Author: United States. Congress SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1650
Book Description
Report
Author: United States. Congress SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1650
Book Description
An Adventure in Applied Science
Author: Robert Flint ChandlerPublisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN: 9711040638
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Struggle for National Democracy
Author: Jose Maria SisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Hispania Vetus
Author: Susana ZapkePublisher: Fundacion BBVA
ISBN: 8496515508
Category : Church music
Languages : es
Pages : 481
Book Description
Sugar and the Origins of Modern Philippine Society
Author: John A. LarkinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780520079564
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The sugar industry has been a vital part of the economic and social life of modern Philippine society. Under Spanish and American colonialism, sugar cultivation and export became one of the chief commercial industries in the Philippines. Both the Filipino people and the colonizing forces participated in the sugar industry; a few profited enormously. John Larkin examines how the international sugar market and local culture forged two types of society, one based on plantation agriculture, the other on tenant farming. Larkin investigates the history of the two most important sugar-producing regions, Negros Occidental and Pampanga. He depicts the impact of colonial economic forces on the rise of the elite plantation-owning class, the subsequent gap that developed between the extraordinarily wealthy and the impoverished, and the nation's dependence on the international market. Larkin concludes that the sugar industry resulted in stunted economic development, wide cleavages among the Filipino people, and an imbalance of political power - all effects that are still felt today. Sugar and the Origins of Modern Philippine Society is an indispensable contribution to our understanding of Southeast Asian history and the industry vital to the evolution of the Philippines.
Lagoa Santa Karst: Brazil's Iconic Karst Region
Author: Augusto S. AulerPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030359409
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
This book discusses the Lagoa Santa Karst, which has been internationally known since the pioneering studies of the Danish naturalist Peter Lund in the early 1800s. It covers the speleogenesis, geology, vegetation, fauna, hydrogeology, geomorphology, and anthropogenic use of the Lagoa Santa Karst and is the first English-language book on this major karst area. The area, which has been at the heart of the debate on the origin and age of human colonization in the Americas, is characterized by a classical and scenic karst landscape with limestone cliffs, karst lakes and karst plains, in addition to numerous solution dolines. More than 1,000 caves have been documented in the area, many with significant archeological and paleontological value. Despite its great importance, the Lagoa Santa Karst faces severe environmental threats due to limestone mining and the expansion of the metropolis of Belo Horizonte and its surrounding towns. The growing recognition of the area’s remarkable significance has led to increasing concern, and a number of protected areas have now been established, improving the conservation status of this landmark karst area.
Handbook of the Indians of California
Author: Alfred Louis KroeberPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486233685
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
Book Description
A major ethnographic work by a distinguished anthropologist contains detailed information on the social structures, homes, foods, crafts, religious beliefs, and folkways of California's diverse tribes
Anarchism in Latin America
Author: Ángel J. CappellettiPublisher: AK Press
ISBN: 1849352836
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The available material in English discussing Latin American anarchism tends to be fragmentary, country-specific, or focused on single individuals. This new translation of Ángel Cappelletti's wide-ranging, country-by-country historical overview of anarchism's social and political achievements in fourteen Latin American nations is the first book-length regional history ever published in English. With a foreword by the translator. Ángel J. Cappelletti (1927–1995) was an Argentinian philosopher who taught at Simon Bolivar University in Venezuela. He is the author of over forty works primarily investigating philosophy and anarchism. Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University.
Spain, Third Edition
Author: John A. CrowPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520244962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
A readable and erudite study of the cultural history of Spain and its people.
Cultural Affiliation and Lineal Descent of Chumash Peoples in the Channel Islands and the Santa Monica Mountains
Author: Sally McLendonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chumash Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description