Author: Society of Antiquaries of London. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Author: Society of Antiquaries of London. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Law Journal Reports
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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The Interlopers
Author: Vera KellerPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 142144593X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A reframing of how scientific knowledge was produced in the early modern world. Many accounts of the scientific revolution portray it as a time when scientists disciplined knowledge by first disciplining their own behavior. According to these views, scientists such as Francis Bacon produced certain knowledge by pacifying their emotions and concentrating on method. In The Interlopers, Vera Keller rejects this emphasis on discipline and instead argues that what distinguished early modernity was a navigation away from restraint and toward the violent blending of knowledge from across society and around the globe. Keller follows early seventeenth-century English "projectors" as they traversed the world, pursuing outrageous entrepreneurial schemes along the way. These interlopers were developing a different culture of knowledge, one that aimed to take advantage of the disorder created by the rise of science and technological advances. They sought to deploy the first submarine in the Indian Ocean, raise silkworms in Virginia, and establish the English slave trade. These projectors developed a culture of extreme risk-taking, uniting global capitalism with martial values of violent conquest. They saw the world as a riskscape of empty spaces, disposable people, and unlimited resources. By analyzing the disasters—as well as a few successes—of the interlopers she studies, Keller offers a new interpretation of the nature of early modern knowledge itself. While many influential accounts of the period characterize European modernity as a disciplining or civilizing process, The Interlopers argues that early modernity instead entailed a great undisciplining that entangled capitalism, colonialism, and science.
The Athenaeum
Author: Book Auction Records
Author: Frank KarslakePublisher:
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.
The English Catalogue of Books
Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1450
Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
John Selden's Formative Years
Author: David Sandler BerkowitzPublisher: Associated University Presses
ISBN: 9780918016911
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A lively account of the early life and times of John Selden, man of letters, jurist, historian, linguist, and parliamentarian. The discussion encompasses all of his writings, the tensions between parliament and the crown, and the Petition of Right and Selden's precedent cases.
The Smoke of London
Author: William M. CavertPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316586308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The Smoke of London uncovers the origins of urban air pollution, two centuries before the industrial revolution. By 1600, London was a fossil-fuelled city, its high-sulfur coal a basic necessity for the poor and a source of cheap energy for its growing manufacturing sector. The resulting smoke was found ugly and dangerous throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, leading to challenges in court, suppression by the crown, doctors' attempts to understand the nature of good air, increasing suburbanization, and changing representations of urban life in poetry and on the London stage. Neither a celebratory account of proto-environmentalism nor a declensionist narrative of degradation, The Smoke of London recovers the seriousness of pre-modern environmental concerns even as it explains their limits and failures. Ultimately, Londoners learned to live with their dirty air, an accommodation that reframes the modern process of urbanization and industrial pollution, both in Britain and beyond.
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