Tropics Of Vienna

Author : Ulrich E. Bach
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785331329

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Tropics of Vienna by Ulrich E. Bach Pdf

The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a multinational federation where the capital of Vienna was unmistakably linked with its eastern periphery in a quasi-colonial arrangement that inevitably shaped the cultural and intellectual life of the Habsburg Empire. This was particularly evident in the era’s colonial utopian writing, and Tropics of Vienna blends literary criticism, cultural theory, and historical analysis to illuminate this curious genre. By analyzing the works of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Theodor Herzl, Joseph Roth, and other representative Austrian writers, it reveals a shared longing for alternative social and spatial configurations beyond the concept of the “nation-state” prevalent at the time.

Author : Ulrich Ekkehard Bach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Austrian literature
ISBN : OCLC:60194443

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Faraway, So Close by Ulrich Ekkehard Bach Pdf

Author : Mariusz Kałczewiak,Magdalena Kozłowska
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800733534

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The World beyond the West by Mariusz Kałczewiak,Magdalena Kozłowska Pdf

No matter how one defines its extent and borders, Eastern Europe has long been understood as a liminal space, one whose undeniable cultural and historical continuities with Western Europe have been belied by its status as an “Other” in the Western imagination. Across illuminating and provocative case studies, The World beyond the West focuses on the region’s ambiguous relationship to historical processes of colonialism and Orientalism. In exploring encounters with distant lands through politics, travel, migration, and exchange, it places Eastern Europe at the heart of its analysis while decentering the most familiar narratives and recasting the history of the region.

Author : Hertha Arnberger,Erik Arnberger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015053392281

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The Tropical Islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans by Hertha Arnberger,Erik Arnberger Pdf

This is a comprehensive scientific publication on the islands of the Indian and Pacific oceans suitable for anyone with an interest in the subject. It is also a valuable reference work as it supplies a wealth of information, maps, photos and diagrams.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781350068117

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Karl Langer by Anonim Pdf

Despite a European training and an early career working with Peter Behrens, a migration from Vienna to the Australian state of Queensland positioned the architect Karl Langer (1903-1969) at the very edge of both European and Australian modernism. Confronted by tropical heat and glare, the economics of affordable housing, fiercely proud and regional architectural practices, and a suspicion of the foreign, Langer moulded the European language of international modernism to the unique climatic and social conditions of tropical Australia. This book will tell Langer's story through a series of edited essays focused on key themes and projects. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, it is both an examination of an architect's work and international legacy, and also a case study in the trans-global dissemination of design ideas. Studying the architect's built and proposed work, both regional and metropolitan, the scale and reach of Langer's practice will be considered for the first time, showing how, given his continued influence on the contemporary culture of tropical design, Langer has been unjustly ignored by the historiography of both Australian and Modernist architecture to date.

Author : Deborah R. Coen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226555027

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Climate in Motion by Deborah R. Coen Pdf

Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth’s climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular to the planetary. Climate in Motion shows that this multiscalar, multicausal framework emerged well before computers and satellites. Extending the history of modern climate science back into the nineteenth century, Deborah R. Coen uncovers its roots in the politics of empire-building in central and eastern Europe. She argues that essential elements of the modern understanding of climate arose as a means of thinking across scales in a state—the multinational Habsburg Monarchy, a patchwork of medieval kingdoms and modern laws—where such thinking was a political imperative. Led by Julius Hann in Vienna, Habsburg scientists were the first to investigate precisely how local winds and storms might be related to the general circulation of the earth’s atmosphere as a whole. Linking Habsburg climatology to the political and artistic experiments of late imperial Austria, Coen grounds the seemingly esoteric science of the atmosphere in the everyday experiences of an earlier era of globalization. Climate in Motion presents the history of modern climate science as a history of “scaling”—that is, the embodied work of moving between different frameworks for measuring the world. In this way, it offers a critical historical perspective on the concepts of scale that structure thinking about the climate crisis today and the range of possibilities for responding to it.

