Author : Gunnar M. Brune
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781585441969
This text explores the natural history of Texas and more than 2900 springs in 183 Texas counties. It also includes an in-depth discussion of the general characteristics of springs - their physical and prehistoric settings, their historical significance, and their associated flora and fauna.
Author : Rita Pemberton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1538111462
As separate entities and later a unified state, the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago boast very unique histories. Initially claimed by the Spanish in 1498, these territories were affected by the imperialist thrusts of various European nations including the French, British and Dutch. The mercantilist infiltrations of these groups, particularly in the 18th century, led to the islands’ belated development as sugar producers and, particularly Trinidad, as a cradle of migration. World War II and the development of the oil and tourism industries in the 20th century transformed the economies, culture and society of these islands. The country has been one of the most important in the region in relation to economic and political leadership and as a centre of cultural development. Historical Dictionary of Trinidad and Tobago contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Trinidad and Tobago.
Author : William Turkel
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0774840862
The Archive of Place weaves together a series of narratives about environmental history in a particular location � British Columbia's Chilcotin Plateau. In the mid-1990s, the Chilcotin was at the centre of three territorial conflicts. Opposing groups, in their struggle to control the fate of the region and its resources, invoked different understandings of its past � and different types of evidence � to justify their actions. These controversies serve as case studies, as William Turkel examines how people interpret material traces to reconstruct past events, the conditions under which such interpretation takes place, and the role that this interpretation plays in historical consciousness and social memory. It is a wide-ranging and original study that extends the span of conventional historical research.
Author : Nina Moore Tiffany
Publisher :
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Harm Jan Huidekoper was born at Hoogeveen, Provice of Drenthe, Holland, in 1776, son of Anne and Gesiena Frederica Wolthers Huidekoper. He immigrated to the United States in 1796 and settled in Pennsylvania. He married Rebecca Colhoon (1779-1839), daughter of and Esther McDowell Colhoon, in 1806 at Meadville, Pennsylvania. They had seven children, 1807-1819. He died in 1854 at Meadville. Descendants listed lived in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and Massachusetts.
Author : Peter Jan Margry
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9089640118
The modern pilgrimage—to sites ranging from Graceland to the veterans’ annual ride to to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to Jim Morrison’s Paris grave—is intertwined with man’s existential uncertainties in the face of a rapidly changing world. In a climate that reproduces the religious quest in seemingly secular places, it’s no longer clear exactly what the term pilgrimage infers—and Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World critiques our notions of the secular and the sacred, while commenting on the modern media’s multiplication of images that renders the modern pilgrimage a quest without an object. Using new ethnographical and theoretical approaches, this volume offers a surprising new vision on the non-secularity of the “secular” pilgrimage. "This book will be sure to stoke our intellectual fire and heat up the discussion over the highly charged topic of secular pilgrimage.”—Simon Bronner, Penn State University
Author : Gpo Style Board
Publisher : WWW.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781907521621
This, the 30th edition of the "United States Government Printing Office Style Manual," is the first revision to this authoritative style manual since 2002. The "GPO Style Manual, as it is popularly known, is issued under the authority of section 1105 of Title 44 U.S.C., which requires the Public Printer, as head of the GPO to "dtermine the form and style in which the printing...ordered by a department is executed...having proper reagrd to economy, workmanship, and the purposes for which the work is needed." The Manual is prepared by the GPO Style Board, composed of proofreading, printing, and Government documents specialists from within GPO, where all congressional publications, and many other key Federal Government documents are prepared. The first "GPO Style Manual" appeared in 1894. It was developed orginally as a printer's stylebook to standardize word and type treatment and remains so today. Through successived editions, however, the "GPO Style Manual" has come to be widely recognized by writers and editors both within and outside the Federal Government as one of the most useful resources in the editorial arsenal. This new, revised version of the "GPO Style Manual" has been thoroughly redesigned to make it more modern and easier to read, and the content has been updated generally throughout in keeping with current usage.
Author : Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 38,15 MB
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0816535159
"One of the most complete collections of essays on U.S.-Mexico border studies"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Brian Morris
Publisher : Springer
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 27,45 MB
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 3319452584
This book is a pioneering and comprehensive study of the environmental history of Southern Malawi. With over fifty years of experience, anthropologist and social ecologist Brian Morris draws on a wide range of data – literary, ethnographic and archival – in this interdisciplinary volume. Specifically focussing on the complex and dialectical relationship between the people of Southern Malawi, both Africans and Europeans, and the Shire Highlands landscape, this study spans the nineteenth century until the end of the colonial period. It includes detailed accounts of the early history of the peoples of Northern Zambezia; the development of the plantation economy and history of the tea estates in the Thyolo and Mulanje districts; the Chilembwe rebellion of 1915; and the complex tensions between colonial interests in conserving natural resources and the concerns of the Africans of the Shire Highlands in maintaining their livelihoods. A landmark work, Morris’s study constitutes a major contribution to the environmental history of Southern Africa. It will appeal not only to scholars, but to students in anthropology, economics, history and the environmental sciences, as well as to anyone interested in learning more about the history of Malawi, and ecological issues relating to southern Africa. /div
Author : Carlos Montalvo Larralde
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Journalists
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 25,29 MB
Release : 1931
Category : United States
ISBN :
A concise and unique reference work central to any serious examination of the Army2s involvement in World War I. Reproduced in 5 volumes, the original volume numbering and consecutive pagination remain unchanged to assist researchers using citations to the first printing
