Author: Lewis Amadeus Anspach
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Category : Labrador (N.L.)
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Author: Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names
Publisher: CUP Archive
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Category : Newfoundland
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Author: Daniel Woodley Prowse
Publisher: Belleville, Ont., Mika Studio
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 852

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Author: Gerhard P. Bassler
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773577092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389

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The first German arrived in Newfoundland with Leif Eirikson's Viking expedition. By 1914 St. John's was home to a vibrant German community while a Moravian enclave thrived in Labrador. Contemporary Newfoundland, however, remembers its German heritage largely in terms of U-Boat captains and local spies. Gerhard Bassler reveals what was lost when almost all earlier memories of Germans in Newfoundland and Labrador vanished.

Author: Adriana Craciun
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487503679
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Leaving behind grand narratives of discovery, these essays collectively restore a degree of symmetry and contingency to our understanding of encounters between European and Indigenous people. To do this the essays consider diverse agents of historical change, both human and inanimate: commodities, curiosities, texts, animals, and specimens moved through their own global circuits of knowledge and power. The voyages and collections rediscovered here do not move from a European center to a distant periphery, nor do they position European authorities as the central agents of this early era of globalization. Long distance voyagers from Greenland to the Ottoman Empire crossed paths with French, British, Polynesian, and Spanish travelers across the world, trading objects and knowledge for diverse ends. The dynamic contact zones of these curious encounters include the ice floes of the Arctic, the sociable spaces of the tea table, the hybrid material texts and objects in imperial archives, and the collections belonging to key figures of the Enlightenment, including Sir Hans Sloane and James Petiver.

Author: Jan Borm
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152756276X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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German travellers, explorers, missionaries and scholars produced significant new knowledge about the Arctic in Europe and elsewhere from the 17th until the 19th century. However, until now, no English-language study or collective volume has been dedicated to their representations of the Arctic. Possibly due to linguistic barriers, this corpus has not been sufficiently taken into account in transnational and circumpolar approaches to the fast-growing field of Arctic Studies. This volume serves to heighten awareness about the importance of these writings in view of the history of the Far North. The chapters gathered here offer critical readings of manuscripts and publications, including travelogues, natural histories of the Arctic, newspaper articles and scholarly texts based on first-hand observations, as well as works of fiction. The sources are considered in their historical context, as political, religious, social, economic and cultural aspects are discussed in relation to discourses about the Arctic in general. The volume opens with a spirited preface by Professor Jean Malaurie, France’s most distinguished Arctic specialist and author of The Last Kings of Thule (1955).

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Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Author: Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Author: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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"Publications of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia": v. 53, 1901, p. 788-794.

Author: North Ludlow Beamish
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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