1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457082603321

Autore

Graham Ian <1923->

Titolo

The road to ruins [[electronic resource] /] / Ian Graham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, 2010

ISBN

1-283-63707-3

0-8263-4756-8

Descrizione fisica

538 p. : ill. (some col.)

Disciplina

930.1092

B

Soggetti

Mayas - Antiquities

Archaeologists - Great Britain

Archaeologists - Central America

Maya architecture

Inscriptions, Mayan

Electronic books.

Central America Antiquities

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 (p. 517-519) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Preclassic -- pt. 2. Early classic -- pt. 3. Late classic.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910706293403321

Autore

Hunt Charles B (Charles Butler), <1906-1997, >

Titolo

Pre-Wisconsin soil in the Rocky Mountain region, a progress report / / by Charles B. Hunt and V. P. Sokoloff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, , 1950

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (21 unnumbered pages) : illustrations, map

Collana

Geological Survey professional paper ; ; 221-G

Shorter contributions to general geology ; ; 1949

Soggetti

Geology, Stratigraphic - Pleistocene

Paleopedology - Rocky Mountains

Paleopedology - Bonneville, Lake

Paleopedology - Denver Basin

Geology, Stratigraphic

Paleopedology

Pleistocene Geologic Epoch

Rocky Mountains Region

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed September 29, 2014).

"A study of ancient soils in the Lake Bonneville and Denver Basins."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 118-121) and index.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791955003321

Autore

Spillman Deborah Shapple

Titolo

British Colonial Realism in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : Inalienable Objects, Contested Domains / / by Deborah Shapple Spillman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012

ISBN

1-280-68023-7

9786613657169

0-230-37801-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

Classificazione

SOC002010LIT004120LIT004010

Disciplina

820.9/12

820.9008

820.912

Soggetti

Literature, Modern-19th century

Literature-Philosophy

British literature

African literature

Ethnology

Culture-Study and teaching

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Literary Theory

British and Irish Literature

African Literature

Cultural Anthropology

Cultural Theory

Africa In literature

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

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reading Colonial Realism; 1 Taking Objects for Origins: Victorian Ethnography and Conrad's Heart of Darkness; 1 Ethnographic Doubling; 2 Of Trifles and Trade: Conrad's Ethnography of Colonialism; 3 Authenticity on the Market, an Afterword; 2 The Uncanny Object



Lessons of Mary Kingsley and Edward Blyden; 1 If Objects Could Speak, ""many a wild story the handles of your table knives could tell""; 2 Out of England: Objects and Others; 3 Not ""an object in the midst of other objects""

3 Realism and Realia in Colonial Southern Africa1 Collecting Cape Colony Life; 2 Specimens and Curiosities in Carey-Hobson's The Farm in the Karoo; 3 Outside the Realist Collection: Reckless Generosity and Other Notions of Expenditure; 4 Curses and Gifts in Anna Howarth's Karoo Novels; 4 Artful Tales and Indigenous Arts in Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm; 1 A Portrait of the Artist as a Colonial South African; 2 Schreiner's Grotesque Realism; 3 Histories and ""Bushman"" Painters; Coda; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

What role do objects play in realist narratives as they move between societies and their different systems of value as commodities, as charms, as gifts, as trophies, or as curses? This book explores how the struggle to represent objects in British colonial realism corresponded with historical struggles over the material world and its significance.