Tentsmuir : ten thousand years of environmental history /
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Tentsmuir, North East Fife, has seen human activity for over 10,000 years. The area provides a natural refuge for a wide range of plants, resident and migrating birds, and an array of animal and insect life. This text investigates how plant and animal communities are constantly reacting to the environmental changes common to the region.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (vi, 190 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789691252 (ebook) :
Wood, Trade, and Spanish Naval Power (c.1740-1795) /
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By focussing on timber sourcing, this book sheds light on the exploitation of forests in settings outside the Iberian Peninsula, including foreign states in the southern Baltic region and the colonial territory of New Spain between the c.1740-1795. Analysis of contracts, projects, and their implementation by the Spanish crown in the 18th century allow for a better understanding of the position of the Spanish monarchy's nearly global efforts to sustain its naval commitments in the Atlantic World.
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1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004689640
Fish on Paper: Ichthyology and the Disciplining of Natural History (1680-1820) /
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This book offers the first contextualised approach to how the study of fish took shape as a distinct field of knowledge in the eighteenth century. This field was called ichthyology. In placing the many and varied contributors to early modern natural history into this historical narrative, this volume demonstrates how the world underwater was a shared site of investigation. Through analysing the practices that were central to natural history, it shows how the development of a classificatory method resulted in a disciplining of natural history that established the ichthyologist as the authoritative knower of fish. Drawing on unique, previously unexplored material from libraries, archives, and museums, this study examines how this emphasis on classification directed the ways in which fish were preserved as specimens, in texts and in images. The epilogue reflects on how these historical sources shed light on the past occurrence of species and how this can inform ecological research.
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1 online resource (268 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004549500
The ancient Mediterranean environment between science and history /
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Scientists, historians and archaeologists are at last beginning to collaborate seriously on studies of the long-term history of the environment. The fruit of an international conference held in Rome in 2011, The Ancient Mediterranean Environment between Science and History brings together scientists and scholars who are interested in the interaction of their several disciplines as well as in specific problems such as the effects of climate change and other environmental factors on historical developments and events, the sources of the energy and fuel used in ancient civilizations, and the effects of humans on the lands around the Mediterranean. The collection balances broad Mediterranean-wide studies and tightly focused studies of particular regions in Italy and Jordan.
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Papers presented at a conference held in Rome in 2011. :
1 online resource (xxi, 332 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004254053 :
0166-1302 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The Digital Medieval Manuscript : Material Approaches to Digital Codicology /
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We increasingly encounter medieval books as digital facsimiles-zooming in on high-resolution images, clicking through virtual pages, or engaging with interactive displays. But what actually happens when a parchment manuscript is translated into a digital object? How does this change affect our understanding of cultural heritage? This book explores the digital medieval manuscript as a unique cultural artifact, not just a copy of its physical counterpart. Through three case studies, it reveals how digital manuscripts function in libraries, museums, and scholarship today. Blending manuscript studies with digital humanities, it offers a fresh materialist approach to the discourse surrounding the digitisation of cultural heritage and provides a nuanced view of how it shapes the way we perceive, handle, and preserve medieval manuscripts in an increasingly digital world.
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1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004737815
Forest family : Australian culture, art, and trees /
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Forest Family highlights the importance of the old-growth forests of Southwest Australia to art, culture, history, politics, and community identity. The volume weaves together the natural and cultural histories of Southwest eucalypt forests, spanning pre-settlement, colonial, and contemporary periods. The contributors critique a range of content including historical documents, music, novels, paintings, performances, photography, poetry, and sculpture representing ancient Australian forests. Forest Family centers on the relationship between old-growth nature and human culture through the narrative strand of the Giblett family of Western Australia and the forests in which they settled during the nineteenth century. The volume will be of interest to general readers of environmental history, as well as scholars in critical plant studies and the environmental humanities.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9789004368651 :
2213-0659 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.