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Author : Sir Hans Sloane
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica written by Sir Hans Sloane and published by . This book was released on 1707 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hans Sloane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Download or read book A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica with the Natural History of the Herbs, and Trees, Four-footed Beasts, Fishes, Birds, Insects, Reptiles &c. of the Last of Those Islands written by Hans Sloane and published by . This book was released on 1707 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brycchan Carey
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300280246
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Unnatural Trade written by Brycchan Carey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the origins of British abolitionism as a problem of eighteenth-century science, as well as one of economics and humanitarian sensibilities How did late eighteenth-century British abolitionists come to view the slave trade and British colonial slavery as unnatural, a “dread perversion” of nature? Focusing on slavery in the Americas, and the Caribbean in particular, alongside travelers’ accounts of West Africa, Brycchan Carey shows that before the mid-eighteenth century, natural histories were a primary source of information about slavery for British and colonial readers. These natural histories were often ambivalent toward slavery, but they increasingly adopted a proslavery stance to accommodate the needs of planters by representing slavery as a “natural” phenomenon. From the mid-eighteenth century, abolitionists adapted the natural history form to their own writings, and many naturalists became associated with the antislavery movement. Carey draws on descriptions of slavery and the slave trade created by naturalists and other travelers with an interest in natural history, including Richard Ligon, Hans Sloane, Griffith Hughes, Samuel Martin, and James Grainger. These environmental writings were used by abolitionists such as Anthony Benezet, James Ramsay, Thomas Clarkson, and Olaudah Equiano to build a compelling case that slavery was unnatural, a case that was popularized by abolitionist poets such as Thomas Day, Edward Rushton, Hannah More, and William Cowper.
Author : Anne S. Troelstra
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004343784
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Bibliography of Natural History Travel Narratives written by Anne S. Troelstra and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Troelstra’s fine bibliography is an outstanding and ground-breaking work. He has provided the academic world with a long-needed bibliographical record of human endeavour in the field of the natural sciences. The travel narratives listed here encompass all aspects of the natural world in every part of the globe, but are especially concerned with its fauna, flora and fossil remains. Such eyewitness accounts have always fascinated their readers, but they were never written solely for entertainment: fragmentary though they often are, these narratives of travel and exploration are of immense importance for our scientific understanding of life on earth, providing us with a window on an ever changing, and often vanishing, natural world. Without such records of the past we could not track, document or understand the significance of changes that are so important for the study of zoogeography. With this book Troelstra gives us a superb overview of natural history travel narratives. The well over four thousand detailed entries, ranging over four centuries and all major western European languages, are drawn from a wide range of sources and include both printed books and periodical contributions. While no subject bibliography by a single author can attain absolute completeness, Troelstra’s work is comprehensive to a truly remarkable degree. The entries are arranged alphabetically by author and chronologically, by the year of first publication, under the author’s name. A brief biography, with the scope and range of their work, is given for each author; every title is set in context, the contents – including illustrations – are described and all known editions and translations are cited. In addition, there is a geographical index that cross refers between authors and the regions visited, and a full list of the bibliographical and biographical sources used in compiling the bibliography.
Author : Chloe Northrop
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003837360
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Fashioning Society in Eighteenth-Century British Jamaica written by Chloe Northrop and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White women who inhabited the West Indies in the eighteenth century fascinated metropolitan observers. In popular prints, novels, and serial publications, these women appeared to stray from "proper" British societal norms. Although many women who lived in the Caribbean island of Jamaica might have fit the model, extant writings from Ann Brodbelt, Sarah Dwarris, Margaret and Mary Cowper, Lady Maria Nugent, and Ann Appleton Storrow show a longing to remain connected with metropolitan society and their loved ones separated by the Atlantic. Sensibility and awareness of metropolitan material culture masked a lack of empathy towards subordinates and opened the white women in these islands to censure. Novels and popular publications portrayed white women in the Caribbean as prone to overconsumption, but these women seem to prize items not for their inherent value. They treasured items most when they came from beloved connections. This colonial interchange forged and preserved bonds with loved ones and comforted the women in the West Indies during their residence in these sugar plantation islands. This book seeks to complicate the stereotype of insensibility and overconsumption that characterized the perception of white women who inhabited the British West Indies in the long eighteenth century. This book will appeal to students and researchers alike who are interested in the social and cultural history of British Jamacia and the British West Indies more generally.
Author : Jay B Haviser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315435365
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book African Re-Genesis written by Jay B Haviser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the archaeology of the African diaspora.
