Author: George W. OgilviePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Ogilvie's Concise Atlas and Gazetteer of the World Comprising All the Geograpical and Political Divisions of the Earth, Their Names, Areas and Population, with a United States Government Official Estimate of the Present Population of All Cities in the U.S. that Had 10,000 Or More Population in 1900
Author: George W. OgilvieNorth American Rodents
Author: David J. HafnerPublisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9782831704630
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The first comprehensive treatment of North American rodents of conservation concern. This action plan summarizes the rodent fauna of North America and provides available information on every rodent taxon that has been considered to be of conservation concern by state, provincial and private conservation agencies and regional experts. It is hoped that the survey provided in this action plan will serve as a common ground for all these parties in drawing up conservation strategies for rodents.
Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy
Author: Masayuki TanimotoPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520303652
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Scholarly discussions on economic development in history, specifically those linked to industrialization or modern economic growth, have paid great attention to the formation and development of the market economy as a set of institutions able to augment people’s welfare. The role of specific nonmarket practices for promoting the economic development and welfare has been a distinct concern, typically involving discussion of the state’s economic policies. How have societies tackled those issues that the market did not? To what extent did those solutions reflect the structure of an economy? Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy explores these questions by investigating efforts made for the provision of "public goods" in early modern economies from the perspective of Japanese socioeconomic history during Tokugawa era (1603–1868), and by comparing those cases with others from Europe and China’s economic history. The contributors focus on three areas of inquiry—early modern era welfare policies for the poor, infrastructure, and forest management—to provide both a unique perspective on Japanese public finance at local levels and a vantage point outside of Europe to encourage a more global view of early modern political economies that shaped subsequent modern transformations.
South Africa and the Transvaal War
Author: Louis CreswickePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South African War, 1899-1902
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Women and the Family in Chinese History
Author: Patricia Buckley EbreyPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415288231
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, it explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems and places them in a historical context.
Encyclopedic Liberty
Author: Denis DiderotPublisher: Liberty Fund
ISBN: 9780865978560
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This anthology of 81 articles is the first attempt to translate and collect the most significant political writing from the Encyclopédie (1751-1765). It includes every aspect of the ideas, practices, and institutions of Western political life.
Balance of Power in World History
Author: S. KaufmanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 023059168X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The balance of power is one of the most influential ideas in international relations, yet it has never been comprehensively examined in pre-modern or non-European contexts. This book redresses this imbalance. The authors present eight new case studies of balancing and balancing failure in pre-modern and non-European international systems.
First Things in Acadia
Author: John W. ReganPublisher: Halifax, N.S. : First things publishers
ISBN:
Category : Acadia
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
El Niño in World History
Author: Richard GrovePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137457406
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This book examines the role of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in society. Throughout human history, large or recurrent El Niños could cause significant disruption to societies and in some cases even contribute to political change. Yet it is only now that we are coming to appreciate the significance of the phenomenon. In this volume, Richard Grove and George Adamson chart the dual history of El Niño: as a global phenomenon capable of devastating weather extremes and, since the 18th century, as a developing idea in science and society. The chapters trace El Niño’s position in world history from its role in the revolution in Australian Aboriginal Culture at 5,000 BP to the 2015-16 ‘Godzilla’ event. It ends with a discussion of El Niño in the current media, which is as much a product of the public imagination as it is a natural process.
Indian Sufism Since the Seventeenth Century
Author: Nile GreenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113416825X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Nile Green reveals the politics and poetry of Indian Sufism through the study of Islamic sainthood in the midst of a cosmopolitan Indian society comprising migrants, soldiers, litterateurs and princes.