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UNINA9910451724103321 |
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Landscape, environment and technology in colonial and postcolonial Africa / / edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
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1-136-65765-7 |
0-203-80676-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (355 p.) |
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Routledge African studies ; ; 6 |
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BrownellEmily |
FalolaToyin |
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Environmental policy - Africa - History |
Land use - Environmental aspects - Africa - History |
Technology - Environmental aspects - Africa - History |
Economic development - Environmental aspects - Africa - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Maps; List of Tables; Introduction: Landscapes, Environments and Technology- Looking Out, Looking Back; Part I : Commodifying Nature and Constructing Landscapes; 1. Chimpanzees in the Colonial Maelstrom: Struggles over Knowledge, Race and Commodities in the Gabonese Primate Trade, c. 1850-1940; 2. Appraising Nature: Pastoralist Practice, Hunting Logics and Landscape Ideology in Colonial Southern Africa |
3. The Railway in Colonial East Africa: Colonial Iconography and African Appropriation of a New TechnologyPart II : Colonized Environments: Domestication, Medicine and Technology; 4. Science, Technology and the African Woman During (British) Colonization, 1916-1960: The Case of Bamenda Province; 5. Western Biomedicine and Colonialism: The Church Missionary Society Medical Mission in the Lake Victoria Basin; 6. The Price of "Modernity"? Western Railroad Technology and the 1918 Infl uenza Pandemic in Nigeria |
Part III : Cultivation and Conservation: Contested Theory and Practice in |
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Colonial Encounters7. Labor Costs and the Failed Support of Progressive Farmers in Colonial Malawi; 8. Cattle in British Southern Cameroons: Innovations in Grazing and Environmental Control 1916-1960; 9. The Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Environmental Conservation in Africa: The Case of the Abaluyia of Western Kenya; 10. Managerial Technologies, [I]legal Livelihoods and the Forgotten Consumers of Africa's Largest Freshwater Fishery |
Part IV : Postcolonial African Landscapes: Locating Africa in the Global Environmental Crisis11. Fictionalizing the Crisis of the Environment in Ben Okri's The Famished Road and Songs of Enchantment; 12. Health Transitions and Environmental Change in Contemporary Africa; 13. Growing a Global Green Economy: Getting Africa Prepared to Lend a Hand; Conclusion Environmental Crisis and Development; Contributors; Index |
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This volume seeks to identify and examine two categories of colonial and postcolonial knowledge production about Africa. These two broad categories are ""environment"" and ""landscape,"" and both are useful and problematic to explore. Discussions about African environments often concentrate on Africans as perpetrators of their own land, causing degradation from lack of knowledge and technology. ""Landscape"" defines the category of knowledge produced by foreigners about Africa, where Africans remain part of the scenery and yield no agency over their surroundings. To flesh out these categori |
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UNINA9910138854803321 |
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Autore |
Toutain Laurent |
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Local networks and the internet [[electronic resource] ] : from protocols to interconnection / / Laurent Toutain, Ana Minaburo |
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London, : ISTE |
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Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2011 |
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1-118-59982-9 |
1-118-59989-6 |
0-470-39418-8 |
1-299-18740-4 |
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[1st edition] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (705 p.) |
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Intranets (Computer networks) |
Internet |
Computer network protocols |
Electronic books. |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. (p. [679]- 680) and index. |
