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Author : Richmond F. Brown
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 16,43 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080321393X

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Coastal Encounters opens a window onto the fascinating world of the eighteenth-century Gulf South. Stretching from Florida to Texas, the region witnessed the complex collision of European, African, and Native American peoples. The Gulf South offered an extraordinary stage for European rivalries to play out, allowed a Native-based frontier exchange system to develop alongside an emerging slave-based plantation economy, and enabled the construction of an urban network of unusual opportunity for free people of color. After being long-neglected in favor of the English colonies of the Atlantic coast, the colonial Gulf South has now become the focus of new and exciting scholarship. Coastal Encounters brings together leading experts and emerging scholars to provide a portrait of the Gulf South in the eighteenth century. The contributors depict the remarkable transformations that took place—demographic, cultural, social, political, and economic—and examine the changes from multiple perspectives, including those of Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans; colonizers and colonized; men and women. The outstanding essays in this book argue for the central place of this dynamic region in colonial history.

Author : Jeff Oliver
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816527878

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Nordamerika - Kolonialzeit - Landschaft - Raumkonzepte - soziale Konstruktion.

Author : Bronwen Douglas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1137305894

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Blending global scope with local depth, this book throws new light on important themes. Spanning four centuries and vast space, it combines the history of ideas with particular histories of encounters between European voyagers and Indigenous people in Oceania (Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands).

Author : Bill François
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 34,92 MB
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1250272440

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If we were able to listen under water, what would we hear? What would we learn? How would it change us? With erudition and charm, marine scientist and orator Bill François takes us on a deep dive into the secret lives of the world’s aquatic creatures, from musical whales and immortal eels to the cod that discovered America and the herring that almost caused a military conflict —to name but a few. We hear the songs of seahorses and scallops, eavesdrop on the conversations of lobsters, and swim in the glow of the fluorescent jellyfish. A poetic blend of ancient myths, modern science, and storytelling through the ages, Eloquence of the Sardine is an invitation and guide to a dreamlike underwater world where the legends are often more believable than the incredible reality. This is nature writing at its best —informative, captivating, and accessible, with a personal angle, about an endlessly fascinating and still mysterious subject. A seafood platter or a day at the beach will never be the same.

Author : Andreas Etges
Publisher : Dietrich Reimer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,90 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Indian art
ISBN : 9783496028581

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Celebrating Berlin's Ethnological Museum collaboration with the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies of Freie Universitat Berlin, this volume catalogs the museum's famous Northwest Coast collection. The collection includes 2,500 objects brought to Berlin in the late 19th century by the Norwegian explorer Adrian Jacobsen.

Author : Markus Vink
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9004272623

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In Encounters of the Opposite Coast Markus Vink provides a narrative of the first half century of cross-cultural interaction between the Dutch East India Company (VOC), one of the great northern European chartered companies, and Madurai, one of the 'great southern Nayakas' and successor-states of the Vijayanagara empire, in southeast India (c. 1645-1690). A shared interest in trade and at times converging political objectives formed the unstable foundations for a complex relationship fraught with tensions, a mixture of conflict and coexistence typical of the 'age of contained conflict'. Drawing extensively on archival materials, Markus Vink covers a topic neglected by both Company historians and their Indian counterparts and sheds important light on a 'black hole in South Indian history'.

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 1977-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0374708630

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The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve, sometimes with friendliness, sometimes fighting hard across a philosophical divide.

Author : Nigel Foster
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0762790164

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What makes travel special? Perhaps the chill realization that a polar bear's eyes are fixed on you. Maybe it is the chance meeting with a man who buries sharks in a beach, only to dig them up months later, not out of morbid curiosity, but for food. Perhaps it is the undulating wing-beat of a dark shell-less gastropod in the canal of a 17th Century French sea port, or the criminal history of a rusting ship with a tree growing from its hold.Encounters in a Kayak brings the reader along on the magical experiences that surround sea kayaking. It’s about the animals, people, and special places around the globe that have grabbed the attention of renowned kayaker and writer Nigel Foster. His irrepressible curiosity drives him to tease out the unexpected stories hidden behind his subjects. These nuggets from around the world are bound together by water and a centuries-old form of sea travel: kayak. The result is a book of broad appeal for those interested in kayaking, traveling, and adventure.

Author : Lisa Trever
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 1477324291

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Moche murals of northern Peru represent one of the great, yet still largely unknown, artistic traditions of the ancient Americas. Created in an era without written scripts, these murals are key to understandings of Moche history, society, and culture. In this first comprehensive study on the subject, Lisa Trever develops an interdisciplinary methodology of “archaeo art history” to examine how ancient histories of art can be written without texts, boldly inverting the typical relationship of art to archaeology. Trever argues that early coastal artistic traditions cannot be reduced uncritically to interpretations based in much later Inca histories of the Andean highlands. Instead, the author seeks the origins of Moche mural art, and its emphasis on figuration, in the deep past of the Pacific coast of South America. Image Encounters shows how formal transformations in Moche mural art, before and after the seventh century, were part of broader changes to the work that images were made to perform at Huacas de Moche, El Brujo, Pañamarca, and elsewhere in an increasingly complex social and political world. In doing so, this book reveals alternative evidentiary foundations for histories of art and visual experience.

Author : Laqaixit Tewee
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1483670279

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DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS - LION'S MILK: is a story from Africa in which a lady named Sharp tongue must milk a lioness to learn the valuable lesson of taming her tongue. DRAGON DANGERS : is a narrative by Hard nose Hard heart who tells of another dangerous encounter that lurks for all hapless souls holding a grudge. ZARPEZ THE SEA SERPENT : is the story about a pirate named Captain Jake who had to choose between something he valued highly or the lives of his own crewmen upon encountering an ocean monster in the Battle of the Water Lily Sea. 173 pages - available in hardback or soft cover