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Author: Katherine Blouin Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009188488 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 675
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This is the first volume on the history of the Nile Delta to cover the c.7000 years from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century. It offers a multidisciplinary approach engaging with varied aspects of the region's long, complex, yet still underappreciated history. Readers will learn of the history of settlement, agriculture and the management of water resources at different periods and in different places, as well as the naming and mapping of the Delta and the roles played by tourism and archaeology. The wide range of backgrounds of the contributors and the broad panoply of methodological and conceptual practices deployed enable new spaces to be opened up for conversations and cross-fertilization across disciplinary and chronological boundaries. The result is a potent tribute to the historical significance of this region and the instrumental role it has played in the shaping of past, present and future Afro-Eurasian worlds.
Author: Katherine Blouin Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009188488 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 675
Book Description
This is the first volume on the history of the Nile Delta to cover the c.7000 years from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century. It offers a multidisciplinary approach engaging with varied aspects of the region's long, complex, yet still underappreciated history. Readers will learn of the history of settlement, agriculture and the management of water resources at different periods and in different places, as well as the naming and mapping of the Delta and the roles played by tourism and archaeology. The wide range of backgrounds of the contributors and the broad panoply of methodological and conceptual practices deployed enable new spaces to be opened up for conversations and cross-fertilization across disciplinary and chronological boundaries. The result is a potent tribute to the historical significance of this region and the instrumental role it has played in the shaping of past, present and future Afro-Eurasian worlds.
Author: Eric G.E. Zuelow Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351878719 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 245
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When tourists travel, they often seek the exotic. The farther they venture, the more unique the cultures they gaze upon, the greater the prestige accrued; cross-cultural contact is commonplace. Yet despite the obviously transnational character of the tourist experience, national borders define existing studies of tourism. Spanish, French, or German tourism is treated almost in isolation and there are only hints of a larger transnational impetus behind the creation of national tourism products. This volume tells a different story. Although modern tourism first evolved in Europe changes were never confined to national borders. The Grand Tour, the birthplace of modern tourism, was consummately transnational in both its execution and its influence. Although seaside resorts originated in Britain, the aesthetic and scientific ideas that made beaches desirable emerged through conversation among Dutch painters, English travellers, and both British and Continental scientists and philosophers. When travel was finally available to the masses, Irish tourism advocates looked to England, Continental Europe, and America for ideas. The Nazi leisure organization, Strength through Joy (KdF), was based on an earlier Italian model, the Dopolavoro. World's Fair promoters raided previous fairs in other countries for ideas. European-wide demand and taste helped shape nudist practice in France and beyond. At every turn, practices and products developed because tourism lent itself to trans-national discourse. The contributors examine a wide range of topics that together make a powerful argument for the adoption of a new transnational model for understanding modern tourism. An essential addition to the library of academics studying the history of tourism, popular culture and leisure in Europe, the book will also provide interest to scholars of transnational topics, including Europeanization and globalization.
Author: William M. Barton Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1315391732 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 268
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In the late Renaissance and early modern period, man's relationship to nature changed dramatically. An important part of this change occurred in the way that beauty was perceived in the natural world and in the particular features which became privileged objects of aesthetic gratification. This study explores the shift in aesthetic attitude towards the mountain that took place between 1450 and 1750. Based on previously unknown and unstudied material, this volume now contends that it took place earlier in the Latin literature of the late Renaissance and early modern period.
Author: Michael Greenhalgh Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004229272 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 572
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Offering a multitude of examples through the centuries, this book examines how the architecture of the ancient world was transformed or destroyed under Byzantium and Islam, to produce new forms which often owed their materials and sometimes their styles to the past.