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Cover; Local Networks and the Internet; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1. Why a network?; 1.2. Network classification; 1.2.1. Function of distance; 1.2.2. Function of the topology; 1.3. Interconnection networks; 1.4. Examples of network utilization; 1.5. The Internet network; 1.5.1. History; 1.5.2. Functioning principle; 1.6. Structure of this book; Chapter 2. Standardization and Wiring; 2.1. The IEEE 802 committee; 2.1.1. Traffic types and constraints; 2.1.2. Constraints; 2.2. The standards; 2.3. IEEE 802.1 addressing; 2.3.1. MAC address |
2.3.2. EUI-642.4. Cabling rules; 2.4.1. Twisted pair wiring; 2.4.2. Optical fibers; Chapter 3. Ethernet and IEEE 802.3 Protocols; 3.1. History; 3.2. Physical level; 3.2.1. The supports; 3.2.2. The interfaces and connectors; 3.3. The fundamentals of CSMA/CD; 3.3.1. Protocol parameters; 3.3.2. BEB algorithm; 3.3.3. Limits of the CSMA/CD |
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algorithm; 3.3.4. The repeaters; 3.4. Frame format; 3.4.1. Physical level; 3.4.2. MAC level; 3.5. The 10BASE5 network; 3.5.1. The equipment; 3.5.2. Manchester coding; 3.6. Devices for the 10BASE2; 3.7. Twisted pair equipment; 3.7.1. The hubs; 3.7.2. The switches |
3.7.3. The 100BASE-T3.7.4. 1000BASE-T; 3.7.5. Auto-negotiation; 3.8. Fiber optics; 3.8.1. 10BASE-F; 3.8.2. 100BASE-FX; 3.8.3. 1000BASE-X; 3.8.4. Encoding; 3.8.5. Auto-negotiation; 3.8.6. Half-duplex mode and burst transmission; 3.9. Examples of Ethernet frames; 3.9.1. Signalovera 10BASE2 segment; 3.9.2. Frames; 3.10 Evolution of the Ethernet; Chapter 4. The LLC and SNAP Sublayers; 4.1. Definition; 4.2. LLC frames; 4.2.1. Frame formats; 4.2.2. Examples of protocols; 4.2.3. Window widths; 4.3. Example; 4.3.1. Type 1 LLC; 4.3.2. Type 2 LLC; 4.4. The SNAP layer; 4.4.1. Frame formats |
4.4.2. ExampleChapter 5. Interconnection by Bridges: The Spanning Tree Algorithm; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Transparent filtering bridges; 5.2.1. Simple case; 5.2.2. Complex case; 5.3. Spanning tree algorithm; 5.3.1. Example; 5.3.2. Information update; 5.3.3. State diagram; 5.3.4. Message format; 5.3.5. Example; Chapter 6. Internet; 6.1. The Internet players; 6.1.1. The Internet Society; 6.1.2. The IAB; 6.1.3. The IESG; 6.1.4. The IRSG; 6.1.5. Address and protocol parameter management; Chapter 7. IP Protocols; 7.1. Implementation of the TCP/IP protocols; 7.1.1. Terminal equipment |
7.1.2. Routers7.1.3. IP layer architecture; 7.2. Internet addressing; 7.2.1. Notation; 7.2.2. Special IPv4 addresses; 7.2.3. IPv4 class addressing; 7.2.4. Hierarchical addressing; 7.2.5. Special IPv4 prefixes and addresses; 7.2.6. Special IPv6 addresses and prefixes; 7.3. The IPv4 protocol (RFC 791, RFC 1122); 7.3.1. Format of IPv4 datagrams; 7.4. The ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) (RFC 792); 7.4.1. The message cannot reach its destination; 7.4.2. Expired TTL and the traceroute program; 7.4.3. Quench source; 7.4.4. Redirection indication; 7.4.5. Echo/the ping command |
7.4.6. Netmask request /reply to netmask (RFC 950) |
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"This title covers the most frequently used elements of the Internet and Intranet and their development. It details the latest developments in research and covers new themes such as IP6, MPLS, and IS-IS routing, as well as explaining the function of standardization committees such as IETF, IEEE, and UIT. The book is punctuated with numerous examples and applications which will help the reader to place protocols in their proper context"-- |
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UNISALENTO991002748889707536 |
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Autore |
Craig, Hardin |
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Two Coventry Corpus Christi plays: 1. The shearmen and taylors' pageant, re-edited from the ed. of Thomas Sharp, 1825 ; and 2. The weavers' pageant, re-edited from the ms. of Robert Croo, 1534 : With a plan of Coventry, and appendixes containing the chief records of the Coventry plays / by Hardin Craig |
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London : Oxford University Press, 1957 |
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[2. ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Misteri e miracoli - Inghilterra |
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