Empire S Nature

Author : Karl S. Hele
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781554584215

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The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature by Karl S. Hele Pdf

Drawing on themes from John MacKenzie’s Empires of Nature and the Nature of Empires (1997), this book explores, from Indigenous or Indigenous-influenced perspectives, the power of nature and the attempts by empires (United States, Canada, and Britain) to control it. It also examines contemporary threats to First Nations communities from ongoing political, environmental, and social issues, and the efforts to confront and eliminate these threats to peoples and the environment. It becomes apparent that empire, despite its manifestations of power, cannot control or discipline humans and nature. Essays suggest new ways of looking at the Great Lakes watershed and the peoples and empires contained within it.

Author : Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0804755442

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Nature, Empire, and Nation by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Pdf

This collection of essays explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early-modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrumental and imperial, the other patriotic and national. Imperial representations laid the ground for the epistemological transformations of the so-called Scientific Revolutions. The patriotic narratives lie at the core of the first modern representations of the racialized body, Humboldtian theories of biodistribution, and views of the landscape as a historical text representing different layers of historical memory.

Author : David Philip Miller,Peter Hanns Reill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521172616

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Visions of Empire by David Philip Miller,Peter Hanns Reill Pdf

Richly illustrated 1996 collection on how Pacific plants and peoples were depicted by European explorers.

Author : Sujit Sivasundaram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0521848369

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Nature and the Godly Empire by Sujit Sivasundaram Pdf

A study of the relations between nineteenth-century science and Christianity.

Author : Amy R. W. Meyers,Margaret Beck Pritchard
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780807838563

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Empire's Nature by Amy R. W. Meyers,Margaret Beck Pritchard Pdf

Completed in 1747, Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands was the first major illustrated publication on the flora and fauna of Britain's American colonies. Together with his Hortus Britanno-Americanus (1763), which detailed plant species that might be transplanted successfully to British soil, Catesby's Natural History exerted an important, though often overlooked, influence on the development of art, natural history, and scientific observation in the eighteenth century. Inspired by a major traveling exhibition of Catesby's watercolor drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, this collection of interdisciplinary essays considers Catesby's endeavors as a naturalist-artist, scientific explorer, experimental horticulturist, ornamental gardener, and early environmental thinker in terms of the interests held by the various, overlapping communities in which he functioned--particularly as those interests related to the British colonial enterprise. The contributors are David R. Brigham, Joyce E. Chaplin, Mark Laird, Amy R. W. Meyers, Therese O'Malley, and Margaret Beck Pritchard.

Author : Sarah Irving
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317315223

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Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire by Sarah Irving Pdf

Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation of empire as geographically unchallenged sovereignty, overlooks the idea of empire as intellectual dominion.

Author : John MacDonald MacKenzie
Publisher : John Donald
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015039882470

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Empires of Nature and the Nature of Empires by John MacDonald MacKenzie Pdf

Originally delivered as the Callander Lectures at the University of Aberdeen in 1995, this is a survey of the historiography of the environmental history of the British Empire, suggesting new modes of analysis and connections with the Scottish experience.

Author : John M. MacKenzie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0719052270

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The Empire of Nature by John M. MacKenzie Pdf

In The Empire of Nature, John M. MacKenzie assesses the significance of the hunting cult as a major element of the imperial experience in Africa and Asia.

Author : Daniela Bleichmar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226058559

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Visible Empire by Daniela Bleichmar Pdf

Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collections of specimens, they dedicated an overwhelming proportion of their resources and energy to the creation of visual materials. European and American naturalists and artists collaborated to manufacture a staggering total of more than 12,000 botanical illustrations. Yet these images have remained largely overlooked—until now. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Daniela Bleichmar gives this archive its due, finding in these botanical images a window into the worlds of Enlightenment science, visual culture, and empire. Through innovative interdisciplinary scholarship that bridges the histories of science, visual culture, and the Hispanic world, Bleichmar uses these images to trace two related histories: the little-known history of scientific expeditions in the Hispanic Enlightenment and the history of visual evidence in both science and administration in the early modern Spanish empire. As Bleichmar shows, in the Spanish empire visual epistemology operated not only in scientific contexts but also as part of an imperial apparatus that had a long-established tradition of deploying visual evidence for administrative purposes.

Author : Alan Mikhail
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139499552

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Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt by Alan Mikhail Pdf

In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book charts how changes in the control of natural resources fundamentally altered the nature of Ottoman imperial sovereignty in Egypt and throughout the empire. In revealing how Egyptian peasants were able to use their knowledge and experience of local environments to force the hand of the imperial state, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt tells a story of the connections of empire stretching from canals in the Egyptian countryside to the palace in Istanbul, from the forests of Anatolia to the shores of the Red Sea, and from a plague flea's bite to the fortunes of one of the most powerful states of the early modern world.

