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  • Spaces of Global Knowledge

    Exhibition, Encounter and Exchange in an Age of Empire

    by Diarmid A. Finnegan, Jonathan Jeffrey Wright ...
    Series series Studies in Historical Geography
    ’Global’ knowledge was constructed, communicated and contested during the long nineteenth century in numerous ways and places. This book focuses on the life-geographies, material practices and varied contributions to knowledge, be they medical or botanical, cartographic or cultural, of actors whose lives crisscrossed an increasingly connected world. Integrating detailed archival research with ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Ireland’s Imperial Connections, 1775–1947

    Edited by Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, Jonathan Jeffrey Wright ...
    Series series Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
    This edited collection explores the complexities of Irish involvement in empire. Despite complaining regularly of treatment as a colony by England, Ireland nevertheless played a significant part in Britain’s imperialism, from its formative period in the late eighteenth century through to the decolonizing years of the early twentieth century. Framed by two key events of world history, the American ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

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  • Green Unpleasant Land

    by Corinne Fowler ...
    Selected by Bernardine Evaristo as an Observer Best Books 2021Green Unpleasant Land explores the repressed history of rural England's links to transatlantic enslavement and the East India Company.Combining essays, poems and stories, it details the colonial links of country houses, moorlands, woodlands, village pubs and graveyards. It also explores the links between rural poverty, particularly ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing

    by Tim Youngs ...
    Critics have long struggled to find a suitable category for travelogues. From its ancient origins to the present day, the travel narrative has borrowed elements from various genres - from epic poetry to literary reportage - in order to evoke distant cultures and exotic locales, and sometimes those closer to hand. Tim Youngs argues in this lucid and detailed Introduction that travel writing ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing

    Edited by Peter Hulme, Tim Youngs ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing brings together specialists from anthropology, history, literary and cultural studies to offer a broad and vibrant introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. This comprehensive introduction to the subject features specially commissioned contributions, including six essays surveying the period's travel writing; a further six ... Read more

    Was $38.99 USD Now $31.99 USD

  • A History of Oxford Anthropology

    Edited by Peter Rivière ...
    Series Book 15 - Methodology & History in Anthropology
    Informative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University. ... Read more

    Was $31.99 USD Now $23.99 USD

  • Nature

    Western Attitudes Since Ancient Times

    by Peter Coates ...
    Series series Themes in History
    'Nature' is a deceptively simple and ahistorical term, suggesting intrinsic, unchanging reality. Yet nature has a history too, both in terms of human attitudes and human impacts. Coates outlines the major understandings of 'nature' in the western world since classical times, from nature as higher authority to its more recent meaning of threatened physical space and life forms.Unlike many others, ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Observing the Outports

    Describing Newfoundland Culture, 1950-1980

    by Jeff Webb ...
    The years after Newfoundland’s confederation with Canada were ones of rapid social and economic change, as provincial resettlement and industrialization initiatives attempted to transform the lives of rural Newfoundlanders. At Memorial University in St. John’s, a new generation of faculty saw the province’s transformation as a critical moment. Some hoped to solve the challenges of modernization ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing

    Edited by Carl Thompson ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    As many places around the world confront issues of globalization, migration and postcoloniality, travel writing has become a serious genre of study, reflecting some of the greatest concerns of our time. Encompassing forms as diverse as field journals, investigative reports, guidebooks, memoirs, comic sketches and lyrical reveries; travel writing is now a crucial focus for discussion across many ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Strangers on the Shore: Early Coastal Contact in Australia

    by Peter Veth ...
    Contacts between Indigenous Australians and outsiders Macassans, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, Americans and others are known to have occurred for 400 years. This book explores these diverse, subtle, dynamic and volatile first encounters from Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives. It also looks at the myriad elements of these crosscultural exchanges, which resulted in profound ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology

    Edited by Dan Hicks, Mary C. Beaudry ...
    The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology provides an overview of the international field of historical archaeology (c.AD 1500 to the present) through seventeen specially-commissioned essays from leading researchers in the field. The volume explores key themes in historical archaeology including documentary archaeology, the writing of historical archaeology, colonialism, capitalism, ... Read more

    $58.29 USD

  • Appropriated Pasts

    Indigenous Peoples and the Colonial Culture of Archaeology

    by Ian J. McNiven, Lynette Russell ...
    Series series Archaeology in Society
    This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic. Bloomsbury Academic publish acclaimed resources for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as the general reader, across a broad range of subjects including Archaeology, Art & Visual Culture, Biblical Studies, Business & Management, Drama & Performance Studies, Economics, Education, Film & Media, History, Linguistics, Literary Studies, ... Read more

    $51.09 USD