Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Subject Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Empire Society, Formerly Royal Colonial Institute: The British Empire generally, and Africa
Author: Royal Empire Society (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Subject Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Empire Society Formerly Royal Colonial Institute: The British Empire generally, and Africa.- v.2. The Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the South Pacific, general voyages and travels, and Arctic and Antarctic regions.- v.3. The Dominion of Canada and its provinces, the Dominion of Newfoundland, the West Indies and Colonial America- v.4. The Mediterranean colonies, the Middle East, Indian Empire, Burma, Ceylon, British Malaya, East Indian Islands, and the Far East
Author: Royal Commonwealth Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Guide to Microforms in Print
Author: Navigating Colonial Orders
Author: Kirsten Alsaker KjerlandPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782385401
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Norwegians in colonial Africa and Oceania had varying aspirations and adapted in different ways to changing social, political and geographical circumstances in foreign, colonial settings. They included Norwegian shipowners, captains, and diplomats; traders and whalers along the African coast and in Antarctica; large-scale plantation owners in Mozambique and Hawai’i; big business men in South Africa; jacks of all trades in the Solomon Islands; timber merchants on Zanzibar’ coffee farmers in Kenya; and King Leopold’s footmen in Congo. This collection reveals narratives of the colonial era that are often ignored or obscured by the national histories of former colonial powers. It charts the entrepreneurial routes chosen by various Norwegians and the places they ventured, while demonstrating the importance of recognizing the complicity of such “non-colonial colonials” for understanding the complexity of colonial history.
Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures - Continental Europe and its Empires
Author: Prem PoddarPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748650970
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 847
Book Description
The first reference work to provide an integrated and authoritative body of information about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial literatures that have their provenance in the major European Empires of Belgium, Denmark, France, G
China and the International System, 1840-1949
Author: David ScottPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791477428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Examines the images, hopes, and fears that were evoked during China’s century-long subservience to external powers.
Economic Security: Neglected Dimension of National Security ?
Author: National Defense University (U S )Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
On August 24-25, 2010, the National Defense University held a conference titled “Economic Security: Neglected Dimension of National Security?” to explore the economic element of national power. This special collection of selected papers from the conference represents the view of several keynote speakers and participants in six panel discussions. It explores the complexity surrounding this subject and examines the major elements that, interacting as a system, define the economic component of national security.
The Pacific Rural Press
Author: The Topkapi Scroll
Author: Gülru NecipoğluPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892363355
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Since precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic world, the Timurid pattern scroll in the collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum Library is an exceedingly rich and valuable source of information. In the course of her in-depth analysis of this scroll dating from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, Gülru Necipoğlu throws new light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmission of architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Her text has particularly far-reaching implications for recent discussions on vision, subjectivity, and the semiotics of abstract representation. She also compares the Islamic understanding of geometry with that found in medieval Western art, making this book particularly valuable for all historians and critics of architecture. The scroll, with its 114 individual geometric patterns for wall surfaces and vaulting, is reproduced entirely in color in this elegant, large-format volume. An extensive catalogue includes illustrations showing the underlying geometries (in the form of incised “dead” drawings) from which the individual patterns are generated. An essay by Mohammad al-Asad discusses the geometry of the muqarnas and demonstrates by means of CAD drawings how one of the scroll’s patterns could be used co design a three-dimensional vault.