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Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies: v. 17
ISBN: 9780720122855 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Geographers is an annual collection of studies on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from all parts of the world, and include famous names as well as those less well known, including explorers, independent thinkers and scholars. Each paper describes the geographer's education, life and work and discusses their influence and spread of academic ideas. Each study includes a select bibliography and a brief chronology. The work includes a general index, and a cumulative index of geographers...
Geographers is an annual collection of studies on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thoug...
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French Colonial Dakar: The Morphogenesis of an African Regional Capital
ISBN: 9780719099359 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book deals with the planning culture and architectural endeavours that shaped the model space of French colonial Dakar, a prominent city in West Africa. The extra-European planning history of Europe is a burgeoning field in scholarly study and literature, particularly in the last few decades, but there has been a clear tendency to focus on the more privileged colonies in the contemporary colonial order, such as British India and the French colonies in North Africa. Colonial urban space in sub-Saharan Africa has been left relatively untreated. This book is a pioneer in attesting the...
This book deals with the planning culture and architectural endeavours that shaped the model space of French colonial Dakar, a prominent city in West ...
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438,22 |
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The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City
ISBN: 9781107073005 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Smoke of London uncovers the origins of urban air pollution, two centuries before the industrial revolution. By 1600, London was a fossil-fuelled city, its high-sulfur coal a basic necessity for the poor and a source of cheap energy for its growing manufacturing sector. The resulting smoke was found ugly and dangerous throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, leading to challenges in court, suppression by the crown, doctors' attempts to understand the nature of good air, increasing suburbanization, and changing representations of urban life in poetry and on the London stage....
The Smoke of London uncovers the origins of urban air pollution, two centuries before the industrial revolution. By 1600, London was a fossil-fuelled ...
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442,46 |
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Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
ISBN: 9781619028258 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the ASLE Creative Writing Award
Winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation Finalist for the PEN American Open Book Award Finalist for the Phillis Wheatley Book Award Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing Shortlisted for the Orion Book Award "I stand in awe of Lauret Savoy's wisdom and compassionate intelligence. Trace is a crucial book for our time, a bound sanity, not a forgiveness, but a reckoning." --Terry Tempest Williams Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory.... Winner of the ASLE Creative Writing Award
Winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation Finalist for the PEN Am... |
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65,32 |
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The English and Their History
ISBN: 9781101873366 / Angielski / Miękka / 1040 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Named a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist
The English first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. From the armed Saxon bands that descended onto Roman-controlled Britain in the fifth century to the travails of the Eurozone plaguing the prime-ministership of today's multicultural England, acclaimed historian Robert Tombs presents a momentous and challenging history of a people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in existence.... Named a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist
The English firs... |
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111,75 |
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Geographies of Comfort
ISBN: 9781472454027 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To be in one's comfort zone is perceived to be conservative, and socially and culturally unadventurous. At the same time the embodied, material experience of 'comfort' is anticipated for satisfying experiences of everyday life. To comfort is to support and strengthen. Bringing together conceptual and empirical research that deploys the lens of comfort to make sense of the textures of everyday life in a variety of geographical contexts, this is the first volume to engage critically with 'comfort' and 'discomfort' as substantive concerns for Human Geography. Comfort and discomfort have come to...
To be in one's comfort zone is perceived to be conservative, and socially and culturally unadventurous. At the same time the embodied, material experi...
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759,15 |
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A Perfect Eden: Encounters by Early Explorers of Vancouver Island
ISBN: 9781771511773 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shortlisted for two 2017 BC Book Prizes. In 1842, when explorer James Douglas encountered the rugged natural paradise that would become Vancouver Island, he described it as "a perfect Eden." This book, a compelling history of the earliest explorers to Vancouver Island, gathers the early recorded histories and personal accounts left by Chinese seafarers, Spanish and British naval officers, traders seeking sea otter pelts, colonial surveyors, as well as soldiers, settlers, and other adventurers, starting from many centuries ago up to 1858. Collected here in detail for the first... Shortlisted for two 2017 BC Book Prizes. In 1842, when explorer James Douglas encountered the rugged natural paradise that would becom... |
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Inhabited Spaces: Anglo-Saxon Constructions of Place
ISBN: 9781487500658 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We tend to think of early medieval people as unsophisticated about geography because their understandings of space and place often differed from ours, yet theirs were no less complex. Anglo-Saxons conceived of themselves as living at the centre of a cosmos that combined order and plenitude, two principles in a constant state of tension. In Inhabited Spaces, Nicole Guenther Discenza examines a variety of Anglo-Latin and Old English texts to shed light on Anglo-Saxon understandings of space. Anglo-Saxon models of the universe featured a spherical earth at the centre of a... We tend to think of early medieval people as unsophisticated about geography because their understandings of space and place often differed from ou... |
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225,30 |
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The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia
ISBN: 9781621903093 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For decades historians and historical geographers have neglected the study of town life in the colonial South, simply portraying towns as the result of increasing population density. The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia, the first comprehensive study of town development in the interior of the colonial South, marshals evidence that planned urban settlements were the essential agents in accelerating westward expansion. Through the analysis of twenty-five attempts to create towns in the Virginia backcountry, the work demonstrates there was a distinctly southern urbanmovement in the...
For decades historians and historical geographers have neglected the study of town life in the colonial South, simply portraying towns as the result o...
