Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada

Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada
Title Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada PDF eBook
Author Carl Berger
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Pages 125
Release 1983-12-15
Genre History
ISBN 1442633549

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Professor Berger aims in this book to ‘explore the rise, expression, and relative decline of the idea of natural history’ in Canada, during the age of Victoria. Science, particularly natural science, was then accessible to the general public in a way scarcely imaginable today. Natural history societies were set up in a number of cities and provided a focus for the descriptive and collecting activities of amateurs and incipient professionals. These societies acted as social clubs and vehicles for self-improvement as well as providing excellent training for the amateur scientist. The Baconian assumptions that inspired the Victorian collectors and scientists were one of the major victims of the Darwinian revolution, and their demise brought about the gradual decline of the natural history societies. Professor Berger considers also the sense of wonder and reverence with which Victorian Canadians, like their British contemporaries, looked at the varieties and delights of nature. The British tradition of natural theology had a great impact on the pursuit of science in Victorian Canada, leading naturalists and poets alike to seek in the uncharted flora and fauna of their new land the handiwork of a benevolent God. The author examines the impact of the discoveries of Darwin on this tradition and on the relations between science and religion, as the creator and the act of creation became more and more distant in time and more tenuously connected to the world of nature around us. His study provides many rich insights into the practice and theory of natural history in an age when even a veteran politician could look back and recall, with understanding and in detail, the world of nature in the countryside of his youth.

Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada

Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada
Title Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada PDF eBook
Author Carl Berger
Publisher
Pages 92
Release 1983
Genre Natural history
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Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds

Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds
Title Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds PDF eBook
Author Stephen Daniels
Publisher Routledge
Pages 353
Release 2012-03-15
Genre Architecture
ISBN 113688355X

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There has been a remarkable resurgence in the past decade of intellectual interplay between geography and the humanities in both academic and public circles. Terminology and concepts such as space, place, landscape, mapping and geography are becoming pervasive as conceptual frameworks and core metaphors in recent publications by humanities scholars and well-known writers. Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds examines the depth and complexity of human meaning invested in maps, attached to landscapes, and embedded in the spaces and places of modern life. The clashing and blending of cultures caused by globalization and the new technologies that profoundly alter human environmental experience suggest new geographical narratives and representations that are explored here by a multidisciplinary group of authors. With contributions from leadng scholars, this text is essential reading for scholars and students seeking to understand the new synergies and interconnectedness of geography and the humanities.

Entomology, Ecology and Agriculture

Entomology, Ecology and Agriculture
Title Entomology, Ecology and Agriculture PDF eBook
Author Paolo Palladino
Publisher Routledge
Pages 207
Release 2013-05-13
Genre History
ISBN 1134959141

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This study is facilitated by following economic entomologists' and ecologists' changing ideas about different pest control strategies, chiefly 'chemical', 'biological', and 'integrated' control. The author then follows the efforts of one specific group of entomologists, at the University of California, over three generations from their advocacy of 'biological' controls in the 1930s and 40s, through their shifting attention to the development of an 'integrated pest management' in the context of 'big biology' during the 1970s.

Macdonald at 200

Macdonald at 200
Title Macdonald at 200 PDF eBook
Author Patrice Dutil
Publisher Dundurn
Pages 473
Release 2014-10-10
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1459724488

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Here are fifteen fresh interpretations of Canada's founding Prime Minister, published for the occasion of the bicentennial of his birth in 1815. Well researched and crisply written by recognized scholars and specialists, the collection throws new light on Macdonald's formative role in our nation.

Women, Collecting, and Cultures Beyond Europe

Women, Collecting, and Cultures Beyond Europe
Title Women, Collecting, and Cultures Beyond Europe PDF eBook
Author Arlene Leis
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 323
Release 2022-11-04
Genre Art
ISBN 1000781518

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This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally. The edited volume builds on recent research and offers a wider lens through which to examine and challenge women’s collecting histories. Spanning from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first (although not organized chronologically) the research herein extends beyond European geographies and across time periods; it brings to light new research on how artificiallia and naturallia were collected, transported, exchanged, and/or displayed beyond Europe. Women, Collecting and Cultures Beyond Europe considers collections as points of contact that forged transcultural connections and knowledge exchange. Some authors focus mainly on collectors and what was collected, while others consider taxonomies, travel, patterns of consumption, migration, markets, and the after life of things. In its broad and interdisciplinary approach, this book amplifies women’s voices, and aims to position their collecting practices toward new transcultural directions, including women’s relation to distinct cultures, customs, and beliefs as well as exposing the challenges women faced when carving a place for themselves within global networks. This study will be of interest to scholars working in collections and collecting, conservation, museum studies, art history, women’s studies, material and visual cultures, Indigenous studies, textile histories, global studies, history of science, social and cultural histories.

Who Controls the Hunt?

Who Controls the Hunt?
Title Who Controls the Hunt? PDF eBook
Author David Calverley
Publisher UBC Press
Pages 225
Release 2018-03-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0774831367

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As the nineteenth century ended, Ontario wildlife became increasingly valuable. Tourists and sport hunters spent growing amounts of money in search of game, and the government began to extend its regulatory powers in this arena. Restrictions were imposed on hunting and trapping, completely ignoring Anishinaabeg hunting rights set out in the Robinson Treaties of 1850. Who Controls the Hunt? examines how Ontario’s emerging wildlife conservation laws failed to reconcile First Nations treaty rights and the power of the state. David Calverley traces the political and legal arguments prompted by the interplay of treaty rights, provincial and dominion government interests, and the corporate concerns of the Hudson’s Bay Company. A nuanced examination of Indigenous resource issues, the themes of this book remain germane to questions about who controls the hunt in Canada today.