Author : Antonio Barrera-Osorio
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780292782891

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Experiencing Nature by Antonio Barrera-Osorio Pdf

As Spain colonized the Americas during the sixteenth century, Spanish soldiers, bureaucrats, merchants, adventurers, physicians, ship pilots, and friars explored the natural world, gathered data, drew maps, and sent home specimens of America's vast resources of animals, plants, and minerals. This amassing of empirical knowledge about Spain's American possessions had two far-reaching effects. It overturned the medieval understanding of nature derived from Classical texts and helped initiate the modern scientific revolution. And it allowed Spain to commodify and control the natural resources upon which it built its American empire. In this book, Antonio Barrera-Osorio investigates how Spain's need for accurate information about its American colonies gave rise to empirical scientific practices and their institutionalization, which, he asserts, was Spain's chief contribution to the early scientific revolution. He also conclusively links empiricism to empire-building as he focuses on five areas of Spanish activity in America: the search for commodities in, and the ecological transformation of, the New World; the institutionalization of navigational and information-gathering practices at the Spanish Casa de la Contratación (House of Trade); the development of instruments and technologies for exploiting the natural resources of the Americas; the use of reports and questionnaires for gathering information; and the writing of natural histories about the Americas.

Author : Esq. John Finch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Boundaries
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080065782

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The Natural Boundaries of Empires by Esq. John Finch Pdf

Author : A. Moret,G. Davy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136193675

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From Tribe To Empire by A. Moret,G. Davy Pdf

This seminal work written in a close collaboration between an eminent sociologist and an eminent historian show that sociology is, and should be, the ally of the historian and vice versa. Taking Egypt and the Ancient East as the subject, this analysis of early society seeks to show the beginnings of social order and its first steps onto the ladder that leads to classical civilization of the ancient and modern world. The book covers in a systematic way, both theoretically and historically totemic organisation, individualized and communistic power, the progress from clans and kingdom was especially in ancient Egypt and the Semitic world, the empires of Iran and the Barbarian invasions. A stimulating and authoritative study in history and sociology.

Author : Elaine Stratford
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783485109

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Home, Nature, and the Feminine Ideal by Elaine Stratford Pdf

Take three things: the home, nature, and the feminine ideal—a notional and perfected femininity. Constitute them as inexorably and universally connected. Enrol them in diverse strategies and tactics that create varied anatomo-politics of the body and biopolitics of the population. Enlist those three things as the “handmaidens” of the government of individuals and groups, places and spaces, and comings and goings. Focus some effort on the periodical press, and on producing and disseminating narratives, discourses, and practices that relate specifically to health and well-being. Deploy those texts and shape those contexts in ways that affect flesh and bone, psychology and social conduct, and the spatial organization and relational dynamics of dwellings and streets, settlements and regions, and states and empires. Stretch these activities over the Anglophone world—from the epicentres of the United Kingdom and the United States to Australia or Canada, New Zealand or India—and extend their reach over the whole of the long nineteenth century. Such are the subjects of this work, in which Elaine Stratford draws from governmentality, the geohumanities, and geocriticism to converse with an extensive archive that profoundly shaped our engagements with home, nature, and the feminine ideal, deeply influenced our collective capacity to flourish, and powerfully constituted diverse geographies of the interior and of empire that still affect us.

Author : John H. Kautsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351303279

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The Politics of Aristocratic Empires by John H. Kautsky Pdf

The Politics of Aristocratic Empires is a study of a political order that prevailed throughout much of the world for many centuries without any major social conflict or change and with hardly any government in the modern sense. Although previously ignored by political science, powerful remnants of this old order still persist in modern politics. The historical literature on aristocratic empires typically is descriptive and treats each empire as unique. By contrast, this work adopts an analytical, explanatory, and comparative approach and clearly distinguishes aristocratic empires from both primitive and more modern, commercialized societies. It develops generalizations that are supported and richly illustrated by data from many empires and demonstrates that a pattern of politics prevailed across time, space, and cultures from ancient Egypt five millennia ago to Saudi Arabia five decades ago, from China and Japan to Europe, from the Incas and the Aztecs to the Tutsi. Kautsky argues that aristocrats, because they live off the labor of peasants, must perform the primary governmental functions of taxation and warfare. Their performance is linked to particular values and beliefs, and both functions and ideologies in turn condition the stakes, the forms, and the arenas of intra-aristocratic conflictthe politics of the aristocracy. The author also analyzes the roles of the peasantry and the townspeople in aristocratic politics and shows that peasant revolts on any large scale occur only after commercial modernization. He concludes with chapters on the modernization of aristocratic empires and on the importance in modern politics of institutional and ideological remnants of the old aristocratic order.