Author: Jean-Marie André Publisher: ISBN: 9782213030975 Category : Discoveries in geography Languages : fr Pages : 594
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" Le voyage donnera la connaissance des peuples ", dit Sénèque. Les voyageurs du monde antique ne partageaient pas tous cette vision humaniste du " départ de chez soi ". Mais tous nous ont laissé des témoignages sur leurs périples si bien que l'on peut parler d'une culture voyageuse de l'Antiquité. N'est-ce pas les Grecs qui ont trouvé le mot désignant le voyage " pour voir du pays ", préfiguration des " circuits " touristiques d'aujourd'hui ? Des pèlerinages - la première forme du tourisme - aux voyages pour découvrir les " délices " des villes du Proche-Orient ou l'Asie, " presque aussi belle que la Grèce ", ce livre nous montre toutes les occasions qu'avait l'homme antique de quitter sa partrie, les mille et une difficultés qu'il rencontrait sur sa route, ses peurs, ses émotions et, parfois, ses émerveillements, tel ce Grec qui, devant le sphinx de Gizeh, s'exclame : " Spectacle divin ! Vision effrayante ! Noble apparition ! ". C'était déjà l'époque des voyages officiels, des déplacements profesionnels, des tournées d'artistes et d'athlètes. Mais d'autres partaient sous la pression de la fatalité, migrants saisonniers ou exilés, pour qui le voyage était rarement d'agrément. Certains allaient même au bout du monde afin de se trouver eux-mêmes ; pour eux, les péripéties du voyage étaient autant d'épreuves initiatiques. Au fil des explorations et des conquêtes, tandis que les communications s'améliorent et que les auberges se développent, les mentalités évoluent. Mais le voyage est toujours une expérience différente pour les Grecs et les Romains. Le Grec a naturellement la vocation du voyage, alors que, paradoxalement, le Romain, qui a soumis le monde à sa loi et a créé un vaste réseau de routes, reste plus casanier. Les hommes de l'Antiquité cherchent à se retrouver entre eux : les hauts lieux du tourisme sont d'abord des espaces de sociabilité.
Author: Kaspar von Greyerz Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH ISBN: 3847101714 Category : Education Languages : de Pages : 390
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English summary: The volume presents a collection of revised and updated contributions to an international conference held in October 2011 on current issues in historical research on early modern knowledge and science and their connections. It looks at the various ways, in which the 'new science' was embedded in traditions, on the on the hand, and concentrates on the joint role of experts and lay persons in its making, on the other. It highlights in particular the various forms of early modern natural history, scientific treatises in a narrower sense of the term, tradiions going back to antiquity, travel accounts, chronicles, correspondences, naturalia, oral accounts and personal observations, which mirror the dialectic relationship between learned and popular knowledge. The relationship of knowledge and science is investigated in particular in connection with early modern balneology and attempts at systematizing knowledge about animals. German description: Dieser Band widmet sich aktuellen Forschungsaspekten von Wissens- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, insbesondere den inneren Zusammenhangen von popularem Wissen und Wissenschaft. Einerseits werden Anbindungen der Neuen Wissenschaft an Traditionen in den Blick genommen, andererseits die Teilhabe von Experten und Laien an deren Herausbildung. Die verschiedenen Formate fruhneuzeitlicher Naturgeschichtsschreibung - wissenschaftliche Traktate, antike Uberlieferungen, Reisebeschreibungen, Chroniken, Korrespondenzen, Naturalien, mundliche Erzahlungen oder eigene Beobachtungen - vermitteln einen Eindruck der wechselseitigen Beziehungen zwischen gelehrtem und popularem Wissen. Das Verhaltnis von Wissen und Wissenschaft wird insbesondere an den Beispielen balneologischer und tierkundlicher Wissensbestande genauer analysiert.
Author: Raymond John Howgego Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 714
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In 732 major articles, Raymond Howgego's Encyclopedia of Exploration 1800 to 1850 attempts to detail every significant traveller, voyager or expedition that set out during the period. Its indexes provide the names of over 3000 travellers and 1000 ships, while the bibliographies cite more than 10,000 works of reference. Extensive biographical information is included for the travellers themselves, placing every expedition thoroughly in its historical context. The text is fully cross-referenced between articles, whilst every article is supplemented by a comprehensive bibliography of both primary and secondary sources.
Author: Katherine Blouin
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