Author: Leonard BaconPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
The Independent
Author: Leonard BaconThe Journal of Education
Author: Thomas Williams BicknellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Journal of Education
Author: Major James Rennell and the Rise of Modern English Geography
Author: Sir Clements Robert MarkhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geographers
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Major James Rennel and the Rise of Modern English Geography
Author: Sir Clements Robert MarkhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Herodotus in the Long Nineteenth Century
Author: Thomas HarrisonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108472753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Explores the many different ways in which Herodotus' Histories were read and understood during a momentous period of world history.
Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
Author: Christopher MoseleyPublisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9231040960
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Languages are not only tools of communication, they also reflect a view of the world. Languages are vehicles of value systems and cultural expressions and are an essential component of the living heritage of humanity. Yet, many of them are in danger of disappearing. UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger tries to raise awareness on language endangerment. This third edition has been completely revised and expanded to include new series of maps and new points of view.
Atlas of the World's Languages
Author: R.E. AsherPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317851080
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1009
Book Description
Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.
Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India
Author: Prakash KumarPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139576968
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Prakash Kumar documents the history of agricultural indigo, exploring the effects of nineteenth-century globalisation on this colonial industry. Charting the indigo culture from the early modern period to the twentieth century, Kumar discusses how knowledge of indigo culture thrived among peasant traditions on the Indian subcontinent in the early modern period and was then developed by Caribbean planters and French naturalists who codified this knowledge into widely disseminated texts. European planters who settled in Bengal with the establishment of British rule in the late eighteenth century drew on this information. From the nineteenth century, indigo culture became more modern, science-based and expert driven, and with the advent of a cheaper, purer synthetic indigo in 1897, indigo science crossed paths with the colonial state's effort to develop a science for agricultural development. Only at the end of the First World War, when the industrial use of synthetic indigo for textile dyeing and printing became almost universal, did the indigo industry's optimism fade away.
On the Map
Author: Simon GarfieldPublisher: Avery
ISBN: 1592407803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Examines the pivotal relationship between mapping and civilization, demonstrating the unique ways that maps relate and realign history, and shares engaging cartography stories and map lore.