Author: George Earl Church
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Route to Bolivia Via the River Amazon
Author: George Earl Church
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Route to Bolivia Via the River Amazon
Author: George Earl Church
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Geographical Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha
Author: Susanna B. Hecht
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226322831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 629
Book Description
A “compelling and elegantly written” history of the fight for the Amazon basin and the work of a brilliant but overlooked Brazilian intellectual (Times Literary Supplement, UK). The fortunes of the late nineteenth century’s imperial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber—with only one source: the Amazon basin. This scenario ignited a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, Belgium, and the United States fighting with and against the new nations of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil for the forest’s riches. In the midst of this struggle, the Brazilian author and geographer Euclides da Cunha led a survey expedition to the farthest reaches of the river. The Scramble for the Amazon tells the story of da Cunha’s terrifying journey, the unfinished novel born from it, and the global strife that formed the backdrop for both. Haunted by his broken marriage, da Cunha trekked through a beautiful region thrown into chaos by guerrilla warfare, starving migrants, and native slavery. All the while, he worked on his masterpiece, a nationalist synthesis of geography, philosophy, biology, and journalism entitled Lost Paradise. Hoping to unveil the Amazon’s explorers, spies, natives, and brutal geopolitics, Da Cunha was killed by his wife’s lover before he could complete his epic work. once the biography of Da Cunha, a translation of his unfinished work, and a chronicle of the social, political, and environmental history of the Amazon, The Scramble for the Amazon is a work of thrilling intellectual ambition.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226322831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 629
Book Description
A “compelling and elegantly written” history of the fight for the Amazon basin and the work of a brilliant but overlooked Brazilian intellectual (Times Literary Supplement, UK). The fortunes of the late nineteenth century’s imperial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber—with only one source: the Amazon basin. This scenario ignited a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, Belgium, and the United States fighting with and against the new nations of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil for the forest’s riches. In the midst of this struggle, the Brazilian author and geographer Euclides da Cunha led a survey expedition to the farthest reaches of the river. The Scramble for the Amazon tells the story of da Cunha’s terrifying journey, the unfinished novel born from it, and the global strife that formed the backdrop for both. Haunted by his broken marriage, da Cunha trekked through a beautiful region thrown into chaos by guerrilla warfare, starving migrants, and native slavery. All the while, he worked on his masterpiece, a nationalist synthesis of geography, philosophy, biology, and journalism entitled Lost Paradise. Hoping to unveil the Amazon’s explorers, spies, natives, and brutal geopolitics, Da Cunha was killed by his wife’s lover before he could complete his epic work. once the biography of Da Cunha, a translation of his unfinished work, and a chronicle of the social, political, and environmental history of the Amazon, The Scramble for the Amazon is a work of thrilling intellectual ambition.
A List of Maps of America in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress. Map Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
A List of Maps of America in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress. Division of Maps and Charts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
Trade Promotion Series
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Commercial Travelers' Guide to Latin America
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange
Author: Marc Flandreau
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022636044X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Beginning with the discovery of a curious plot wherein science became the handmaiden of white-collar crime, "Anthropology and the Stock Exchange "by economic historian Marc Flandreau tracks a group of Victorian gentlemen-swindlers as they shuffled between the corridors of the London Stock Exchange and the meeting rooms of learned societies. It explores how the commodification of scientific truth became every bit as integral as financial engineering to the profitability of foreign investment and speculation in foreign government debt. Flandreau underscores the crucial role of finance (what he calls the Stock Exchange Modality ) in shaping the contours of human knowledge and vice versa in an age of mercantile expansion. He further argues that a new brand of imperialism, born under Benjamin Disraeli s first term as British Premier, built on the multiple covert links between the birth of social sciences and novel mechanisms of financial revenue creation and extraction. As anthropologists advocated the study of Miskito Indians or stated their views on a Jamaican Rebellion or Abyssinian Expedition, for example, they responded and catered to the impulses of the Stock Exchange. The marriage between anthropological science and finance, Flandreau asserts, formed the foundational structures of late 19th century British Imperialism, which in turn produced essential technologies of globalization."
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022636044X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Beginning with the discovery of a curious plot wherein science became the handmaiden of white-collar crime, "Anthropology and the Stock Exchange "by economic historian Marc Flandreau tracks a group of Victorian gentlemen-swindlers as they shuffled between the corridors of the London Stock Exchange and the meeting rooms of learned societies. It explores how the commodification of scientific truth became every bit as integral as financial engineering to the profitability of foreign investment and speculation in foreign government debt. Flandreau underscores the crucial role of finance (what he calls the Stock Exchange Modality ) in shaping the contours of human knowledge and vice versa in an age of mercantile expansion. He further argues that a new brand of imperialism, born under Benjamin Disraeli s first term as British Premier, built on the multiple covert links between the birth of social sciences and novel mechanisms of financial revenue creation and extraction. As anthropologists advocated the study of Miskito Indians or stated their views on a Jamaican Rebellion or Abyssinian Expedition, for example, they responded and catered to the impulses of the Stock Exchange. The marriage between anthropological science and finance, Flandreau asserts, formed the foundational structures of late 19th century British Imperialism, which in turn produced essential technologies of globalization."
Bibliography on Land-locked States, Economic Development and International Law
Author: Martin Ira Glassner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315499835
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Now fully revised and expanded, this is the only available bibliography on the subject of "land-lockedness" and its effects on economic development. Reflecting its expanded title, this new edition includes not only updated information on the plight of land-locked countries, but also their current levels of economic development and their role in international law, such as the International Law of the Sea, Kyoto Protocol on Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and international pipeline agreements. The volume lists thousands of primary and secondary source materials for research, including books, monographs, journals, governmental reports, NGO publications, and unpublished materials. The book is truly international in scope, with listings in 29 languages.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315499835
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Now fully revised and expanded, this is the only available bibliography on the subject of "land-lockedness" and its effects on economic development. Reflecting its expanded title, this new edition includes not only updated information on the plight of land-locked countries, but also their current levels of economic development and their role in international law, such as the International Law of the Sea, Kyoto Protocol on Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and international pipeline agreements. The volume lists thousands of primary and secondary source materials for research, including books, monographs, journals, governmental reports, NGO publications, and unpublished materials. The book is truly international in scope, with listings in 29 languages.