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Book The Reception of Darwinism in the Iberian World

Download or read book The Reception of Darwinism in the Iberian World written by T.F Glick and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Twenty-five years ago, at the Conference on the Comparative Reception of Darwinism held at the University of Texas in 1972, only two countries of the Iberian world-Spain and Mexico-were represented.' At the time, it was apparent that the topic had attracted interest only as regarded the "mainstream" science countries of Western Europe, plus the United States. The Eurocentric bias of professional history of science was a fact. The sea change that subsequently occurred in the historiography of science makes 1972 appear something like the antediluvian era. Still, we would like to think that that meeting was prescient in looking beyond the mainstream science countries-as then perceived-in order to test the variation that ideas undergo as they pass from center to periphery. One thing that the comparative study of the reception of ideas makes abundantly clear, however, is the weakness of the center/periphery dichotomy from the perspective of the diffusion of scientific ideas. Catholics in mainstream countries, for example, did not handle evolution much better than did their corre1igionaries on the fringes. Conversely, Darwinians in Latin America were frequently better placed to advance Darwin's ideas in a social and political sense than were their fellow evolutionists on the Continent. The Texas meeting was also a marker in the comparative reception of scientific ideas, Darwinism aside. Although, by 1972, scientific institutions had been studied comparatively, there was no antecedent for the comparative history of scientific ideas.

Book The Long  Lingering Shadow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert J. Cottrol
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2013-02-01
  • ISBN : 0820344761
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book The Long Lingering Shadow written by Robert J. Cottrol and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students of American history know of the law’s critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, The Long, Lingering Shadow looks at the parallel legal histories of race relations in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America. Robert J. Cottrol takes the reader on a journey from the origins of New World slavery in colonial Latin America to current debates and litigation over affirmative action in Brazil and the United States, as well as contemporary struggles against racial discrimination and Afro-Latin invisibility in the Spanish-speaking nations of the hemisphere. Ranging across such topics as slavery, emancipation, scientific racism, immigration policies, racial classifications, and legal processes, Cottrol unravels a complex odyssey. By the eve of the Civil War, the U.S. slave system was rooted in a legal and cultural foundation of racial exclusion unmatched in the Western Hemisphere. That system’s legacy was later echoed in Jim Crow, the practice of legally mandated segregation. Jim Crow in turn caused leading Latin Americans to regard their nations as models of racial equality because their laws did not mandate racial discrimination— a belief that masked very real patterns of racism throughout the Americas. And yet, Cottrol says, if the United States has had a history of more-rigid racial exclusion, since the Second World War it has also had a more thorough civil rights revolution, with significant legal victories over racial discrimination. Cottrol explores this remarkable transformation and shows how it is now inspiring civil rights activists throughout the Americas.

Book Discurso leido en la solemne apertura del curso acad  mico de 1872 a 73 en el Instituto de 2a  ense  anza de la provincia de Granada

Download or read book Discurso leido en la solemne apertura del curso acad mico de 1872 a 73 en el Instituto de 2a ense anza de la provincia de Granada written by Rafael García y Álvarez and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Media  Technology  and Literature in the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book Media Technology and Literature in the Nineteenth Century written by Dr Colette Colligan and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operating at the intersection where new technology meets literature, this collection discovers the relationship among image, sound, and touch in the long nineteenth century. The chapters speak to the special mixed-media properties of literature, while exploring the important interconnections of science, technology, and art at the historical moment when media was being theorized, debated, and scrutinized. Each chapter focuses on a specific visual, acoustic, or haptic dimension of media, while also calling attention to the relationships among the three. Famous works such as Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" and Shelley's Frankenstein are discussed alongside a range of lesser-known literary, scientific, and pornographic writings. Topics include the development of a print culture for the visually impaired; the relationship between photography and narrative; the kaleidoscope and modern urban experience; Christmas gift books; poetry, painting and music as remediated forms; the interface among the piano, telegraph, and typewriter; Ernst Heinrich Weber's model of rationalized tactility; and how the shift from visual to auditory telegraphic instruments amplified anxieties about the place of women in nineteenth-century information networks. Full of surprising insights and connections, the collection offers new impetus for stimulating historical conversations and debates about nineteenth-century media, while also contributing fresh perspectives on new media and (re)mediation today.

Book Discurso leido en la solemne apertura del curso acad  mico

Download or read book Discurso leido en la solemne apertura del curso acad mico written by Universidad de Oviedo and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Comparative Reception of Darwinism

Download or read book The Comparative Reception of Darwinism written by Thomas F. Glick and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988-09-24 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The majority of the chapters deal with the reception accorded Darwin's work in specific countries: England, the United States, Germany, France, Russia, the Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, and the Arab countries. Several chapters, however, also investigate the response to Darwinism made by specific social circles--such as social scientists in Russia and the United States

Book Impressions of Spain in 1866

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  • Author : Baroness Mary Elizabeth Herbert Herbert
  • Publisher : London : R. Bentley
  • Release : 1867
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Impressions of Spain in 1866 written by Baroness Mary Elizabeth Herbert Herbert and published by London : R. Bentley. This book was released on 1867 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Afro Argentine Discourse

Download or read book Afro Argentine Discourse written by Marvin A. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Afro-Argentine Discourse, Marvin A. Lewis attempts to write blacks back into the literary history of Argentina by treating in depth, for the first time, the written expression of Argentines of African descent during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Because their contributions are overlooked or minimized in most literary histories, it is often assumed that blacks had little or no part in the development of Argentine literature. Through original archival research, Lewis corrects this erroneous assumption by examining texts never before made available to the academic community. Afro-Argentine Discourse investigates a new dimension of the black experience in the Americas and will stir much interest and debate regarding the black presence in Argentina.

Book Servicios prestados a la ciencia por la Iglesia

Download or read book Servicios prestados a la ciencia por la Iglesia written by Guillermo Estrada y Villaverde and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book They Shall Not Pass

Download or read book They Shall Not Pass written by Dolores Ibárruri and published by INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO. This book was released on 1966 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping, autobiographical story of the Spanish Civil War by the legendary Communist leader.

Book Discurso le  do en la solemne inauguraci  n del curso acad  mico de 1917 a 1918

Download or read book Discurso le do en la solemne inauguraci n del curso acad mico de 1917 a 1918 written by Fernando de los Ríos y Urruti and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Holy Court

Download or read book The Holy Court written by Nicolas Caussin and published by . This book was released on 1638 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Discurso leido en la apertura del curso acad  mico de 1903    1904

Download or read book Discurso leido en la apertura del curso acad mico de 1903 1904 written by Enrique José Varona and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Discurso Le  do En La Universidad Literaria De Zaragoza

Download or read book Discurso Le do En La Universidad Literaria De Zaragoza written by Cosme Blasco Y Val 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: En este discurso, Cosme Blasco y Val, aborda el papel de la literatura en la educación superior. Reflexiona sobre la importancia de cultivar una mente crítica y sensible a través de la literatura como herramienta esencial para el desarrollo intelectual en la formación universitaria. Este texto es de gran interés para el pensamiento contemporáneo. 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.

Book Discurso le  do en la Universidad literaria de Zaragoza en la solemne apertura de la Academia te  rico pr  ctica de la Facultad de derecho para el curso de 1888 a 1889

Download or read book Discurso le do en la Universidad literaria de Zaragoza en la solemne apertura de la Academia te rico pr ctica de la Facultad de derecho para el curso de 1888 a 1889 written by Cándido Emperador Félez and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: