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Author : Richard Schomburgk
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Total Pages : 494 pages
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Download or read book Richard Schomburgk's Travels in British Guiana, 1840-1844 written by Richard Schomburgk and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Moritz Richard Schomburgk
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Total Pages : 502 pages
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Download or read book Richard Schomburgk's Travels in British Guiana, 1840-1844 written by Moritz Richard Schomburgk and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Rivière
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780904180886
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk, 1835-1844 written by Peter Rivière and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of a pair of volumes publishing the unedited full reports of Robert Schomburgk's travels in Guiana between 1835 and 1844, previously available only in greatly abridged and heavily edited versions. It covers the journeys made by Schomburgk when surveying and establishing the boundaries of British Guiana, now Guyana, between 1841 and 1843.
Author : Peter Rivière
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780904180862
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk, 1835-1844: Explorations on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society, 1835-1839 written by Peter Rivière and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of a pair of volumes publishing the unedited full reports of Robert Schomburgk's travels in Guiana between 1835 and 1844, previously available only in greatly abridged and heavily edited versions. Sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society, between 1835 and 1839 Schomburgk explored much of the interior of the colony and completed the arduous overland journey to the Orinoco to connect his survey with that of Alexander von Humboldt in Brazil.
Author : Peter Rivière
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351814230
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk Volume II The Boundary Survey, 1840–1844 written by Peter Rivière and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of a pair of volumes publishing the unedited full reports of Schomburgk's travels in Guiana between 1835 and 1844, previously available only in greatly abridged and heavily edited versions. After his explorations in Guiana between 1835 and 1839 on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society, which are the subject of Volume I of The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk 1835-1844, Robert Schomburgk travelled to London. He was appointed Her Majesty's Commissioner for Boundaries with the duty to survey the boundaries of British Guiana, hitherto undefined. His surveys between 1841 and 1843 consisted of three journeys. The first took him to the mouth of the Orinoco River, from where he traced the boundary south-westward to the Cuyuni River, before returning to Georgetown. The second journey involved the survey of the boundary with Brazil: first, south to the sources of the Takutu River; and then north to Mount Roraima. In the third he covered the boundary with Dutch Guiana (modern Surinam), which involved an arduous trip down the length of the Corentyne River. Schomburgk returned to London in 1844 and was knighted for his services. Volume II of The Guiana Travels contains his reports of these journeys. In abbreviated form they appeared in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. Here they are published in full, including the material censored by the Colonial Office, which mainly details abuses of the native population committed by Venezuelans and Brazilians. In an 'Epilogue' an account is provided of his later career. The volume also includes two appendices: a summary of the boundary disputes which arose as a result of Schomburgk's survey and a vocabulary of vernacular plant names.
Author : Sarah E. Vaughn
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478022728
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Engineering Vulnerability written by Sarah E. Vaughn and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Engineering Vulnerability Sarah E. Vaughn examines climate adaptation against the backdrop of ongoing processes of settler colonialism and the global climate change initiatives that seek to intervene in the lives of the world’s most vulnerable. Her case study is Guyana in the aftermath of the 2005 catastrophic flooding that ravaged the country’s Atlantic coastal plain. The country’s ensuing engineering projects reveal the contingencies of climate adaptation and the capacity of flooding to shape Guyanese expectations about racial (in)equality. Analyzing the coproduction of race and vulnerability, Vaughn details why climate adaptation has implications for how we understand the past and the continued human settlement of a place. Such understandings become particularly apparent not only through experts’ and ordinary citizens’ disputes over resources but in their attention to the ethical practice of technoscience over time. Approaching climate adaptation this way, Vaughn exposes the generative openings as well as gaps in racial thinking for theorizing climate action, environmental justice, and, more broadly, future life on a warming planet. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient
Author : Mary Noel Menezes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317827503
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Amerindians in Guyana 1803-1873 written by Mary Noel Menezes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These selected documents reveal the reaction and responses of the Amerindians to European values.
Author : Charlotte Rogers
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813942675
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Mourning El Dorado written by Charlotte Rogers and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What ever happened to the legend of El Dorado, the tale of the mythical city of gold lost in the Amazon jungle? Charlotte Rogers argues that El Dorado has not been forgotten and still inspires the reckless pursuit of illusory wealth. The search for gold in South America during the colonial period inaugurated the "promise of El Dorado"—the belief that wealth and happiness can be found in the tropical forests of the Americas. That assumption has endured over the course of centuries, still evident in the various modes of natural resource extraction, such as oil drilling and mining, that characterize the region today. Mourning El Dorado looks at how fiction from the American tropics written since 1950 engages with the promise of El Dorado in the age of the Anthropocene. Just as the golden kingdom was never found, natural resource extraction has not produced wealth and happiness for the peoples of the tropics. While extractivism enriches a few outsiders, it results in environmental degradation and the subjugation, displacement, and forced assimilation of native peoples. This book considers how the fiction of five writers—Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, Mario Vargas Llosa, Álvaro Mutis, and Milton Hatoum—criticizes extractive practices and mourns the lost illusion of the forest as a place of wealth and happiness.
Author : Emily Greenwood
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191610313
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Afro-Greeks written by Emily Greenwood and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afro-Greeks examines the reception of Classics in the English-speaking Caribbean, from about 1920 to the beginning of the 21st century. Emily Greenwood focuses on the ways in which Greco-Roman antiquity has been put to creative use in Anglophone Caribbean literature, and relates this regional classical tradition to the educational context, specifically the way in which Classics was taught in the colonial school curriculum. Discussions of Caribbean literature tend to assume an antagonistic relationship between Classics, which is treated as a legacy of empire, and Caribbean literature. While acknowledging the importance of this imperial context, Greenwood argues that Caribbean appropriations of Classics played an important role in formulating original, anti-colonial and anti-imperial criticism in Anglophone Caribbean fiction. Afro-Greeks reveals how, in the twentieth century, two generations of Caribbean writers, including Kamau Brathwaite, Austin Clarke, John Figueroa, C. L. R. James, V. S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott and Eric Williams, created a distinctive, regional counter-tradition of reading Greco-Roman Classics.
Author : Russell McDougall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315417286
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book The Roth Family, Anthropology, and Colonial Administration written by Russell McDougall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume serves the reader as a family biography, a slice of the English colonial history, and an important introduction to the history of anthropology.
Author : Peter Hitchcock
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804773408
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Long Space written by Peter Hitchcock and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The resurgence of "world literature" as a category of study seems to coincide with what we understand as globalization, but how does postcolonial writing fit into this picture? Beyond the content of this novel or that, what elements of postcolonial fiction might challenge the assumption that its main aim is to circulate native information globally? The Long Space provides a fresh look at the importance of postcolonial writing by examining how it articulates history and place both in content and form. Not only does it offer a new theoretical model for understanding decolonization's impact on duration in writing, but through a series of case studies of Guyanese, Somali, Indonesian, and Algerian writers, it urges a more protracted engagement with time and space in postcolonial narrative. Although each writer—Wilson Harris, Nuruddin Farah, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and Assia Djebar—explores a unique understanding of postcoloniality, each also makes a more general assertion about the difference of time and space in decolonization. Taken together, they herald a transnationalism beyond the contaminated coordinates of globalization as currently construed.
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Total Pages : 1586 pages
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Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the British Museum Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Hulme
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857718053
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Writing, Travel and Empire written by Peter Hulme and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-08-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Empire drew on the talents of many remarkable figures, whose lives reveal a wonderfully rich involvement with the crucial issues of the period. In many cases they left a legacy of travel writing, novels, biography and ethnography which made important contributions to our knowledge of other cultures."Writing, Travel and Empire" explores the lives and writings of eight such figures, including Sir George Grey, Gertrude Bell, Sir Hugh Clifford, and Roger Casement. All travelled the Empire - from Grey, the renowned colonial governor who undertook dangerous journeys to the interior of Australia, to Tom Harrisson, the emaciated polymath, war hero and Arctic explorer, whose time in the New Hebrides embraced both cannibalistic rituals and a meeting with film legend Douglas Fairbanks Sr, who sought Harrisson out for a Hollywood feature about savage life.All saw themselves as writers, despite their very different approaches and interests, and each was writing against a backdrop of the impending disappearance of indigenous cultures around the world. Writing from the margins of what was shortly to become the more formalised discipline of anthropology, their work yields interesting insights into both the issues of empire and the ways in which academic disciplines define the boundaries of their subject. Embracing themes such as gender and travel, racial science, the globalisation of 'native management' and the internal colonies, and with a geographical coverage that extends from South America to Russia via Africa and the South Seas, "Writing Travel and Empire" will engage all those with an interest in cultural geography, anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, biography and travel writing.
Author : Sophie Hughes
Publisher : Charco Press
ISBN 13 : 1913867285
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (138 download)
Download or read book Untold Microcosms written by Sophie Hughes and published by Charco Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection, colonialism, translation, and the ephemera that shapes the stories we tell about ourselves. Featuring new original works by: Yásnaya Elena Aguilar, Cristina Rivera Garza, Joseph Zárate, Juan Cárdenas, Velia Vidal, Lina Meruane, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Dolores Reyes, Carlos Fonseca, Djamila Ribeiro The Central and South American collection at the British Museum collections contains approximately 62,000 objects, spanning 10,000 years of human history. The vast majority cannot be displayed, and those objects are the subject of Untold Microcosms , a collection of ten stories from ten Latin American writers, and inspired by the narratives about our past that we create through museums, in spite of their gaps and disarticulations.
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Publisher : IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
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Total Pages : 78 pages
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Download or read book Annotated Bibliography on Natural Resources and the Environment in Guyana written by and published by IICA Biblioteca Venezuela. This book was released on 1996 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cedric L. Joseph
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1425134718
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (251 download)
Download or read book Anglo-American Diplomacy and the Reopening of the Guyana-Venezuela Boundary Controversy, 1961-1966 written by Cedric L. Joseph and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Revised and much enlarged edition of my monograph, Anglo-American diplomacy and the reopening of the Guyana-Venezuela Boundary controversy, 1961-1966, published in 1998"-- Page x.
Author : Maureen Warner-Lewis
Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
ISBN 13 : 9789766401184
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Central Africa in the Caribbean written by Maureen Warner-Lewis and published by University of the West Indies Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, multidisciplinary study that analyzes and identifies some of the main lineaments of the Central African cultural legacy in the Caribbean. This long-awaited study is based on more than three decades of research and analysis. Scholars will be fascinated with the transatlantic comparative data. The author identifies Central African cultural forms in those areas settled in Africa by the Koongo, Mbundu, and Ovimbunde. (The modern-day locations of these three ethnic groups are present-day Congo, Zaire and Angola.) The book illuminates Caribbean thought and practice by comparison with Central African worldview and custom. The work is based on extensive primary and secondary sources, oral interviews, letters and diaries, folktales, proverbs and songs. In its multidisciplinary approach and depth, it highlights the debate concerning the origin and transformation of cultural forms in the Caribbean against a larger background of African culture, economy, colonialism, slavery, emancipation and independence. With its Central African focus, the book is a pioneering perspective on Caribbean cultural forms. A noted linguist, the author uses her knowledge of the most functional languages