Author : Paul G. E. Clemens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405156627
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Colonial Era written by Paul G. E. Clemens and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-12-26 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and accessible, this title offers a clear and original framework for studying the important issues in colonial American history. Provides students with more than 60 essential documents on Colonial America Short headnotes introduce each selection Begins with a brief introduction by the editor and concludes with a bibliography designed to stimulate student research Can be used in conjunction with other books in a course or as a stand-alone text
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Author : Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2634 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of ... [books] ... written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 2634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : L. Antonio Curet
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081735655X
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Islands at the Crossroads written by L. Antonio Curet and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to Islands at the Crossroads include scholars from the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe who look beyond cultural boundaries and colonial frontiers to explore the complex and layered ways in which both distant and more intimate sociocultural, political, and economic interactions have shaped Caribbean societies from seven thousand years ago to recent times.
Author : Robert Voeks
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461408350
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)
Download or read book African Ethnobotany in the Americas written by Robert Voeks and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Ethnobotany in the Americas provides the first comprehensive examination of ethnobotanical knowledge and skills among the African Diaspora in the Americas. Leading scholars on the subject explore the complex relationship between plant use and meaning among the descendants of Africans in the New World. With the aid of archival and field research carried out in North America, South America, and the Caribbean, contributors explore the historical, environmental, and political-ecological factors that facilitated/hindered transatlantic ethnobotanical diffusion; the role of Africans as active agents of plant and plant knowledge transfer during the period of plantation slavery in the Americas; the significance of cultural resistance in refining and redefining plant-based traditions; the principal categories of plant use that resulted; the exchange of knowledge among Amerindian, European and other African peoples; and the changing significance of African-American ethnobotanical traditions in the 21st century. Bolstered by abundant visual content and contributions from renowned experts in the field, African Ethnobotany in the Americas is an invaluable resource for students, scientists, and researchers in the field of ethnobotany and African Diaspora studies.
Author : John A. Richardson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415312868
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Slavery and Augustan Literature written by John A. Richardson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates slavery in the work of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and John Gay. These writers were connected with a Tory ministry, which attempted to increase the English share of the international slave trade.
Author : Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Catalogues written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Dean
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639364145
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Nature's Messenger written by Patrick Dean and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic and fresh exploration of the naturalist Mark Catesby—who predated John James Audubon by nearly a century— and his influence on how we understand American wildlife. In 1722, Mark Catesby stepped ashore in Charles Town in the Carolina colony. Over the next four years, this young naturalist made history as he explored deep into America’s natural wonders, collecting and drawing plants and animals which had never been seen back in the Old World. Nine years later Catesby produced his magnificent and groundbreaking book, The Natural History of Carolina, the first-ever illustrated account of American flora and fauna. In Nature’s Messenger, acclaimed writer Patrick Dean follows Catesby from his youth as a landed gentleman in rural England to his early work as a naturalist and his adventurous travels. A pioneer in many ways, Catesby’s careful attention to the knowledge of non-Europeans in America—the enslaved Africans and Native Americans who had their own sources of food and medicine from nature—set him apart from others of his time. Nature’s Messenger takes us from the rice plantations of the Carolina Lowcountry to the bustling coffeehouses of 18th-century England, from the sun-drenched islands of the Bahamas to the austere meeting-rooms of London’s Royal Society, then presided over by Isaac Newton. It was a time of discovery, of intellectual ferment, and of the rise of the British Empire. And there on history’s leading edge, recording the extraordinary and often violent mingling of cultures as well as of nature, was Mark Catesby. Intensively researched and thrillingly told, Nature’s Messenger will thrill fans of exploration and early American history as well as appeal to birdwatchers, botanists, and anyone fascinated by the natural world.
Author : Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Author : New York Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book List of Works Relating to the West Indies written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Endersby
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022637632X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Orchid written by Jim Endersby and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: imagining orchids -- Censored origins -- The lesbian boy -- The uses of orchids -- Red book, black flower -- Utopian botany -- The signature of all things -- The name of the orchid -- Making a family -- A second Adam -- Artificial to natural -- Myths of orchids -- Orchidmania -- The blooming aristocracy -- Orchis bank -- Every trifling detail -- Beautiful contrivances -- The scramble for orchids -- Lost orchids -- Cannibal tales -- Savage orchids -- Long purples and a forked radish -- Queer flowers -- Creation and consolation -- Sexy orchids -- Boy's own orchids -- Manly orchids -- Frail orchids -- Deceptive orchids -- Orchids in orbit -- Endangered orchids -- Fragile specialists -- The spider orchids of Sussex -- Conclusion: an orchid's-eye view?
