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  • Waddenland Outstanding

    History, Landscape and Cultural Heritage of the Wadden Sea Region

    Edited by Linde Egberts, Meindert Schroor ...
    Series series Landscape and Heritage Studies
    The Wadden Sea Region is comprised of the embanked coastal marshes and islands in the Wadden Sea near Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. This area retains an exceptional common history in all its aspects: archaeologically, economically, socially, and culturally. Its settlement history of more than two thousand years is unrivalled and still mirrored in the landscape. Even though it has never ... Read more

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    A History

    by Joachim Radkau ...
    Ötzi the iceman could not do without wood when he was climbing his Alpine glacier, nor could medieval cathedral-builders or today's construction companies. From time immemorial, the skill of the human hand has developed by working wood, so much so that we might say that the handling of wood is a basic element in the history of the human body. The fear of a future wood famine became a panic in the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Conquest Of Nature

    Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany

    by David Blackbourn ...
    The modern idea of 'mastery' over nature always had its critics, whether their motives were aesthetic, religious or environmentalist. By investigating how the most fundamental element - water - was 'conquered' by draining fens and marshes, straightening the courses of rivers, building high dams and exploiting hydro-electric power, The Conquest of Nature explores how over the last 250 years, the ... Read more

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  • The Age of Ecology

    by Joachim Radkau ...
    This book is the first major study of the history of environmentalism, from its origins in romanticism and the nature cults of the late 18th century to the global environmental movements of today.Radkau shows that this is not a single story of the steady ascent of environmentalism but rather a multiplicity of stories, each with its own dramatic tension: between single-issue movements and the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Climate in Motion

    Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale

    by Deborah R. Coen ...
    Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth's climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular to the planetary. Climate in Motion shows that this multiscalar, multicausal framework emerged well before computers and satellites. Extending the history of modern climate science back into the nineteenth century, Deborah R. ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lifelines of Our Society

    A Global History of Infrastructure

    by Dirk van Laak ...
    Translated by Erik Butler ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives.Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little public knowledge regarding why and how it became today’s strongest global force over government and individual lives. Who should build and maintain infrastructures? How are they to be protected? And why ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Culture and Value

    Tourism, Heritage, and Property

    by Regina F. Bendix ...
    An "eminently readable" collection of essays exploring what happens when cultural heritage meets commerce ( Asian Ethnology).When heritage becomes a commodity, when culture is instrumental in driving tourism, and when individuals assert ownership over either, social, ideological, political, and economic motivations intertwine. Bestowing value on "culture" is itself a culturally rooted act, and the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Magnificent Boat

    The Colonial Theft of a South Seas Cultural Treasure

    by Götz Aly ...
    Translated by Jefferson Chase ...
    From an eminent and provocative historian, a wrenching parable of the ravages of colonialism in the South Pacific.Countless museums in the West have been criticized for their looted treasures, but few as trenchantly as the Humboldt Forum, which displays predominantly non-Western art and artifacts in a modern reconstruction of the former Royal Palace in Berlin. The Forum’s premier attraction, an ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Hoarding New Guinea

    Writing Colonial Ethnographic Collection Histories for Postcolonial Futures

    by Rainer F. Buschmann ...
    Series series Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
    Hoarding New Guinea provides a new cultural history of colonialism that pays close attention to the millions of Indigenous artifacts that serve as witnesses to Europe’s colonial past in ethnographic museums. Rainer F. Buschmann investigates the roughly two hundred thousand artifacts extracted from the colony of German New Guinea from 1870 to 1920. Reversing the typical trajectories that place ... Read more

    $82.49 CAD

  • Objects of Culture

    Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums in Imperial Germany

    by H. Glenn Penny ...
    In the late nineteenth century, Germans spearheaded a worldwide effort to preserve the material traces of humanity, designing major ethnographic museums and building extensive networks of communication and exchange across the globe. In this groundbreaking study, Glenn Penny explores the appeal of ethnology in Imperial Germany and analyzes the motivations of the scientists who created the ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Acolytes of Nature

    Defining Natural Science in Germany, 1770–1850

    by Denise Phillips ...
    Although many of the practical and intellectual traditions that make up modern science date back centuries, the category of "science" itself is a relative novelty. In the early eighteenth century, the modern German word that would later mean "science," naturwissenschaft, was not even included in dictionaries. By 1850, however, the term was in use everywhere. Acolytes of Nature follows the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Globalization and the City

    Two Connected Phenomena in Past and Present

    Edited by Andreas Exenberger, Philipp Strobl, Günter Bischof, James Mokhiber ...
    Series series Interdisziplinäre Forschung
    The world today is far less a global village than a “global city”, as global network of multidimensional urban spaces of congestion prominently forming – and also formed by – globalization. But the relevance of cities is nothing but new. They were essential for culture and civilization worldwide, they allowed a centralization of power and knowledge and they were crucial for the division of labor ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD