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Drawing on new sources, this book evaluates the importance of Henry Thomas Colebrooke, an East India Company civil servant who became the father of modern Indology. Written by renowned academics in the field of Indology, and drawing on new sources, this book shows how he embodies the significant passage from eighteenth century colonial expansion, to the professional, transnational ethos of nineteenth century intellectual life and scholarly enquiry.
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Genre |
: Business & Economics |
Author |
: Rosane Rocher |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Release |
: 2014-06-17 |
File |
: 255 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781317579175 |
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The Making of Federal Coal Policy provides a unique record of--as well as important future perspectives on--one of the most significant ideological conflicts in national policymaking in the last decade. The management of federally owned coal, almost one-third of the U.S.'s total coal resources, has furnished an arena for the contest between energy development and environmental protection, as well as between the federal government and the states. Robert H. Nelson has written an important historical document and a useful guide for policy analysts.
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Genre |
: Business & Economics |
Author |
: Robert Henry Nelson |
Publisher |
: Durham, NC : Duke University Press |
Release |
: 1983 |
File |
: 288 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015008399332 |
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This edition contains a new chapter extending the story into the eighteenth century.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: John Kelly Thornton |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 1998-04-28 |
File |
: 382 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521627249 |
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How conflict sparked by the debate over the future of slavery remade the urban West.
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Genre |
: Business & Economics |
Author |
: Jeffrey S. Adler |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 2002-09-12 |
File |
: 292 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521522358 |
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New York Times Bestseller The epic account of how one narrow ribbon of water forever changed the course of American history. The history of the Erie Canal is a riveting story of American ingenuity. A great project that Thomas Jefferson judged to be “little short of madness,” and that others compared with going to the moon, soon turned into one of the most successful and influential public investments in American history. In Wedding of the Waters, best-selling author Peter L. Bernstein recounts the canal’s creation within the larger tableau of a youthful America in the first quarter-century of the 1800s. Leaders of the fledgling nation had quickly recognized that the Appalachian mountain range was a formidable obstacle to uniting the Atlantic states with the vast lands of the west. A pathway for commerce as well as travel was critical to the security and expansion of the Revolution’s unprecedented achievement. Gripped by the same fever that had driven explorers such as Hudson and Champlain, a motley assortment of politicians, surveyors, and would-be engineers set out to build a complex structure of a type few of them had ever actually seen, let alone built or operated: a manmade waterway cut through the mountains to traverse the 363 miles between Lake Erie and the Hudson River. By linking the seas to the interior and the interior to the seas, these pioneers ultimately connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. Bernstein examines the social ramifications, political squabbles, and economic risks and returns of this mammoth project. He goes on to demonstrate how the canal’s creation helped bind the western settlers in the new lands to their fellow Americans in the original colonies, knitted the sinews of the American industrial revolution, and even influenced profound economic change in Europe. Featuring a rich cast of characters that includes political visionaries like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Martin van Buren; the canal’s most powerful champions, Governor DeWitt Clinton and Gouverneur Morris; and a huge platoon of Irish and American diggers, Wedding of the Waters reveals that the twenty-first-century themes of urbanization, economic growth, and globalization can all be traced to the first great macroengineering venture of American history.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Peter L. Bernstein |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Release |
: 2010-08-16 |
File |
: 448 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780393340204 |
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Genre |
: America |
Author |
: Samuel Adams Drake |
Publisher |
: New York : C. Scribner |
Release |
: 1887 |
File |
: 364 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: NYPL:33433081785549 |
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The rise and fall of the Islamic scientific tradition, and the relationship of Islamic science to European science during the Renaissance. The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations—the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations of Islamic scientific thought were laid well before Greek sources were formally translated into Arabic in the ninth century. Drawing on an account by the tenth-century intellectual historian Ibn al-Naidm that is ignored by most modern scholars, Saliba suggests that early translations from mainly Persian and Greek sources outlining elementary scientific ideas for the use of government departments were the impetus for the development of the Islamic scientific tradition. He argues further that there was an organic relationship between the Islamic scientific thought that developed in the later centuries and the science that came into being in Europe during the Renaissance. Saliba outlines the conventional accounts of Islamic science, then discusses their shortcomings and proposes an alternate narrative. Using astronomy as a template for tracing the progress of science in Islamic civilization, Saliba demonstrates the originality of Islamic scientific thought. He details the innovations (including new mathematical tools) made by the Islamic astronomers from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, and offers evidence that Copernicus could have known of and drawn on their work. Rather than viewing the rise and fall of Islamic science from the often-narrated perspectives of politics and religion, Saliba focuses on the scientific production itself and the complex social, economic, and intellectual conditions that made it possible.
