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UNINA9910461821203321 |
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South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858-1947 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee |
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London ; ; New York, : Continuum International Publishing, 2012 |
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1-283-38049-8 |
9786613380494 |
1-4411-2577-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (202 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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AhmedRehana |
MukherjeeSumita |
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South Asians - Great Britain - Economic conditions |
South Asians - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
South Asians - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
South Asians - Great Britain - Social conditions |
Electronic books. |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. The book focuses on a tumultuous period of resistance against the backdrop of high imperialism under the reign of Victoria, through the turmoil of two World Wars and Partition in 1947. As well as addressing resistances against empire and hierarchies of race, the authors investigate how South Asians in Britain mobilized |
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UNINA9910462724703321 |
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High resolution optical satellite imagery / / Ian Dowman [and three others] |
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Caithness, Scotland : , : Whittles Publishing, , 2012 |
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©2012 |
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1-62870-077-7 |
1-84995-106-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Remote-sensing images |
Satellite geodesy |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index at the end of each chapters. |
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""Title page ""; ""Table of contents""; ""Preface ""; ""The authors ""; ""List of abbreviations ""; ""1 Satellite imaging technology ""; ""2 History of optical sensors in space ""; ""3 Principles of high resolution optical sensors""; ""4 Sensors with a GSD of greater than 1m up to 16m ""; ""5 Sensors with a GSD of 1m or less ""; ""6 Calibration, sensor models and orientation ""; ""7 Processing and products ""; ""8 Conclusions and future developments ""; ""Index "" |
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UNINA9910781678503321 |
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Titolo |
History of technology . Volume twenty-five, 2004 / / edited by Ian Inkster |
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[London] : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2004 |
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1-350-01903-8 |
1-4411-9616-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (238 p.) |
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Contents; Editorial; The Contributors; Notes for Contributors; An Early Tower Windmill? The Turweston ''Post mill'' Reconsidered; Prefabricating Stories: Innovation in Systems Technology after the Second World War; Impacts of Technology Reassessed: A Retrospective Analysis of Computing Technology; Special Issue: The Global History of the Steam Engine; Introduction. Indisputable Features and Nebulous Contexts: The Steam Engine as a Global Inquisition |
Some Reflections on the Use of ''Styles of Scientific Thinking'' to Disaggregate and Sharpen Comparisons Between China and Europe from Sòng to Mid-Qing Times (960-1850 CE)Comments on Mark Elvin; Inside Newcomen''s Fire Engine, or: The Scientific Revolution and the Rise of the Modern World; The Emergence of Science-based Technology. Comments on Floris Cohen''s Paper; The Formation of Knowledge Concerning Atmospheric Pressure and Steam Power in Europe from Aleotti (1589) to Papin (1690); Why the Chinese Failed to Develop a Steam Engine; Response to Kent Deng; Response to Kent Deng |
The Development of the Steam Engine from Watt to StephensonThe Resources of Decisive Technological Change: Reflections on Richard Hills; Steam Power and Networks in China, 1860-98: The Historical Issues; A Comment on Sivin and Zhang; Contents of Former Volumes |
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"The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual |
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collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - showing how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
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