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Fascist Hybridities [[electronic resource] ] : Representations of Racial Mixing and Diaspora Cultures under Mussolini / / by Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto
| Fascist Hybridities [[electronic resource] ] : Representations of Racial Mixing and Diaspora Cultures under Mussolini / / by Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto |
| Autore | Caponetto Rosetta Giuliani |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XI, 199 p.) |
| Disciplina | 850.9/358 |
| Collana | Italian and Italian American Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Europe-History
World War, 1939-1945 Italy-History Africa-History Africa, North-History Imperialism European History History of World War II and the Holocaust History of Italy African History History of North Africa Imperialism and Colonialism |
| ISBN | 1-137-48186-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795917303321 |
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| New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Fascist Hybridities : Representations of Racial Mixing and Diaspora Cultures under Mussolini / / by Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto
| Fascist Hybridities : Representations of Racial Mixing and Diaspora Cultures under Mussolini / / by Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto |
| Autore | Caponetto Rosetta Giuliani |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XI, 199 p.) |
| Disciplina | 850.9/358 |
| Collana | Italian and Italian American Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Europe-History
World War, 1939-1945 Italy-History Africa-History Africa, North-History Imperialism European History History of World War II and the Holocaust History of Italy African History History of North Africa Imperialism and Colonialism |
| ISBN | 1-137-48186-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910806997003321 |
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Caponetto Rosetta Giuliani
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| New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Goods from the East, 1600–1800 [[electronic resource] ] : Trading Eurasia / / edited by Maxine Berg, Felicia Gottmann, Hanna Hodacs, Chris Nierstrasz
| Goods from the East, 1600–1800 [[electronic resource] ] : Trading Eurasia / / edited by Maxine Berg, Felicia Gottmann, Hanna Hodacs, Chris Nierstrasz |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XVI, 369 p.) |
| Disciplina | 382.09504 |
| Collana | Europe's Asian Centuries |
| Soggetto topico |
Economic history
Asia-History Europe-History History, Modern Economic History Asian History European History Modern History |
| ISBN | 1-137-40394-2 |
| Classificazione | HIS003000HIS010000HIS037040HIS037050 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. General Introduction and Section Introduction: Europe's Trade with Asia / Maxine Berg -- 2. Understanding Eurasian Trade in the Era of the Trading Companies / Jan de Vries -- Section Introduction: Objects of Encounter and Transfers of Knowledge / Maxine Berg -- 3. Spirited Transactions : The Morals and Materialities of Trade Contacts between the Dutch, the British, and the Malays (1596-1619) / Romain Bertrand -- 4. The Indigo Trade of the English East India Company in the Seventeenth Century : Challenges and Opportunities / Ghulam Nadri -- 5. The Orient and the dawn of Western industrialization : Armenian calico printers from Constantinople in Marseilles (1669-1686) / Olivier Raveux -- 6. Europe-China-Europe : The Transmission of the Craft of Painted Enamel in the 17th and 18th Centuries / Xiaodong Xu -- 7. Patterns of Design in Qing-China and Britain during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century / Dagmar Scha;fer -- 8. Indian Weavers and East India Company Markets : Surat and Dhaka in the 1790s / Maxine Berg -- Section Introduction: Private Trade and Networks / Chris Nierstrasz -- 9. The Eurasian Diamond Trade in the Eighteenth Century : a Balanced Model of Complementary Markets / Tijl Vanneste -- 10. British Private Trade Networks and Metropolitan Connections in the Eighteenth Century / Timothy Davies -- 11. Worlds Apart? : Merchants, Mariners, and the Organization of the Private Trade in Chinese Export Wares in Eighteenth-Century Europe / Meike Fellinger -- 12. The Dutch and the English East India Company's Trade in Indian Textiles in the Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Century : A Comparative View / Om Prakash -- Section