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Dawn of Green
Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism
Inbunden, 2009
369 kr
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Located in the heart of England's Lake District, Thirlmere, with its placid sheen, surrounding evergreens, and apparent lack of pollution or development, seems to epitomize the unadulterated bucolic ideal. But under its calm surface lurks the enduring legacy of a nineteenth-century conflict that …
Dawn of Green
Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism
E-bok, 2009
429 kr
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Located in the heart of England’s Lake District, the placid waters of Thirlmere seem to be the embodiment of pastoral beauty. But under their calm surface lurks the legacy of a nineteenth-century conflict that pitted industrial progress against natural conservation—and helped launch the …
Dawn of Green
Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism
Häftad, 2012
198 kr
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Located in the heart of England's Lake District, the placid waters of Thirlmere seem to be the embodiment of pastoral beauty. But under their calm surface lurks the legacy of a nineteenth-century conflict that pitted industrial progress against natural conservation - and helped launch the …
Animal Estate
The English and Other Creatures in Victorian England
Häftad, 1989
416 kr
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When we think about the Victorian age, we usually envision people together with animals: the Queen and her pugs, the sportsman with horses and hounds, the big game hunter with his wild kill, the gentleman farmer with a prize bull. Harriet Ritvo here gives us a vivid picture of how animals figured …
Platypus and the Mermaid
And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination
Häftad, 1998
381 kr
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"Cats is 'dogs,' and rabbits is 'dogs,' and so's parrots; but this `ere 'tortis' is a insect," a porter explains to an astonished traveler in a nineteenth-century Punch cartoon. Railways were not the only British institution to schematize the world. This enormously entertaining book captures the …
Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature
Nationalism, Exoticism, Imperialism
Av Jonathan Arac, Harriet Ritvo
Inbunden, 1991
1249 kr
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In contrast to the micropolitics of Foucault, macropolitics emphasizes that political transformations at the level of the state have great importance for many developments in nineteenth-century writing.
Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature
Nationalism, Exoticism, Imperialism
Av Jonathan Arac, Harriet Ritvo
Häftad, 1995
345 kr
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Increasingly in the last decade, macropolitics-a consideration of political transformations at the level of the state-has become a focus for cultural inquiry. From the macropolitical perspective afforded by contemporary postcolonial studies, the essays in this collection explore the relationship …
Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature
Nationalism, Exoticism, Imperialism
Av Jonathan Arac, Harriet Ritvo
E-bok, 2016
1537 kr
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In contrast to the micropolitics of Foucault, macropolitics emphasizes that political transformations at the level of the state have great importance for many developments in nineteenth-century writing.
Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras
Essays on Animals and History
Inbunden, 2010
579 kr
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Over the past two decades, Harriet Ritvo has established herself as a leading scholar in animal studies and one of those most responsible for establishing this field of study as a crucial part of environmental and social history. Her two well-known books, The Platypus and the Mermaid and The Animal …
