Author: Sir Robert Lambert PlayfairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algeria
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A Bibliography of Algeria, from the Expedition of Charles V. in 1541 to 1887
Author: Sir Robert Lambert PlayfairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algeria
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A Bibliography of Algeria, from the Expedition of Charles V. in 1541 to 1887
Author: Sir Robert Lambert PlayfairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Historical Dictionary of Algeria
Author: Phillip C. NaylorPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0810879190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 739
Book Description
Algeria’s strategic regional and global importance continues to grow. Its hydrocarbon wealth, namely natural gas and oil, is impressive and its receipts are crucial to the national economy. The European Union is a particularly valued hydrocarbon importer and overall commercial partner. The bilateral relationship with France remains problematic and paradoxical. Algeria has demanded an apology for the imposition of colonialism; but it also recognizes the importance of France economically, politically, and militarily, e.g., the unrest in the Sahel (notably Mali). Furthermore, Algeria continues to recover from its recent, tragic civil strife characterized by terrorism and extremism. Its uncertain future, given its ageing leadership, rentier economy, and frustrated youth, is a critical concern. This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Algeria covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Algeria.
The Bibliography of the Barbary States: A bibliography of Algeria from the expedition of Charles V in 1541 to 1887 ; Supplement to the Bibliography of Algeria from the earliest times to 1895
Author: Letters from High Latitudes
Author: Frederick Temple Blackwood Marquis of Dufferin and AvaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Supplementary Papers
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Tripoli and the Cyrenaica
Author: Sir Robert Lambert PlayfairPublisher:
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Category : Cyrenaica
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Barbary and Enlightenment
Author: Ann ThomsonPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004246517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
This book, based on a wide range of eighteenth-century works, concerns European attitude towards North Africa in the century preceding the French conquest of Algiers in 1830. It studies the radical transformation of perceptions of Barbary during the period, essentially by placing them in the context of the different eighteenth-century systems of classification of the world. We see that uncertainty as to how to classify this region, its inhabitants, its form of government and social evolution - which led to its absence from most contemporary anthropological discussions - was resolved in the early nineteenth-century with the appearance of what were to become colonial stereotypes.
Report of the Commission for the Improvement of Navigation in the Seekonk River
Author: Rhode Island. Commission for Improvement of Navigation in Seekonk RiverPublisher:
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Category : Seekonk River (R.I.)
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Geography Unbound
Author: Anne GodlewskaPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226300471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
At the end of the eighteenth century, French geographers faced a crisis. Though they had previously been ranked among the most highly regarded scientists in Europe, they suddenly found themselves directionless and disrespected because they were unable to adapt their descriptive focus easily to the new emphasis on theory and explanation sweeping through other disciplines. Anne Godlewska examines this crisis, the often conservative reactions of geographers to it, and the work of researchers at the margins of the field who helped chart its future course. She tells her story partly through the lives and careers of individuals, from the deposed cabinet geographer Cassini IV to Volney, von Humboldt, and Letronne (innovators in human, physical, and historical geography), and partly through the institutions with which they were associated such as the Encyclopédie and the Jesuit and military colleges. Geography Unbound presents an insightful portrait of a crucial period in the development of modern geography, whose unstable disciplinary status is still very much an issue today.