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Une Histoire De La Geographie Physique En France Xixe Xxe Siecles
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Download or read book Geographers written by Hayden Lorimer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 34 of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies features eight essays that together demonstrate geographers' diverse scholarly engagement with the practise of their subject. There are two physical geographers (a Frenchman and an Englishman, both geomorphologists), a British historical geographer, a French colonial geographer, a Russian explorer-naturalist of Central Asia and Tibet, a British-born but long-time Australian resident and scholar of India, Pakistan, and the Pacific world, an American regionalist and eugenicist, and a Scots-born long-time American resident, one of the world's leading Marxist geographers and urban theorists. Equally but differently committed to geography's many specialisms, these subjects wonderfully illuminate the vibrancy – and the contradictions – behind the living of geographical lives.
Book Synopsis A History of the Wind by : Alain Corbin
Download or read book A History of the Wind written by Alain Corbin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-11-09 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows the wind’s touch, its presence, its force. Sometimes it roars and howls, at other times we hear its wistful sighs and feel its soothing caresses. Since antiquity, humans have borne witness to the wind and relied on it to navigate the seas. And yet, despite its presence at the heart of human experience, the wind has evaded scrutiny in our chronicles of the past. In this brilliantly original volume, Alain Corbin sets out to illuminate the wind’s storied history. He shows how, before the nineteenth century, the noisy emptiness of wind was experienced and described only according to the sensations it provoked. Imagery of the wind featured prominently in literature, from the ancient Greek epics through the Renaissance and romanticism to the modern era, but little was known about where the wind came from and where it went. It was only in the late eighteenth century, with the discovery of the composition of air, that scientists began to understand the nature of wind and its trajectories. From that point on, our understanding of the wind was shaped by meteorology, which mapped the flows of winds and currents around the globe. But while science has enabled us to understand the wind and, in some respects, to harness it, the wind has lost nothing of its mysterious force. It still has the power to destroy, and in the wind’s ethereal presence we can still feel its connection with creation and death.
Book Synopsis Une histoire de la géographie physique en France (XIXe - XXe siècles) by : Numa Broc
Download or read book Une histoire de la géographie physique en France (XIXe - XXe siècles) written by Numa Broc and published by Presses universitaires de Perpignan. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les recherches du géographe Numa Broc ont imposé leur auteur comme un spécialiste internationalement reconnu d'histoire et d'épistémologie de la géographie. Les éditions successives et les traductions de ses livres, l'analyse de ses travaux dans des publications comme Isis, la grande revue américaine d'histoire des sciences, ou dans des journaux scientifiques non moins réputés au plan international - Archivo Storico Italiano, Erdkunde, Francia, Imago Mundi, les Mittelungen der Österrischen Geographischen Gesellschaft, Regio Basiliensis, la Rivista Geographica Italiana, Taxon, Terrae Incognitae, ou The Geographical Journal - témoignent du large rayonnement d'une œuvre aux multiples facettes. Né en 1934, agrégé de géographie en 1960, Numa Broc a reçu la formation classique - sous ses trois composantes : géographie physique, humaine, régionale - de l'Homo geographicus de l'entre-deux-guerres, dont il s'est plu à dresser le portrait en 1993. Cette vaste formation généraliste jointe à une culture étendue autant qu'à une intense curiosité pour les montagnards et les explorateurs explique que l'auteur se soit toujours intéressé aux acteurs et aux thèmes de la géographie physique : Buache, Ramond de Carbonnières, Schrader, de Lapparent, Davis, de Martonne, la haute montagne, la mer, la géologie, la géomorphologie. L'ouvrage magistral que nous donne ici Numa Broc tourne à l'évidence autour de la grande figure d'Emmanuel de Martonne, dont le Traité de Géographie physique paru en 1909 a dominé la géographie francophone jusqu'au début des années soixante. Le Livre I, Dans le sillage de Humboldt, traite de l'émergence des concepts de la géographie physique pendant la première moitié du xixe siècle. Le Livre II montre comment et pourquoi, dans la deuxième moitié du xixe siècle, se mettent en place des courants de recherche mais aussi des forces et des mécanismes qui font passer la géographie physique De la dispersion à l'unification. Le Livre III, La géographie physique universitaire ou le règne de De Martonne, couvre le début du xxe siècle, un Premier âge post-vidalien au cours duquel la géomorphologie est devenue volens nolens la pierre angulaire de toute la géographie française. Le parti pris de conserver dans le livre IV - Menaces d'explosion et recentrage - l'unité de la complexe période qu'a constitué le xxe siècle après 1945 est un gage d'optimisme. Face au renouveau des sciences géographiques et aux mutations de la société, la géographie physique se transforme, tant dans ses contenus et ses modèles que dans ses méthodes et ses conditions d'exercice. La recherche se démocratise, les enseignements supérieur et secondaire s'ouvrent à de larges couches d'une société qui rajeunit, s'urbanise, consomme et voyage. La demande sociale s'est profondément modifiée, le monde lui-même a beaucoup changé. La vision synthétique que propose Numa Broc d'un Deuxième âge post-martonnien de la géographie universitaire en France permet de comprendre dans quelles conditions la biogéographie, la climatologie, la géomorphologie et l'hydrologie ont peu à peu cessé d'être exclusivement séparatives pour devenir un vigoureux système de sciences : une géographie physique renouvelée, largement recentrée sur l'interface des thématiques sociétales et environnementales. La post-face, rédigée par Marc Calvet et Christian Giusti, propose in fine un état des lieux de la Géographie physique française au début du vingt et unième siècle.
