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5 book(s) with the same title
The History of the Waldenses : connected with a Sketch of the Christian Church from the Birth of Christ to the Eighteen Century
London, Gale and Fenner, 1816. Two octavo volumes, XX-(4)-456 pp. and (6)-444-XLVIII-(12) pp., volume II uncut, (partially splited joints, some lackings on the spine).
Histoire des cathares Vaudois et Albigeois.Second edition. Frontispiece folded maps. Maria Forbes' bookplate.* Voir photographie(s) / See picture(s). * Membre du SLAM et de la LILA / ILAB Member. La librairie est ouverte sur rendez-vous.
Global History of Techniques. (Nineteenth to Twenty-First Centuries)
, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 781 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:37 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503591513.
Summary It is impossible to understand societies without looking at their technological underpinnings. Technology constitutes the very fabric of societies' political, economic, cultural, and everyday realities. Building on recent historiography, this book offers the first overview of the global history of contemporary technology. Gathering more than fifty specialists of the history of technology, the collection of essays presents an overview of technological evolutions on a global scale. The book challenges both teleological approaches on progress and eurocentric perspectives. It explores the complex socio-economic implications of ?techniques' (and not simply technology) as well as the systems of representation and power structures that led to the emergence of today's world. The purpose of the collected essays is to offer a new history of technology. In this perspective, a central question concerns the very category of the history of technology, i.e. the term ?technology' itself. Refusing both the limitations of ?technology' and of ?useful knowledge', the book stresses the necessity to study technology as embodying human activity as a whole. In that sense, history of technology, envisioned as techniques rather than purely technologies, is intrinsically linked to anthropology and ethnology. This book is divided into three sections. The first section opens with a world tour of techniques, restoring the complexity of regional historiographies and of the meanings given to technological activities in different societies. The second part focuses on sectors of activity, processes, and products with a strong emphasis on means of production and communication, the exploitation of natural resources, major technological systems, infrastructures and networks. The final section provides access to major cross-related issues. It pays particular attention to the role played by technology/techniques in the process of globalization, particularly through colonization, imperialism, and the development of large technological systems. TABLE OF CONTENTS Global History of Techniques, Globalization of the History of Techniques, by Guillaume Carnino, Liliane Hilaire-P rez, J r me Lamy Part 1: Techniques Across the World Introduction, by Liliane Hilaire-P rez From the ?Stone Age' to the Digital Era: Techniques in Oceania, a Brief Historiography (19th-21st centuries), by Marie Durand The Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries: At the Crossroads of Technological Continuity and Sudden Western Modernity, by Elisabeth Mortier Integration Process of Science and Technology, between Dependence and the Desire to Innovate: the Case of Maghreb, by Yamina Bettahar Technology and Modernisation in East Asia: What Dragons Can Teach us about Global History, by Francesca Bray, Alexandra Kobiljski Framing the History of Technology in India: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age, by Dhruv Raina, Om Prasad, Nayani Sarma African Technological Pasts since 1800, by Joshua Grace Central European Historical Writing on Technology, from 1945 to the Present Day: Institutional Contexts and Directions of Research, by Jawad Daheur Unpacking ?Eurocentric' Technology Discourses ?Back Home': Technology and Societal Challenges in Western Europe, by Erik van der Vleuten The Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and Post-socialist Russia, 19th century-early 21st century, by Elena Kochetkova, Julia Obertreis Technology in North America: Nation Building, Industrialization, and Technoscience, by J r me Baudry Latin America in the Global History of Technology, by David Pretel Part 2: Artefacts, Processes, Sectors Introduction, by Guillaume Carnino Technology and its Temporalities, a Global Perspective, by Jonas van der Straeten, Heike Waltraud Weber Mining and Extractive Industries: Prospecting, Extracting, And Post-mining Techniques in the Anthropocene Era, by Kevin Troch Heavy Industries, from Steel and Molecules to the Cloud, by Florence Hachez-Leroy Energy in the History of Technology, by Mahdi Khelfaoui, Ana l Marrec Aeronautics and Aerospace: Globalization and Technical Junctions, by J r me Lamy, Arnaud Saint-Martin Mobility Techniques: Objects and Supports of Transfers, by Arnaud Passalacqua Sailing and Fishing: when Technical Innovation Reshaped the Seas, by G raldine Barron, Julia Lajus Water Harnessed by Industry: