Author: James Hall PitmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Goldsmith's Animated Nature
An History Of The Earth, And Animated Nature
Author: Oliver GoldsmithThe Story of Nature
Author: Jeremy MynottPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300245653
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
The story of humanity's evolving relationship with the natural world from pre-history to the present day Nature has long been the source of human curiosity and wonderment, and the inspiration for some of our deepest creative impulses. But we are now witnessing its rapid impoverishment, even destruction, in much of our world. In this beautifully illustrated book, Jeremy Mynott traces the story of nature--past, present and future. From the dramatic depictions of animals by the prehistoric cave-painters, through the romantic discovery of landscape in the eighteenth century, to the climate emergency of the present day, Mynott looks at the different ways in which humankind has understood the world around it. Charting how our ideas about nature emerged and changed over time, he reveals how the impulse to control nature has deep historical roots. As we reach an environmental crisis point, this vital study shows how human imagination and wonder can play a restorative role--and reveal what nature ultimately means to us.
The Eighteenth Century
Author: A Dictionary, Spanish and English, and English and Spanish
Author: Giuseppe BarettiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Pickering & ChattoA Catalogue of Books
Author: Henry George BOHNPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The Smell of Slavery
Author: Andrew KettlerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108846599
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
In the Atlantic World, different groups were aromatically classified in opposition to other ethnic, gendered, and class assemblies due to an economic necessity that needed certain bodies to be defined as excremental, which culminated in the creation of a progressive tautology that linked Africa and waste through a conceptual hendiadys born of capitalist licentiousness. The African subject was defined as a scented object, appropriated as filthy to create levels of ownership through discourse that marked African peoples as unable to access spaces of Western modernity. Embodied cultural knowledge was potent enough to alter the biological function of the five senses to create a European olfactory consciousness made to sense the African other as foul. Fascinating, informative, and deeply researched, The Smell of Slavery exposes that concerns with pungency within the Western self were emitted outward upon the freshly dug outhouse of the mass slave grave called the Atlantic World.
Record of the Year, a Reference Scrap Book
Author: Frank MooreCatalogue of Books ...: Natural history, books of prints, architecture, numismata, heraldry, physics, metaphysics, language, bibliography, Oriental and Northern literature, games and sports
Author: Henry George BohnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description