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96,15 |
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The Ecology of War in China: Henan Province, the Yellow River, and Beyond, 1938-1950
ISBN: 9781107417595 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the interplay between war and the environment in Henan Province, a hotly contested frontline territory that endured massive environmental destruction and human disruption during the conflict between China and Japan that raged during World War II. In a desperate attempt to block Japan's military advance, Chinese Nationalist armies under Chiang Kai-shek broke the Yellow River's dikes in Henan in June 1938, resulting in devastating floods that persisted until after the war's end. Greater catastrophe struck Henan in 1942-1943, when famine took some two million lives and...
This book explores the interplay between war and the environment in Henan Province, a hotly contested frontline territory that endured massive environ...
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126,93 |
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History: Human History in 50 Events: From Ancient Civilizations to Modern Times (World History, History Books, People History)
ISBN: 9781533172549 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do you want to know how the Human Race got to where it is today? Read about the 50 most important events in human history, from the first civilizations to the birth of the internet. This book is perfect for history lovers. Author James Weber did the research and compiled this huge list of events that changed the course of history forever. Some of them include: - The first civilization in Mesopotamia in 3,000 B.C. - The Norman Invasion of England in 1066 - The invention of the printing press by Johannes Guttenberg around 1450 - The French Revolution in 1789 - The first motorized...
Do you want to know how the Human Race got to where it is today? Read about the 50 most important events in human history, from the first civilization...
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The River, the Plain, and the State
ISBN: 9781107155985 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On July 19, 1048, the Yellow River breached its banks, drastically changing its course across the Hebei Plain and turning it into a delta where the river sought a path out to the ocean. This dramatic shift of forces in the natural world resulted from political deliberation and hydraulic engineering of the imperial state of the Northern Song Dynasty. It created 80 years of social suffering, economic downturn, political upheaval, and environmental changes, which reshaped the medieval North China Plain and challenged the state. Ling Zhang deftly applies textual analysis, theoretical provocation,...
On July 19, 1048, the Yellow River breached its banks, drastically changing its course across the Hebei Plain and turning it into a delta where the ri...
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History: American History in 50 Events: From First Immigration to World Power (US History, History Books, USA History)
ISBN: 9781532953576 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do you want to know how the United States became the world power it is today? Read about the 50 most important events in American history, from the first immigration to the only remaining world power after the cold war. This book will give you a comprehensive overview of the U.S. history. Author James Weber did the research and compiled this huge list of events that changed the course of this nation forever. Some of them include: - The First Indians on the American continent 14,500 B.C - Jamestown as the first permanent English settlement in the United States 1565 - The...
Do you want to know how the United States became the world power it is today? Read about the 50 most important events in American history, from the fi...
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History: World History in 50 Events: From the Beginning of Time to the Present (World History, History Books, Earth History)
ISBN: 9781534849327 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Medieval West Africa
ISBN: 9781558763050 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the 9th to the 15th century Arab travellers and observers produced a rich literature in West Africa. An annotated translation of this body of work is found in "Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History". This title is a simplified form of this corpus for students.
From the 9th to the 15th century Arab travellers and observers produced a rich literature in West Africa. An annotated translation of this body of wor...
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The Singapore River: A Social History, 1819-2002
ISBN: 9789814722254 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For most of its modern history, to speak of Singapore was to speak of the Singapore River, physical centre of the city and site of the greater part of the colony's entrepot trade. The river has been transformed over the last 25 years from a polluted industrial sewer choked with traffic to a clean, placid waterway that forms the centrepiece of Singapore's financial, civic and entertainment districts. This transformation symbolizes the city-state's efforts to remake itself for the 21st century. Stephen Dobbs sets out the history of this waterway, and of the people who made it their home and...
For most of its modern history, to speak of Singapore was to speak of the Singapore River, physical centre of the city and site of the greater part of...
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117,50 |
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
ISBN: 9781101912379 / Angielski / Miękka / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South Asia has been thrust into the global spotlight in recent years. Frankopan teaches us that to understand what is at stake for the cities and nations built on these intricate trade routes, we must first understand their astounding pasts. Frankopan...
Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come...
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88,63 |
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Mapping Ethnography in Early Modern Germany: New Worlds in Print Culture
ISBN: 9781349382699 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the first book-length examination of the role of German print culture in mediating Europe's knowledge of the newly discovered people of Africa, South Asia, and the Americas, this work highlights a unique and early incident of visual accuracy and an unprecedented investment in the practice of ethnography.
As the first book-length examination of the role of German print culture in mediating Europe's knowledge of the newly discovered people of Africa, Sou...
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201,24 |
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The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina
ISBN: 9780190610760 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Big Muddy, the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across five centuries as he illuminates the interaction between people and the landscape, from early hunter-gatherer bands to present-day industrial and post-industrial society. Morris shows that when Hernando de Soto arrived at the lower Mississippi Valley, he found an incredibly vast wetland, forty thousand square miles of some of the richest, wettest land in North America, deposited there by the big muddy river that ran through it. But since then much has...
In The Big Muddy, the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across five centur...
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175,61 |
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Social and Ecological History of the Pyrenees: State, Market, and Landscape
ISBN: 9781598746136 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This major work of historical ecology advances the integration of research on environmental and social systems, contributing important lessons for contemporary natural resource policy and management. A diverse, international region, the Pyrenees has been characterized as a quintessential example of rural areas across Europe and North America. The authors use qualitative and quantitative methods from economics, history, anthropology, and ecological science to integrate human agency and ecology across a landscape that moved from agricultural and pastoral production to industrialization, then...
This major work of historical ecology advances the integration of research on environmental and social systems, contributing important lessons for con...
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734,66 |
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