Book Synopsis Sport and physical culture in Occupied France by : Keith Rathbone
Download or read book Sport and physical culture in Occupied France written by Keith Rathbone and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport and physical culture in Occupied France examines the Vichy state’s attempts to promote physical education and sports in order to rejuvenate French men and women during the Occupation. Through this cultural lens, it illuminates the central paradox of state power during the Vichy Regime. The state organised a centralised physical cultural programme meant to control and discipline French men and women. However, these activities instead empowered individuals and sporting associations to create spaces for individual expression, protect entrenched business enterprises, preserve republican institutions and organise sites for mutual aid and assistance. Based on extensive archival research, this innovative, multi-city analysis demonstrates how French sporting federations, associations and athletes appropriated Vichy’s physical education directives to reshape the ideology of the state and serve their own local agendas.
Book Synopsis The Moral Disarmament of France by : Mona L. Siegel
Download or read book The Moral Disarmament of France written by Mona L. Siegel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book High Places written by Denis Cosgrove and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High mountains, polar expanses, volcanic peaks are exciting and special environments. 13 leading international geographers explore different aspects of these environments - disorientation, exploration, native knowledge, polar research. This is the first book to do this.High places - be they mountain peaks or the vast expanses of the polar latitudes - have always captured the human imagination. Inaccessible, extreme, they are commonly invested with awe and reverence, as places of physical challenge, intense experience. Increasingly, they are also treated as unique locations for science."High Places" explores the fascinating geographies of these special environments, revealing how senses are challenged, objectivities exposed, cultural assumptions laid bare. Whether walking the summit of Pico de Orizaba, the fourth highest volcano in the northern hemisphere; recounting the tale of the American explorer Charles Wilkes, charged with 'immoral mapping' in Antarctica; or exploring the 200,000 year old Greenland ice core; the international contributors reveal the richness and significance of these unique locations. Embracing Europe, Asia, North and Central America, Antarctica and the Arctic, "High Places" will interest geographers, historians of science, and those interested in polar/mountain studies, landscape, culture and environment.
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Book Synopsis The Statesman's Year-book by : Frederick Martin
Download or read book The Statesman's Year-book written by Frederick Martin and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Art and Monist Philosophy in Nineteenth Century France From Auteuil to Giverny by : Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer
Download or read book Art and Monist Philosophy in Nineteenth Century France From Auteuil to Giverny written by Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the relation between the fine arts and philosophy in France, from the aftermath of the 1789 revolution to the end of the nineteenth century, when a philosophy of being called “Monism” emerged and became increasingly popular among intellectuals, artists and scientists. Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer traces the evolution and impact of this monist thought and its various permutations as a transformative force on certain aspects of French art and culture – from Romanticism to Impressionism – and as a theoretical backdrop that paved the way to as yet unexplored aspects of a modernist aesthetic. Chapters concentrate on three major artists, Théodore Géricault (1791–1824), Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) and Claude Monet (1840–1926), and their particular approach to and interpretation of this unitarian concept. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, philosophy and cultural history.
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Book Synopsis Economic and Social History of the World War. (French Series) by : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Economics and History
Download or read book Economic and Social History of the World War. (French Series) written by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Economics and History and published by . This book was released on with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hour of Absinthe by : Nina S. Studer
Download or read book The Hour of Absinthe written by Nina S. Studer and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of its popularity in the late nineteenth century, absinthe reigned in the bars, cafés, and restaurants of France and its colonial empire. Yet by the time it was banned in 1915, the famous green fairy had become the green peril, feared for its connection with declining birth rates and its apparent capacity to induce degeneration, madness, and murderous rage in its consumers. As one of history’s most notorious drinks, absinthe has been the subject of myth, scandal, and controversy. The Hour of Absinthe explores how this mythologizing led to the creation and fabrication of a vast modern folklore while key historical events, crucial to understanding the story of absinthe, have been neglected or unreported. Mystique and moralizing both arose from the spirit’s relationship with empire. Some claim that French soldiers were given daily absinthe rations during France’s military conquest of Algeria to protect them against heat, diseases, and contaminated water. In fact, the overenthusiastic adoption of the drink by these soldiers, and subsequently by French settlers, was perceived as a threat to France’s colonial ambitions – an anxiety that migrated into French medicine. Providing keen insight into how local cultural narratives about absinthe shaped what quickly became a global reputation, Nina Studer provides a panoptic view of the French Empire’s influence on absinthe’s spectacular fall from grace.
Download or read book Lasting Lessons written by Mona L. Siegel and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Les nouvelles territorialités du sport dans la ville by : Jean-Pierre Augustin
Download or read book Les nouvelles territorialités du sport dans la ville written by Jean-Pierre Augustin and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis French books in print, anglais by : Electre
Download or read book French books in print, anglais written by Electre and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sessions D'étude by : Canadian Catholic Historical Association
Download or read book Sessions D'étude written by Canadian Catholic Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis General Catalogue of Printed Books by : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
