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Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Antarctic
Author: Encyclopedia of the Antarctic
Author: Beau RiffenburghPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415970245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
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Secrets of the Ice
Author: Veronika MedunaPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300187009
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Documents the scientific explorations of Antarctica, examining its unique climate, natural environment, and native life forms, and discusses how these studies can affect research in climate change, microbiology, and life on other planets.
Book Finds, 3rd Edition
Author: Ian C. EllisPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780399532382
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
For the experienced collector or someone embarking on a new hobby, this newly revised and updated edition of Book Finds reveals the secrets of locating rare and valuable books. Includes information on first editions and reader's copies, auctions and catalogs, avoiding costly and common beginner mistakes, strategies of professional "book scouts," and buying and selling on the Internet.
Homelight
Author: Nigel BrownPublisher:
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Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Book Talk
Author: Robert H. Jackson (jurist)Publisher: Oak Knoll Press
ISBN: 9781584561880
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"A fascinating and valuable insight into the fast-changing worlds of the bibliophile." -John Lewis
The Poetics of the Antarctic
Author: William E. LenzPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317946529
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The thesis of this book is that the 19th-century interest in the Antarctic functions for modern scholars as an important index to American self-discovery and self-definition from the 1830s onward. According to the author, American hopes for confirming identity came to be focused on an unlikely goal, the discovery of the illusive Antarctic continent. By examining in detail one literary product of the U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) to Antarctica, James Croxall Palmer's epic poem Thulia: A Tale of the Antarctic (1843), and its revision, The Antarctic Mariner's Song (1868), and by locating these works within their cultural context, Lenz reveals the significance and changing meaning of exploration to emerging American concepts of nationhood. The volume also considers the tradition of American sea fiction in the works of such writers as James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville, arguing that for these writers the Antarctic was a locus of symbolic meaning while for Palmer it was a process of individual and collective perception. The 1868 version of the Palmer poem is attached here as an appendix. A useful bibliography follows that appendix.
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography
Author: Robin WinksPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191647691
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford History of the British Empire as a comprehensive study helps us to understand the end of Empire in relation to its beginning, the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as for the rulers, and the significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history. This fifth and final volume shows how opinions have changed dramatically over the generations about the nature, role, and value of imperialism generally, and the British Empire more specifically. The distinguished team of contributors discuss the many and diverse elements which have influenced writings on the Empire: the pressure of current events, access to primary sources, the creation of relevant university chairs, the rise of nationalism in former colonies, decolonization, and the Cold War. They demonstrate how the study of empire has evolved from a narrow focus on constitutional issues to a wide-ranging enquiry about international relations, the uses of power, and impacts and counterimpacts between settler groups and native peoples. The result is a thought-provoking cultural and intellectual inquiry into how we understand the past, and whether this understanding might affect the way we behave in the future.
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