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Women, Travel, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Americas

Author : Nina Gerassi-Navarro
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319615068
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Women, Travel, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Americas written by Nina Gerassi-Navarro and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new and insightful look at the interconnections between the United States, Brazil and Mexico during the nineteenth century. Gerassi-Navarro brings together U.S. and Latin American Studies with her analysis of the travel narratives of Frances Calderón de la Barca and Elizabeth Cary Agassiz. Inspired by the writings of Alexander von Humboldt these women, in their travels, expand his views on the tropics to include a social dimension to their observations on nature, culture, race, and progress in Brazil and Mexico. Highlighting the role of women as a new kind of observer as well as the complexity of connections between the United States and Latin America, Gerassi-Navarro interweaves science, politics, and aesthetics in new transnational frameworks.

Good Observers of Nature

Author : Tina Gianquitto
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820336556
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Good Observers of Nature written by Tina Gianquitto and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Good Observers of Nature" Tina Gianquitto examines nineteenth-century American women's intellectual and aesthetic experiences of nature and investigates the linguistic, perceptual, and scientific systems that were available to women to describe those experiences. Many women writers of this period used the natural world as a platform for discussing issues of domesticity, education, and the nation. To what extent, asks Gianquitto, did these writers challenge the prevalent sentimental narrative modes (like those used in the popular flower language books) and use scientific terminology to describe the world around them? The book maps the intersections of the main historical and narrative trajectories that inform the answer to this question: the changing literary representations of the natural world in texts produced by women from the 1820s to the 1880s and the developments in science from the Enlightenment to the advent of evolutionary biology. Though Gianquitto considers a range of women's nature writing (botanical manuals, plant catalogs, travel narratives, seasonal journals, scientific essays), she focuses on four writers and their most influential works: Almira Phelps (Familiar Lectures on Botany, 1829), Margaret Fuller (Summer on the Lakes, in 1843), Susan Fenimore Cooper (Rural Hours, 1850), and Mary Treat (Home Studies in Nature, 1885). From these writings emerges a set of common concerns about the interaction of reason and emotion in the study of nature, the best vocabularies for representing objects in nature (local, scientific, or moral), and the competing systems for ordering the natural world (theological, taxonomic, or aesthetic). This is an illuminating study about the culturally assumed relationship between women, morality, and science.

Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

Author : Adriana Méndez Rodenas
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611485088
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America written by Adriana Méndez Rodenas and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: European Women Pilgrims retraces the steps of five intrepid “lady travelers” who ventured into the geography of the New World—Mexico, the Southern Cone, Brazil, and the Caribbean—at a crucial historical juncture, the period of political anarchy following the break from Spain and the rise of modernity at the turn of the twentieth century. Traveling as historians, social critics, ethnographers, and artists, Frances Erskine Inglis (1806–82), Maria Graham (1785–1842), Flora Tristan (1803–44), Fredrika Bremer (1801–65), and Adela Breton (1849–1923) reshaped the map of nineteenth-century Latin America. Organized by themes rather than by individual authors, this book examines European women’s travels as a spectrum of narrative discourses, ranging from natural history, history, and ethnography. Women’s social condition becomes a focal point of their travels. By combining diverse genres and perspectives, women’s travel writing ushers a new vision of post-independence societies. The trope of pilgrimage conditions the female travel experience, which suggests both the meta-end of the journey as well as the broader cultural frame shaping their individual itineraries.

Women through Women's Eyes

Author : June E. Hahner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0585279349
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Women through Women's Eyes written by June E. Hahner and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century was a period of peak popularity for travel to Latin America, where a new political independence was accompanied by loosened travel restrictions. Such expeditions resulted in numerous travel accounts, most by men. However, because this period was a time of significant change and exploration, a small but growing minority of female voyagers also portrayed the people and places that they encountered. Women through Women's Eyes draws from ten insightful accounts by female visitors to Latin America in the nineteenth century. These firsthand tales bring a number of Latin American women into focus: nuns, market women, plantation workers, the wives and daughters of landowners and politicians, and even a heroine of the independence movement. Questions of family life, religion, women's labor, and education are addressed, in addition to the interrelationships of men and women within the structure of Latin American societies. Women through Women's Eyes is a perceptive look at Latin American women from various walks of life during this period. Within these pages, the reader catches lengthy glimpses of the women on both sides of the travel accounts-author and subject-and thereby may examine them all and their societies close-up.

The Other Civil War

Author : Catherine Clinton
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809016222
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Other Civil War written by Catherine Clinton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-04-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, comprehensive account of the struggle for women's rights at a vital time in our national history. The American women who worked for our country's indepence in 1776 hoped the new Republic would grant them unprecedented power and influence. But it was not until the next century that a hardy group of pathbreakers began the slow march on the road to autonomy, a road American women continue to travel today. When The Other Civil War was first published in 1984, it was hailed as a thought-provoking narrative of women's lives, among the first books to bring together the new accomplishments of the then-infant discipline of women's history. This revised edition offers a thoroughly updated bibliography, including not only new books and articles but also Internet sources from the past fifteen years of innovative scholarship.

Future Perfect

Author : Howard Bruce Franklin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813521527
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Future Perfect written by Howard Bruce Franklin and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics, science fiction writers, scientists, and scholars throughout the world hailed the original publication of Future Perfect in 1966 as a book that would transform our evaluation of science fiction and our understanding of American culture. The praise has proved well founded, for Future Perfect has been more responsible than any other single work for the recognition of the value and significance of science fiction.

Magical Sites

Author : Marjorie Agosín
Publisher : White Pine Press
ISBN 13 : 9781877727948
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Magical Sites written by Marjorie Agosín and published by White Pine Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing group of travel journals reveals the voices of women who travelled in Latin America during the nineteenth century. From French nuns who left their homelands to establish convents in Latin America to well-bred English women who accompanied their husbands on business travels, these women discovered a world beyond anything they had known or expected and recorded it in their diaries. Includes previously unpublished work, as editor Marjorie Agosin found some of these diaries tucked away and forgotten in a musty convent library in Santiago, Chile. All entries show us the private thoughts and indomitable spirits of women who dared to move beyond the safety of hearth and home and in doing so, discovered not only new lands, but also themselves.

Gender, Science, and Authority in Women’s Travel Writing

Author : Michelle Medeiros
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498579760
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Science, and Authority in Women’s Travel Writing written by Michelle Medeiros and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender, Science, and Authority in Women’s Travel Writing: Literary Perspectives on the Discourse of Natural History analyzes the interrelations among authority, gender and the scientific discipline of natural history in the works of transatlantic women travelers from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Michelle Medeiros sheds new light on our understanding of the literary perspectives of the discourse of natural history and how these viewpoints had a surprising impact in areas that went beyond scientific fields. This book advances the study of travel writing and gender in new directions by bringing together Latin American, European, and American women travelers who actively engaged in natural history discussions in their writings. By demonstrating how these women were only able to participate in intellectual enterprises by embarking on transatlantic voyages, this book discloses how the work produced by these travelers challenged and reshaped dominant discourses, bringing a new point of view to nineteenth and twentieth-centuries studies in Latin American history, literature, cultural studies, and history of science. Moreover, this book analyzes to what extent the approaches employed by female travel writers who wanted to engage in the production of knowledge has evolved in that time period, and to what degree such changes could be considered positive and more productive.

The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition

Author : Kristin Gjesdal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190066237
Total Pages : 801 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition written by Kristin Gjesdal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Oxford Handbook celebrates the work of trailblazing women in the history of modern philosophy. Through thirty-one original chapters, it engages with the work of women philosophers spanning the long nineteenth century in the German tradition, and covers women's contribution to major philosophical movements, including romanticism and idealism, socialism, and Marxism, Nietzscheanism, feminism, phenomenology, and neo-Kantianism. It opens with a section on figures, offering essays focused on fifteen thinkers in this tradition, before moving on to sections of essays on movement and topics. Across the volume's chapters, essays examine women's contributions to key philosophical areas such as epistemology and metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, social and political philosophy, ecology, education, and the philosophy of nature.

Tourism in Natural and Agricultural Ecosystems in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Author : Martino Lorenzo Fagnani
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000925854
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Tourism in Natural and Agricultural Ecosystems in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries written by Martino Lorenzo Fagnani and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the roots of one of the main human activities that can be developed in natural and agricultural ecosystems: tourism. Attention to natural and agricultural ecosystems and their conservation has intensified in recent decades, responding to increasing social sensitivity to the environment, as also witnessed by Agenda 2030. The book explores the development of tourism in natural and agricultural ecosystems in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when some of its essential features derived from the practices of exploration, scientific study, business, healing practices, and also a desire for personal growth. This research is intended to open up international scholarly debate and discussion and draw in contributions from all disciplines and geographical areas. In addition, it intends to add an important piece to the mosaic of international literature that has rarely considered the origins of nature and rural tourism in an array of practices not always embodying a stated intent of recreation. This book is based on handwritten documents and travelogues circulating during the period in question. Most of the travel experiences analyzed regard men and women of European descent, but their travels were global, with ecosystems considered on all populated continents. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars alike interested in tourism history and the history of science and travel.

