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Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher:
This study assesses the significance of the hunting cult as a major element of the imperial experience in Africa and Asia. Through a study of the game laws and
Language: en
Pages: 252
Pages: 252
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Stanford University Press
This collection of essays explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early-modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrume
Language: en
Pages: 225
Pages: 225
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-01 - Publisher: University of Texas Press
As Spain colonized the Americas during the sixteenth century, Spanish soldiers, bureaucrats, merchants, adventurers, physicians, ship pilots, and friars explore
Language: en
Pages: 608
Pages: 608
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-01 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
Completed in 1747, Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands was the first major illustrated publication on the flora and faun