1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451431903321

Titolo

From slave trade to empire : Europe and the colonisation of Black Africa, 1780s-1880s / / edited by Olivier Petre-Grenouilleau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-76589-8

1-280-10395-7

0-203-32309-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in modern European history ; ; 8

Altri autori (Persone)

Petre-GrenouilleauOlivier

Disciplina

967/.023

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Africa, Sub-Saharan Colonization

Africa, Sub-Saharan History To 1884

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction: a missing link? The significance of the 1780s-1880s; Economic relations between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa: a global weighing-up; African and European relations in the last century of the transatlantic slave trade; Background to annexation: Anglo-African credit relations in the Bight of Biafra, 1700-1891; Economic relations between Europe and Black Africa c.1780-1938: a quantitative analysis; Southern Europe and Germany: about the 'imperialism of the poor' and the desire for power

An imperialism with no economic basis: the case of Italy, 1869-1939Continental drift: the independence of Brazil (1822), Portugal and Africa; The Portuguese Empire, 1825-90: ideology and economics; The Scramble for Africa: icon and idiom of modernity; France: from a civilising mission to the highest form of mercantilism?; Cultural systems of representation, economic interests and French penetration into Black Africa, 1780s-1880s; The place and role of the players in colonial expansion: France and east Africa in the nineteenth century

Commercial presence, colonial penetration: Marseille traders in west Africa in the nineteenth centuryAfterword: towards a cosmopolitan



history of imperialism; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Much has been written about the origins of the great push which led Europe to colonise sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the nineteenth century. This book provides a new perspective on this controversial subject by focussing on Europe and a range of empire-building states: Germany, France, Italy and Portugal. The essays in this volume consider economic themes in addition to the political and cultural aspects of the transition from commerce to colonies.

2.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00045533

Autore

Lazzaro, Fortunato

Titolo

Le prove extravaganti : il notorio, l'ispezione, l'esperimento, l'ordine di esibizione alla parte o al terzo, la richiesta di informazioni alla p. a. / Fortunato Lazzaro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : Giuffrè, c2001

ISBN

88-14-09168-4

Descrizione fisica

XVIII, 218 p. ; 24 cm.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484418603321

Titolo

Spatial Information Theory : 8th International Conference, COSIT 2007, Melbourne, Australia, September 19-23, 2007, Proceedings / / edited by Stephan Winter, Matt Duckham, Lars Kulik, Ben Kuipers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2007

ISBN

3-540-74788-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 455 p.)

Collana

Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI, , 2946-1642 ; ; 4736

Disciplina

910.285

Soggetti

Artificial intelligence - Data processing

Artificial intelligence

Computer science

Database management

Physical geography

Data Science

Artificial Intelligence

Theory of Computation

Database Management

Models of Computation

Physical Geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cultural Studies -- Progress on Yindjibarndi Ethnophysiography -- Study of Cultural Impacts on Location Judgments in Eastern China -- Cross-Cultural Similarities in Topological Reasoning -- Thalassographeïn: Representing Maritime Spaces in Ancient Greece -- Semantics -- From Top-Level to Domain Ontologies: Ecosystem Classifications as a Case Study -- Semantic Categories Underlying the Meaning of ‘Place’ -- Spatial Semantics in Difference Spaces -- Similarity -- Evaluation of a Semantic Similarity Measure for Natural Language Spatial Relations -- Affordance-Based Similarity Measurement for Entity Types -- An Image-Schematic Account of



Spatial Categories -- Mapping and Representation -- Specifying Essential Features of Street Networks -- Spatial Information Extraction for Cognitive Mapping with a Mobile Robot -- Spatial Mapping and Map Exploitation: A Bio-inspired Engineering Perspective -- Scale-Dependent Simplification of 3D Building Models Based on Cell Decomposition and Primitive Instancing -- Perception and Cognition -- Degradation in Spatial Knowledge Acquisition When Using Automatic Navigation Systems -- Stories as Route Descriptions -- Three Sampling Methods for Visibility Measures of Landscape Perception -- Reasoning and Algorithms -- Reasoning on Spatial Semantic Integrity Constraints -- Spatial Reasoning with a Hole -- Geospatial Cluster Tessellation Through the Complete Order-k Voronoi Diagrams -- Drawing a Figure in a Two-Dimensional Plane for a Qualitative Representation -- Navigation and Landmarks -- Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Turn Direction Concepts -- A Uniform Handling of Different Landmark Types in Route Directions -- Effects of Geometry, Landmarks and Orientation Strategies in the ‘Drop-Off’ Orientation Task -- Uncertainty and Imperfection -- Data Quality Ontology: AnOntology for Imperfect Knowledge -- Triangulation of Gradient Polygons: A Spatial Data Model for Categorical Fields -- Relations in Mathematical Morphology with Applications to Graphs and Rough Sets.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2007, held in Melbourne, Australia in September 2007. The 27 revised full papers were carefully reviewed from 102 submissions, and they are organized in topical sections on cultural studies, semantics, similarity, mapping and representation, perception and cognition, reasoning and algorithms, navigation and landmarks, as well as uncertainty and imperfection.