Download or read book A Voyage Round the World in the Years 1740 1741 1742 1743 1744 by George Anson Esquire Afterwards Lord Anson written by George Anson Baron Anson and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Voyage Round the World in the Years 1740 1741 1742 1743 1744 microform written by George 1697-1762 Anson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Voyage Round the World is an account of the voyage of the British naval officer George Anson and his fleet that circumnavigated the globe from 1740 to 1744. Richard Walter, Anson's chaplain, wrote the official account of the voyage. 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 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. 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 A History of Fatigue written by Georges Vigarello and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Stress,” “burn out,” “mental overload”: the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed an unrelenting expansion of the meaning of fatigue. The tentacles of exhaustion insinuated themselves into every aspect of our lives, from the workplace to the home, from our relationships with friends and family to the most intimate aspects of our lives. All around us are the signs of a “burn-out society,” a society in which fatigue has become the norm. How did this happen? This pioneering book explores the rich and little-known history of fatigue from the Middle Ages to the present. Vigarello shows that our understanding of fatigue, the words used to describe it, and the symptoms and explanations of it have varied greatly over time, reflecting changing social mores and broader aspects of social and political life. He argues that the increased autonomy of people in Western societies (whether genuine or assumed), the positing of a more individualized self, and the ever expanding ideal of independence and freedom have constantly made it more difficult for us to withstand anything that constrains or limits us. This painful contradiction causes weariness as well as dissatisfaction. Fatigue spreads and becomes stronger, imperceptibly permeating everything, seeping into ordinary moments and unexpected places. Ranging from the history of war, religion and work to the history of the body, the senses and intimacy, this history of fatigue shows how something that seems permanently centered in our bodies has, over the course of centuries, also been ingrained in our minds, in the end affecting the innermost aspects of the self.
Download or read book A voyage round the world Compiled by Richard Walter New edition written by George ANSON (Baron Anson.) and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enlightenment Orientalism written by Srinivas Aravamudan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Srinivas Aravamudan here reveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Naming this body of fiction Enlightenment Orientalism, he poses a range of urgent questions that uncovers the interdependence of Oriental tales and domestic fiction, thereby challenging standard scholarly narratives about the rise of the novel. More than mere exoticism, Oriental tales fascinated ordinary readers as well as intellectuals, taking the fancy of philosophers such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Diderot in France, and writers such as Defoe, Swift, and Goldsmith in Britain. Aravamudan shows that Enlightenment Orientalism was a significant movement that criticized irrational European practices even while sympathetically bridging differences among civilizations. A sophisticated reinterpretation of the history of the novel, Enlightenment Orientalism is sure to be welcomed as a landmark work in eighteenth-century studies.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Department of State May 1830 written by United States. Department of State. Library and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Department of State of the United States written by United States. Department of State. Library and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ranching and the American West A History in Documents written by Susan Nance and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformation of the American West is one of the key topics in the study of both US history and global environmental history. The role of ranching in the West is also central to the growing field of animal history. This volume covers the periods between the early Indigenous acquisition of horses in the eighteenth century, to the introduction of Hispanic horsemanship techniques and market cattle in the “Old West,” and finally to the work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century ranching families sustaining their ways of life. The documents in this volume reveal not simply the human past but also the distinct histories of cattle, horses, and the land. Readers will explore intersecting themes of capitalism and beef, environmental change, rural labor, and gender and racial politics as debated by westerners themselves, as well as the meaning and power of the cowboy myth in American life. The introduction incorporates recent scholarship and provides a fresh look at this key topic in American history, while informative headnotes and rich annotations help orient the reader within the historical sources.
Download or read book China on the Sea written by Zheng Yangwen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume challenges the “Walled Kingdom” perspective. China reached out to the seas far more actively than historians have allowed, while the maritime world shaped China, Qing China in particular, much more than the continental world. It gave birth to and defined Chinese modernity.
Download or read book The Charter Laws and Catalogue of Books of the Library Company of Philadelphia written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Protestant s Companion Or A Seasonable Preservative written by Charles Daubeny and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Abridgment of the History of the Great Plague in London in the Year 1665 By a citizen who lived the whole time in London Abridged from Daniel Defoe s A Journal of the Plague Year Together with an account of the fire in 1666 from the Memoirs of Evelyn A new edition written by London and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliotheca Smithiana pars altera A catalogue of the remaining part of the library of Joseph Smith and of many other collections written by James Robson (bookseller.) and published by . This book was released on 1773 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The poor man s preservative against Popery The fourth edition revised by the author etc written by José Maria BLANCO Y CRESPO (afterwards BLANCO WHITE (Joseph)) and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Shapes of Epidemics and Global Disease written by Andrea Patterson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the multifaceted SHAPES (socio-historic, artistic, political, and ecological significance) of global disease. It challenges conventional views of infection and transmission by associating epidemics with ideologies and their accompanying institutions. It argues that the physical threat of epidemics is irrevocably linked to culture, economic resources, social class, and power. Epidemics involve both the infected and non-infected, affect the local and global, and they expose control and neglect. This book provides a radical collaborative approach, drawing contributors from closely related and vastly distant fields in the search for innovative ways to address human suffering, and to find real solutions that may determine whether people live or die. Such an approach is needed within an increasingly interconnected world where both pathological diseases and health behaviors are infectious. Experts from fifteen diverse disciplines in the natural sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities present case studies from across the world and time, demonstrating the uniqueness of each disease and epidemic in its place, but also the shared experiences that span human life and death. In order to identify, measure and control epidemics, we must understand epidemics more as long biosocial processes than abrupt events in nature or culture. Such methodology examines the meaning we attach to epidemics, as well as their material reality, and provides a more complete understanding of how epidemics shape and are shaped.
