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Author | : Maria Cristina Fumagalli |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2013-07-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 178138794X |
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A collection of essays from distinguished international scholars that explore the idea of a literary geography of the American Tropics.
Author | : Maria Cristina Fumagalli |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 9781846319983 |
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A collection of essays from distinguished international scholars that explore the idea of a literary geography of the American Tropics.
Author | : Maria Cristina Fumagalli |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1846318904 |
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A collection of essays from distinguished international scholars that explore the idea of a literary geography of the American Tropics.
Author | : Peter W. Stahl |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1995-05-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521444866 |
Download Archaeology in the Lowland American Tropics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume explore problems faced by archaeologists in the difficult conditions of the lowland American tropics.
Author | : Megan Raby |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1469635615 |
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Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncovering its roots in tropical fieldwork and the southward expansion of U.S. empire at the turn of the twentieth century, Megan Raby details how ecologists took advantage of growing U.S. landholdings in the circum-Caribbean by establishing permanent field stations for long-term, basic tropical research. From these outposts of U.S. science, a growing community of American "tropical biologists" developed both the key scientific concepts and the values embedded in the modern discourse of biodiversity. Considering U.S. biological fieldwork from the era of the Spanish-American War through the anticolonial movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this study combines the history of science, environmental history, and the history of U.S.–Caribbean and Latin American relations. In doing so, Raby sheds new light on the origins of contemporary scientific and environmentalist thought and brings to the forefront a surprisingly neglected history of twentieth-century U.S. science and empire.
Author | : Adolf Engler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 900 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Phytogeography |
ISBN | : |
Download Die Vegetation der Erde: Phytogeographic survey of North America. A consideration of the phytogeography of the North American continent, including Mexico, Central America and the West Indies, together with the evolution of North American plant distribution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Justin D. Edwards |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2016-01-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317425782 |
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Tropical Gothic examines Gothic within a specific geographical area of ‘the South’ of the Americas. In so doing, we structure the book around geographical coordinates (from North to South) and move between various national traditions of the gothic (Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, etc) alongside regional manifestations of the Gothic (the US south and the Caribbean) as well as transnational movements of the Gothic within the Americas. The reflections on national traditions of the Gothic in this volume add to the critical body of literature on specific languages or particular nations, such as Scottish Gothic, American Gothic, Canadian Gothic, German Gothic, Kiwi Gothic, etc. This is significant because, while the Southern Gothic in the US has been thoroughly explored, there is a gap in the critical literature about the Gothic in the larger context of region of ‘the South’ in the Americas. This volume does not pretend to be a comprehensive examination of tropical Gothic in the Americas; rather, it pinpoints a variety of locations where this form of the Gothic emerges. In so doing, the transnational interventions of the Gothic in this book read the flows of Gothic forms across borders and geographical regions to tease out the complexities of Gothic cultural production within cultural and linguistic translations. Tropical Gothic includes, but is by no means limited to, a reflection on a region where European colonial powers fought intensively against indigenous populations and against each other for control of land and resources. In other cases, the vast populations of African slaves were transported, endowing these regions with a cultural inheritance that all the nations involved are still trying to comprehend. The volume reflects on how these histories influence the Gothic in this region.
Author | : John William Harshberger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 900 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Phytogeographic survey of North America, a consideration of the phytogeography of the North American continent Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : James A. Kushlan |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2020-08-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813065488 |
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For centuries, the southernmost region of the Florida peninsula was seen by outsiders as wild and inaccessible, one of the last frontiers in the quest to understand and reveal the natural history of the continent. Seeking the American Tropics tells the stories of the explorers and adventurers who—for better and for worse—helped open the unique environment of South Florida to the world. Beginning with the arrival of Juan Ponce de León in 1513, James Kushlan describes how most of the famous Spanish explorers never made it to South Florida, leaving the area’s rich natural history out of scientific records for the next 250 years. It wasn’t until the British colonial and early American periods that the first surveyors were commissioned and the first naturalists—Titian Peale and John James Audubon—arrived to collect, draw, and report the subtropical flora and fauna that were so unique to North America. Moving into the railroad era, Kushlan illuminates the activities of scientists such as Henry Nehrling and Charles Torrey Simpson alongside the dabbling of wealthy amateur naturalists. He follows the story to the 1920s, when tourism was flourishing and signs of ecological damage were starting to show. Years of wildlife trade, resource extraction, invasive species introduction, and swamp drainage had taken their toll. And many of the naturalists who had been outspoken about protecting South Florida’s environment had also played a part in its destruction. Today the region is among one of the most thoroughly studied places on the planet—but at a cost. In this absorbing and cautionary tale, Kushlan illustrates how exploration has so often trumped conservation throughout history. He exposes how much of the natural world we have already lost in this vivid portrait of the Florida of yesterday.
Author | : Council on Foreign Relations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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