c  Jan  1656 Dec  1658

Download or read book Riebeeck s Journal c Jan 1656 Dec 1658 written by Johan Anthoniszoon Van Riebeeck and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope

Download or read book Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope written by Hendrik Carel Vos Leibbrandt and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of Jan Van Riebeeck  1656 1658

Download or read book Journal of Jan Van Riebeeck 1656 1658 written by Jan van Riebeeck and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Peoples  Nature and Environments

Download or read book Peoples Nature and Environments written by Cristina Brito and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together perspectives from scholars of different scientific backgrounds endeavouring to understand and debate the interactions and relationships between humans, nonhuman species and natural ecosystems in order to overcome the classic human/environment dichotomy. Through discussions informed by the humanities, arts, social and natural sciences, the book deals with the way different disciplines approach this relationship. These diverse perspectives are compared to enable a cross-cutting analysis of human/nature interface throughout history. Changes forced by the utilization of resources and habitats, as well as climate changes are analysed and discussed, enhancing the importance of a multifaceted approach for a better understanding of the complexity of both the human/world relationship and diverse interspecies connections and impacts.

Book The African Roots of Marijuana

Download or read book The African Roots of Marijuana written by Chris S. Duvall and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa—often fictionalized and reliant upon racial stereotypes—shaped widespread myths about the plant and were used to depict the continent as a cultural backwater and Africans as predisposed to drug use. These myths continue to influence contemporary thinking about cannabis. In The African Roots of Marijuana, Chris S. Duvall corrects common misconceptions while providing an authoritative history of cannabis as it flowed into, throughout, and out of Africa. Duvall shows how preexisting smoking cultures in Africa transformed the plant into a fast-acting and easily dosed drug and how it later became linked with global capitalism and the slave trade. People often used cannabis to cope with oppressive working conditions under colonialism, as a recreational drug, and in religious and political movements. This expansive look at Africa's importance to the development of human knowledge about marijuana will challenge everything readers thought they knew about one of the world's most ubiquitous plants.

Book The Stolen Bible

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gerald O. West
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2016-08-09
  • ISBN : 9004322787
  • Pages : 636 pages

Download or read book The Stolen Bible written by Gerald O. West and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stolen Bible tells the story of how Southern Africans have interacted with the Bible from its arrival in Dutch imperial ships in the mid-1600s through to contemporary post-apartheid South Africa. The Stolen Bible emphasises African agency and distinguishes between African receptions of the Bible and African receptions of missionary-colonial Christianity. Through a series of detailed historical, geographical, and hermeneutical case-studies the book analyses Southern African receptions of the Bible, including the earliest African encounters with the Bible, the translation of the Bible into an African language, the appropriation of the Bible by African Independent Churches, the use of the Bible in the Black liberation struggle, and the ways in which the Bible is embodied in the lives of ordinary Africans.

Book The Times Literary Supplement Index

Download or read book The Times Literary Supplement Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Emergent Ecologies

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  • Author : Eben Kirksey
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2015-11-27
  • ISBN : 0822374803
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Emergent Ecologies written by Eben Kirksey and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of global warming, natural disasters, endangered species, and devastating pollution, contemporary writing on the environment largely focuses on doomsday scenarios. Eben Kirksey suggests we reject such apocalyptic thinking and instead find possibilities in the wreckage of ongoing disasters, as symbiotic associations of opportunistic plants, animals, and microbes are flourishing in unexpected places. Emergent Ecologies uses artwork and contemporary philosophy to illustrate hopeful opportunities and reframe key problems in conservation biology such as invasive species, extinction, environmental management, and reforestation. Following the flight of capital and nomadic forms of life—through fragmented landscapes of Panama, Costa Rica, and the United States—Kirksey explores how chance encounters, historical accidents, and parasitic invasions have shaped present and future multispecies communities. New generations of thinkers and tinkerers are learning how to care for emergent ecological assemblages—involving frogs, fungal pathogens, ants, monkeys, people, and plants—by seeding them, nurturing them, protecting them, and ultimately letting go.

Book The Tale of Tea

    Book Details:
  • Author : George van Driem
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9789004386259
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Tale of Tea written by George van Driem and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tale of Tea presents a comprehensive history of tea from prehistoric times to the present day in a single volume, covering the fascinating social history of tea and the origins, botany and biochemistry of this singularly important cultigen.

Book Heaven   s Wrath

    Book Details:
  • Author : D. L. Noorlander
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2019-09-15
  • ISBN : 1501740326
  • Pages : 197 pages

Download or read book Heaven s Wrath written by D. L. Noorlander and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heaven's Wrath explores the religious thought and religious rites of the early Dutch Atlantic world. D. L. Noorlander argues that the Reformed Church and the West India Company forged and maintained a close union, with considerable consequences across the seventeenth century. Noorlander questions the core assumptions about why the Dutch failed to establish a durable empire in America. He downplays the usual commercial explanations and places the focus instead on the tremendous expenses incurred in the Calvinist-backed war and the Reformed Church's meticulous, worried management of colonial affairs. By pinpointing the issues that hampered the size and import of the Dutch Atlantic world, Noorlander revises core notions about the organization and aims of the Dutch empire, the culture of the West India Company, and the very shape of Dutch society. Open Access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Book Knowledge and Colonialism

Download or read book Knowledge and Colonialism written by Siegfried Huigen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The establishment of a settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in the seventeenth century and an expansion of the sphere of colonial influence in the eighteenth century made South Africa the only part of sub-Saharan Africa where Europeans could travel with relative ease deep into the interior. As a result individuals with scientific interests in Africa came to the Cape. This book examines writings and drawings of scientifically educated travellers, particularly in the field of ethnography, against the background of commercial and administrative discourses on the Cape. It is argued that the scientific travellers benefited more from their relationship with the colonial order than the other way around.

Book Aandeel Der Nederlanders in de Ontdekking Van Australie 1606 1765

Download or read book Aandeel Der Nederlanders in de Ontdekking Van Australie 1606 1765 written by Jan Ernst Heeres and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published by the Royal Dutch Geographical Society in commemoration of the XXVth anniversary of its foundation " Dutch and English on opposite pages Includes index.

Book The Palgrave Handbook of Wine Industry Economics

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Wine Industry Economics written by Adeline Alonso Ugaglia and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Palgrave Handbook offers the first international comparative study into the efficiency of the industrial organization of the global wine industry. Looking at several important vineyards of the main wine countries, the contributors analyze differences in implementation and articulation of three key stages: grape production, wine making and distribution (marketing, selling and logistics). By examining regulations, organization theory, industry organizational efficiency and vertical integration, up to date strategies in the sector are presented and appraised. Which models are most efficient? What are the most relevant factors for optimal performance? How do reputation and governance impact the industry? Should different models co-exist within the wine countries for global success? This comprehensive volume is essential reading for students, researchers and professionals in the wine industry.

Book Emotion  Ritual and Power in Europe  1200   1920

Download or read book Emotion Ritual and Power in Europe 1200 1920 written by Merridee L. Bailey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume spans the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries, across Europe and its empires, and brings together historians, art historians, literary scholars and anthropologists to rethink medieval and early modern ritual. The study of rituals, when it is alert to the emotions which are woven into and through ritual activities, presents an opportunity to explore profoundly important questions about people’s relationships with others, their relationships with the divine, with power dynamics and importantly, with their concept of their own identity. Each chapter in this volume showcases the different approaches, theories and methodologies that can be used to explore emotions in historical rituals, but they all share the goal of answering the question of how emotions act within ritual to inform balances of power in its many and varied forms. Chapter 5 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library  1911 1971

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lenses on Cape Identities

Download or read book Lenses on Cape Identities written by Patric Tariq Mellet and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Botany of the Commelins

Download or read book The Botany of the Commelins written by D.O. Wijnands and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a taxonomical, nomenclatural and historical account of the plants depicted in the Minickx Atlas and in the books by Jan and Casper Commelin.