Author: Edward Daniel ClarkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa
Author: Edward Daniel ClarkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus Vol 7
Author: E A WrigleyPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040250459
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A collection of eight volumes of books which contain all the known published writings and variant readings of Thomas Malthus. Malthus is most famous as the inventor of a simple equation between population and food supply and his work is seen as the foundation for population studies.
Travel and Classical Antiquities in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Greece
Author: Alexia Petsalis-DiomidisPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040264840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Western travel and collecting classical antiquities in the nineteenth century informed European understandings of Greece's past and present, and enriched private collections and museums. Travel and collecting have typically been studied separately by literary scholars, historians of archaeology, and historians of the Ottoman Empire and modern Greece. Similarly, publications have largely prioritised evidence from and about elite social groups. This book breaks new ground through its interdisciplinary approach, its insistence on the interweaving of the phenomena of travel and collecting, and its emphasis on marginalised perspectives. Contributors drawn from art history, classics, history of architecture, Ottoman history and modern Greek history foreground diversity and small-scale engagements with the landscape and material past of Ottoman Greece. The book explores the perspectives of both foreign travellers and local inhabitants through case studies, keeping a sharp focus on ethnicity and social status. Diaries, visual art, and rich archival material are analysed, often from a novel perspective, to give voice to a range of people including English servants, Albanian peasants, an illiterate Greek fighter, and the Ottoman Sultan. The result is a micro-cultural history of travel and classical collecting which expands existing narratives. As such, it changes the simplistic dichotomy between collecting as ‘pillaging’ or ‘saving’, and nuances the important current debate surrounding repatriation. Travel and Classical Antiquities in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Greece addresses scholars in the areas of classical reception studies, classical archaeology, material culture studies, nineteenth-century studies, Ottoman studies and modern Greek studies. It will also appeal to a broader audience of people interested in travel writing, the history of archaeology and the history of Greece.
Exploring European Frontiers
Author: B. DolanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230288987
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
The explorations of eighteenth-century travellers to the 'European frontiers' were often geared to define the cultural, political, and historical boundaries of 'European civilization.' In an age when political revolutions shocked nations into reassessing what separated the civilised from the barbaric, how did literary travellers contemplate the characteristics of their continental neighbours? Focusing on the writings of British travellers, we see how a new view of Europe was created, one that juxtaposed the customs and living conditions of populations in an attempt to define 'modern' Europe against a 'yet unenlightened' Europe.
Catalogue of the Library of the Surry Institution, with a Supplement
Author: Surry Institution (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A Catalog of the Books Belonging to the Charleston Library Society
Author: Charleston Library Society (Charleston, S.C.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Proprietary libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
A catalogue of the library
Author: London Surrey instA Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Charleston Library Society ...
Author: Travel, Travel Writing, and British Political Economy
Author: Brian P. CooperPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317698010
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The book draws on the history of economics, literary theory, and the history of science to explore how European travelers like Alexander von Humboldt and their readers, circa 1750–1850, adapted the work of British political economists, such as Adam Smith, to help organize their observations, and, in turn, how political economists used travelers’ observations in their own analyses. Cooper examines journals, letters, books, art, and critical reviews to cast in sharp relief questions raised about political economy by contemporaries over the status of facts and evidence, whether its principles admitted of universal application, and the determination of wealth, value, and happiness in different societies. Travelers citing T.R. Malthus’s population principle blurred the gendered boundaries between domestic economy and British political economy, as embodied in the idealized subjects: domestic woman and economic man. The book opens new realms in the histories of science in its analyses of debates about gender in social scientific observation: Maria Edgeworth, Maria Graham, and Harriet Martineau observe a role associated with women and methodically interpret what they observe, an act reserved, in theory, by men.
Author: James Darling