Maisons Tropicales Des Caraïbes Orientales

Author : I. Davison,J. Hull,J. Pindell
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786204943

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The Basins, Orogens and Evolution of the Southern Gulf of Mexico and Northern Caribbean by I. Davison,J. Hull,J. Pindell Pdf

This volume brings together 17 comprehensive, data-rich analyses to provide an updated perspective on the Mexican Gulf of Mexico, Florida and northern Caribbean. The papers span a broad range of scales and disciplines from plate tectonic evolution to sub-basin scale analysis. Papers are broadly categorised into three themes: 1) geological evolution of the basins of the southern Gulf of Mexico in Mexico, Bahamas and Florida and their hydrocarbon potential; 2) evolution of the region’s Late Cretaceous to Neogene orogens and subsequent denudation history; and 3) geological evolution of the basins and crustal elements of the northern Caribbean. This book and its extensive data sets are essential for all academic and exploration geoscientists working in this area. Two large wall maps are included as fold-outs.

Author : Mark W. Hauser
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295748733

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Mapping Water in Dominica by Mark W. Hauser Pdf

Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/ 9780295748733 Dominica, a place once described as “Nature’s Island,” was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by colonial administrators to replace cultivation of varied plant species with sugarcane caused widespread ecological and social disruption. Illustrating how deeply intertwined plantation slavery was with the environmental devastation it caused, Mapping Water in Dominica situates the social lives of eighteenth-century enslaved laborers in the natural history of two Dominican enclaves. Mark Hauser draws on archaeological and archival history from Dominica to reconstruct the changing ways that enslaved people interacted with water and exposes crucial pieces of Dominica’s colonial history that have been omitted from official documents. The archaeological record—which preserves traces of slave households, waterways, boiling houses, mills, and vessels for storing water—reveals changes in political authority and in how social relations were mediated through the environment. Plantation monoculture, which depended on both slavery and an abundant supply of water, worked through the environment to create predicaments around scarcity, mobility, and belonging whose resolution was a matter of life and death. In following the vestiges of these struggles, this investigation documents a valuable example of an environmental challenge centered around insufficient water. Mapping Water in Dominica is available in an open access edition through the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, thanks to the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Northwestern University Libraries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1816 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : International agencies
ISBN : UCLA:L0101091593

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Yearbook of International Organizations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kathleen M. Balutansky,Marie-Agnes Sourieau
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781947372016

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Caribbean Creolization by Kathleen M. Balutansky,Marie-Agnes Sourieau Pdf

The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.

Author : V. Hélénon,Véronique Hélénon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230118751

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French Caribbeans in Africa by V. Hélénon,Véronique Hélénon Pdf

This is the first book-length study of the French Caribbean presence in Africa, and serves as a unique contribution to the field of African Diaspora and Colonial studies. By using administrative records, newspapers, and interviews, it explores the French Caribbean presence in the colonial administration in Africa before World War II.

Author : Damien Broderick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134860050

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Reading by Starlight by Damien Broderick Pdf

Reading by Starlight explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre. Damien Broderick explores the postmodern self-referentiality of the sci-fi narrative, its intricate coded language and discursive `encyclopaedia'. He shows how, for perfect understanding, sci-fi readers must learn the codes of these imaginary worlds and vocabularies, all the time picking up references to texts by other writers. Reading by Starlight includes close readings of paradigmatic cyberpunk texts and writings by SF novelists and theorists including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, Patrick Parrinder, Kim Stanley Robinson, John Varley, Roger Zelazny, William Gibson, Fredric Jameson and Samuel R. Delaney.

Author : Bernard Perron,Felix Schröter
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780786499090

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Video Games and the Mind by Bernard Perron,Felix Schröter Pdf

Can a video game make you cry? Why do you relate to the characters and how do you engage with the storyworlds they inhabit? How is your body engaged in play? How are your actions guided by sociocultural norms and experiences? Questions like these address a core aspect of digital gaming--the video game experience itself--and are of interest to many game scholars and designers. With psychological theories of cognition, affect and emotion as reference points, this collection of new essays offers various perspectives on how players think and feel about video games and how game design and analysis can build on these processes.

Author : William F. Keegan,Corinne L. Hofman,Reniel Rodriguez Ramos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195392302

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The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology by William F. Keegan,Corinne L. Hofman,Reniel Rodriguez Ramos Pdf

This volume brings together examples of the best research to address the complexity of the Caribbean past.

Author : Dina Gusejnova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107120624

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European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957 by Dina Gusejnova Pdf

Explores European civilisation as a concept of twentieth-century political practice and the project of a transnational network of European elites. This title is available as Open Access.

