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Describes print and non-print materials for study of Pacific states in grades K-8.
Author : Carol A. Doll
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 1994-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
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Describes print and non-print materials for study of Pacific states in grades K-8.
Author : Martha Vail
Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 30,17 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780816052585
Interesting topics Include: Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales; Chinese porcelain; The crusades; The hajj; Medieval monsters; The Norse sagas; The search for spices; Sir John Mandeville's Travels.
Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher :
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 1890
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Author : Tony Ballantyne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1351901818
This collection of essays assesses the interrelationship between exploration, empire-building and science in the opening up of the Pacific Ocean by Europeans between the early 16th and mid-19th century. It explores both the role of various sciences in enabling European imperial projects in the region, and how the exploration of the Pacific in turn shaped emergent scientific disciplines and their claims to authority within Europe. Drawing on a range of disciplines (from the history of science to geography, imperial history to literary criticism), this volume examines the place of science in cross-cultural encounters, the history of cartography in Oceania, shifting understandings of race and cultural difference in the Pacific, and the place of ships, books and instruments in the culture of science. It reveals the exchanges and networks that connected British, French, Spanish and Russian scientific traditions, even in the midst of imperial competition, and the ways in which findings in diverse fields, from cartography to zoology, botany to anthropology, were disseminated and crafted into an increasingly coherent image of the Pacific, its resources, peoples, and histories. This is a significant body of scholarship that offers many important insights for anthropologists and geographers, as well as for historians of science and European imperialism.
Author : Jan Goggans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 43,96 MB
Release : 2004-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0313085056
Robert Penn Warren once wrote West is where we all plan to go some day, and indeed, images of the westernmost United States provide a mythic horizon to American cultural landscape. While the five states (California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and Hawai'i) which touch Pacific waters do share commonalities within the history of westward expansion, the peoples who settled the region—and the indigenous peoples they encountered—have created spheres of culture that defy simple categorization. This wide-ranging reference volume explores the marvelously eclectic cultures that define the Pacific region. From the music and fashion of the Pacific northwest to the film industry and surfing subcultures of southern California, from the vast expanses of the Alaskan wilderness to the schisms between native and tourist culture in Hawa'ii, this unprecedented reference provides a detailed and fascinating look at American regionalism along the Pacific Rim. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures is the first rigorous reference collection on the many ways in which American identity has been defined by its regions and its people. Each of its eight regional volumes presents thoroughly researched narrative chapters on Architecture; Art; Ecology & Environment; Ethnicity; Fashion; Film & Theater; Folklore; Food; Language; Literature; Music; Religion; and Sports & Recreation. Each book also includes a volume-specific introduction, as well as a series foreword by noted regional scholar and former National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman William Ferris, who served as consulting editor for this encyclopedia.
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Publisher :
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Education
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Author : J. C. Beaglehole
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 27,20 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Discoveries in geography
ISBN : 9780804703116
Author : John Stilwell Jenkins
Publisher : Arkose Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 2015-11-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781346348353
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Author : Smithsonian Institution
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 15,90 MB
Release : 1989
Category :
ISBN : 9783884721711
Author : John Charles Frémont
Publisher :
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Discoveries in geography
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