Introduction: Consuming East and West / Felicia Gottmann -- 13. Becoming Consumers : Asiatic Goods in Migrant and Native-born Middling Households in 18th Century Amsterdam / Anne McCants -- 14. "Exotic" Goods? : Far-Eastern Commodities for the French Market in India in the Eighteenth Century / Kevin Le Doudic -- 15. Selling India and China in the Eighteenth-Century Paris / Natacha Coquery -- 16. Textile Furies : the French State and the Retail and Consumption of Asian Cottons, 1686-1759 / Felicia Gottmann -- Section Introduction: A Taste for Tea / Hanna Hodacs -- 17. The Popularisation of Tea : East India Companies, Private Traders, Smugglers and the Consumption of Tea in Western Europe, 1700-1760 / Chris Nierstraz -- 18. Chests, Tubs, and Lots of Tea : the European Market for Chinese Tea and the Swedish East India Company, c. 1730-1760 / Hanna Hodacs and Leos Müller -- 19. A North Europe World of Tea : Scotland & the Tea Trade, ca. 1690-ca.1790 / Andrew Mackillop -- 20. Arriving to a Set Table : The Integration of Hot Drinks in the Urban Consumer Culture of the Eighteenth-Century Southern Low Countries / Bruno Blondé and Wouter Ryckbosch -- 21. For the Home and the Body : Dutch and Indian Ways of Early Modern Consumption / Jos Gommans. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795917903321 |
| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Goods from the East, 1600–1800 : Trading Eurasia / / edited by Maxine Berg, Felicia Gottmann, Hanna Hodacs, Chris Nierstrasz
| Goods from the East, 1600–1800 : Trading Eurasia / / edited by Maxine Berg, Felicia Gottmann, Hanna Hodacs, Chris Nierstrasz |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XVI, 369 p.) |
| Disciplina | 382.09504 |
| Collana | Europe's Asian Centuries |
| Soggetto topico |
Economic history
Asia-History Europe-History History, Modern Economic History Asian History European History Modern History |
| ISBN | 1-137-40394-2 |
| Classificazione | HIS003000HIS010000HIS037040HIS037050 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. General Introduction and Section Introduction: Europe's Trade with Asia / Maxine Berg -- 2. Understanding Eurasian Trade in the Era of the Trading Companies / Jan de Vries -- Section Introduction: Objects of Encounter and Transfers of Knowledge / Maxine Berg -- 3. Spirited Transactions : The Morals and Materialities of Trade Contacts between the Dutch, the British, and the Malays (1596-1619) / Romain Bertrand -- 4. The Indigo Trade of the English East India Company in the Seventeenth Century : Challenges and Opportunities / Ghulam Nadri -- 5. The Orient and the dawn of Western industrialization : Armenian calico printers from Constantinople in Marseilles (1669-1686) / Olivier Raveux -- 6. Europe-China-Europe : The Transmission of the Craft of Painted Enamel in the 17th and 18th Centuries / Xiaodong Xu -- 7. Patterns of Design in Qing-China and Britain during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century / Dagmar Scha;fer -- 8. Indian Weavers and East India Company Markets : Surat and Dhaka in the 1790s / Maxine Berg -- Section Introduction: Private Trade and Networks / Chris Nierstrasz -- 9. The Eurasian Diamond Trade in the Eighteenth Century : a Balanced Model of Complementary Markets / Tijl Vanneste -- 10. British Private Trade Networks and Metropolitan Connections in the Eighteenth Century / Timothy Davies -- 11. Worlds Apart? : Merchants, Mariners, and the Organization of the Private Trade in Chinese Export Wares in Eighteenth-Century Europe / Meike Fellinger -- 12. The Dutch and the English East India Company's Trade in Indian Textiles in the Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Century : A Comparative View / Om Prakash -- Section Introduction: Consuming East and West / Felicia Gottmann -- 13. Becoming Consumers : Asiatic Goods in Migrant and Native-born Middling Households in 18th Century Amsterdam / Anne McCants -- 14. "Exotic" Goods? : Far-Eastern Commodities for the French Market in India in the Eighteenth Century / Kevin Le Doudic -- 15. Selling India and China in the Eighteenth-Century Paris / Natacha Coquery -- 16. Textile Furies : the French State and the Retail and Consumption of Asian Cottons, 1686-1759 / Felicia Gottmann -- Section Introduction: A Taste for Tea / Hanna Hodacs -- 17. The Popularisation of Tea : East India Companies, Private Traders, Smugglers and the Consumption of Tea in Western Europe, 1700-1760 / Chris Nierstraz -- 18. Chests, Tubs, and Lots of Tea : the European Market for Chinese Tea and the Swedish East India Company, c. 1730-1760 / Hanna Hodacs and Leos Müller -- 19. A North Europe World of Tea : Scotland & the Tea Trade, ca. 1690-ca.1790 / Andrew Mackillop -- 20. Arriving to a Set Table : The Integration of Hot Drinks in the Urban Consumer Culture of the Eighteenth-Century Southern Low Countries / Bruno Blondé and Wouter Ryckbosch -- 21. For the Home and the Body : Dutch and Indian Ways of Early Modern Consumption / Jos Gommans. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828055403321 |
| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Living Fanon [[electronic resource] ] : Global Perspectives / / edited by Nigel C. Gibson
| Living Fanon [[electronic resource] ] : Global Perspectives / / edited by Nigel C. Gibson |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (VII, 257 p.) |
| Disciplina | 961 |
| Collana | Contemporary Black History |
| Soggetto topico |
Africa-History
America-History Europe-History History, Modern Social history Ethnicity African History History of the Americas European History Modern History Social History Ethnicity Studies |
| ISBN | 0-230-11999-9 |
| Classificazione | HIS001030HIS013000HIS041000HIS037070HIS031000SOC031000PSY050000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: -- Living Fanon -- Nigel C. Gibson * Requiem on a Life Well Lived: In Memory of Fanon -- Lewis R. Gordon * Frantz Fanon and Abane Ramdane: Brief Encounter in the Algerian Revolution -- Bela;id Abane * Fanon and the Possibility of Postcolonial Critical Imagination -- Ato Sekyi-Out * Notes from the underground, Fanon, Africa and the poetics of the Real -- Miguel Mellino * Reflections on Fanon and Petrification -- Douglas Ficek * The Great White Error and the Great Black Mirage: Frantz Fanon's Critical Philosophy of Race -- Robert Bernasconi * The times and spaces of (de-)colonization: Fanon's counter-colonialism, then and now -- Stefan Kipfer * Rupture and New Beginning in Fanon:Elements for a Genealogy of Postcolonial Critique -- Matthieu Renault * Fanon and the Biopolitics of Torture: Contextualizing Psychological Practices as Tools of War -- Lou Turner * Fanon, 50 years later: Resisting the Air of Our Present Time -- Alice Cherki * Fanon and the Women of the Colonies Against the White Man's Burden -- Seloua Luste Boulbina * The Emergence of the Subject in Politics: Some Reflections on the Algerian Situation and on the Work of Frantz Fanon -- Karima Lazali * Wretchedness -- Grant Farred * Fanon and the Land Question in (Post) Apartheid South Africa -- Mabogo Percy More * The Nation and its Politics: Fanon, emancipatory nationalism and political sequences -- Michael Neocosmos * Of Force, Power, and Will: Rousseau and Fanon on Democratic Legitimacy -- Jane Anna Gordon * Fanon and Political Will -- Peter Hallward * Fidelity to Fanon -- Richard Pithouse. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798126003321 |
| New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Living Fanon : Global Perspectives / / edited by Nigel C. Gibson
| Living Fanon : Global Perspectives / / edited by Nigel C. Gibson |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (VII, 257 p.) |
| Disciplina | 961 |
| Collana | Contemporary Black History |
| Soggetto topico |
Africa-History
America-History Europe-History History, Modern Social history Ethnicity African History History of the Americas European History Modern History Social History Ethnicity Studies |
| ISBN | 0-230-11999-9 |
| Classificazione | HIS001030HIS013000HIS041000HIS037070HIS031000SOC031000PSY050000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: -- Living Fanon -- Nigel C. Gibson * Requiem on a Life Well Lived: In Memory of Fanon -- Lewis R. Gordon * Frantz Fanon and Abane Ramdane: Brief Encounter in the Algerian Revolution -- Bela;id Abane * Fanon and the Possibility of Postcolonial Critical Imagination -- Ato Sekyi-Out * Notes from the underground, Fanon, Africa and the poetics of the Real -- Miguel Mellino * Reflections on Fanon and Petrification -- Douglas Ficek * The Great White Error and the Great Black Mirage: Frantz Fanon's Critical Philosophy of Race -- Robert Bernasconi * The times and spaces of (de-)colonization: Fanon's counter-colonialism, then and now -- Stefan Kipfer * Rupture and New Beginning in Fanon:Elements for a Genealogy of Postcolonial Critique -- Matthieu Renault * Fanon and the Biopolitics of Torture: Contextualizing Psychological Practices as Tools of War -- Lou Turner * Fanon, 50 years later: Resisting the Air of Our Present Time -- Alice Cherki * Fanon and the Women of the Colonies Against the White Man's Burden -- Seloua Luste Boulbina * The Emergence of the Subject in Politics: Some Reflections on the Algerian Situation and on the Work of Frantz Fanon -- Karima Lazali * Wretchedness -- Grant Farred * Fanon and the Land Question in (Post) Apartheid South Africa -- Mabogo Percy More * The Nation and its Politics: Fanon, emancipatory nationalism and political sequences -- Michael Neocosmos * Of Force, Power, and Will: Rousseau and Fanon on Democratic Legitimacy -- Jane Anna Gordon * Fanon and Political Will -- Peter Hallward * Fidelity to Fanon -- Richard Pithouse. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817397503321 |
| New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Missionary Masculinity, 1870–1930 [[electronic resource] ] : The Norwegian Missionaries in South-East Africa / / by Kristin Fjelde Tjelle
| Missionary Masculinity, 1870–1930 [[electronic resource] ] : The Norwegian Missionaries in South-East Africa / / by Kristin Fjelde Tjelle |
| Autore | Tjelle Kristin Fjelde |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (341 p.) |
| Disciplina | 266.02348100811 |
| Collana | Genders and Sexualities in History |
| Soggetto topico |
Africa-History
Europe-History History, Modern Civilization-History Social history African History European History Modern History Cultural History Social History |
| ISBN |
1-349-46346-9
1-137-33636-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""1 Introduction: Missionaries and Masculinities""; ""The case and the context : Norwegian missionaries in south-east Africa ""; ""Missions and gender ""; ""Masculinities and power ""; ""Masculinities and subjectivity ""; ""Christian masculinity and modernity ""
""Sources """"Mission magazines ""; ""Mission literature ""; ""Unprinted sources ""; ""Outline ""; ""Part I The Construction of Norwegian Lutheran Missionary Masculinity ""; ""2 Missionary Self-Making""; ""Introduction ""; ""The case of Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder "" ""The self-making spirit of the Norwegian mission movement """"Subjective missionary self-making ""; ""Self-making as a mission strategy and theory ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""3 Proper Missionary Masculinity""; ""Introduction ""; ""The case of Christian Oftebro "" ""�By word or by plough?�: contested theories on mission """"The missionary caught between the spiritual and the secular ""; ""Missionary masculinity: a paradox of modernity? ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""4 Confessional Missionary Masculinity""; ""Introduction "" ""The denominational context of a Norwegian Lutheran mission in south-east Africa """"Denominational disturbances ""; ""A Scandinavian �free mission� in Durban ""; ""Denominational disturbances at home "" ""�Heroic soldiers� and �faithful sons�: re-confessionalisation and re-masculinisation in the NMS "" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791087103321 |
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Tjelle Kristin Fjelde
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| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Missionary Masculinity, 1870–1930 : The Norwegian Missionaries in South-East Africa / / by Kristin Fjelde Tjelle
| Missionary Masculinity, 1870–1930 : The Norwegian Missionaries in South-East Africa / / by Kristin Fjelde Tjelle |
| Autore | Tjelle Kristin Fjelde |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (341 p.) |
| Disciplina | 266.02348100811 |
| Collana | Genders and Sexualities in History |
| Soggetto topico |
Africa-History
Europe-History History, Modern Civilization-History Social history African History European History Modern History Cultural History Social History |
| ISBN |
1-349-46346-9
1-137-33636-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""1 Introduction: Missionaries and Masculinities""; ""The case and the context : Norwegian missionaries in south-east Africa ""; ""Missions and gender ""; ""Masculinities and power ""; ""Masculinities and subjectivity ""; ""Christian masculinity and modernity ""