Author : Peter Seitel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biens culturels - Politique gouvernementale - Congrès
ISBN : 0966552016

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Safeguarding Traditional Cultures by Peter Seitel Pdf

Proceedings from a conference "A global assessment of the 1989 recommendation on the safeguarding of traditional culture and folklore" held at the Smithsonian Institution June 27-30 1999. The purpose of the conference was to assess the implementation of the Recommendation (an international normative instrument adopted by UNESCO in 1989), to bring together points of view and perspectives on the Recommendaion from around the world, and suggest ways in which the Recommendation might develop in the future so that its purpose, the safeguarding of traditional culture and folklore, might be achieved.

Author : Marie-Laure Beauvais,Alain Coléno,Hervé Jourdan
Publisher : IRD Editions
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 2709916134

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Invasive species in the New Caledonian archipelago : a major economic and environmental hazard by Marie-Laure Beauvais,Alain Coléno,Hervé Jourdan Pdf

La biodiversité calédonienne, reconnue comme l’une des plus exceptionnelles avec son fort taux d’endémisme, est largement menacée par l’introduction de nouvelles espèces. Il est donc important de protéger l’écosystème calédonien, à la fois riche et vulnérable, des espèces envahissantes, l’une des principales causes de perte de la biodiversité à l’échelle mondiale. Face à cette menace, le Gouvernement et les trois provinces de Nouvelle-Calédonie souhaitent mettre en place une structure collective afin de définir les orientations stratégiques nécessaires pour préserver et conserver leur biodiversité. Elles ont ainsi voulu qu’un état des connaissances soit dressé et qu’une réflexion soit menée sur la prévention, la détection précoce, l’intervention rapide, l’éradication, le confinement et le contrôle des espèces envahissantes. Cette expertise collégiale apporte les éléments nécessaires à la construction d’un système de biosécurité pertinent et efficace pour l’archipel néo-calédonien.

Author : Christina Kullberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004434967

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Lire l’Histoire générale des Antilles de J.-B. Du Tertre by Christina Kullberg Pdf

Cette étude propose d’examiner les ramifications historiques de l’exotisme à partir d’une lecture critique de l’Histoire générale des Antilles (1654/1667-71) écrite par le missionnaire dominicain, Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre. En procédant d’une analyse littéraire, notre étude suggère une reconfiguration de l’exotisme basée à la fois sur la théorisation contemporaine et sur le contexte historique et l’esthétique de l’époque. Notre travail se veut donc à la fois théorique en offrant une analyse critique des différentes orientations de l’exotisme ; et historique, en présentant une lecture approfondie d’une œuvre dont l’importance est considérable aussi bien pour l’histoire de la littérature française et antillaise que pour l’histoire de l’anthropologie. À cet égard, cette étude fournira aussi une exploration de la toute première colonisation française des îles et de la manière dont elle a été représentée. This book examines the historical ramifications of the concept of exoticism through a literary analysis of Histoire générale des Antilles (1654/1667-71) written by Dominican missionary Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre. The study gives a thorough account of the early French colonization of the islands and the ways in which this violent process of cultural encounters was represented. It argues for the necessity to reconfigure the notion of exoticism, both by revisiting contemporary theorization and by contextualizing it in regard to the history and aesthetics of the times. The study is thus both theoretical, in proceeding by a critical reading of different orientations of exoticism, and historical in offering an in-depth study of an author and a period that have received little attention despite their impact on French Caribbean literature and on the history of anthropology.

Author : Claude Levi-Strauss
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101575604

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Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss Pdf

"A magical masterpiece."—Robert Ardrey. A chronicle of the author's search for a civilization "reduced to its most basic expression."

Author : Benjamin Alberti,Gustavo G. Politis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134597833

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Archaeology in Latin America by Benjamin Alberti,Gustavo G. Politis Pdf

This pioneering and comprehensive survey is the first overview of current themes in Latin American archaeology written solely by academics native to the region, and it makes their collected expertise available to an English-speaking audience for the first time. The contributors cover the most significant issues in the archaeology of Latin America, such as the domestication of camelids, the emergence of urban society in Mesoamerica, the frontier of the Inca empire, and the relatively little known archaeology of the Amazon basin. This book draws together key areas of research in Latin American archaeological thought into a coherent whole; no other volume on this area has ever dealt with such a diverse range of subjects, and some of the countries examined have never before been the subject of a regional study.

Author : C. Michel,P. Bellegarde-Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780312376208

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Vodou in Haitian Life and Culture by C. Michel,P. Bellegarde-Smith Pdf

This collection introduces readers to the history and practice of the Vodou religion, and corrects many misconceptions. The book focuses specifically on the role Vodou plays in Haiti, where it has its strongest following, examining its influence on spiritual beliefs, cultural practices, national identity, popular culture, writing and art.