Burke & Wills : the scientific legacy of the Victorian Exploring Expedition / / edited by E.B. Joyce and D.A. McCann

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910960718603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Collingwood, Vic. : , : CSIRO Pub.; Melbourne : , : Published in association with the State Library of Victoria, , 2011
• ISBN: 9786613321220; 9780643103344; 0643103341; 9781283321228; 128332122X; 9780643103337; 0643103333
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): JoyceE. B <1934-> (Edmund Bernard); McCannDouglas Andrew <1948->
• Disciplina: 994.03
• Soggetti: Desert animals - Australia; Desert ecology - Australia; Aboriginal Australians; Natural history - Australia; Natural history - Australia - History; Ethnology - Australia - History; Science - Australia - History; Scientific expeditions - Australia; Literature and stories - Non fiction - Scientific and professional; Settlement and contacts - Explorers; Australia Description and travel; Australia Discovery and exploration
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "The Royal Society of Victoria."; Reprinted with corrections 2012.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Foreword Peter Thorne; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Dave Phoenix; Chapter 1 Conflicting priorities: exploration, science, politics and personal ambition; Chapter 2 William John Wills as scientist; Chapter 3 Geology, soils and landscapes of the expedition route; Chapter 4 The botanical legacy of Ferdinand Mueller and Hermann Beckler; Chapter 5 Zoology: an encounter with the fauna of Australia's unique arid environment; Introduction; Mammals; Birds; Reptiles; Fishes; Insects and other invertebrates; Chapter 6 Hydrologic insights of inland Australia; Chapter 7 Meteorology: a remarkable set of early inland observations; Chapter 8 The space between: Aboriginal people, the Victorian Exploring Expedition and the relief parties; Chapter 9 Conclusion: rewriting history; Appendixes; Timeline of principal events; Expedition personnel; Biographies of the principal scientists; Instructions to the leader and scientific officers; The art of the Victorian Exploring Expedition; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Reveals for the first time the true extent and limits of the scientific achievements of the Burke and Wills Expedition.

Forming American Politics : Ideals, Interests, and Institutions in Colonial New York and Pennsylvania / / Alan Tully

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910524862903321
• Autore: Tully Alan <1943->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Johns Hopkins University Press
• ISBN: 0-8018-4831-8; 1-4214-3599-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resournce (xiii, 566 pages :) : maps)
• Soggetti: Political culture - Pennsylvania - History; Political culture - New York (State) - History; History; Electronic books.; New York (State) History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Pennsylvania History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Pennsylvania Politics and government To 1775; New York (State) Politics and government To 1775
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License; Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.; Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1994
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-552) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. The Contours of Provincial Politics. 1. Seventeenth-Century Beginnings. 2. The Proving of Popular Power. 3. The Pursuit of Popular Rights. 4. The Organization of Popular Politics. 5. The Electorate and Popular Politics -- pt. II. Articulating Early American Political Culture. 6. Factional Identity and Political Coherence in New York. 7. Understanding Quaker Pennsylvania. 8. Some Comparative Dimensions of Political Structure and Behavior. 9. Oligarchical Politics. 10. The Legitimation of Partisan Politics.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this path breaking book Alan Tully offers an unprecedented comparative study of colonial political life and a rethinking of the foundations of American political culture. Tully chooses for his comparison the two colonies that arguably had the most profound impact on American political history - New York and Pennsylvania, the rich and varied colonies at the geographical and ideological center of British colonial America. Fundamental to the book is Tully's argument that out of Anglo-American influences and the cumulative character of each colonial experience, New York and Pennsylvania developed their own distinctive but complementary characteristics. In making this case Tully enters - from a new perspective - the prominent argument between the "classical republican" and "liberal" views of early American public thought. He contends that the radical Whig element of classical republicanism was far less influential than historians have believed and that the political experience of New York and Pennsylvania led to their role as innovators of liberal political concepts and discourse. In a conclusion that pursues his insights into the revolutionary and early republican years, Tully underlines a paradox in American political development: not only were the path breaking liberal politicians of New York and Pennsylvania the least inclined towards revolutionary fervor, but their political language and concepts - integral to an emerging liberal democratic order - were rooted in oligarchical political practice. "A momentous contribution to the burgeoning literature on the middle Atlantic region, and to the vexed question of whether it constitutes a coherent cultural configuration. Tully argues persuasively that it does, and his arguments will have to be reckoned with like few that have gone before, even as he develops an array of differences between the two colonies more subtle and penetrating than any of his predecessors has ever put forth." - Michael Zuckerman, University of Pennsylvania.