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Category : Economic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Economic Geography
Author: Annuarie ...
Author: University of OttawaPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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The British Consular Service in the Aegean and the Collection of Antiquities for the British Museum
Author: Lucia Patrizio GunningPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351893599
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The book tells the story of how the British consular service in the Aegean, in the years of the British protectorate of the Ionian Islands (1815-1864) became an agency for the retrieval, excavation and collection of antiquities eventually destined for the British Museum. Exploring the historical, political and diplomatic circumstances that allowed the consular service to develop from a chartered company into a state run institution under the direction of the Foreign Office, it provides a unique perspective on the intersection of state policy, private ambition, and the collecting of antiquities. Drawing extensively on consular correspondence, the study sets out several challenges to current views. For those interested in the history of travel in the Levant, or more generally in the Grand Tour, the book presents an alternative point of view that challenges the travellers' descriptions of the region. The book also intersects with British diplomatic history, providing an insight into the consuls in both their official and private circumstances, and comparing their situation under the Levant Company with that of the Foreign Office run consular service. The complex political situation in the Aegean at the time of the take over of the service is examined along with the political and commercial roles of the consuls, their daily dealings with the Greeks and Ionians, and also with the Ottoman authorities. Through private correspondence, it shows how the consuls' reflected the belief that Greek, Egyptian, Babylonian, Roman and other antiquities would be better looked after in a British, French, German or American museum, than by the people, and in the countries, they were created for. In particular, the book illuminates the public/private nature of the consuls' role, the way they worked with, but independently of, government, and it reveals how Britain was able to acquire major pieces of sculpture from the nineteenth century Aegean.
Annual report
Author: Annual Report
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Annuarie
Author: University of OttawaPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781359085375
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
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Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Library
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
New Serial Titles
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1512
Book Description
A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.
Directory of Scientific Directories
Author: Anthony P. HarveyPublisher:
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Category : Directories
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
List of 2,209 annotated references arranged geographically and subarranged by broad subject divisions including Biological sciences and anthropology and Medicine, public health and safety. Books and periodical articles included. Covers period 1945-71. Author index, index of original titles, and KWIC index of English titles. 1st edition, 1969
Feeding the World
Author: Giovanni FedericoPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400837723
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected, success story. Agriculture has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a growing number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book, a comprehensive history of world agriculture during this period, explains how these feats were accomplished. Feeding the World synthesizes two hundred years of agricultural development throughout the world, providing all essential data and extensive references to the literature. It covers, systematically, all the factors that have affected agricultural performance: environment, accumulation of inputs, technical progress, institutional change, commercialization, agricultural policies, and more. The last chapter discusses the contribution of agriculture to modern economic growth. The book is global in its reach and analysis, and represents a grand synthesis of an enormous topic.