Author : Johannes Suitner
Publisher : Transcript Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 3837629783

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Imagineering Cultural Vienna by Johannes Suitner Pdf

Media and public discourses often consider Vienna as a »cultural city«. This study of Vienna's recent planning practice and discourses shows how this perception is skilfully shaped by political constructions of cultural imaginaries in and of the city. The book unveils how simplistic cognitive interpretations of culture not only define an unquestioned, reductionist idea of the city's cultural character - it also explains how they influence the recent urban development practice in one of Europe's globalizing cities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004459984

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Brussels 1900 Vienna by Anonim Pdf

Brussels 1900 Vienna examines the complex cultural networks between Austria and Belgium (1880-1930), and situates these interrelations within a wider European context. The collection covers various fields, including literature, translation, music, theatre, visual arts, café culture, and architecture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CIAT
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Farms, Small
ISBN : 9789586940887

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Integrated soil fertility management in the tropics: TSBF-CIAT’s achievements and reflections, 2002-2005 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Raluca Goleșteanu-Jacobs
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003810889

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Habsburg Galicia and the Romanian Kingdom by Raluca Goleșteanu-Jacobs Pdf

This comparative attempt, intended for postgraduates and scholars of Eastern-Central Europe, investigates the political, economic, and cultural landscape of Habsburg Galicia and the Romanian Kingdom in the second half of the 19th century. Often, in historiography and in the public sphere alike, the two cases under study have been separately regarded as contexts that provided atypical answers to modernity, and parts of a region that has been regarded as atypical in itself. Recently, efforts have been made to integrate each of the cases in a post-imperial paradigm, identifying the complex interactions between their socio-political modernisation and historical memory. This book continues this trend by investigating for the first time the two cases together, as parts of a space of alterity, as labs of shifting ideologies and labels. The public figures and the institutions depicted in the book are physically located in Central and in Eastern Europe, but by sometimes competing experiences they are illustrative for several identities and historical realms, local, regional, and continental. Secondly, the current work addresses dilemmas related to Nationalism and nation building, for the sake of separating those discourses which reflected on civic nationalism from those which directed the public mind to the values of ethnic nationalism.

Author : Jagjit Chopra,Indermohan Sawhney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9788131242339

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Neurology in Tropics (e-Book) by Jagjit Chopra,Indermohan Sawhney Pdf

Author : Milton D Taylor,Stephen J. Klaine,Fernando P. Carvalho,Damia Barcelo,Jan Everaarts
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 0415239176

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Pesticide Residues in Coastal Tropical Ecosystems by Milton D Taylor,Stephen J. Klaine,Fernando P. Carvalho,Damia Barcelo,Jan Everaarts Pdf

The coastal tropics comprise some of the most sensitive and yet the most understudied ecosystems in the world. Coastal plains and river valleys are also home to agriculture on a vast scale, and it is not surprising to find that streams and rivers receive the majority of agricultural runoff, carrying the residues of insecticides, fungicides and other pesticides into estuaries and coastal zones. There is a growing awareness of the urgent need to develop strategies to help productive, healthy and economically viable agriculture to coexist with natural resources. Pesticide Residues in Tropical Coastal Ecosystems brings together toxicology experts from around the world to assess pesticide burdens in many of the major food-producing tropical countries. It provides a unique set of case studies, chronicling pesticide usage and its ecotoxicological impact in coastal regions. A practical guide to recent research findings and applications, it is essential reading for environmental professionals, ecotoxicologists, marine chemists and agrochemists.

Author : N. Ahmad
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400917064

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Nitrogen Economy in Tropical Soils by N. Ahmad Pdf

Nitrogen Economy in Tropical Soils presents an authoritative and comprehensive state-of-the-art review on soil/plant nitrogen inter-relationships, with special reference to tropical soils and crops in aerobic and anaerobic environments. Use of isotopically labelled nitrogen in experimentation, especially in tropical environments, and recently developed analytical techniques for soil and plant materials are presented. An important aspect is the emphasis placed on the impact of the tropical environment on nitrogen transformations in the soil environment. This book should be an excellent source of information for senior undergraduate and graduate students with interest in soil/plant nitrogen inter-relationships, and for all levels of research workers in these fields.

Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015007732137

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Current Catalog by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) Pdf

First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Author : Marco Lambertini
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226468280

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A Naturalist's Guide to the Tropics by Marco Lambertini Pdf

Beautifully illustrated throughout with color plates, photographs, and drawings, this volume is a comprehensive introduction to the natural history of the tropics worldwide. 59 color photos. 21 maps.