Download or read book L empire de la monnaie dans les Mascareignes au XVIIIe si cle written by Juliette Françoise and published by Publishroom. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un livre consacré à l'histoire monétaire des Mascareignes au cours du XVIIIe siècle. La monnaie est une institution qui permet la médiation des relations sociales de dette et de créance. Ses fonctions de compte, de paiement, d’échange et de réserve de valeur sont essentielles au fonctionnement de l’économie marchande. Il existe une pluralité de monnaies qui relèvent de pratiques monétaires multiples et différenciées, historiquement et spatialement situées dans des régimes de souveraineté politique et monétaire. Cet ouvrage propose une approche historique de la monnaie et des dynamiques monétaires liées aux activités commerciales et coloniales françaises dans l’Océan Indien au XVIIIe siècle. Il s’agit d’analyser le fait monétaire dans sa globalité, c’est-à-dire, non seulement en tant qu’institution de base de l’économie marchande, mais aussi comme enjeu politique. La monnaie est, en effet, un élément clef dans les modalités d’exercice et d’imposition de la domination coloniale puisqu’elle symbolise la souveraineté politique et qu’elle permet la captation et l’orientation des richesses. Il est indispensable de prendre en compte ces deux dimensions de la monnaie afin de proposer une interprétation la plus complète possible des dynamiques monétaires activées par la présence française dans un espace extra-européen à l’époque moderne. Cet ouvrage est l'aboutissement d'un projet de recherche mené dans le cadre d'un mémoire de master 2 d'Histoire économique moderne. À PROPOS DE L'AUTEURE Diplômée de l’École des Études Orientales et Africaines de Londres et de l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Juliette Françoise poursuit ses études à l’École Normale Supérieure. Ses recherches portent sur la monnaie et la finance à l’époque moderne. Elle s'intéresse, en particulier, à la production et à la circulation des instruments monétaires, ainsi qu’aux institutions monétaires et financières liées à l’Empire colonial français en Asie. Cet ouvrage est issu de son mémoire de master 2 d’Histoire économique moderne, rédigé sous la direction d’Anne Conchon.
Download or read book L empire de la monnaie dans les Mascareignes au XVIIIe si cle written by Juliette Françoise and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Colonial Machine written by James Edward McClellan (III) and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of modern science and European colonial and imperial expansion are indisputably two defining elements of modern world history. James E. McClellan III and Francois Regourd explore these two world-historical forces and their interactions in this comprehensive and in-depth history of the French case in the Old Regime presented here for the first time. The case is key because no other state matched Old-Regime France as a center for organized science and because contemporary France closely rivaled Britain as a colonial power, as well as leading all other nations in commodity production and participating in the slave trade. Based on extensive archival research and vast primary and secondary literatures and sharply reframing the historiography of the field, this landmark volume traces the development and significance for early-modern history of the Colonial Machine of Old-Regime France, an unparalleled agglomeration of institutions geared to the success of the French colonial enterprise, including the Royal Navy, the Academie Royale des Sciences, the Jardin du Roi, and a host of related specialist institutions working together at home and overseas. Mainly supported by the French state, the Colonial Machine reveals itself through its actions from the time of Colbert and Louis XIV as it grappled with fundamental problems facing contemporary European colonialism: cartography and navigation; medical care of sailors, colonists, and slaves; and applied botany and commodity production. Historians of globalization and European overseas expansion, of Old-Regime France, and of science in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries will henceforth take this stimulating volume as a necessary starting point for further reflection and research. Nominated for the Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Edward E Ayer Ornithological Library written by Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library and published by Chicago : Field Museum of Natural History. This book was released on 1926 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shepherds and Demons written by Hans Austnaberg and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Malagasy revival movement, which started in 1894 and operates within the structure of the historical churches, continues to have a profound impact on Protestant church life. This book focuses on exorcism as practised and understood by the so-called shepherds (lay, unsalaried, consecrated church workers) and defines «exorcism» as the expulsion of demons and prayer with the laying on of hands. This study, with Malagasy actors at its centre, argues that exorcism constitutes a synthesis between the biblical message and the traditional Malagasy culture. The shepherds, who vehemently oppose traditional religion, understand exorcism as a practice appropriate for people with a wide variety of problems, and they assert that the purpose of exorcism is to create a living faith in Jesus. The shepherds consider the battle with demons absolutely decisive because it concerns nothing less than salvation or condemnation.
