The History Of Earth Sciences In Suriname

Author : Theo Edward Wong
Publisher : Edita Publishing House of the Royal
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Science
ISBN : 9069842262

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The History of Earth Sciences in Suriname by Theo Edward Wong Pdf

This illustrated volume breaks new ground with a pioneering survey of the history of the earth sciences in Suriname. The authors trace the development of earth sciences in the country from Suriname's first explorers in the early seventeenth century through the scientists of the present-day independent nation. These detailed research essays and extensive geological bibliography of Suriname are a valuable resource for historians of science.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Earth sciences
ISBN : IND:30000111151977

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Earth Sciences History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marco Keersemaker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030402686

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Suriname Revisited: Economic Potential of its Mineral Resources by Marco Keersemaker Pdf

This book summarizes the exploration history and provides a framework for assessing the economic potential of the country’s minerals by defining minimal deposit parameters for the various commodities present. Suriname was explored extensively for mineral occurrences in the course of the previous century, indicating the presence of a range of commodities. The country mined and processed bauxite for a century (until 2016), and has an even longer history of small-scale alluvial gold mining; it is currently home to two major gold producers. However, exploration activities have been limited during the past 4 decades as most parts of Suriname’s interior are difficult to access, making geological fieldwork both difficult and expensive. Further, the markets and prices have changed in the interim, which calls for a fresh look at the historic data.

Author : Jan H.A. Mol
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004207660

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The Freshwater Fishes of Suriname by Jan H.A. Mol Pdf

Suriname is undoubtedly the site of origin of the oldest extant preserved specimens of South American fishes and 19 Surinamese fish species were described and figured by Linnaeus. This book offers the first comprehensive introduction to the 480 currently known fresh- and brackish-water fishes of Suriname, including identification keys, short descriptions and photographs of the species and descriptions of their habitats.

Author : Carina Hoorn,Frank Wesselingh
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 869 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444360257

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Amazonia: Landscape and Species Evolution by Carina Hoorn,Frank Wesselingh Pdf

The book focuses on geological history as the critical factor in determining the present biodiversity and landscapes of Amazonia. The different driving mechanisms for landscape evolution are explored by reviewing the history of the Amazonian Craton, the associated sedimentary basins, and the role of mountain uplift and climate change. This book provdes an insight into the Meso- and Cenozoic record of Amazonia that was characterized by fluvial and long-lived lake systems and a highly diverse flora and fauna. This fauna includes giants such as the ca. 12 m long caiman Purussaurus, but also a varied fish fauna and fragile molluscs, whilst fossil pollen and spores form relics of ancestral swamps and rainforests. Finally, a review the molecular datasets of the modern Amazonian rainforest and aquatic ecosystem, discussing the possible relations between the origin of Amazonian species diversity and the palaeogeographic, palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental evolution of northern South America. The multidisciplinary approach in evaluating the history of Amazonia has resulted in a comprehensive volume that provides novel insights into the evolution of this region.

Author : Lawrence Boudon,Katherine D. McCann
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292705352

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Social Sciences by Lawrence Boudon,Katherine D. McCann Pdf

"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Lawrence Boudon, of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, has been the editor since 2001, and Katherine D. McCann has been assistant editor since 2000. The subject categories for Volume 59 are as follows: Anthropology Economics Geography Government and Politics International Relations Sociology Electronic Resources for the Social Sciences

Author : Hany El-Shemy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789535129776

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Aromatic and Medicinal Plants by Hany El-Shemy Pdf

This book covers interesting research topics and the use of natural resources for medical treatments in some severe diseases. The most important message is to have native foods which contain high amount of active compounds that can be used as a medicinal plant. Most pharmaceutical drugs were discovered from plants, and still ongoing research will have to predict such new active compounds as anti-diseases. I do believe this book will add significant knowledge to medical societies as well as can be used for postgraduate students.

Author : Ellen-Rose Kambel,Fergus MacKay
Publisher : IWGIA
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 8790730178

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The Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Maroons in Suriname by Ellen-Rose Kambel,Fergus MacKay Pdf

This volume describes and analyses the Surinamese legal system as it relates to the rights of indigenous peoples and Maroons. The rights of these peoples have not been systematically addressed in this context before, nor have they ever been the subjects of extensive academic research. The book provides a good starting point for discussions of the rights of indigenous peoples and Maroons, hopefully leading to a full recognition of their rights in Suriname.

Author : Hany El-Shemy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781803560205

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Natural Drugs from Plants by Hany El-Shemy Pdf

Natural Drugs from Plants emphasizes the importance of medicinal plants for drug discovery worldwide. Chapters discuss the active ingredients of certain medicinal plants, their mechanisms of action, and how they can be used to treat different diseases.