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Genre |
: Science |
Author |
: George Saliba |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Release |
: 2011-01-21 |
File |
: 329 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780262261128 |
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Since September 11, Arab and American journalists have been trading barbs, accusing each other of bias and a lack of objectivity. But is news coverage in Arab countries all that different from American coverage? The Making of Arab News draws comparisons, including examples of Arabic news language and their English translations, to show how Arab news values have been Americanized and how these values are reflected in the language used in the Arab news. Noha Mellor further discusses claims that the current development in the Arab news media could be the first step toward democratization.
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Genre |
: Language Arts & Disciplines |
Author |
: Noha Mellor |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Release |
: 2005-01-28 |
File |
: 175 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781461644705 |
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This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "This history is intended to meet the want for brief, compact, and handy manuals of the beginnings of our country. In this volume, I have followed up to its legitimate ending the work done by the three great rival powers of modern times in civilizing our continent. I have tried to make it the worthy, if modest, exponent of a great theme. The story grows to absorbing interest, as the great achievement of the age."Contents: Three Rival CivilizationsThe SpaniardsAn Historic EraDe Soto's Discovery of the MississippiDeath and Burial of De SotoThe Indians of FloridaHow New Mexico Came to Be Explored"the Marvellous Country"Folk Lore of the PueblosLast Days of Charles V. And Philip Ii.Sword and Gown in CaliforniaThe FrenchWestward by the Great Inland WaterwaysThe Situation in a.d. 1672 Count FrontenacJoliet and Marquette The Man La SalleLa Salle, Prince of Explorers Discovery of the Upper MississippiThe Lost Colony: St. Louis of TexasIberville Founds LouisianaFrance Wins the PrizeLouis Xiv.The EnglishThe Bleak North-west CoastHudson's Bay to the South SeaThe Russians in AlaskaEngland on the PacificQueen ElizabethWhat Jonathan Carver Aimed to Do in 1766John Ledyard's IdeaA Yankee Ship Discovers the Columbia RiverThe West at the Opening of the CenturyBirth of the American Idea.America for Americans.Acquisition of LouisianaA Glance at Our Purchase The PathfindersLewis and Clarke Ascend the Missouri They Cross the Continent Pike Explores the Arkansas Valley New Mexico in 1807 Gold in Colorado.—a Trapper's Story The Flag in Oregon Louisiana Admitted 1812 The Oregon TrailThe Trapper, Backwoodsman, and EmigrantLong Explores the Platte Valley Missouri and the Compromise of 1821 Arkansas Admitted 1836 Thomas H. Benton's Idea With the Vanguard to OregonTexas Admitted New Political Ideas Iowa Admitted The War With Mexico …
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Samuel Adams Drake |
Publisher |
: e-artnow |
Release |
: 2018-12-21 |
File |
: 294 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9788027247820 |
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This is the second of a projected series of five volumes dealing with the expansion of Islam in "al-Hind," or South and Southeast Asia. It analyses the conquest of the eleventh-thirteenth centuries, the migration of Muslim groups into the subcontinent, and maritime developments in the same period.
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Genre |
: Social Science |
Author |
: André Wink |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Release |
: 1990 |
File |
: 452 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004102361 |