Hydraulic Technology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, by Rapha l Morera, Elisabeth Mortier Food Technology: Food Preservation, Packaging and Transport, by Ludovic Laloux Four Examples of Transformations of Agricultural Techniques from the 19th to the Beginning of the 21st century, by Fabien Knittel Electrifying Information: Global Telecommunication Technologies 19th-21st centuries, by Vincent Kuitenbrouwer From Calculators to Datacenters: History of Industrial Computing and Quantification, by Guillaume Carnino From Banking Computerization to Fintech: The Digital Revolution in Banking (1950s-1990s), by Sabine Effosse, Laure Quennouelle-Corre Two Centuries of Technical Progress in Civil Engineering and Construction: A Few Lines of Strength, by Dominique Barjot The Factory of Desire: Textiles and Techniques (19th-21st centuries), by Audrey Millet Part 3: Cross-cutting Issues Introduction, by J r me Lamy Technology as a Human Science, by Liliane Hilaire-P rez Laboratory Techniques, by Joris Mercelis Big Science and Technological Transformations, by Olof Hallonsten Technique and Law, by Alessandro Nuvolari, Caterina Sganga Training and Technological Education, by St phane Lembr Prometheus Unbound: War and Technology from 1800 to Globalisation, by Patrice Bret Taylorism, by Patrick Fridenson Conflicts and Controversies over Techniques, by Fran ois Jarrige Body Techniques and the Search for Human Perfection: From the Regeneration of the Social Body to the Injunction to Surpass Oneself, by Cecilia Calheiros Thinking the Co-constitution of Gender and Technology from a Feminist Perspective, by Virginie Julliard Technologies of Art and Culture: Film and Sound, by Martine Beugnet, Mathieu Duplay A Short and Reflexive History of Everyday Life Technologies, Late 18th-21st Centuries, by Gil Bartholeyns, Manuel Charpy Technology, Pollution, and Environment, by Soraya Boudia, Nathalie Jas Repair, Recycling and Waste, by Thierry Bonnot, Michel Lett
Studies in the History of Istanbul Jewry, 1453-1923 A Journey through Civilizations
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2015 Hardback.XIV+518 p., 55 b/w ill. + 8 colour ill., 12 b/w tables, 15 b/w line art, 156 x 234 mm, 2015 Languages: English. ISBN 9782503541761.
A cross-cultural and cross-temporal journey in the city of Istanbul and its Jewish community from the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (1453) to the establishment of the Turkish Republic (1923). This book presents ten chapters in the history of the Jewish community of Istanbul from the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (1453) to the establishment of the Turkish Republic (1923). While delving into specific subjects such as the Romaniot presence in the city, the Karaite society, family life throughout the generations, material culture and its meaning, social life, urban history, economic life, and relations with the Ottoman regime, a common thread binds all of them. Each of the chapters, individually and together, constitutes a journey between different cultures and religions. The history of Istanbul?s Jews carries the imprint of Greek Orthodoxy and Catholicism, as well as Islam. It moves in cycles between the Byzantine and Ottoman realms, between Catholic Europe and the Muslim Ottoman Empire, and finally, between the Ottoman Jewish culture and a modern Europe in the throes of secularization. Over fifty images are included to illustrate the multicultural aspect of the history presented here. The essays in this volume present high quality scholarship, but equally they provide a fascinating insight to general readers with an interest in Constantinople-Istanbul-Qosta, as well as readers interested in Jewish urban history, the transmission of culture, and multiculturalism. Prof. Minna Rozen teaches Jewish History and Philosophy of History at the University of Haifa. She specializes in the history of the early modern and modern Mediterranean and has published extensively in this field. Prof. Rozen has initiated and conducted a number of documentation and digitization projects of Jewish archives, cemeteries and synagogues in Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria, and she is currently working on the establishment of an online, searchable database of digital archives of Jewish tombstones from Turkey.
History of the Inductive Sciences. From the Earliest to the Present Times. In three volumes. + The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon their History. In two volumes. Five volumes in all. - [COINING THE TERM ""SCIENTIST""]
London, 1837 + London, 1840. Five volumes 8vo. Bound in five contemporary, uniform brown half calf bindings (The Philosophy...-volumes slightly darker brown) with raised bands and gilt spines. Marbled edges. A bit of light edge-wear, but overall very fine and fresh. Some marginal pencil markings to first part of vol. 1 of ""The Philosophy..."", otherwise also internally very nice and clean. All five volumes with the same engraved amorial bookplate to inside of front boards. A very nice, uniform set of the five volumes that make up the two works. XXXVI, 437, (3)" XI, (1), VI pp., pp. (7)-534, (2) XII, 624 pp. + CXX, 523, (1)" IV, 586 pp. + folded plate.
