Empire Under The Microscope

Author : Emilie Taylor-Pirie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030847173

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This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor-Pirie examines a wealth of archival material including medical lectures, scientific publications, popular biography, and personal and professional correspondence, alongside novels, poems, newspaper articles, and political speeches, to excavate the shared vocabularies of literature and medicine. She demonstrates how forms such as poetry and biography; genres such as imperial romance and detective fiction; and modes such as adventure and the Gothic, together informed how tropical diseases, their parasites, and their vectors, were understood in relation to race, gender, and nation. From Ancient Greece, to King Arthur’s Knights, to the detective work of Sherlock Holmes, parasitologists manipulated literary and historical forms of knowledge in their professional self-fashioning to create a modern mythology that has a visible legacy in relationships between science and society today.

Author : Emilie Taylor-Pirie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3030847187

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Empire Under the Microscope by Emilie Taylor-Pirie Pdf

This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor-Pirie examines a wealth of archival material including medical lectures, scientific publications, popular biography, and personal and professional correspondence, alongside novels, poems, newspaper articles, and political speeches, to excavate the shared vocabularies of literature and medicine. She demonstrates how forms such as poetry and biography; genres such as imperial romance and detective fiction; and modes such as adventure and the Gothic, together informed how tropical diseases, their parasites, and their vectors, were understood in relation to race, gender, and nation. From Ancient Greece, to King Arthur's Knights, to the detective work of Sherlock Holmes, parasitologists manipulated literary and historical forms of knowledge in their professional self-fashioning to create a modern mythology that has a visible legacy in relationships between science and society today. Emilie Taylor-Pirie is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has a BSc in Biology and higher degrees in the humanities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Geology
ISBN : UOM:39015055356730

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U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117386057

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Bulletins from Britain by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nigusie Kassaye W. Michael
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Ethiopia
ISBN : 9781666908244

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Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia by Nigusie Kassaye W. Michael Pdf

This book examines the political history of the last Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I and argues that Haile Selassie was the founder of centralized Ethiopia with access to the sea as well as the founder of modern Ethiopian diplomacy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Geology
ISBN : UCBK:C033234418

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Geological Survey Professional Paper by Anonim Pdf

Author : Myles Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107061040

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Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya by Myles Osborne Pdf

This work analyses the ethnicity in Kenya over the past two hundred years, focusing on the Kamba ethnic group that inhabits eastern Kenya.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:319510007332338

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The Illustrated Science Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Erin Webster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192590589

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The Curious Eye by Erin Webster Pdf

The Curious Eye explores early modern debates over two related questions: what are the limits of human vision, and to what extent can these limits be overcome by technological enhancement? In our everyday lives, we rely on optical technology to provide us with information about visually remote spaces even as we question the efficacy and ethics of such pursuits. But the debates surrounding the subject of technologically mediated vision have their roots in a much older literary tradition in which the ability to see beyond the limits of natural human vision is associated with philosophical and spiritual insight as well as social and political control. The Curious Eye provides insight into the subject of optically-mediated vision by returning to the literature of the seventeenth century, the historical moment in which human visual capacity in the West was first extended through the application of optical technologies to the eye. Bringing imaginative literary works by Francis Bacon, John Milton, Margaret Cavendish, and Aphra Behn together with optical and philosophical treatises by Johannes Kepler, René Descartes, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton, the volume explores the social and intellectual impact of the new optical technologies of the seventeenth century on its literature. At the same time, it demonstrates that social, political, and literary concerns are not peripheral to the optical science of the period but, rather, an integral part of it, the legacy of which we continue to experience.

Author : Robert Stam,Alessandra Raengo
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781405177559

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A Companion to Literature and Film by Robert Stam,Alessandra Raengo Pdf

A Companion to Literature in Film provides state-of-the-art research on world literature, film, and the complex theoretical relationship between them. 25 essays by international experts cover the most important topics in the study of literature and film adaptations. Covers a wide variety of topics, including cultural, thematic, theoretical, and genre issues Discusses film adaptations from the birth of cinema to the present day Explores a diverse range of titles and genres, including film noir, biblical epics, and Italian and Chinese cinema

Author : Mel Gurtov
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538145685

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America in Retreat by Mel Gurtov Pdf

This deeply researched book offers a comprehensive analysis of the domestic politics and international consequences of Trump’s foreign policy. Mel Gurtov provides detailed case studies of policy toward key countries and regions, including China, Russia, North Korea, Europe, and the Middle East. He makes a vigorous argument, centered on human-interest priorities and values, for rejecting a foreign policy of neglect and ineptness when it comes to the major issues of our times: climate change, China’s rise, multiple US wars, human rights, authoritarian leadership, and nuclear weapons. Gurtov argues that Trump is a nationalist and illiberal populist whose policy views have been molded chiefly by his business practices, leading to an obsession with “winning,” elevation of ego and loyalty over expertise, and preference for threats over diplomacy. Trump holds to a few simple ideas about the US role in the world: too expensive, too subject to other countries and institutions, and too influenced by “globalist” concerns such as democracy, climate crisis, human rights, and the rule of law. Trump will leave a deeply negative mark on the reputation and credibility of the United States, and on its policy-making process. But Gurtov concludes that a liberal successor should be able to reverse the worst features of the Trump era and restore foreign policy to its true purpose: exemplifying America’s commitment to humane and democratic governance and cooperative economic relations with allies and economic partners.

Author : Ben Robbins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-21
Category : Fantasy games
ISBN : 0983277907

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Microscope by Ben Robbins Pdf

Author : Tim Kendall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199282668

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The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry by Tim Kendall Pdf

The Handbook ranges widely and in depth across 20th-century war poetry, incorporating detailed discussions of some of the key poets of the period. It is an essential resource for scholars of particular poets and for those interested in wider debates. Contributors include some of the most important international poetry critics of our time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Books
ISBN : OXFORD:555072515

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The Academy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton,Charles Edward Doble,James Sutherland Cotton,Charles Lewis Hind,William Teignmouth Shore,Alfred Bruce Douglas,Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett,Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Literature
ISBN : UOM:39015080190799

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Academy and Literature by Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton,Charles Edward Doble,James Sutherland Cotton,Charles Lewis Hind,William Teignmouth Shore,Alfred Bruce Douglas,Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett,Thomas William Hodgson Crosland Pdf