Author: Johann Rudolph Rengger
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Category : Paraguay
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Author: Johann Rudolph Rengger
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Category : Paraguay
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Languages : en
Pages : 606

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Author: Stephen Bell
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804774277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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French naturalist and medical doctor Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858) was one of the most important scientific explorers of South America in the early nineteenth century. From 1799 to 1804, he worked alongside Alexander von Humboldt as the latter carried out his celebrated research in northern South America, but he later returned to conduct his own research farther south. A Life in Shadow accounts for the entire span of Bonpland's remarkable and diverse career in South America—in Argentina, Paraguay (where he was imprisoned for nearly a decade), Uruguay, and southernmost Brazil—based on extensive archival material. The study reconnects Bonpland's divided records in Europe and South America and delves into his studies of rural resources in interior regions of South America, including experimental cultivation techniques. This is a fascinating account of a man—a doctor, farmer, rancher, scientific explorer, and political conspirator—who interacted in many revealing ways with the evolving societies and institutions of South America.

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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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Author: Robert Clarke & Co
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Author: Clarke, Robert, & Co., Cincinnati, O.
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Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Author: Ronald Kroeze
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811602557
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Answering the calls made to overcome methodological nationalism, this volume is the first examination of the links between corruption and imperial rule in the modern world. It does so through a set of original studies that examine the multi-layered nature of corruption in four different empires (Great Britain, Spain, the Netherlands and France) and their possessions in Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa. It offers a key read for scholars interested in the fields of corruption, colonialism/empire and global history. The chapters ‘Introduction: Corruption, Empire and Colonialism in the Modern Era: Towards a Global Perspective’, ‘“Corrupt and rapacious”: Colonial Spanish-American past through the eyes of early nineteenth century contemporaries. A contribution from the history of emotions’, and ‘Colonial Normativity? Corruption in the Dutch-Indonesian Relationship in the Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries’ are Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Author: Thomas Carlyle
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520387929
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1104

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Essays on Politics and Society brings together the most significant writings on the topic by the acclaimed Victorian historian, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle. This volume includes some of his most well-known and influential pieces, such as "Characteristics" and "Chartism." In keeping with the Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle, these essays are accompanied by a thorough historical introduction to the material, extensive notes providing historical and cultural context while expanding on references and allusions, and a textual apparatus that carefully details and explains the editorial decisions made in reconciling the editions of each essay.