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At the outset of the twentieth century, Antarctica was scarcely explored or understood. Penetrating the pack ice in the purpose-built Discovery, the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-4) established a base in McMurdo Sound, enabling scientists and sledging parties to significantly push back the boundaries of the unknown. Published in 1905, this acclaimed two-volume work by the naval officer and expedition leader Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) recounts the trials, errors and achievements of an undertaking which laid the foundations for future research and Scott's later journey to the South Pole. The work is greatly enhanced by many photographs as well as illustrations by the doctor, zoologist and artist Edward A. Wilson (1872-1912). Volume 1 traces the expedition's preparatory phases and the voyage from England to Antarctica via New Zealand. Scott discusses the location of winter quarters and the first polar winter. Chapters on sledging conclude the volume.
Antarctica --- History
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At the outset of the twentieth century, Antarctica was scarcely explored or understood. Penetrating the pack ice in the purpose-built Discovery, the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-4) established a base in McMurdo Sound, enabling scientists and sledging parties to significantly push back the boundaries of the unknown. Published in 1905, this acclaimed two-volume work by the naval officer and expedition leader Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) recounts the trials, errors and achievements of an undertaking which laid the foundations for future research and Scott's later journey to the South Pole. The work is greatly enhanced by many photographs as well as illustrations by the doctor, zoologist and artist Edward A. Wilson (1872-1912). Volume 2 opens with the sledging journey made by Scott, Wilson and Ernest Shackleton which reached an unprecedented southern latitude. A second polar winter and further sledging exploits are also described. The appendices contain geological and zoological findings.
Antarctica --- History
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This volume of the Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Appalachian Studies Conference, held in 1981, offers a collection of some of the more important papers presented at the conference. Paper topics include labor and the economy; land in Appalachia; urban Appalachia; education; and values and culture.
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Not much is known about the life of William T. Kilgour, apart from the fact that in the late nineteenth century he spent two decades as an irregular member of staff at the meteorological observatory on Ben Nevis. In 1905, a year after the observatory closed due to lack of funds, Kilgour published this account of his experiences, including some of 'the more outstanding incidents inseparable from an existence spent at such an altitude', both as a chronicle of life on the mountain and to encourage the public to support the reopening of the observatory. The text is illustrated with several photographs of the striking natural surroundings as well as images of the meteorologists working and relaxing at the inhospitably located station. The result is an accessible and charming record of scientific life on Britain's highest peak around the turn of the century.
Meteorology --- Scotland --- Science --- History
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Natural history --- Sciences naturelles --- Natural history. --- History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Biology --- Science
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Richard Hakluyt (1552?-1616) was fascinated from his earliest years by stories of strange lands and voyages of exploration. A priest by profession, he was also an indefatigable editor and translator of geographical accounts, and a propagandist for English expeditions to claim new lands, especially in the Americas. His most famous work was first published in 1589, and expanded in 1598-1600: reissued here is the twelve-volume edition prepared by the Scottish firm of James MacLehose and Sons and first published between 1903 and 1905, which included introductory essays and notes. Hakluyt's subjects range from transcriptions of personal accounts and 'ruttiers' (descriptive charts of voyages) to patriotic attacks against rival nations (especially Spain). Volume 12 contains an essay on sixteenth-century voyages by the scholar Walter Raleigh (1861-1922), a general index to all the volumes, and an index to the individual ships referred to.
Discoveries In Geography --- Voyages And Travels --- History --- Travel
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History, Ancient --- Histoire ancienne --- Periodicals. --- Périodiques --- Klassieke oudheid. --- History, Ancient. --- To 323 --- Greece --- Rome --- Greece. --- Rome (Empire) --- History --- Ancient Civilisations --- History (General) --- 27 <05> --- 937/938 --- #TS:KOMA --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Tijdschriften --- Geschiedenis van de Klassieke Oudheid --- Periodicals --- Arts and Humanities --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- 937/938 Geschiedenis van de Klassieke Oudheid --- Périodiques --- DEGREGLO-E EJHISTO EPUB-ALPHA-K EPUB-PER-FT --- History, Ancient - Periodicals --- Greece - History - To 146 B.C. - Periodicals --- Greece - History - 146 B.C.-323 A.D. - Periodicals
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The records of the medieval English courts were compiled into manuscript 'year books', organised by regnal year of the monarch, and further subdivided into the four law terms. The year books of the reign of Edward III (1312-77), beginning at the eleventh year (1337) and continuing to the twentieth (1346), were to have been edited for the Rolls Series by Alfred Horwood (1821-81), who had previously edited the year books of Edward I, but he died while the first volume was in proof. The work was taken over by L. O. Pike (1835-1915), the set of fifteen books being published between 1883 and 1911. (Horwood chose his start date because the year books of Edward II and the first part of the reign of Edward III already existed in modern editions.) This volume contains reports from Michaelmas Term, 18 Edward III, to Hilary Term, 19 Edward III.
Edward Iii, King Of England, 1312-1377 --- Great Britain --- Biography & Autobiography --- History
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Parler de chiffres en histoire de l’art est souvent malvenu, car cela semble considérer que l’on pourrait codifier des données dont on aime à penser qu’elles relèvent de l’immesurable, de l’insondable, du spirituel : « On ne met pas la beauté en boîte. » Mais pourquoi ? On met bien les tableaux dans des cadres, sur des murs et dans des musées, et on sait bien aussi que les œuvres d’art vivent d’abord par leur rang dans un classement élaboré depuis des siècles, dont les musées et les histoires de l’art, mais surtout le marché, sont les meilleurs comptables. Cette question préoccupait depuis plusieurs années les participants du séminaire « Art et Mesure », tenu à l’École normale supérieure, à l’Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, depuis 2006 : aucun n’aurait jugé honnête de ne pas reconnaître ce qu’apportait l’approche quantitative à ses recherches – et d’abord la constitution d’une base de données rigoureuse. Les premiers travaux ayant abouti à un numéro spécial de la revue Histoire et Mesure (déc. 2008), le présent volume va plus loin : il réunit, outre des historiens, des économistes, des sociologues, des mathématiciens, des statisticiens. Il se veut un outil de travail pour les historiens de l’art qui souhaiteraient, en cohérence avec les questions suscitées par leur objet de recherche, passer par l’analyse quantitative, qu’elle soit très simple ou plus raffinée. Les articles qu’il contient proposent, à partir des exemples les plus divers, une approche très méthodique de l’analyse quantitative, qui vise d’abord à faire comprendre ce qu’est une base de données, comment il faut la construire et ce qu’elle peut apporter. Mais on a veillé à ce que les auteurs ne se dérobent pas à la question heuristique des effets du chiffre sur l’interprétation des arts… L’ouvrage s’articule ainsi en trois grandes parties : « L’approche quantitative est-elle utile à l’histoire de l’art ? », « De la sociologie à l’histoire de l’art » et « Défis pour l’approche métrique ».…
Art, French --- History --- Art --- histoire de l’art --- analyse quantitative --- marché de l’art
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Describes the society and the institutions that went down during the Civil War and Reconstruction and the internal conditions of Alabama during the war. Emphasizes the social and economic problems in the general situation, as well as the educational, religious, and industrial aspects of the period.
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