Uncommon first editions of both these splendid works (the ""Philosophy"" is particularly scarce), Whewell's two main works, both seminal in the history of science and philosophy of science. The first of the two works, the ""History"" is considered ""one of the important surveys of science from the Greeks to the nineteenth century"" (DSB), and it is in the second of them, ""The Philosophy..."" - ""one of the masterpieces of Victorian philosophy of science"" (DSB) - that he coins the word ""scientist"", to describe a cultivator of science in general. “William Whewell (1794–1866) was one of the most important and influential figures in nineteenth-century Britain. Whewell, a polymath, wrote extensively on numerous subjects, including mechanics, mineralogy, geology, astronomy, political economy, theology, educational reform, international law, and architecture, as well as the works that remain the most well-known today in philosophy of science, history of science, and moral philosophy. He was one of the founding members and a president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the Royal Society, president of the Geological Society, and longtime Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In his own time his influence was acknowledged by the major scientists of the day, such as John Herschel, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell and Michael Faraday, who frequently turned to Whewell for philosophical and scientific advice, and, interestingly, for terminological assistance. Whewell invented the terms “anode,” “cathode,” and “ion” for Faraday. In response to a challenge by the poet S.T. Coleridge in 1833, Whewell invented the English word “scientist""” before this time the only terms in use in that language were “natural philosopher” and “man of science”.” (SEP). ""First published in 1840, this two-volume treatise by Cambridge polymath William Whewell (1794-1886) remains significant in the philosophy of science. The work was intended as the 'moral' to his three-volume History of the Inductive Sciences (1837)... Building on philosophical foundations laid by Immanuel Kant and Francis Bacon, Whewell opens with the aphorism 'Man is the Interpreter of Nature, Science the right interpretation'. Volume 1 contains the majority of Whewell's section on 'ideas', in which he investigates the philosophy underlying a range of different disciplines, including pure, classificatory and mechanical sciences. Whewell's work upholds throughout his belief that the mind was active and not merely a passive receiver of knowledge from the world. A key text in Victorian epistemological debates, notably challenged by John Stuart Mill and his System of Logic, Whewell's treatise merits continued study and discussion in the present day."" (Cambridge University Press). ""From the late 1830's until his death, Whewell worked mainly in the history and philosophy of science. His three-volume ""History of the Inductive Sciences"" appeared in 1837" in 1838 he was appointed professor of moral philosophy" and the first edition of his two-volume ""The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History"" was published in 1840. Both the ""History"" and the ""Philosophy"" were ambitious works, and together they constitute Whewell's major scholarly achievement. The ""History"" had no rivals in its day and remains, despite unevenness, one of the important surveys of science from the Greeks to the nineteenth century. Whewell appreciated the importance of Greek science, especially astronomy, but showed typical disregard for the contributions of medieval scientists. His assessment of the importance of contributions of such major figures as Galileo and Descartes suffers from a heavy intrusion of religious and philosophical biases. But his treatment of Newton and other modern mathematical scientists is fair and sometime brilliant, and is based throughout upon detailed considerations of texts. Wheweel's ""Philosophy"" stimulated major philosophical exchanges between its author and Sir John Herschel, Augustus De Morgan, Henry L. Mansel, and John Stuart Mill. Alongside Mill's ""System of Logic"" and Herschel's ""Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy"", the work ranks as one of the masterpieces of Victorian philosophy of science. Whewell's effort in these works was unique in his attempt to derive a philosophy of science from the general features of the historical development of empirical science. The importance of this attempt has not been fully appreciated. Whewell thought that the history of science displayed a progressive movement from less to more general theories, from imperfectly understood facts to basic sciences built upon a priori foundations that he called ""Fundamental Ideas."" All science was theoretical in that no body of data comes to us selforganized"" even collection of data involves the imposition of a guiding interpretive idea. Major advances in science occur in what Whewell called an ""Inductive Epoch,"" a period in which the basic ideas of a science are well understood by one or more scientists, and in which the generality and explanatory power of a science are seen to be much more illuminating than those of rival theories. Each such ""Epoch"" had a ""Prelude,"" a period in which older theories experienced difficulties and new ideas were seen to be required, and a ""Sequel,"" a period in which the new theory was applied and refined. Largely ignoring the British tradition of empiricist philosophy and methodology, Whewell erected a philosophy of science upon his understanding of history that derived partly from Kant and Plato, and partly from an anachronistic theological position. Like his British predecessors, he thought that induction was the basic method of science. He understood induction not as a form of inference from particulars to generalizations, but as a conceptual act of coming to see that a group of data can best be understood and organized (his term was ""colligated"") under a certain idea. Furthermore, induction was demonstrative in that it yields necessary truths, propositions the logical opposites of which cannot be clearly conceived. The zenith of the inductive process was reached when a ""consilience of inductions"" took place-when sets of data previously considered disjoint came to be seen as derivable from the same, much richer theory. Although Whewell thought that the paradigm form of a scientific theory was deductive, he departed from the orthodox hypothetico-deductivist view of science by claiming that tests of the acceptability of given theories are extraevidential, based on considerations of simplicity and consilience. He made some attempt to justify the necessity of the conclusions that induction yields by arguing for the identity of facts and theories, and for the theological view that we know the world the way it is because that is the way God made it. In physical astronomy Whewell's work on the tides ranks second only to that of Newton. Also of great importance was his lifelong effort to modernize and improve science education at Cambridge. The achievement in history and philosophy of science probably is less significant, although recent revival of interest in Whewell has centered mainly upon his insights in philosophy of science and methodology. Interest is growing in the interrelations of history and philosophy of science"" and so long as this interest continues to be fruitful, it will be well worthwhile considering what Whewell had to say on the nature of scientific discovery, inductive methodology, and the characteristics of scientific progress."" (DSB, XIV, pp 293-94)
The History of Argentina (Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations)
GREENWOOD PUB GROUP 2001 214 pages 16 26x2 46x24 21cm. 2001. Relié. 214 pages.
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