Going Abroad

Author : William W. Stowe
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400887348
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Going Abroad written by William W. Stowe and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a nation struggling to establish its own identity, all kinds of Americans, for all kinds of reasons, were enchanted with Europe. A European trip, whether extravagant or modest, could serve social advancement, aesthetic enrichment, or personal curiosity. Travel allowed men and women, the descendants of European settlers or African slaves, to shed their familiar surroundings and comfortable personas, adopt new roles, and measure themselves against the European experience. These travelers were often also writers. Throughout the nineteenth century, celebrated authors and beginners alike published newspaper columns, magazine articles, guidebooks, travel essays, letters, and novels based on their European journeys. In Going Abroad, Stowe examines not only classic works by such writers as Irving, Fuller, Twain, James, and Adams, but also lesser-known works by African-American authors, journalists, feminist writers, and diarists. Travel and the writing of it were important, Stowe argues, in molding a peculiarly democratic, yet essentially class-based, sense of personal and group identity. Combining literary and cultural analysis, he suggests new ways of understanding nineteenth-century Americans' concept of their nation and its place in the world. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America

Author : Todd Timmons
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313017654
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America written by Todd Timmons and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 19th Century was a period of tremendous change in the daily lives of the average Americans. Never before had such change occurred so rapidly or and had affected such a broad range of people. And these changes were primarily a result of tremendous advances in science and technology. Many of the technologies that play such an central role in our daily life today were first invented during this great period of innovation—everything from the railroad to the telephone. These inventions were instrumental in the social and cultural developments of the time. The Civil War, Westward Expansion, the expansion and fall of slave culture, the rise of the working and middle classes and changes in gender roles—none of these would have occurred as they did had it not been for the science and technology of the time. Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America chronicles this relationship between science and technology and the revolutions in the lives of everyday Americans. The volume includes a discussion of: Transportation—from the railroad and steamship to the first automobiles appearing near the end of the century. Communication—including the telegraph, the telephone, and the photograph Industrialization— how the growing factory system impacted the lives of working men and women Agriculture—how mechanical devices such as the McCormick reaper and applications of science forever altered how farming was done in the United States Exploration and navigations—the science and technology of the age was crucial to the expansion of the country that took place in the century, and The book includes a timeline and a bibliography for those interested in pursuing further research, and over two dozen fascinating photos that illustrate the daily lives of Americans in the 19th Century Part of the Daily Life through History series, this title joins Science and Technology in Colonial America in a new branch of the series-titles specifically looking at how science innovations impacted daily life.

The Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century

Author : Catherine Clinton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231109208
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century written by Catherine Clinton and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A convenient handbook of dates, names, terms, and resources as well as a highly readable overview of the pivotal role of women in a century of profound political and social change. The authors emphasize areas in which scholars have identified important changes (such as suffrage and reform), topics in which researchers are now making great strides (such as racial, ethnic, religious, and regional diversity), and innovative and relatively recent explorations (for example, work on female sexuality).

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Author : Margaret Fuller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woman in the Nineteenth Century written by Margaret Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics

Author : Lesley Wylie
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1835535224
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics written by Lesley Wylie and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics establishes the central importance of plants to the histories and cultures of the extended tropical region stretching from the U.S. South to Argentina. Through close examination of a number of significant plants – cacao, mate, agave, the hevea brasilensis, kudzu, the breadfruit, soy, and the ceiba pentandra, among others – this volume shows that vegetal life has played a fundamental role in shaping societies and in formulating cultural and environmental imaginaries in and beyond the region. Drawing on a wide range of cultural traditions and forms across literature, popular music, art, and film, the essays included in this volume transcend regional and linguistic boundaries to bring together multiple plant-centred histories or ‘understories’ – narratives that until now have been marginalized or gone unnoticed. Attending not only to the significant influence of humans on plants, but also of plants on humans, this book offers new understandings of how colonization, globalization, and power were, and continue to be, imbricated with nature in the American tropics.

Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 2

Author : Peter J Kitson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000558940
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 2 written by Peter J Kitson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.

Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century

Author : Verena Laschinger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429513933
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century written by Verena Laschinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Verena Laschinger and Sirpa Salenius, is a collection of essays that offer a fresh perspective and original analyses of texts by American women writers of the long nineteenth century. The essays, which are written both by European and American scholars, discuss fiction by marginalized authors including Yolanda DuBois (African American fairy tales), Laura E. Richards (children’s literature), Metta Fuller Victor (dime novels/ detective fiction), and other pioneering writers of science fiction, gothic tales, and life narratives. The works covered by this collection represent the rough and ragged realities that women and girls in the nineteenth century experienced; the writings focus on their education, family life, on girls as victims of class prejudice as well as sexual and racial violence, but they also portray girls and women as empowering agents, survivors, and leaders. They do so with a high-voltage creative charge. As progressive pioneers, who forayed into unknown literary terrain and experimented with a variety of genres, the neglected American women writers introduced in this collection themselves emerge as role models whose innovative contribution to nineteenth-century literature the essays celebrate.