The Antipodean Laboratory

Author : Anna Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009186906
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Antipodean Laboratory written by Anna Johnston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnston shows how colonial knowledge from Australia influenced global thinking about religion, science, and society. Using a rich variety of sources including botanical illustrations, Victorian literature and convict memoirs, this multi-disciplinary study charts how new ways of identifying ideas were forged and circulated between colonies.

Author : Anna Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009195921
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Antipodean Laboratory written by Anna Johnston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnston shows how colonial knowledge from Australia influenced global thinking about religion, science, and society. Using a rich variety of sources including botanical illustrations, Victorian literature and convict memoirs, this multi-disciplinary study charts how new ways of identifying ideas were forged and circulated between colonies.

Author : Kate Fullagar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443838063
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Atlantic World in the Antipodes written by Kate Fullagar and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays stems from a John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures. Held over two years, the seminar investigated the effects and transformations of ideas, peoples, and institutions from the Atlantic World when carried into the Antipodes. The papers presented in this volume distil some of the key themes to emerge from discussion, each demonstrating the complexity with which discourses and practices operated in the Indo-Pacific oceanic region. Some had unexpected effects, others underwent profound transformation. Always they were changed by the ideas, peoples, and institutions of the Antipodes. Combined, the chapters underscore the ways in which both oceanic worlds were co-produced through a variety of intellectual and practical interactions over the modern period. Essays by leading Pacific scholars such as Margaret Jolly, Anita Herle, and Katerina Teaiwa are joined by essays from key scholars of various regions in the Atlantic World such as Simon Schaffer, Iain McCalman, Sheila Fitzpatrick, and Michael McDonnell, as well as interventions by the new transnationalist breed of Australian historians, led by Alison Bashford and Ann Curthoys.

Author : Peter J. Coleman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Progressivism and the World of Reform written by Peter J. Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major reinterpretation of the Progressive era, Peter Coleman argues that the American welfare state had its origins in what he calls the "world-wide crisis of capitalism." Here and abroad, reformers, no longer content to treat the symptoms of distress, sought to achieve social, political, and economic justice by abandoning laissez faire in favor of governmental intervention. This study thoroughly documents the external forces that shaped the American Progressive movement and shows that the reformers' agenda for change drew heavily on foreign ideas and models as well as the American reform tradition. Tracing the international cross-currents of reform ideas, Coleman demonstrates that for nearly three decades American reformers of every stripe regarded the Australasian colonies, especially New Zealand, as examples of what the United States could become. Thus inspired, American reformers worked for such goals as wage-and-hour legislation for women, abolition of child labor, workmen's compensation laws, compulsory arbitration of labor disputes, land reform, cheap loans for farmers, old-age pensions, and infant and maternal care programs. Through these and other measures that touched all aspects of the nation's life, the role of government was enlarged. By placing progressivism within an international context, Coleman deepens our understanding of a phenomenon previously seen as distinctively American, thereby clarifying both the substance and process of change in this country. He also argues that in the Progressive era can be seen the origins of the regulations and mixed economy of the modern welfare state.

Author : John Michels (Journalist)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science written by John Michels (Journalist) and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1911-13 contain the Proceedings of the Helminothological Society of Washington, ISSN 0018-0120, 1st-15th meeting.

Author : Andrew N. Porter
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1088 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bibliography of Imperial, Colonial, and Commonwealth History Since 1600 written by Andrew N. Porter and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's overseas history has never been well supplied with comprehensive bibliographical aids, and, despite extensive public interest in the subject, the position has steadily worsened. Following the recent Oxford History of the British Empire, this volume is therefore designed to provide a general source of reference and bibliographical guidance, at once wide-ranging, up-to-date, and accessible.

Author : University of Cambridge. Physiological Laboratory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies from the Physiological Laboratory in the University of Cambridge written by University of Cambridge. Physiological Laboratory and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Schachner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Workers Paradise? written by Robert Schachner and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the letters of a German professor of political economy who studied Australia's labour movement first hand by working as a shearing rousebout, a gold miner, a factory labourer and a coal miner. Includes an afterword by the author's son, appendices, supplementary notes and a bibliography.

Author : Royal Society (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society written by Royal Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jan Anthony Witkowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781621821083
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road to Discovery written by Jan Anthony Witkowski and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Road to Discovery: A Short History of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory was published in 2015 to mark the 125th anniversary of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. At Cold Spring Harbor, in a bucolic setting on the north shore of New York's Long Island, two interdependent research centers in biology were founded as Charles Darwin's insights into heredity and evolution shook the world of science. Fifty years later, those centers would emerge as a single institution that would cradle another revolution, the new science of molecular biology, and advance to world renown in research and professional education. It is a remarkable story, with a path of progress that was neither simple nor assured. The Road to Discovery traces half a century of changes in name, leadership, governance, and financial fortune. And scientific missteps, most notoriously in eugenics, were triumphed by innovative work in genetics, human metabolism, and cancer. From the 1940s through the 1960s, the Laboratory was home to fundamental discoveries about the nature of genetic material and a cauldron of critical assessment of ideas about genes by sharp-tongued summer visitors. James D. Watson, a junior member of that group, would go on to deduce the structure of DNA with Francis Crick in 1953 and help create the new field of molecular genetics before returning to Cold Spring Harbor as Director 15 years later. As the book shows, his "Bold Plan" would inspire, cajole, and goad into existence an era of expansion, new research directions, and initiatives in conferences, courses, publishing, and education that redefined the scope of the Laboratory. Under Bruce Stillman's leadership, that scope has grown still more, making the Laboratory unique among research institutions worldwide--envied, imitated, but not reproduced. The book's author is the science historian Jan Witkowski. His knowledge of the subject is wide and his affection for it deep. He brings to his task insights that only a decades-long career as a staff member can provide. For over a century, the Laboratory has been influenced by exceptional personalities, outstanding achievements, and dramatic events. The Road to Discovery captures that history in a lively narrative illuminated by vignettes on the importance of individual scientists and their discoveries. Abundantly documented with material from the Laboratory's archives, it is an accessible book that will appeal to anyone interested in the development of biomedical science and biotechnology through the 20th century to the present day.