Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370612
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 127, No. 6, 1983)
Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370612
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Atlas of the World with Geophysical Boundaries
Author: Athelstan SpilhausPublisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871691965
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
"To show the world ocean, insofar as possible, uninterrupted by the edge of the map"--P. 1.
Index of Conference Proceedings Received
Author: British Library. Document Supply CentrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
Index of Conference Proceedings Received
Author: British Library. Lending DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
The Land-Grant Colleges and the Reshaping of American Higher Education
Author: Roger L. GeigerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351480308
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This work provides a critical reexamination of the origin and development of America's land-grant colleges and universities, created by the most important piece of legislation in higher education. The story is divided into five parts that provide closer examinations of representative developments.Part I describes the connection between agricultural research and American colleges. Part II shows that the responsibility of defining and implementing the land-grant act fell to the states, which produced a variety of institutions in the nineteenth century. Part III details the first phase of the conflict during the latter decades of the nineteenth century about whether land colleges were intended to be agricultural colleges, or full academic institutions. Part IV focuses on the fact that full-fledged universities became dominant institutions of American higher education. The final part shows that the land-grant mission is alive and well in university colleges of agriculture and, in fact, is inherent to their identity.Including some of the best minds the field has to offer, this volume follows in the fine tradition of past books in Transaction's Perspectives on the History of Higher Education series.
The World Upside Down
Author: Susan E. RamÃrezPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804735209
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book describes how the imposed Spanish colonial system altered the organization and belief systems of the native inhabitants of northern Peru during the first fifty years or so after the Spanish conquest. By centering on an area that was incorporated into the Inca empire relatively late (1460's-70's), the book offsets the Cuzco focus of much of the existing literature in Inca history and culture.
The 17th and 18th Centuries
Author: Frank N. MagillPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135924147
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1534
Book Description
Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.
A Social History of Anthropology in the United States
Author: Thomas C. PattersonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000183564
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
In part due to the recent Yanomami controversy, which has rocked anthropology to its very core, there is renewed interest in the discipline's history and intellectual roots, especially amongst anthropologists themselves. The cutting edge of anthropological research today is a product of earlier questions and answers, previous ambitions, preoccupations and adventures, stretching back one hundred years or more. This book is the first comprehensive history of American anthropology. Crucially, Patterson relates the development of anthropology in the United States to wider historical currents in society. American anthropologists over the years have worked through shifting social and economic conditions, changes in institutional organization, developing class structures, world politics, and conflicts both at home and abroad. How has anthropology been linked to colonial, commercial and territorial expansion in the States? How have the changing forms of race, power, ethnic identity and politics shaped the questions anthropologists ask, both past and present? Anthropology as a discipline has always developed in a close relationship with other social sciences, but this relationship has rarely been scrutinized. This book details and explains the complex interplay of forces and conditions that have made anthropology in America what it is today. Furthermore, it explores how anthropologists themselves have contributed and propagated powerful images and ideas about the different cultures and societies that make up our world. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the roots and reasons behind American anthropology at the turn of the twenty-first century. Intellectual historians, social scientists, and anyone intrigued by the growth and development of institutional politics and practices should read this book.
The Economic Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Author: Barbara L. SolowPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739192477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
The Economic Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade shows how the West Indian slave/sugar/plantation complex, organized on capitalist principles of private property and profit-seeking, joined the western hemisphere to the international trading system encompassing Europe, Africa, North America, and the Caribbean, and was an important determinant of the timing and pattern of the Industrial Revolution in England. The new industrial economy was no longer dependent on slavery for development, but rested instead on investment and innovation. Solow argues that abolition of the slave trade and emancipation should be understood in this context.
A Line of Blood and Dirt
Author: Benjamin HoyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197528708
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States. Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-US border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty. At the end of the American Revolution, Britain and the United States imagined a future for each of their nations that stretched across a continent. They signed treaties with one another dividing lands neither country could map, much less control. A century and a half later, Canada and the United States had largely fulfilled those earlier ambitions. Both countries had built nations that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific and had made an expansive international border that restricted movement. The vision that seemed so clear in the minds of diplomats and politicians never behaved as such on the ground. Both countries built their border across Indigenous lands using hunger, violence, and coercion to displace existing communities and to disrupt their ideas of territory and belonging. The border's length undermined each nation's attempts at control. Unable to prevent movement at the border's physical location for over a century, Canada and the United States instead found ways to project fear across international lines They aimed to stop journeys before they even began.