""Sources """"Mission magazines ""; ""Mission literature ""; ""Unprinted sources ""; ""Outline ""; ""Part I The Construction of Norwegian Lutheran Missionary Masculinity ""; ""2 Missionary Self-Making""; ""Introduction ""; ""The case of Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder "" ""The self-making spirit of the Norwegian mission movement """"Subjective missionary self-making ""; ""Self-making as a mission strategy and theory ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""3 Proper Missionary Masculinity""; ""Introduction ""; ""The case of Christian Oftebro "" ""�By word or by plough?�: contested theories on mission """"The missionary caught between the spiritual and the secular ""; ""Missionary masculinity: a paradox of modernity? ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""4 Confessional Missionary Masculinity""; ""Introduction "" ""The denominational context of a Norwegian Lutheran mission in south-east Africa """"Denominational disturbances ""; ""A Scandinavian �free mission� in Durban ""; ""Denominational disturbances at home "" ""�Heroic soldiers� and �faithful sons�: re-confessionalisation and re-masculinisation in the NMS "" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810557403321 |
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Tjelle Kristin Fjelde
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| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt
| Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina | 940 |
| Collana | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Europe-History
History Imperialism World history History, Modern European History History of Science Imperialism and Colonialism World History, Global and Transnational History Modern History Transportation |
| ISBN | 1-137-52064-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover ; Title; Copyrights; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I National Enterprises; 2 A Southern Meridian: Astronomical Undertakings in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire; 3 The Longitude Committee and the Practice of Navigation in the Netherlands, c . 1750-1850; 4 From Lacaille to Lalande: French Work on Lunar Distances, Nautical Ephemerides and Lunar Tables, 1742-85; 5 The Bureau des Longitudes: An Institutional Study; Part II Longitude in Transnational Contexts
6 Patriotic and Cosmopolitan Patchworks: Following a Swedish Astronomer into London's Communities of Maritime Longitude, 1759-607 'Perfectly Correct': Russian Navigators and the Royal Navy; 8 A Different Kind of Longitude: The Metrology of Location by Geodesy; Part III Voyages as Test Sites; 9 Testing Longitude Methods in Mid-Eighteenth Century France; 10 Navigating the Pacific from Bougainville to Dumont d'Urville: French Approaches to Determining Longitude, 1766-1840; Part IV The Practice of Navigation; 11 Navigation and Mathematics: A Match Made in the Heavens? 12 Longitude Networks on Land and Sea: The East India Company and Longitude Measurement 'in the Wild', 1770-1840Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797769503321 |
| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850 / / edited by Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt
| Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850 / / edited by Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina | 940 |
| Collana | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Europe-History
History Imperialism World history History, Modern European History History of Science Imperialism and Colonialism World History, Global and Transnational History Modern History Transportation |
| ISBN | 1-137-52064-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover ; Title; Copyrights; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I National Enterprises; 2 A Southern Meridian: Astronomical Undertakings in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire; 3 The Longitude Committee and the Practice of Navigation in the Netherlands, c . 1750-1850; 4 From Lacaille to Lalande: French Work on Lunar Distances, Nautical Ephemerides and Lunar Tables, 1742-85; 5 The Bureau des Longitudes: An Institutional Study; Part II Longitude in Transnational Contexts
6 Patriotic and Cosmopolitan Patchworks: Following a Swedish Astronomer into London's Communities of Maritime Longitude, 1759-607 'Perfectly Correct': Russian Navigators and the Royal Navy; 8 A Different Kind of Longitude: The Metrology of Location by Geodesy; Part III Voyages as Test Sites; 9 Testing Longitude Methods in Mid-Eighteenth Century France; 10 Navigating the Pacific from Bougainville to Dumont d'Urville: French Approaches to Determining Longitude, 1766-1840; Part IV The Practice of Navigation; 11 Navigation and Mathematics: A Match Made in the Heavens? 12 Longitude Networks on Land and Sea: The East India Company and Longitude Measurement 'in the Wild', 1770-1840Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811998003321 |
| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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