Author: Pliny (the Elder.)
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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The Natural History of Pliny
Author: Pliny (the Elder.)
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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The Natural History of Selborne
Author: Gilbert White
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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“The” Natural History of Pliny
Author: Gaius Plinius Secundus
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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This Radical Land
Author: Daegan Miller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022633631X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
“The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That’s largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America today: a country expanding unstoppably, bending the continent’s natural bounty to the national will, heedless of consequence. A country of slavery and of Indian wars. There’s much truth in that vision. But if you know where to look, you can uncover a different history, one of vibrant resistance, one that’s been mostly forgotten. This Radical Land recovers that story. Daegan Miller is our guide on a beautifully written, revelatory trip across the continent during which we encounter radical thinkers, settlers, and artists who grounded their ideas of freedom, justice, and progress in the very landscapes around them, even as the runaway engine of capitalism sought to steamroll everything in its path. Here we meet Thoreau, the expert surveyor, drawing anticapitalist property maps. We visit a black antislavery community in the Adirondack wilderness of upstate New York. We discover how seemingly commercial photographs of the transcontinental railroad secretly sent subversive messages, and how a band of utopian anarchists among California’s sequoias imagined a greener, freer future. At every turn, everyday radicals looked to landscape for the language of their dissent—drawing crucial early links between the environment and social justice, links we’re still struggling to strengthen today. Working in a tradition that stretches from Thoreau to Rebecca Solnit, Miller offers nothing less than a new way of seeing the American past—and of understanding what it can offer us for the present . . . and the future.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022633631X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
“The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That’s largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America today: a country expanding unstoppably, bending the continent’s natural bounty to the national will, heedless of consequence. A country of slavery and of Indian wars. There’s much truth in that vision. But if you know where to look, you can uncover a different history, one of vibrant resistance, one that’s been mostly forgotten. This Radical Land recovers that story. Daegan Miller is our guide on a beautifully written, revelatory trip across the continent during which we encounter radical thinkers, settlers, and artists who grounded their ideas of freedom, justice, and progress in the very landscapes around them, even as the runaway engine of capitalism sought to steamroll everything in its path. Here we meet Thoreau, the expert surveyor, drawing anticapitalist property maps. We visit a black antislavery community in the Adirondack wilderness of upstate New York. We discover how seemingly commercial photographs of the transcontinental railroad secretly sent subversive messages, and how a band of utopian anarchists among California’s sequoias imagined a greener, freer future. At every turn, everyday radicals looked to landscape for the language of their dissent—drawing crucial early links between the environment and social justice, links we’re still struggling to strengthen today. Working in a tradition that stretches from Thoreau to Rebecca Solnit, Miller offers nothing less than a new way of seeing the American past—and of understanding what it can offer us for the present . . . and the future.
Catalogue of Books ...: Natural history, books of prints, architecture, numismata, heraldry, physics, metaphysics, language, bibliography, Oriental and Northern literature, games and sports
Author: Henry George Bohn
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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The Poetics of Natural History
Author: Christoph Irmscher
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978805861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Newly expanded and in full color, this groundbreaking book argues that early American natural historians had a distinctly poetic sensibility, producing work that had a visionary intensity. Covering naturalists from John James Audubon to PT Barnum, it considers not only natural history writing, but also illustrations, photographs, and actual collections of flora and fauna. Photography and all associated expenses made possible by a generous grant from Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978805861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Newly expanded and in full color, this groundbreaking book argues that early American natural historians had a distinctly poetic sensibility, producing work that had a visionary intensity. Covering naturalists from John James Audubon to PT Barnum, it considers not only natural history writing, but also illustrations, photographs, and actual collections of flora and fauna. Photography and all associated expenses made possible by a generous grant from Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund
The History of The Great Northern Railway
Author: Charles H. Grinling
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429862296
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Published in 1903, this book provides a complete account of the origin and development of the Great Northern Railway Company from its inception to the year 1802, a period of around 60 years.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429862296
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Published in 1903, this book provides a complete account of the origin and development of the Great Northern Railway Company from its inception to the year 1802, a period of around 60 years.
The English Catalogue of Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Languages : en
Pages : 728
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The Danville Quarterly Review
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Category : Presbyterian church in the U.S.A.
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Category : Presbyterian church in the U.S.A.
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Bent's Literary Advertiser and Register of Engravings, Works on the Fine Arts
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Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 232
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