Download or read book Neolithic Farming in Central Europe written by Amy Bogaard and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book evaluates competing models of early crop husbandry in Central Europe using available archaeobotanical evidence.
Download or read book Food fuel and fields written by Katharina Neumann and published by Heinrich-Barth-Institut. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on papers from the 3rd International Workshop on African Archaeobotany, Frankfurt, Germany, July 5-7, 2000
Download or read book Rethinking Agriculture written by Timothy P Denham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the need to study agriculture in different parts of the world on its “own terms” has long been recognized and re-affirmed, a tendency persists to evaluate agriculture across the globe using concepts, lines of evidence and methods derived from Eurasian research. However, researchers working in different regions are becoming increasingly aware of fundamental differences in the nature of, and methods employed to study, agriculture and plant exploitation practices in the past. Contributions to this volume rethink agriculture, whether in terms of existing regional chronologies, in terms of techniques employed, or in terms of the concepts that frame our interpretations. This volume highlights new archaeological and ethnoarchaeological research on early agriculture in understudied non-Eurasian regions, including Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the Americas and Africa, to present a more balanced view of the origins and development of agricultural practices around the globe.
Download or read book Origins of African Plant Domestication written by Jack R. Harlan and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian Archaeology in Retrospect Archaeology and interactive disciplines written by S. Settar and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.
Download or read book The Prehistory of Food written by Chris Gosden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-01-14 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prehistory of Food sets subsistence in its social context by focusing on food as a cultural artefact. It brings together contributors with a scientific and biological expertise as well as those interested in the patterns of consumption and social change, and includes a wide range of case studies.
Download or read book Traces of Ancestry written by Martin Jones and published by McDonald Institute Monographs. This book was released on 2004 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1987, Colin Renfrew's Archaeology and Language challenged many perceptions about how one language family spread across large parts of the world. In doing so he re-invigorated an important exchange between archaeologists and historical linguists. At precisely the same time, a quite separate field, human genetics, was making considerable steps forward in the elucidation of human ancestry. These three parallel lines of enquiry into genes, words, and things have, over the ensuing two decades, entirely transformed our perceptions of the human past. This volume brings together contributors to that transformation from around the world, to honour Colin Renfrew with a series of key papers. They include a number of impressive synthetic statements, as well as case studies at the frontiers of three different branches of research. They range from global accounts of human dispersal through to archaeological, genetic and linguistic studies, illustrating what has been achieved over the past two decades, and the most promising avenues of research for the future.
Download or read book TREES AND WOODLANDS OF SOUTH INDIA written by Eleni Asouti and published by Left Coast Press. This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume introduces the ecological history of woodland vegetation in South India. It incorporates a critical overview of the theories of ecological on the subcontinent while detailing the history of long-term changes in the tree and shrub vegetation of the Indian peninsula that have resulted from climate change and the impact of human activities on the landscape. The volume also demonstrates the potential of microscopic analysis of archaeological wood charcoal remains for the purpose of palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Included in the volume is a practical guide for the microscopic identification of the principal timber species of South India, accompanied by detailed information on the synecology and autecology of native trees and shrubs, and ethnographic evidence on their diverse uses and properties. An accompanying CD-ROM contains the complete identification guide and many full color illustrations of South Asian trees and shrubs to facilitate analysis.
Download or read book Flora of Iraq written by Clifford Charles Townsend (botaniste) and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the British Flora written by Godwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-07-19 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chief aim of this book is the reconstruction of the processes and events that have determined the present flora and vegetation of the British Isles, first of all through the long ages when natural conditions prevailed and cycles of glaciations and recessions and slow geological processes were in charge, and afterwards through the nearer and much shorter span of time during which, from the Neolithic onwards, human interference has progressively and severely altered the scene. This is an exercise in biogeography that Darwin called 'that grand subject, that almost keystone to the laws of nature'. But instead of adopting Darwin's conjectural approach, based largely on circumstantial evidence, what this 1975 second edition achieves is a factual reconstruction of events by records of the actual presence of individual species or genera, in large numbers, at particular sites and specified times through the geological and historic record.
Download or read book Vertebrates in the Tropics written by Gustav Peters and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Evolution and History of Human Populations in South Asia written by Michael D. Petraglia and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-22 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of its kind on prehistoric cultures of South Asia. The book brings together archaeologists, biological anthropologists, geneticists and linguists in order to provide a comprehensive account of the history and evolution of human populations residing in the subcontinent. New theories and methodologies presented provide new interpretations about the cultural history and evolution of populations in South Asia.
