Download or read book Under a Tropical Sky a Journal of First Impressions of the West Indies written by John AMPHLETT (Barrister-at-Law.) and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under a Tropical Sky written by John Amphlett and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book Five Emus to the King of Siam written by Helen Tiffin and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 290 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'.
Download or read book The British Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under a Tropical Sky a Journal of First Impressions of the West Indies written by John Amphlett and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ideology Regionalism and Society in Caribbean History written by Shane J. Pantin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects new angles and perspectives on issues shaping the development of the Caribbean. Bringing together essays on regional integration, identity, and culture and focusing on foundational personalities and institutions in the region, this book opens up new lines of inquiry on twentieth-century Caribbean history. Essays examine popular perspectives of the West Indies Federation; the intersections of ideology and governance through key figures such as C. L. R. James and Rawson William Rawson; the socioeconomic context of Caribbean foodways; and Carnival as a tool of cultural diplomacy. Integration is a critical theme throughout. Pointing to the region’s rich cultural and historical heritage, this book explores how Caribbean unification may provide a way forward for this patchwork of island territories facing the challenges of the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Staffordiensis written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Roots of Caribbean Identity written by Peter A. Roberts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Roots of Caribbean Identity has as its central elements race, place and language. The book presents a movement from a European construction of Caribbean identity towards a more Caribbean construction. The ways in which the identity of the Caribbean region and the identities of the separate islands within the region were shaped are set out in a chronological sequence, starting from the time of the European encounters with the Amerindians and finishing at the end of the nineteenth century."(extrait de la 4ème de couv.).
Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century written by Samuel Austin Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A supplement to Allibone s Critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors written by John Foster Kirk and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors written by Samuel Austin Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book UNDER A TROPICAL SKY A JOURNAL written by John 1845-1918 Amphlett and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Staffordiensis or a bibliogr account of books a other printed matter rel to printed or publ in or written by a native resident or person deriving a title fr any portion of the county of Stafford giving a full collation a biogr not of authors a printers written by Rupert Simms and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cultural Power Resistance and Pluralism written by Brian L. Moore and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the critical years after the abolition of slavery in Guyana (1838-1900), Brian Moore examines the dynamic interplay between diverse cultures and the impact of these complex relationships on the development and structure of a colonial multiracial society.
Download or read book Tuk Music Tradition in Barbados written by Sharon Meredith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbados is a small Caribbean island better known as a tourist destination rather than for its culture. The island was first claimed in 1627 for the English King and remained a British colony until independence was gained in 1966. This firmly entrenched British culture in the Barbadian way of life, although most of the population are descended from enslaved Africans taken to Barbados to work on the sugar plantations. After independence, an official desire to promulgate the country’s African heritage led to the revival and recontextualisation of cultural traditions. Barbadian tuk music, a type of fife and drum music, has been transformed in the post-independence period from a working class music associated with plantations and rum shops to a signifier of national culture, played at official functions and showcased to tourists. Based on ethnographic and archival research, Sharon Meredith considers the social, political and cultural developments in Barbados that led to the evolution, development and revival of tuk as well as cultural traditions associated with it. She places tuk in the context of other music in the country, and examines similar musics elsewhere that, whilst sharing some elements with tuk, have their own individual identities.
Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
