Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the Andes
ISBN: 9781108001618 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Francis Bond Head (1793 1875) known as 'Galloping Head', was a soldier who later served as lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, but who was dismissed from his post when rebellion broke out there in 1837. Before this, he had tried unsuccessfully to set up a mining company in Argentina. It is from this period of his life that the characteristically entitled Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the Andes (published in 1826) were written, in a headlong and jocular style which belies the actual hardships of his journey. Part of the interest of the account...
Sir Francis Bond Head (1793 1875) known as 'Galloping Head', was a soldier who later served as lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, but who was dismis...
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Water Resources and Development
ISBN: 9780415451376 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the start of the twenty-first century there has been an unprecedented focus upon water as a key factor in the future of both society and environment. Water management lies at the heart of strategies of development as does the added the hazard of climate change. Water Resources and Development provides a stimulating interdisciplinary introduction to the role of water resources in shaping opportunities and constraints for development. The book begins by charting the evolution of approaches to water management. It identifies an emerging polarization in the late twentieth century between...
Since the start of the twenty-first century there has been an unprecedented focus upon water as a key factor in the future of both society and environ...
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731,87 zł |
History of the City of Gaza: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
ISBN: 9781593336660 / Angielski / Twarda / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Particularly valuable to students of archaeology in the ancient Near East are the old accounts of cities uncovered by archaeologists and historians of the nineteenth century. Meyer offers as comprehensive a history of Gaza as the material of his time would allow. This ambitious account covers what was known of Gaza in Palestine from the earliest records up through the nineteenth century. Meyer divides his treatment into two parts: the first looking at the population and historical periods of the city; the second concerned with concepts and physical remains: cults; deities; the Gaza calendar;...
Particularly valuable to students of archaeology in the ancient Near East are the old accounts of cities uncovered by archaeologists and historians of...
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540,07 zł |
Geography Toward History: Studies in the Mediterranean Basin, Mesopotamia and Central Asia
ISBN: 9781593338619 / Angielski / Twarda / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work compiles essays by Dr. Huntington concerning the usefulness of geography and climatology for understanding history and projecting environmental outcomes. It is of value to students of geography, climatology and Mediterranean, the Near Eastern and Central Asian history.
This work compiles essays by Dr. Huntington concerning the usefulness of geography and climatology for understanding history and projecting environmen...
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741,96 zł |
The Sierra Nevada Before History: Ancient Landscapes, Early Peoples
ISBN: 9780878425679 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of the beginnings of the southern Sierra Nevada, the High Sierra region, from its birth to the historic era. It describes the geologic history, natural history, and prehistoric cultures of this major land feature, which has evolved its own unique plant and animal communities and has nurtured human habitation and growth for thousands of years.
This is the story of the beginnings of the southern Sierra Nevada, the High Sierra region, from its birth to the historic era. It describes the geolog...
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76,92 zł |
Travels to Tana and Persia, and a Narrative of Italian Travels in Persia in the 15th and 16th Centuries
ISBN: 9781108010818 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains six narratives by Venetian diplomats of travel to Persia in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
This volume contains six narratives by Venetian diplomats of travel to Persia in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
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The Travels of Ludovico Di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India, and Ethiopa, A.D. 1503 to 1508: Translated fro
ISBN: 9781108010764 / Angielski / Miękka / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This 1863 volume contains a Victorian translation of Ludovico di Varthema's account of his travels, originally published in 1510, and translated into many European languages within a few...
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first se...
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The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher: In Search of a Passage to Cathaia and India by the North-West, A.D. 1576-8
ISBN: 9781108010757 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume (1867) contains an account of Frobisher's voyages in search of the North-West Passage in the sixteenth century.
This volume (1867) contains an account of Frobisher's voyages in search of the North-West Passage in the sixteenth century.
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181,65 zł |
The Philippine Islands, Moluccas, Siam, Cambodia, Japan, and China, at the Close of the Sixteenth Century
ISBN: 9781108010733 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume of the publications of the Hakluyt Society (1868) describes the Spanish 'discovery, conquest and conversion' of the Philippines.
This volume of the publications of the Hakluyt Society (1868) describes the Spanish 'discovery, conquest and conversion' of the Philippines.
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181,65 zł |
A Geographical History of the State of New York, (1848) Embracing Its History, Government, Physical Features, Climate, Geology, Mineralogy, Botany, Zoology, Education, Internal Improvements, &c.; with
ISBN: 9781601355072 / Angielski / Miękka / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Bringing Geography to Book : Ellen Semple and the Reception of Geographical Knowledge
ISBN: 9781848851412 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ellen Semple's Influences of Geographic Environment (1911) -- a treatise on what would later be called environmental determinism -- coincided with the emergence of geography as an independent academic discipline in North America and Britain. Highly controversial and written by one of America's first female professional geographers, it was considered by some a monument to Semple's scholarship and erudition, while for others it was conceptually flawed. And yet its influence on the development and direction of the new discipline of geography was profound. Innes Keighren explains why... Ellen Semple's Influences of Geographic Environment (1911) -- a treatise on what would later be called environmental determinism -- coincide... |
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Amazonas la Cuna de Los Chachapoyas: Paisaje, Folklore e Historia
ISBN: 9781449509828 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Este libro es un testamento vivo de la historia, paisaje y folklore de las pasadas y presente generaciones de los Chachapoyas. La parte del Paisaje es el intento de describir la geografia y los mas hermosos rincones del solar amazonense. En el Folklore se recogen las mas bellas leyendas, tradiciones y costumbres de los pueblos, cuyos cuadros tienden a desdibujarse en la tela del tiempo. En la parte historica se ha tratado de llenar las lagunas existentes en los periodos prehistorico y colonial; se ha ampliado el ambito geografico de la cultura precolombina a sus verdaderos limites. En el...
