This text provides a selection of African-American voices, describing written works, oral history, photographs and moving images. Sources from 1883 to the 1990s are annotated and discussed, and are aimed at showing more of the African-American experience than is often portrayed in the mass media.
This text provides a selection of African-American voices, describing written works, oral history, photographs and moving images. Sources from 1883 to...
Denise M. Glover Stevan Harrell Charles F. McKhann
The scientists and explorers profiled in this engaging study of pioneering Euro-American exploration of late imperial and Republican China range from botanists to ethnographers to missionaries. Although a diverse lot, all believed in objective, progressive, and universally valid science; a close association between scientific and humanistic knowledge; a lack of conflict between science and faith; and the union of the natural world and the world of "nature people." Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands examines their cultural and personal assumptions while emphasizing their...
The scientists and explorers profiled in this engaging study of pioneering Euro-American exploration of late imperial and Republican China range fr...