1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996248057903316

Autore

Singer Charles

Titolo

A History of Technology   Volume III: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution, c.1500-c.1750

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford UP

Altri autori (Persone)

SingerCharles <1876-1960>

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

PART I. PRIMARY PRODUCTION -- 1. FOOD AND DRINK R. J. FORBES -- 2. METALLURGY AND ASSAYING / CYRIL STANLEY SMITH AND R. J. FORBESI -- 3. COAL MINING AND UTILIZATION  / J. U. NEF  -- 4. WINDMILLS / REX WAILES -- PART II. MANUFACTURE -- 5. TRADESMEN'S TOOLS c 1500-1850 / R. A. SALAMAN -- A NOTE ON THE WHEELWRIGHT'S TRADE -- A NOTE ON COOPERING -- 6. FARM-TOOLS, VEHICLES, AND HARNESS 1500-1900 / OLGA BEAUMONT (I, III) AND J. GERAINT JENKINS (II) -- 7. SPINNING AND WEAVING / R. PATTERSON -- A NOTE ON KNITTING AND KNITTED FABRICS / JAMES NORBURY  -- 8. FIGURED FABRICS / J. F. FLANAGAN -- 9. GLASS / R. J. CHARLESTON (I-V) AND L. M. ANGUS-BUTTERWORTH (VI-IX) -- PART III. MATERIAL CIVILIZATION -- 10. BUILDING CONSTRUCTION / MARTIN S. BRIGGS  -- 11. TOWN-PLANNING FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD TO THE RENAISSANCE / MARTIN S. BRIGGS  -- 12. LAND DRAINAGE AND RECLAMATION / L. E. HARRIS  -- 13. MACHINES AND MECHANISMS / A. P. USHER -- 14. MILITARY TECHNOLOGY / A. R. HALL -- 15. PRINTING / MICHAEL CLAPHAM -- A NOTE ON TECHNICAL ADVANCES IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER BEFORE THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- PART IV. COMMUNICATIONS -- 16. BRIDGES / S. B. HAMILTON  -- 17. CANALS AND RIVER NAVIGATIONS BEFORE 1750  / A. W. SKEMPTON -- 18. SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING / G. P. B. NAISH -- 19. CARTOGRAPHY, SURVEY, AND NAVIGATION TO 1400 (CHARLES SINGER (I-VI), DEREK J. PRICE (VII), AND E. G. R. TAYLOR (VIII-XI) -- 20. CARTOGRAPHY, SURVEY, AND NAVIGATION 1400-1750 / E. G. R. TAYLOR -- PART V.



APPROACH TO SCIENCE -- 21. THE CALENDAR / SIR HAROLD SPENCER JONES  -- 22. PRECISION INSTRUMENTS: TO 1500 / DEREK J. PRICE -- 23. THE MANUFACTURE OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS FROM c 1500 TO c 1700 / DEREK J. PRICE -- 24. MECHANICAL TIMEKEEPERS / H. ALAN LLOYD  -- 25. INVENTION IN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES / F. W. GIBBS  -- EPILOGUE -- THE RISE OF THE WEST / A. R. HALL

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783953203321

Autore

Moalla Asma <1950-, >

Titolo

The regency of Tunis and the Ottoman Porte, 1777-1814 : army and government of a North-African Ottoman eyalet at the end of the eighteenth century / / Asma Moalla

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-42983-5

1-134-42984-3

1-280-17876-0

9786610178766

0-203-98722-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Collana

Islamic Studies Series

Classificazione

15.80

Disciplina

961.103

Soggetti

History, Modern - Africa, North - 18th century

Tunisia History 18th century

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

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; FOR MY PARENTS; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION; SOURCES AND HISTORIOGRAPHY ON OTTOMAN TUNISIA; Part 1 PROLOGUE The Tunisian eyålet from the Ottoman conquest until the end of the eighteenth century (1574-1777); Part 2 THE POLICIES AND GOVERNMENT OF ÓAMMÁDA PASHA (1777-1814); CONCLUSION; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This study of the Tunisian army and government in the time of the pasha-bey Hammûda the Husaynid (1777--1814) stresses the deeply Ottoman character of these institutions and the political and



administrative impact of the jurisdictional authority of the Ottoman Porte on the province in general. This work thus initiates a systematic revision of a major thesis that has prevailed in the body of contemporary research on the Tunisian Regency. Asma Moalla shows that the Regency's administrative and political evolution from the end of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth was not a proces