A Transformed Colony
Title | A Transformed Colony PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Joshua Alldridge |
Publisher | Рипол Классик |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | History |
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All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental
Title | All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental PDF eBook |
Author | Pete Minard |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2019-04-22 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1469651629 |
Species acclimatization--the organized introduction of organisms to a new region--is much maligned in the present day. However, colonization depended on moving people, plants, and animals from place to place, and in centuries past, scientists, landowners, and philanthropists formed acclimatization societies to study local species and conditions, form networks of supporters, and exchange supposedly useful local and exotic organisms across the globe. Pete Minard tells the story of this movement, arguing that the colonies, not the imperial centers, led the movement for species acclimatization. Far from attempting to re-create London or Paris, settlers sought to combine plants and animals to correct earlier environmental damage and to populate forests, farms, and streams to make them healthier and more productive. By focusing particularly on the Australian colony of Victoria, Minard reveals a global network of would-be acclimatizers, from Britain and France to Russia and the United States. Although the movement was short-lived, the long reach of nineteenth-century acclimatization societies continues to be felt today, from choked waterways to the uncontrollable expansion of European pests in former colonies.
Another Day in the Colony
Title | Another Day in the Colony PDF eBook |
Author | Chelsea Watego |
Publisher | Univ. of Queensland Press |
Pages | 127 |
Release | 2021-11-02 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0702264873 |
A ground-breaking work – and a call to arms – that exposes the ongoing colonial violence experienced by First Nations people. In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Rather than offer yet another account of 'the Aboriginal problem', she theorises a strategy for living in a society that has only ever imagined Indigenous peoples as destined to die out. Drawing on her own experiences and observations of the operations of the colony, she exposes the lies that settlers tell about Indigenous people. In refusing such stories, Chelsea narrates her own: fierce, personal, sometimes funny, sometimes anguished. She speaks not of fighting back but of standing her ground against colonialism in academia, in court and in the media. It's a stance that takes its toll on relationships, career prospects and even the body. Yet when told to have hope, Watego's response rings clear: Fuck hope. Be sovereign.
The Connecticut Colony
Title | The Connecticut Colony PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Cunningham |
Publisher | C. Press/F. Watts Trade |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011-09 |
Genre | Connecticut |
ISBN | 9780531266007 |
Provides a history of Connecticut, from its beginnings as an English colony to its involvement in the American Revolution and its admittance into the United States in 1788.
A Colony of Citizens
Title | A Colony of Citizens PDF eBook |
Author | Laurent Dubois |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 467 |
Release | 2012-12-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807839027 |
The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over slavery and citizenship in the French Caribbean. Dubois examines this Caribbean revolution by focusing on Guadeloupe, where, in the early 1790s, insurgents on the island fought for equality and freedom and formed alliances with besieged Republicans. In 1794, slavery was abolished throughout the French Empire, ushering in a new colonial order in which all people, regardless of race, were entitled to the same rights. But French administrators on the island combined emancipation with new forms of coercion and racial exclusion, even as newly freed slaves struggled for a fuller freedom. In 1802, the experiment in emancipation was reversed and slavery was brutally reestablished, though rebels in Saint-Domingue avoided the same fate by defeating the French and creating an independent Haiti. The political culture of republicanism, Dubois argues, was transformed through this transcultural and transatlantic struggle for liberty and citizenship. The slaves-turned-citizens of the French Caribbean expanded the political possibilities of the Enlightenment by giving new and radical content to the idea of universal rights.
DMZ Colony
Title | DMZ Colony PDF eBook |
Author | Don Mee Choi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781940696966 |
"A new book by Don Mee Choi that includes poems, prose, and images" --
Gene Expression and Regulation in Cultured Cells
Title | Gene Expression and Regulation in Cultured Cells PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine K. Sanford |
Publisher | |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Cell Transformation, Viral |
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