Este libro es un testamento vivo de la historia, paisaje y folklore de las pasadas y presente generaciones de los Chachapoyas. La parte del Paisaje es...
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Dacia: Landscape, Colonization and Romanization
ISBN: 9780415594820 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing a detailed consideration of previous theories of native settlement patterns and the impact of Roman colonization, Dacia offers fresh insight into the province Dacia and the nature of Romanization. It analyzes Roman-native interaction from a landscape perspective focusing on the core territory of both the Iron Age and Roman Dacia. Oltean considers the nature and distribution of settlement in the pre-Roman and Roman periods, the human impact on the local landscapes and the changes which occurred as a result of Roman occupation. Dealing with the way that the Roman conquest and...
Providing a detailed consideration of previous theories of native settlement patterns and the impact of Roman colonization, Dacia offers fresh insight...
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272,51 zł |
White Creole Culture, Politics and Identity During the Age of Abolition
ISBN: 9780521172394 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. David Lambert explores the political and cultural articulation of white creole identity in the British Caribbean colony of Barbados during the age of abolitionism (c.1780 1833), the period in which the British antislavery movement emerged, first to attack the slave trade and then the institution of chattel slavery itself. Supporters of slavery in Barbados and beyond responded with their own campaigning, resulting in a series of debates and moments of controversy, both localised and transatlantic in significance. They exposed tensions between Britain and its West Indian colonies, and raised...
David Lambert explores the political and cultural articulation of white creole identity in the British Caribbean colony of Barbados during the age of ...
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156,42 zł |
The Global Governance of Food
ISBN: 9780415590853 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Food provides a particularly exciting and grounded research site for understanding the mechanisms governing global transactions in the 21st century. While food is intimately and fundamentally related to ecological and human well-being, food products now travel far flung trade routes to reach us. International trade in food has tripled in value and quadrupled in volume since 1960 and tracing the production, movement, transformation, and consumption of food necessitates research that situates localities within global networks and facilitates our capacity to "see the trees and the... Food provides a particularly exciting and grounded research site for understanding the mechanisms governing global transactions in the 21st |
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262,42 zł |
The Christian Topography of Cosmas, an Egyptian Monk: Translated from the Greek, and Edited with Notes and Introduction
ISBN: 9781108012959 / Angielski / Miękka / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 98 of the Hakluyt Society publications (1897) describes voyages to South Asia in the mid-sixth century C.E.
Volume 98 of the Hakluyt Society publications (1897) describes voyages to South Asia in the mid-sixth century C.E.
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Geography and Politics Among Nations: An Introduction to Geopolitics
ISBN: 9781450231374 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Turning Points of Environmental History, The
ISBN: 9780822961185 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the time when humans first learned to harness fire, cultivate crops, and domesticate livestock, they have altered their environment as a means of survival. In the modern era, however, natural resources have been devoured and defiled in the wake of a consumerism that goes beyond mere subsistence. In this volume, an international group of environmental historians documents the significant ways in which humans have impacted their surroundings throughout history.
John McNeill introduces the collection with an overarching account of the history of human environmental impact. Other... From the time when humans first learned to harness fire, cultivate crops, and domesticate livestock, they have altered their environment as a means of...
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Seeds of Empire : The Environmental Transformation of New Zealand
ISBN: 9781845117979 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The traditional image of New Zealand is one of verdant landscapes with sheep grazing on lush green pastures. Yet this landscape is almost entirely an artificial creation. As Britain became increasingly reliant on its overseas territories for supplies of food and raw material, so all over the Empire indigenous plants were replaced with English grasses to provide the worked up products of pasture -- meat, butter, cheese, wool, and hides. In New Zealand this process was carried to an extreme, with forest cleared and swamps drained. How, why and with what consequences did the transformation of... The traditional image of New Zealand is one of verdant landscapes with sheep grazing on lush green pastures. Yet this landscape is almost entirely ... |
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Ghost-Town Tales of Oklahoma: Unforgettable Stories of Nearly Forgotten Places
ISBN: 9780913507742 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A rare collection of accounts of incidents and legends throughout the state - intriguing bits of the past generally not found in conventional works of history. Used in some schools as a teaching aid. Included in the 26 chapters are descriptions of a crucial battle between Indians and Spaniards in 1759; a place where "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" was composed; the wild and woolly past of a town called Navajoe; a whiskey-smuggling scheme that set a train depot on fire; a young man who left the oil fields for Hollywood; a scary light that has haunted a lonely road for years; and where once a...
A rare collection of accounts of incidents and legends throughout the state - intriguing bits of the past generally not found in conventional works of...
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81,67 zł |