1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000132530403321

Autore

Curioni, Giovanni <1831-1887>

Titolo

La resistenza dei materiali e stabilità delle costruzioni : lavoro ad uso degl'ingegneri, degli architetti, deiperiti in costruzione e di quanti si trovano applicati alla direzione ed alla sorveglianza di costruzioni civili, stradali ed idrauliche / per Curioni Giovanni

Pubbl/distr/stampa

s.l. : s.e., s.d.

Descrizione fisica

v. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

620.112

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Esempl. senza front. Notizie ricav. da altro vol.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910483572403321

Titolo

Legacies of David Cranz's 'Historie von Grönland' (1765) / / edited by Felicity Jensz, Christina Petterson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030639983

3030639983

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 pages)

Collana

Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World, , 2634-5846

Disciplina

284.609

Soggetti

World history

Religion - History

Books - History

World History, Global and Transnational History

History of Religion

History of the Book

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: More than the sum of its parts: David Cranz’s Historie von Grönland- Felicity Jensz and Christina Petterson -- Part I: Religious context and reception -- 2. Moravians in Greenland: Barren Shores and Fruitful Missions- Christina Petterson -- 3. David Cranz’ History of Greenland and Physico-Theology- Kathrine Kjærgaard -- Part II: English-language Reception and Print Culture -- 4. “a collection of absurdities”: Reception of two English versions of Cranz’s book in Britain, 1767 & 1820- Felicity Jensz -- 5. Unbecoming Heretics: Knowledge, Missionary Stories, and the Legacy of David Cranz in North America- Jared Burkholder -- Part III: Scientific Importance and Influence -- 6. Circulation of Arctic Knowledge among German Protestants in the 18th century – The example of David Cranz´s Historie von Grönland- Joanna Kodzik -- 7. Early Meteorological Observations in Greenland: The Contributions of David Cranz, Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein and Christopher Brasen- Gaston Demarée and Astrid Elisabeth Ogilvie -- 8. Greenland in Hungary: Inuit Culture and the Emergence of the Science of Anthropology in Late Eighteenth – Early Nineteenth Century Hungary- Ildikó SzKristof -- 9. The Soul of the Arctic. David Cranz’s account of the religion or superstitions of the Greenlanders and its impact on 19th Century descriptions of religion in Greenland- Åmund Norum Resløkken -- Part IV: Cranz and the Medium of Missions -- 10. The “United Brethren” and Johann Gerhard König—Cranz’s Historie von Grönland as an avenue to the natural history of India- Thomas Ruhland -- 11. Cranz’s Greenland as a Steeping Stone to Labrador: Tracing the Profile of the Inuit- Thea Olsthoorn -- Part V: The Post-colonial Cranz -- 12. Cranz Revisited: Greenland in Greenland- Claire McLiskey -- 13. Appendix: David Cranz’s Lebenslauf- Paul Peucker.

Sommario/riassunto

This book brings together interdisciplinary scholars from history, theology, folklore, ethnology and meteorology to examine how David Cranz’s Historie von Grönland (1765) resonated in various disciplines, periods and countries. Collectively the contributors demonstrate the reach of the book beyond its initial purpose as a record of missionary work, and into secular and political fields beyond Greenland and Germany. The chapters also reveal how the book contributed to broader discussions and conceptualizations of Greenland as part of the Atlantic world. The interdisciplinary scope of the volume allows for a layered reading of Cranz’s book that demonstrates how different meanings could be drawn from the book in different contexts and how the book resonated throughout time and space. It also makes the broader argument that the construction of the Artic in the eighteenth century broadened our understanding of the Atlantic.