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Author: George Psalmanazar
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 376
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Author: George Psalmanazar
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Smith (distiller.)
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Published: 1725
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tōyō Bunko (Japan)
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 820
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 658
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charlie Lovett
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2005-05-31
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0786421053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles Lutwidge Dodgson--known better by his pseudonym, Lewis Carroll--was a 19th century English logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist. He is especially remembered for his children's tale Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass. By the time of Dodgson's death in 1898, Alice (the integration of the two volumes) had become the most popular children's book in England. By the time of his centenary in 1932, it was perhaps the most famous in the world. This book presents a complete catalogue of Dodgson's personal library, with attention to every book the author is known to have owned or read. Alphabetized entries fully describe each book, its edition, its contents, its importance, and any particular relevance it might have had to Dodgson. The library not only provides a plethora of fodder for further study on Dodgson, but also reflects the Victorian world of the second half of the 19th century, a time of unprecedented investigation, experimentation, invention, and imagination. Dodgson's volumes represent a vast array of academic interests from Victorian England and beyond, including homeopathic medicine, spiritualism, astrology, evolution, women's rights, children's literature, linguistics, theology, eugenics, and many others. The catalogue is designed for scholars seeking insight into the mind of Charles Dodgson through his books.
Author: Jan Gyllenbok
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Published: 2018-04-25
Total Pages: 977
ISBN-13: 3319666916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second volume of Gyllenbok's encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the first part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (A-I). Units of measurement are of vital importance in every civilization through history. Since the early ages, man has through necessity devised various measures to assist him in everyday life. They have enabled and continue to enable us to trade in commonly and equitably understood amounts, and to investigate, understand, and control the chemical, physical, and biological processes of the natural world. The encyclopeadia will be of use not only to historians of science and technology, but also to economic and social historians and should be in every major academic and national library as standard reference work on the topic.
Author: Susan Stewart
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 0195066170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the origins of modern copyright in early eighteenth-century culture to the efforts to represent nature and death in postmodern fiction, this pioneering book explores a series of problems regarding the containment of representation. Stewart focuses on specific cases of "crimes of writing"--the forgeries of George Psalmanazar, the production of "fakelore," the "ballad scandals" of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the imposture of Thomas Chatterton, and contemporary legislation regarding graffiti and pornography. In this way, she emphasizes the issues which arise once language is seen as a matter of property and authorship is viewed as a matter of originality. Finally, Stewart demonstrates that crimes of writing are delineated by the law because they specifically undermine the status of the law itself: the crimes illuminate the irreducible fact that law is written and therefore subject to temporality and interpretation.
Author: Frederic J. Foley
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 156
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George W. Stocking
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1989-12-12
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0299123634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRomantic Motives explores a topic that has been underemphasized in the historiography of anthropology. Tracking the Romantic strains in the the writings of Rousseau, Herder, Cushing, Sapir, Benedict, Redfield, Mead, Lévi-Strauss, and others, these essays show Romanticism as a permanent and recurrent tendency within the anthropological tradition.
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Published: 1874
Total Pages: 434
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