Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780977595556
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Launceston Revealed
Author: Pesticides Monitoring Journal
Author: Themes in Old World Zooarchaeology
Author: Umberto AlbarellaPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789255376
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This new collection of papers from leading experts provides an overview of cutting-edge research in Old World zooarchaeology. The research presented here spans various areas across Europe, Western Asia and North Africa – from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. Several chapters focus on Iberia, but the eastern Mediterranean and Britain are also featured. Thematically, the book covers many of the research areas where zooarchaeology can provide a significant contribution. These include animal domestication, bone modifications, fishing, fowling, economic and social status, as well as adaptation and improvement. The investigation of these topics is carried out using a diversity of approaches, thus making the book also a useful compendium of traditional as well as more recently developed methodological applications. All contributions aim to present zooarchaeology as a discipline that studies animals to understand people, and their richly diversified past histories. This will be a valuable source of information not just for specialists, but also for general archaeologists and, potentially, also historians, palaeontologists and geographers, who have an interest for the research themes discussed in the book. The book is dedicated to Simon Davis, who has been a genuine pioneer in the development of modern zooarchaeology. It presents hugely stimulating case studies from the core areas where Davis has worked in the course of his career.
Launceston, past and present
Author: sir Alfred Farthing RobbinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Launceston (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Different White People
Author: Deborah M. WilsonPublisher: Apollo Books
ISBN: 9781742586656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
"A trilogy of remarkable stories about campaigns for Aboriginal rights. But the most curious thing about this book is that the central characters in this book are not Aborigines. Some of the 'different white people' you will meet in these pages are well known Australians, but many are not. But they all had one crucial common characteristic: a single-minded determination to support and protect the rights of Aboriginal people."
Journal
Author: Royal Institution of CornwallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
The Silver Fork Novel
Author: Edward CopelandPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139510282
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
In the early nineteenth century there was a sudden vogue for novels centering on the glamour of aristocratic social and political life. Such novels, attractive as they were to middle-class readers, were condemned by contemporary critics as dangerously seductive, crassly commercial, designed for the 'masses' and utterly unworthy of regard. Until recently, silver-fork novels have eluded serious consideration and been overshadowed by authors such as Jane Austen. They were influenced by Austen at their very deepest levels, but were paradoxically drummed out of history by the very canon-makers who were using Austen's name to establish their own legitimacy. This first modern full-length study of the silver-fork novel argues that these novels were in fact tools of persuasion, novels deliberately aimed at bringing the British middle classes into an alliance with an aristocratic program of political reform.
Lost Mines of the Tamar
Author: Nigel Burch Publisher: BookPOD
ISBN: 0987371347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Forgotten mines, forgotten industries…We’ve all heard of the Beaconsfield gold rush, but who remembers the rush to asbestos, or the long search for coal? Do you remember sandsoap, or Loira and Dilston bricks? Did you know the best ochre in Australia is around the Tamar, and we used to have an ochre-based natural paint industry? This is the history of our great-grandparents’ toils, and the mines (including gold) that were forgotten.
Only in Tasmania
Author: Sandra HuettPublisher: Sandra Huett
ISBN: 0987185004
Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
"Executions, murders, suicides, poisonings, shipwrecks, floods, cemetery desecration, airline crashes, fires, pre-historic discoveries - all this and more has occurred in Tasmania's relatively short 210 year history since colonisation... A plethora of true stories about the gruesome, shocking , amazing and amusing events from Tasmania's history..."--Back cover.
Author: Tales