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Book Cross cultural Exchange and the Circulation of Knowledge in the First Global Age

Download or read book Cross cultural Exchange and the Circulation of Knowledge in the First Global Age written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Price of Admiralty

Download or read book The Price of Admiralty written by John Keegan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military historian John Keegan’s gripping history of naval warfare’s evolution. In The Price of Admirality, leading military historian John Keegan illuminates the history of naval combat by expertly dissecting four landmark sea battles, each featuring a different type of warship: the Battle of Trafalgar, the Battle of Jutland in World War I, the Battle of Midway in World War II, and the long and arduous Battle of the Atlantic. “The best military historian of our generation.”—Tom Clancy “The Price of Admirality stands alongside Mr. Keegan’s earlier works in its power to impart both the big and little pictures of war.”—The New York Times

Book Two Greek Aristotelian Commentators on the Intellect

Download or read book Two Greek Aristotelian Commentators on the Intellect written by Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1990 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Aristotelian doctrine had a greater influence on medieval philosophy and theology than that of the agent, or active, intellect. This influence, however, was mediated by a long tradition of exegesis in which the Greek commentaries of later antiquity played a dominant role. The two commentaries presented here were known to have been influential in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The first is a short treatise called the "De intellectu", attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias; the second a paraphrase of Aristotle's "De anima" (3.4-8) by Themistius, which also includes a major interpretation of "De anima" (3.5), the chapte on the active intellect.

Book The Lost Dauphin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Augusta de Grasse Stevens
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1887
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book The Lost Dauphin written by Augusta de Grasse Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima

Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima written by Henry Harrisse and published by New-York : G.P. Philes. This book was released on 1866 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inventing the Louvre

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  • Author : Andrew McClellan
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1999-10-26
  • ISBN : 9780520221765
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Inventing the Louvre written by Andrew McClellan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-10-26 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative history of the founding of the Louvre that also explores the ideological underpinnings, pedagogical aims, and aesthetic criteria of this, the first great national art museum.

Book Ships and Science

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  • Author : Larrie D. Ferreiro
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2010-01-22
  • ISBN : 026251415X
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Ships and Science written by Larrie D. Ferreiro and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to portray the birth of naval architecture as an integral part of the Scientific Revolution, examining its development and application across the major shipbuilding nations of Europe. "Naval architecture was born in the mountains of Peru, in the mind of a French astronomer named Pierre Bouguer who never built a ship in his life." So writes Larrie Ferreiro at the beginning of this pioneering work on the science of naval architecture. Bouguer's monumental book Traité du navire (Treatise of the Ship) founded a discipline that defined not the rules for building a ship but the theories and tools to predict a ship's characteristics and performance before it was built. In Ships and Science, Ferreiro argues that the birth of naval architecture formed an integral part of the Scientific Revolution. Using Bouguer's work as a cornerstone, Ferreiro traces the intriguing and often unexpected development of this new discipline and describes its practical application to ship design in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Drawing on previously untapped primary-source and archival information, he places the development of naval architecture in the contexts of science, navy, and society, across the major shipbuilding nations of Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and Italy. Ferreiro describes the formulation of the three major elements of ship theory (the science of explaining the physical behavior of a ship): maneuvering and sail theory, ship resistance and hydrodynamics, and stability theory. He considers the era's influential books on naval architecture and describes the professionalization of ship constructors that is the true legacy of this period. Finally, looking from the viewpoints of both the constructor and the naval administrator, he explains why the development of ship theory was encouraged, financed, and used in naval shipbuilding. A generous selection of rarely seen archival images accompanies the text.

Book Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires  1500   1800

Download or read book Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires 1500 1800 written by Daniela Bleichmar and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays is the first book published in English to provide a thorough survey of the practices of science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires from 1500 to 1800. Authored by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from the United States, Latin America, and Europe, the book consists of fifteen original essays, as well as an introduction and an afterword by renowned scholars in the field. The topics discussed include navigation, exploration, cartography, natural sciences, technology, and medicine. This volume is aimed at both specialists and non-specialists, and is designed to be useful for teaching. It will be a major resource for anyone interested in colonial Latin America.

Book Fictions of the Pose

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  • Author : Harry Berger
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780804733243
  • Pages : 694 pages

Download or read book Fictions of the Pose written by Harry Berger and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated reading of the structure and meaning of portraiture asks what happens when portraits are interpreted as imitations or likenesses not only of individuals but also of their acts of posing. Includes 84 illustrations, 40 in color.

Book The Deepest South

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  • Author : Gerald Horne
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2007-03-01
  • ISBN : 0814790739
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book The Deepest South written by Gerald Horne and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During its heyday in the nineteenth century, the African slave trade was fueled by the close relationship of the United States and Brazil. The Deepest South tells the disturbing story of how U.S. nationals - before and after Emancipation -- continued to actively participate in this odious commerce by creating diplomatic, social, and political ties with Brazil, which today has the largest population of African origin outside of Africa itself. Proslavery Americans began to accelerate their presence in Brazil in the 1830s, creating alliances there—sometimes friendly, often contentious—with Portuguese, Spanish, British, and other foreign slave traders to buy, sell, and transport African slaves, particularly from the eastern shores of that beleaguered continent. Spokesmen of the Slave South drew up ambitious plans to seize the Amazon and develop this region by deporting the enslaved African-Americans there to toil. When the South seceded from the Union, it received significant support from Brazil, which correctly assumed that a Confederate defeat would be a mortal blow to slavery south of the border. After the Civil War, many Confederates, with slaves in tow, sought refuge as well as the survival of their peculiar institution in Brazil. Based on extensive research from archives on five continents, Gerald Horne breaks startling new ground in the history of slavery, uncovering its global dimensions and the degrees to which its defenders went to maintain it.

Book Cultures of Collecting

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  • Author : Roger Cardinal
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2004-09-02
  • ISBN : 186189421X
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Cultures of Collecting written by Roger Cardinal and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2004-09-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the psychology, history and theory of the compulsion to collect, focusing not just on the normative collections of the Western canon, but also on collections that reflect a fascination with the "Other" and the marginal – the ephemeral, exotic, or just plain curious. There are essays on the Neoclassical architect Sir John Soane, Sigmund Freud and Kurt Schwitters, one of the masters of collage. Others examine imperialist encounters with remote cultures – the consquitadors in America in the sixteenth century, and the British in the Pacific in the eighteenth – and the more recent collectors of popular culture, be they of Swatch watches, Elvis Presley memorabilia or of packaging and advertising. With essays by Jean Baudrillard, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Nicholas Thomas, Mieke Bal, John Forrester, John Windsor, Naomi Schor, Susan Stewart, Anthony Alan Shelton, John Elsner, Roger Cardinal and an interview with Robert Opie.

Book The Margins of the Text

    Book Details:
  • Author : David C. Greetham
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780472106677
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book The Margins of the Text written by David C. Greetham and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays challenge the positivist, patriarchal assumptions of earlier approaches to textual criticism.

Book Lola Alvarez Bravo

Download or read book Lola Alvarez Bravo written by Lola Álvarez Bravo and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay by Elizabeth Ferrer. Foreword by Douglas R. Nickel.

Book The modern traveller  by J  Conder

Download or read book The modern traveller by J Conder written by Josiah Conder and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the Dominican Order  Origins and growth to 1500

Download or read book The History of the Dominican Order Origins and growth to 1500 written by William A. Hinnebusch and published by Staten Island, N.Y. : Alba House, [1966- .. This book was released on 1966 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: