Author : Walter Millar Thorburn
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 11,51 MB
Release : 1890
Category :
ISBN :
Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher :
Page : 1306 pages
File Size : 29,1 MB
Release : 1967
Category : English imprints
ISBN :
Author : Jens Jakob Asmussen Worsaae
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 22,26 MB
Release : 1852
Category : History
ISBN :
"My aim in it has been to convey a juster and less prejudiced notion than prevails at present respecting the Danish and Norwegian conquests." -Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae, An Account of the Danes and the Norwegians (1852) An Account of the Danes and the Norwegians in England, Scotland and Ireland (1852) by Jens Warsaae, was based on his research into the Scandinavian invasions of the European mainland. During the 10th century, the European mainland was invaded by Norse settlers from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, who intermarried with native tribes and came to be known as "Normans." While their influence on the history of France was significant, it was even stronger in England, which the Normans conquered in the 11th century. Warsaae's book, commissioned by the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, was his attempt to revise the impressions that the 19th century British had of the effects of the Norman conquests on England. This replica of the original text is accompanied by numerous woodcuts.
Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1910634433
Daniel Miller spent 18 months undertaking an ethnographic study with the residents of an English village, tracking their use of the different social media platforms. Following his study, he argues that a focus on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram does little to explain what we post on social media. Instead, the key to understanding how people in an English village use social media is to appreciate just how ‘English’ their usage has become. He introduces the ‘Goldilocks Strategy’: how villagers use social media to calibrate precise levels of interaction ensuring that each relationship is neither too cold nor too hot, but ‘just right’.
Author : Harriet Martineau
Publisher :
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Authors, English
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Author : Ulrich Steger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 17,26 MB
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0470858001
Based on a wealth of empirical studies and case studies, this book explains the strategic choices companies have to make in order to remain consistent. In each chapter, real-life examples illuminate the key message managers should take away from the book. It offers a purely managerial viewpoint focused on what managers can do to manage the business enviroment in any situation.
Author : Robin Bunton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 16,23 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134818823
Promotion of health has become a central feature of health policy at local, national and international levels, forming part of global health initiatives such as those endorsed by the World Health Organisation. The issues examined in The Sociology of Health Promotion include sociology of risk, the body, consumption, processes of surveillance and normalisation and considerations relating to race and gender in the implementation of health programmes. It will be invaluable reading for students, health promoters, public health doctors and academics.
Author : Shane McCorristine
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,74 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1787352455
Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships.
Author : William Henry Foote
Publisher :
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 1846
Category : North Carolina
ISBN :
Author : Gabriele Balbi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 3110740281
As media environments and communication practices evolve over time, so do theoretical concepts. This book analyzes some of the most well-known and fiercely discussed concepts of the digital age from a historical perspective, showing how many of them have pre-digital roots and how they have changed and still are constantly changing in the digital era. Written by leading authors in media and communication studies, the chapters historicize 16 concepts that have become central in the digital media literature, focusing on three main areas. The first part, Technologies and Connections, historicises concepts like network, media convergence, multimedia, interactivity and artificial intelligence. The second one is related to Agency and Politics and explores global governance, datafication, fake news, echo chambers, digital media activism. The last one, Users and Practices, is finally devoted to telepresence, digital loneliness, amateurism, user generated content, fandom and authenticity. The book aims to shed light on how concepts emerge and are co-shaped, circulated, used and reappropriated in different contexts. It argues for the need for a conceptual media and communication history that will reveal new developments without concealing continuities and it demonstrates how the analogue/digital dichotomy is often a misleading one.
