New Amazonia

Author : Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547404644

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New Amazonia by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett Pdf

In June 1889, Mrs Humphry Ward's open letter "An Appeal Against Female Suffrage" was published with over a hundred other female signatories against the extension of Parliamentary suffrage to women. Inflamed by this "most despicable piece of treachery ever perpetrated towards women by women", Corbett wrote and published New Amazonia.In her novel, Corbett envisions a successful suffragette movement eventually giving rise to a breed of highly evolved "Amazonians" who turn Ireland into a utopian society. The book's female narrator wakes up in the year 2472, much like Julian West awakens in the year 2000 in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. Corbett's heroine, however, is accompanied by a man of her own time, who has similarly awakened from a hashish dream to find himself in New Amazonia.The narrator reacts very positively to what she sees and learns; but her male companion reacts precisely oppositely and adjusts badly. Read on to know more! Excerpt: "The next event I can chronicle was opening my eyes on a scene at once so beautiful and strange that I started to my feet in amaze. This was not my study, and I beheld nothing of the magazine which was the last thing I remembered seeing before I went to sleep. ... I was recalled to the necessity of behaving more decorously by hearing someone near me exclaim in mystified accents, "By Jove! But isn't this extraordinary? I say, do you live here, or have you been taking hasheesh too?"...

Author : Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781513223933

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New Amazonia by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett Pdf

New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future (1889) is a novel by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett. In June 1889, British novelist and President of the Women’s National Anti-Suffrage League Mary Augusta Ward published her reactionary essay “An Appeal Against Female Suffrage” in The Nineteenth Century. In response, Corbett penned New Amazonia, a feminist utopian novel which depicts the emergence of an advanced society of women in the not-so-distant future. While little is known about Corbett, her surviving novels and stories suggest she was a passionate campaigner for women’s suffrage in an era of conservative politics and traditional values. “‘This country is New Amazonia. A long time ago it was called Erin by some, but Ireland was the name it was best known by. It used to be the scene of perpetual strife and warfare. Our archives tell us that it was subjugated by the warlike English, and that it suffered for centuries from want and oppression.’” Having fallen asleep for hundreds of years, a Victorian man and woman emerge to a vastly different world. Following a devastating war between Britain and Ireland, the British repopulated their colony with women deemed to be surplus. On New Amazonia, these women came to control all aspects of government and culture, leading to the eradication of corruption and oppression. Scientifically advanced, the Amazonians have developed a technique for strengthening the human body and increasing the lifespan of women by hundreds of years. Mesmerized by what she finds in this fascinating new world, the narrator records her reactions alongside those of her male counterpart, who remains openly hostile to the Amazonians throughout. For its depiction of an advanced matriarchal society and celebration of feminist ideals, New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future remains an important early work of utopian science fiction. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett’s New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future is a classic of feminist utopian fiction reimagined for modern readers.

Author : George Corbett Mrs.
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789359953793

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New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future by George Corbett Mrs. Pdf

Mrs. George Corbett wrote "New Amazonia," a woman utopian novel this is hard to understand. The story takes vicinity in a different time and location, on an island called New Amazonia that is only inhabited via girls who've created a society loose from male control. In New Amazonia, women do nicely in an international where they run matters and deal with themselves without men. This creates a society where gender roles are completely flipped. The tale is informed through the eyes of a male traveler who visits this society ruled with the aid of ladies and studies their social norms, which make him suppose deeply about how gender roles work in his own global. Mrs. George Corbett's paintings tackle controversial thoughts approximately gender equality, strength dynamics, and what takes place whilst humans are absolutely shut out of society. The creator questions and rethinks the famous social norms of her time thru this ideal imaginative and prescient, developing a thrilling replicate picture of gender roles and social systems. "New Amazonia" is a groundbreaking work of feminist literature that has led to conversations about gender roles, equality, and what might show up in a world without men.

