Naked Tropics

Author : Kenneth Maxwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136728488

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In this volume distinguished historian Kenneth Maxwell collects some of his most significant writings, following Portugal's imperial journey from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean and from the coast of Asia to the mouth of the Red Sea. Maxwell takes the reader on a lively journey from Macao to the Amazon forests-each piece in the collection is a reflection of the authors driving passions. Major themes he examines are: the peopling of the Americas, the shaking up of continents, the spirit that took a precocious Portugal into its imperial venture, the play between Portugal's' extensive imperial reach into Africa and Asia and the Americas, and the rise of Brazil and its tumultuous history.

Author : Kenneth Maxwell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0415945763

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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Kenneth Maxwell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0415945771

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Naked Tropics by Kenneth Maxwell Pdf

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : George Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Gardening
ISBN : NYPL:33433004123893

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The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening by George Nicholson Pdf

Author : Adam Wasserman
Publisher : Adam Wasserman
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781449555382

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Two Sides to the Coin by Adam Wasserman Pdf

Traces the history of gold throughout the world from antiquity to the early twenty-first century, describing its value to humanity, and discussing its usage in art, jewelry, palaces, temples, and tombs, along with the role it has played in historic events.

Author : George Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ZBZH:ZBZ-00100941

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“The” Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening by George Nicholson Pdf

Author : Nancy Stepan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0801438810

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Picturing Tropical Nature by Nancy Stepan Pdf

"Picturing Tropical Nature reflects on the work of several nineteenth- and twentieth-century scientists and artists, including Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Russel Wallace, Louis Agassiz, Sir Patrick Manson, and Margaret Mee. Their careers illuminate several aspects of tropicalization: science and art in the making of tropical pictures; the commercial and cultural boom in things tropical in the modern period; photographic attempts to represent tropical hybrid races; antitropicalism and its role in an emerging environmentalist sensibility; and visual depictions of disease in the new tropical medicine."--Jacket.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783346386342

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Selection of Poultry Genotypes in Humid Tropics for Meat Quality Traits, Challenges and Opportunities Ahead by Anonim Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Agrarian Studies, grade: 1, Hawassa University, course: Animal Breeding, language: English, abstract: The objective of this paper is to review selection of poultry genotypes in humid tropics for meat quality traits, the challenges, and opportunities including selection of poultry genotypes, breeds of broilers kept by the farmers, selection criteria, and trait preference for meat quality in humid tropics. The indigenous village chicken is the most prominent class of livestock in the country and constitutes about 60-80% of the total poultry population, their productivity levels are low because of low genetic potential and poor nutrition. To overcome the problem of low productivity in local chickens, high-yielding exotic breeds have been introduced through cockerel exchange program by the government. This intervention is bedeviled with many challenges; prominent among them is the birds’ inability to adapt to the humid and hot environment, resulting in reduced feed intake and retarded growth. A number of major heat-tolerant genes or gene complexes like naked-neck, ptylopody, polydactyly and frizzle have been identified in the genome of Ghanaian local chicken populations. These unique genes have been reported to ameliorate tropical heat stress and enhance the performance of chickens under hot and humid environments. The existence of the naked-neck gene results in 20-30% less feather coverage overall, with the lower neck of the bird appearing almost naked while the frizzle gene but is reported to reduce the insulating properties of the feather cover (reduce featherweight) and make it easier for the bird to radiate heat from the body.

Author : Dennis S. Hill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1987-10-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0521288673

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Agricultural Insect Pests of the Tropics and their Control by Dennis S. Hill Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1390 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Tariff
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU09324810

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Schedule C, continued by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1388 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Tariff
ISBN : SRLF:A0002133205

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Tariff Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, Sixtieth Congress, 1908-1909 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means Pdf

Author : Gabriel Paquette
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317142874

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Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and its Atlantic Colonies, c. 1750-1830 by Gabriel Paquette Pdf

Efforts to ascertain the influence of enlightenment thought on state action, especially government reform, in the long eighteenth century have long provoked stimulating scholarly quarrels. Generations of historians have grappled with the elusive intersections of enlightenment and absolutism, of political ideas and government policy. In order to complement, expand and rejuvenate the debate which has so far concentrated largely on Northern, Central and Eastern Europe, this volume brings together historians of Southern Europe (broadly defined) and its ultramarine empires. Each chapter has been explicitly commissioned to engage with a common set of historiographical issues in order to reappraise specific aspects of 'enlightened absolutism' and 'enlightened reform' as paradigms for the study of Southern Europe and its Atlantic empires. In so doing it engages creatively with pressing issues in the current historical literature and suggests new directions for future research. No single historian, working alone, could write a history that did justice to the complex issues involved in studying the connection between enlightenment ideas and policy-making in Spanish America, Brazil, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain. For this reason, this well-conceived, balanced volume, drawing on the expertise of a small, carefully-chosen cohort, offers an exciting investigation of this historical debate.

Author : Felix Driver,Luciana Martins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226164700

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Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire by Felix Driver,Luciana Martins Pdf

The contrast between the temperate and the tropical is one of the most enduring themes in the history of the Western geographical imagination. Caught between the demands of experience and representation, documentation and fantasy, travelers in the tropics have often treated tropical nature as a foil to the temperate, to all that is civilized, modest, and enlightened. Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire explores images of the tropical world—maps, paintings, botanical drawings, photographs, diagrams, and texts—produced by European and American travelers over the past three centuries. Bringing together a group of distinguished contributors from disciplines across the arts and humanities, this volume contains eleven beautifully illustrated essays—arranged in three sections devoted to voyages, mappings, and sites—that consider the ways that tropical places were encountered, experienced, and represented in visual form. Covering a wide range of tropical sites in the Pacific, South Asia, West Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America, the book will appeal to a broad readership: scholars of postcolonial studies, art history, literature, imperial history, history of science, geography, and anthropology.

Author : Alejandro Caneque
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135945091

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The King's Living Image by Alejandro Caneque Pdf

Taking a fresh look at the political culture of the Spanish monarchy, this work investigates the politics of imperial rule & viceregal power in 17th century Mexico as well as the construction of the colonial state. It challenges long held perspectives on colonial Spanish America.

Author : Eric D. Weitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691185552

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A World Divided by Eric D. Weitz Pdf

A global history of human rights in a world of nation-states that grant rights to some while denying them to others Once dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into close to 200 independent countries with laws and constitutions proclaiming human rights—a transformation that suggests that nations and human rights inevitably developed together. But the reality is far more problematic, as Eric Weitz shows in this compelling global history of the fate of human rights in a world of nation-states. Through vivid histories drawn from virtually every continent, A World Divided describes how, since the eighteenth century, nationalists have struggled to establish their own states that grant human rights to some people. At the same time, they have excluded others through forced assimilation, ethnic cleansing, or even genocide. From Greek rebels, American settlers, and Brazilian abolitionists in the nineteenth century to anticolonial Africans and Zionists in the twentieth, nationalists have confronted a crucial question: Who has the "right to have rights?" A World Divided tells these stories in colorful accounts focusing on people who were at the center of events. And it shows that rights are dynamic. Proclaimed originally for propertied white men, rights were quickly demanded by others, including women, American Indians, and black slaves. A World Divided also explains the origins of many of today's crises, from the existence of more than 65 million refugees and migrants worldwide to the growth of right-wing nationalism. The book argues that only the continual advance of international human rights will move us beyond the quandary of a world divided between those who have rights and those who don't.