Author: Thomas Henry HuxleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naturalists
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
Author: Thomas Henry HuxleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naturalists
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Author: Dante Gabriel RossettiPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Painting, English
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Scattered Finds
Author: Alice StevensonPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787351424
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Between the 1880s and 1980s, British excavations at locations across Egypt resulted in the discovery of hundreds of thousands of ancient objects that were subsequently sent to some 350 institutions worldwide. These finds included unique discoveries at iconic sites such as the tombs of ancient Egypt's first rulers at Abydos, Akhenaten and Nefertiti’s city of Tell el-Amarna and rich Roman Era burials in the Fayum. Scattered Finds explores the politics, personalities and social histories that linked fieldwork in Egypt with the varied organizations around the world that received finds. Case studies range from Victorian municipal museums and women’s suffrage campaigns in the UK, to the development of some of the USA’s largest institutions, and from university museums in Japan to new institutions in post-independence Ghana. By juxtaposing a diversity of sites for the reception of Egyptian cultural heritage over the period of a century, Alice Stevenson presents new ideas about the development of archaeology, museums and the construction of Egyptian heritage. She also addresses the legacy of these practices, raises questions about the nature of the authority over such heritage today, and argues for a stronger ethical commitment to its stewardship. Praise for Scattered Finds 'Scattered Finds is a remarkable achievement. In charting how British excavations in Egypt dispersed artefacts around the globe, at an unprecedented scale, Alice Stevenson shows us how ancient objects created knowledge about the past while firmly anchored in the present. No one who reads this timely book will be able to look at an Egyptian antiquity in the same way again.' Professor Christina Riggs, UEA
Marks and Marking of Weights and Measures of the British Isles
Author: Carl RickettsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780952853305
Category : Standardization
Languages : en
Pages : 267
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King William's College Register, 1833-1904
Author: King William's College, CastletownPublisher:
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Category : Castletown (Isle of Man)
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human Failings
Author: Pauline MazumdarPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134950217
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This scholarly and penetrating study of eugenics is a major contribution to our understanding of the complex relation between science, ideology and class.
The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal
Author: Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et RainevalPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Coomassie and Magdala
Author: Henry Morton StanleyPublisher:
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Category : Abyssinian Expedition
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Comprises accounts of Wolseley's occupation of Ashanti capital, Kumasi, Ghana, and terms with King Kofi Karikari, 1873-1874; and of Napier's occupation of Magdala, Ethiopia, to secure release of British captives from Negus Theodore II, 1867-1868.
Upper Ten Thousand
Author: The Royal Scottish Academy, 1826-1916
Author: Royal Scottish AcademyPublisher:
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Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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