Welcome to our book review site www.go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Earth-Knowledge
Using a transdisciplinary approach, this book examines how scientific understanding of the Earth has been created, transformed, and shared across time - combining perspectives from the history of science, sociology of knowledge, and cultural studies to explore the evolution of Earth sciences. Focusing on the practices, actors, and socio-cultural contexts that have shaped knowledge production, this volume offers fresh methodological insights and highlights the contributions of scientists, local experts, and non-specialist collaborators. Case studies range from Johann Reinhold Forster’s eighteenth-century mineralogical research to Cold War impact geology and interdisciplinary developments in ice core paleoclimatology. Targeted at scholars, students, and general readers, this book provides an innovative lens for understanding the historical dimensions of Earth sciences, bridging disciplinary boundaries and uncovering new perspectives on the production and exchange of knowledge.
Explorations and Entanglements
Traditionally, Germany has been considered a minor player in Pacific history: its presence there was more limited than that of other European nations, and whereas its European rivals established themselves as imperial forces beginning in the early modern era, Germany did not seriously pursue colonialism until the nineteenth century. Yet thanks to recent advances in the field emphasizing transoceanic networks and cultural encounters, it is now possible to develop a more nuanced understanding of the history of Germans in the Pacific. The studies gathered here offer fascinating research into German missionary, commercial, scientific, and imperial activity against the backdrop of the Pacific’s overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits.
Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany
Global history has come of age but has had little impact on the historiography of early modern Germany. This volume seeks to bring a global perspective to the history of Central Europe by addressing understudied global and colonial entanglements. Exploring the impact of these interactions on court life and home towns, labor migration, material culture, and religious communities, the microhistories presented here reveal the myriad ways in which connections and disconnections underpinned early modern Germany. The authors engage with contemporary debates about global history in general, taking its lacunae as a cue for substantial methodological revisions.
Between Encyclopedia and Chorography
During the early modern period, regional specified compendia – which combine information on local moral and natural history, towns and fortifications with historiography, antiquarianism, images series or maps – gain a new agency in the production of knowledge. Via literary and aesthetic practices, the compilations construct a display of regional specified knowledge. In some cases this display of regional knowledge is presented as a display of a local cultural identity and is linked to early modern practices of comparing and classifying civilizations. At the core of the publication are compendia on the Americas which research has described as chorographies, encyclopeadias or – more recently – 'cultural encyclopaedias'. Studies on Asian and European encyclopeadias, universal histories and chorographies help to contextualize the American examples in the broader field of an early modern and transcultural knowledge production, which inherits and modifies the ancient and medieval tradition.
Johann Reinhold Forster and the Making of Natural History on Cook's Second Voyage, 1772-1775
The book examines the role of German scholar Johann Reinhold Forster, who served as principal naturalist on James Cook's second voyage of exploration to the Pacific from 1772 to 1775. It examines how Forster contributed to our knowledge of natural history on a daily basis aboard the Resolution.
InTune
None
Patterns
None
Habsburgerinnen und Konfessionalisierung im späten 16. Jahrhundert
Back cover: Die vorliegende Untersuchung widmet sich der bislang kaum beachteten Rolle von Habsburgerinnen im späten 16. Jahrhundert in der Etablierung der katholischen Konfessionskultur in den habsburgischen Territorien. Am Beispiel von Erzherzoginwitwe Maria von Innerösterreich (1551-1608), Königinwitwe Elisabeth von Frankreich (1554-1592) und Erzherzogin Magdalena von Innerösterreich (1532-1590) zeigt Julia Hodapp das diffizile Wechselspiel von Stiftungstätigkeit, Bestattungszeremoniell, der Ausgestaltung von Grablegen und der Initiation von Seligsprechungsprozessen als Instrumente der Konfessionalisierung, die gezielt von den Habsburgerinnen des 16. Jahrhunderts zur Etablierung der ...