Author : Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066392550

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New Amazonia - The Tale of Feminist Utopia by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett Pdf

In June 1889, Mrs Humphry Ward's open letter "An Appeal Against Female Suffrage" was published with over a hundred other female signatories against the extension of Parliamentary suffrage to women. Inflamed by this "most despicable piece of treachery ever perpetrated towards women by women", Corbett wrote and published New Amazonia.In her novel, Corbett envisions a successful suffragette movement eventually giving rise to a breed of highly evolved "Amazonians" who turn Ireland into a utopian society. The book's female narrator wakes up in the year 2472, much like Julian West awakens in the year 2000 in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. Corbett's heroine, however, is accompanied by a man of her own time, who has similarly awakened from a hashish dream to find himself in New Amazonia.The narrator reacts very positively to what she sees and learns; but her male companion reacts precisely oppositely and adjusts badly. Read on to know more! Excerpt: "The next event I can chronicle was opening my eyes on a scene at once so beautiful and strange that I started to my feet in amaze. This was not my study, and I beheld nothing of the magazine which was the last thing I remembered seeing before I went to sleep. … I was recalled to the necessity of behaving more decorously by hearing someone near me exclaim in mystified accents, "By Jove! But isn't this extraordinary? I say, do you live here, or have you been taking hasheesh too?"…

Author : George Mrs. Corbett
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066215132

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New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future by George Mrs. Corbett Pdf

"New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future" by George Mrs. Corbett. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337539971

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New Amazonia by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett Pdf

Author : Miguel N. Alexiades
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1845455630

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Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia by Miguel N. Alexiades Pdf

Contrary to ingrained academic and public assumptions, wherein indigenous lowland South American societies are viewed as the product of historical emplacement and spatial stasis, there is widespread evidence to suggest that migration and displacement have been the norm, and not the exception. This original and thought-provoking collection of case studies examines some of the ways in which migration, and the concomitant processes of ecological and social change, have shaped and continue to shape human-environment relations in Amazonia. Drawing on a wide range of historical time frames (from pre-conquest times to the present) and ethnographic contexts, different chapters examine the complex and important links between migration and the classification, management, and domestication of plants and landscapes, as well as the incorporation and transformation of environmental knowledge, practices, ideologies and identities.

Author : Elizabeth Corbett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1987441818

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New Amazonia by Elizabeth Corbett Pdf

"A good deal of cleverness; a supposed future state of Ireland - good-humored satire." -Scotsman "Always original, Mrs. Corbett contrives to attract the reader's attention at once, and it is never allowed to flag until the end of the very clever story." -Newcastle Daily Chronicle "A dream, but a bright and clever one. Mrs. Corbett writes with so much power and sparkle, that she provides an excellent shilling's worth of entertainment." -Glasgow Herald "One of the most remarkable and noteworthy literary productions of the day." -The Two Worlds "Amusing. Mrs. Corbett has a quick eye for the inconsistencies of law and social customs and a clever method of showing them up to others." -Literary World "Some of the details in the working out of the main idea are highly ingenious. There is much that is curious in the book." -Public Opinion "Decidedly bright and clever." -Lady's Pictorial "A work of a superior description to the ordinary novel; extremely interesting." - Engineer's Gazette "Daring, as well as original." -Leeds Mercury "Humorous; will repay perusal by both sexes." -Newcastle Weekly Chronicle "Smartly written." -Edinburgh Evening News "This bright volume....The story is cleverly written, brimming with ideas and breezy in style." -Religio-Philosophical Journal, Chicago "Some of the most vigorous and picturesque English which I have met with of late years. The book stamps Mrs. Corbett as one of our most original thinkers." -Society "I offer my best thanks for the courteous presentation of your work; and I shall cherish the hope that the large and free discussion of social relations, in which you bear a part, may prove beneficial in a world which, undoubtedly, presents ample room for improvement." W. E. Gladstone

Author : Flora Lu,Gabriela Valdivia,Néstor L. Silva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137533623

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Oil, Revolution, and Indigenous Citizenship in Ecuadorian Amazonia by Flora Lu,Gabriela Valdivia,Néstor L. Silva Pdf

This book addresses the political ecology of the Ecuadorian petro-state since the turn of the century and contextualizes state-civil society relations in contemporary Ecuador to produce an analysis of oil and Revolution in twenty-first century Latin America. Ecuador’s recent history is marked by changes in state-citizen relations: the election of political firebrand, Rafael Correa; a new constitution recognizing the value of pluriculturality and nature’s rights; and new rules for distributing state oil revenues. One of the most emblematic projects at this time is the Correa administration’s Revolución Ciudadana, an oil-funded project of social investment and infrastructural development that claims to blaze a responsible and responsive path towards wellbeing for all Ecuadorians. The contributors to this book examine the key interventions of the recent political revolution—the investment of oil revenues into public works in Amazonia and across Ecuador; an initiative to keep oil underground; and the protection of the country’s most marginalized peoples—to illustrate how new forms of citizenship are required and forged. Through a focus on Amazonia and the Waorani, this book analyzes the burdens and opportunities created by oil-financed social and environmental change, and how these alter life in Amazonian extraction sites and across Ecuador.

Author : Commission on Development and Environment for Amazonia
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780894991196

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Amazonia Without Myths by Commission on Development and Environment for Amazonia Pdf

This report, prepared by the Commission on Development and Environment for Amazonia at the initiative of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty and supported by the Inter-American Development Bank and the United Nations Development Programme, is based on the concept of an Amazonia that exists above and beyond the world of fantasy and myth: an Amazonia of flesh and blood, of human toil, of human history, of human faces and hopes, and future human beings. It is an analysis based not only on the experiences and technologies of today"s world but also, and with greater emphasis, on the wisdom accumulated for centuries by Amazonia itself: standing Amazonia. The Amazon region has the largest area of tropical forest on the planet, and concern for its environmental deterioration extends well beyond the borders of the eight countries that form a part of it. With support from the IDB and UNDP, the Commission on Development and Environment for Amazonia prepared this report that provides data on the region's natural resources, population, health and infrastructure.

Author : Heimo Mikkola
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781839628122

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Ecosystem and Biodiversity of Amazonia by Heimo Mikkola Pdf

The Amazonia is the largest continuous river basin and rainforest ecosystem in the world. In all aspects it is a natural wonder, and the rainforest with its billions of trees is a vital carbon store that slows down the advance of global warming. It is home to one million indigenous people and some three million species of plants and animals. There have been many climate fluctuations during the last 55 million years of its existence, but never before have “the lungs of the world” been at greater risk than they are today due to uncontrolled fires, expanding agriculture and heavy industrial development in the forms of oil drilling, mining and large hydroelectric dams. Over twelve chapters, this book describes the anthropological, biological and industrial problems facing the Amazonia, and seeks to find new solutions.

Author : James Marcus
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781595587220

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Amazonia by James Marcus Pdf

A “funny, contemplative” memoir of working at Amazon in the early years, when it was a struggling online bookstore (San Francisco Chronicle). In a book that Ian Frazier has called “a fascinating and sometimes hair-raising morality tale from deep inside the Internet boom,” James Marcus, hired by Amazon.com in 1996—when the company was so small his e-mail address could be [email protected]—looks back at the ecstatic rise, dramatic fall, and remarkable comeback of the consummate symbol of late 1990s America. Observing “how it was to be in the right place (Seattle) at the right time (the ’90s)” (Chicago Reader), Marcus offers a ringside seat on everything from his first interview with Jeff Bezos to the company’s bizarre Nordic-style retreats, in “a clear-eyed, first-person account, rife with digressions on the larger cultural meaning throughout” (Henry Alford, Newsday). “Marcus tells his story with wit and candor.” —Booklist, starred review

Author : William M. Denevan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 0199257698

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Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes by William M. Denevan Pdf

Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes examines Indian agriculture in South America. The focus is on field types and field technologies, including agricultural landforms such as terraces, canals, and drained fields, which have persisted for hundreds of years. What emerges is a picture of mostly successful indigenous farming practices in difficult environments--rain forests, savannahs, swamps, rugged mountains, and deserts.

Author : Vanessa Grotti
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800734593

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Nurturing the Other by Vanessa Grotti Pdf

Combining archival research, oral history and long-term ethnography, this book studies relations between Amerindians and outsiders, such as American missionaries, through a series of contact expeditions that led to the 'pacification' of three native Amazonian groups in Suriname and French Guiana. The author examines and contrasts Amerindian and non-Amerindian views on this process of social transformation through the lens of the body, notions of peacefulness and kinship, as well as native warfare and shamanism. The book addresses questions of change and continuity, and the little explored links between first contacts, capture and native conversion to Christianity in contemporary indigenous Amazonia.

Author : Kei Otsuki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415640763

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Sustainable Development in Amazonia by Kei Otsuki Pdf

This book questions the assumption that Amazonia's future rests exclusively in sustainability and environmental conservation. It is the first book to argue for an Amazonia strategy that emphasises societal dynamics in deforestation and sustainable development policy. Demystifying utopian views of the rainforest as a troubled paradise, the book explores potential processes by which ordinary settlers can themselves construct a sustainable society.