Author: Conrad Malte-Brun
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Universal Geography, Or, a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New Plan, According to the Great Natural Divisions of the Globe: Theory, or mathematical, physical, and political principles of geography
Author: Conrad Malte-Brun
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Universal Geography, Or, a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New Plan, According to the Great Natural Divisions of the Globe: America and adjacent islands
Author: Conrad Malte-Brun
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Universal Geography
Author: Conrad Malte-Brun
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Universal Geography, Or, A Description of All Parts of the World, on a New Plan
Author: Conrad Malte-Brun
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Universal Geography, Or, a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New Plan, According to the Great Natural Divisions of the Globe: Africa and adjacent islands
Author: Conrad Malte-Brun
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
A System of Universal Geography, Or, A Description of All the Parts of the World, on a New Plan, According to the Great Natural Divisions of the Globe
Author: Conrad Malte-Brun
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Universal Geography
Author: Conrad Malte-Brun
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Charleston Library Society ...
A Catalog of the Books Belonging to the Charleston Library Society
Author: Charleston Library Society (Charleston, S.C.)
Publisher:
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Category : Proprietary libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Proprietary libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics
Author: Michael Boyden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192868306
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The biggest challenge of the twenty-first century is to bring the effects of public life into relation with the intractable problem of global atmospheric change. Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics explains how we came to think of the climate as something abstract and remote rather than a force that actively shapes our existence. The book argues that this separation between climate and sensibility predates the rise of modern climatology and has deep roots in the era of colonial expansion, when the American tropics were transformed into the economic supplier for Euro-American empires. The book shows how the writings of American travellers in the Caribbean registered and pushed forward this new understanding of the climate in a pivotal period in modern history, roughly between 1770 and 1860, which was fraught with debates over slavery, environmental destruction, and colonialism. Offering novel readings of authors including J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Leonora Sansay, William Cullen Bryant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and James McCune Smith in light of their engagements with the American tropics, this book shows that these authors drew on a climatic epistemology that fused science and sentiment in ways that citizen science is aspiring to do today. By suggesting a new genealogy of modern climate thinking, Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics thus highlights the urgency of revisiting received ideas of tropicality deeply ingrained in American culture that continue to inform current debates on climate debt and justice.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192868306
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The biggest challenge of the twenty-first century is to bring the effects of public life into relation with the intractable problem of global atmospheric change. Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics explains how we came to think of the climate as something abstract and remote rather than a force that actively shapes our existence. The book argues that this separation between climate and sensibility predates the rise of modern climatology and has deep roots in the era of colonial expansion, when the American tropics were transformed into the economic supplier for Euro-American empires. The book shows how the writings of American travellers in the Caribbean registered and pushed forward this new understanding of the climate in a pivotal period in modern history, roughly between 1770 and 1860, which was fraught with debates over slavery, environmental destruction, and colonialism. Offering novel readings of authors including J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Leonora Sansay, William Cullen Bryant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and James McCune Smith in light of their engagements with the American tropics, this book shows that these authors drew on a climatic epistemology that fused science and sentiment in ways that citizen science is aspiring to do today. By suggesting a new genealogy of modern climate thinking, Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics thus highlights the urgency of revisiting received ideas of tropicality deeply ingrained in American culture that continue to inform current debates on climate debt and justice.