Author : Henk Menke,Jane Buckingham,Farzana Gounder,Ashutosh Kumar,Maurits S. Hassankhan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000329933

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Social Aspects of Health, Medicine and Disease in the Colonial and Post-colonial Era by Henk Menke,Jane Buckingham,Farzana Gounder,Ashutosh Kumar,Maurits S. Hassankhan Pdf

From the 1600s, enslaved people, and after abolition of slavery, indentured labourers were transported to work on plantations in distant European colonies. Inhuman conditions and new pathogens often resulted in disease and death. Central to this book is the encounter between introduced and local understanding of disease and the therapeutic responses in the Caribbean, Indian and Pacific contexts. European response to diseases, focussed on protecting the white minority. Enslaved labourers from Africa and indentured labourers from India, China and Java provided interpretations and answers to health challenges based on their own cultures and medicinal understanding of the plants they had brought with them or which they found in the natural habitat of their new homes. Colonizers, enslaved and indentured labourers learned from each other and from the indigenous peoples who were marginalized by the expansion of plantations. This volume explores the medical, cultural and personal implications of these encounters, with the broad concept of medical pluralism linking the diversity of regional and cultural focus offered in each chapter. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Author : Marco Keersemaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 303040269X

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Suriname Revisited by Marco Keersemaker Pdf

This book summarizes the exploration history and provides a framework for assessing the economic potential of the country's minerals by defining minimal deposit parameters for the various commodities present. Suriname was explored extensively for mineral occurrences in the course of the previous century, indicating the presence of a range of commodities. The country mined and processed bauxite for a century (until 2016), and has an even longer history of small-scale alluvial gold mining; it is currently home to two major gold producers. However, exploration activities have been limited during the past 4 decades as most parts of Suriname's interior are difficult to access, making geological fieldwork both difficult and expensive. Further, the markets and prices have changed in the interim, which calls for a fresh look at the historic data.

Author : Rosemarijn Hoefte,Matthew L. Bishop,Peter Clegg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317014058

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Post-Colonial Trajectories in the Caribbean by Rosemarijn Hoefte,Matthew L. Bishop,Peter Clegg Pdf

This book compares and contrasts the contemporary development experience of neighbouring, geographically similar countries with an analogous history of exploitation but by three different European colonisers. Studying the so-called ‘Three Guianas’ (Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana) offers a unique opportunity to look for similarities and differences in their contemporary patterns of development, particularly as they grapple with new and complex shifts in the regional, hemispheric and global context. Shaped decisively by their respective historical experiences, Guyana, in tandem with the laissez-faire approach of Britain toward its Caribbean colonies, was decolonised relatively early, in 1966, and has maintained a significant degree of distance from London. The hold of The Hague over Suriname, however, endured well after independence in 1975. French Guiana, by contrast, was decolonised much sooner than both of its neighbours, in 1946, but this was through full integration, thus cementing its place within the political economy and administrative structures of France itself. Traditionally isolated from the Caribbean, the wider Latin American continent and from each other, today, a range of similar issues – such as migration, resource extraction, infrastructure development and energy security – are coming to bear on their societies and provoking deep and complex changes.

Author : P. Boomgaard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137334022

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Empire and Science in the Making by P. Boomgaard Pdf

Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines how knowledge was created and circulated throughout the Dutch Empire, and how these processes compared with those of the Imperial Britain, Spain, and Russia.

Author : Maximilian Christian Forte
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0820474886

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Indigenous Resurgence in the Contemporary Caribbean by Maximilian Christian Forte Pdf

Views of the modern Caribbean have been constructed by a fiction of the absent aboriginal. Yet, all across the Caribbean Basin, individuals and communities are reasserting their identities as indigenous peoples, from Carib communities in the Lesser Antilles, the Garifuna of Central America, and the Taíno of the Greater Antilles, to members of the Caribbean diaspora. Far from extinction, or permanent marginality, the region is witnessing a resurgence of native identification and organization. This is the only volume to date that focuses concerted attention on a phenomenon that can no longer be ignored. Territories covered include Belize, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Guyana, St. Vincent, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Puerto Rican diaspora. Writing from a range of contemporary perspectives on indigenous presence, identities, the struggle for rights, relations with the nation-state, and globalization, fourteen scholars, including four indigenous representatives, contribute to this unique testament to cultural survival. This book will be indispensable to students of Caribbean history and anthropology, indigenous studies, ethnicity, and globalization.

Author : Jimmy Mans
Publisher : Sidestone Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9789088900983

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Amotopoan Trails by Jimmy Mans Pdf

In this book the concept of mobility is explored for the archaeology of the Amazonian and Caribbean region. As a result of technological and methodological progress in archaeology, mobility has become increasingly visible on the level of the individual. However, as a concept it does not seem to fit with current approaches in Amazonian archaeology, which favour a move away from viewing small mobile groups as models for the deeper past. Instead of ignoring such ethnographic tyrannies, in this book they are considered to be essential for arriving at a different past. Viewing archaeological mobility as the sum of movements of both people and objects, the empirical part of Amotopoan Trails focuses on Amotopo, a small contemporary Trio village in the interior of Suriname. The movements of the Amotopoans are tracked and positioned in a century of Trio dynamics, ultimately yielding a recent archaeology of Surinamese-Trio movements for the Sipaliwini River basin (1907-2008). Alongside the construction of this archaeology, novel mobility concepts are introduced. They provide the conceptual footholds which enable the envisioning of mobility at various temporal scales, from a decade up to a century, the sequence of which has remained a blind spot in Caribbean and Amazonian archaeology.