Cornell's High School Geography

Cornell's High School Geography
Author: Sarah S. Cornell
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2023-10-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3375163630

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

Civilization and Enlightenment

Civilization and Enlightenment
Author: Albert M. Craig
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2009-01-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674031081

The Scottish enlightenment and the stages of civilization -- American geography textbooks -- John Hill Burton's Political economy -- Invention, the engine of progress -- An outline of theories of civilization -- Reflections.

U.S. Women Writers and the Discourses of Colonialism, 1825-1861

U.S. Women Writers and the Discourses of Colonialism, 1825-1861
Author: Etsuko Taketani
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781572332270

An overdue examination of widely marginalized writings by women of the American antebellum period, U.S. Women Writers presents a new model for evaluating U.S. relations and interactions with foreign countries in the colonial and postcolonial periods by examining the ways in which women writers were both proponents of colonialization and subversive agents for change. Etsuko Taketani explores attempts to inculcate imperialist values through education in the works of Lydia Maria Child, Sarah Tuttle, Catherine Beecher, and others and the results of viewing the world through these values, as reflected in the writings of Harriet low, Emily Judson, and Sarah hale. Many of the texts Taketani uncovers from relative obscurity illuminate the American attitude toward others whether Native American, African American, African, or Asian. She not only sheds lights on the life of the writers she examines, but she also situates each writer s works alongside those of her contemporaries to give the reader a clear picture of the cultural context. The Author: Etsuko Taketani is associate professor of English in the Institute of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Her articles have appeared in American Literary History, Children s Literature, Melville Society Extracts, and other publications. "

Women in American Cartography

Women in American Cartography
Author: Judith Tyner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2019-11-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 149854830X

Although women have been involved in mapping throughout history, their story has largely been hidden. The standard histories of cartography have focused on men. A woman’s name is rarely found. In Women in American Cartography, Judith Tyner argues that women were not deliberately erased but overlooked because of the types of maps they made and the jobs they held.Tyner looks at over fifty women exemplars in American cartography and their maps. She looks at teachers who made school atlases in the early nineteenth century; at pictorial mapmakers and book illustrators who created popular maps; at women who pioneered social and persuasive mapping, promoting causes such as suffrage; at women travelers who recorded their trips and mapped unexplored places; at women whose maps helped win Word War II; at women academics who studied, taught, and wrote about cartographic theory at colleges and universities; and at women who worked in government agencies and commercial mapping companies. These are just a few of the stories of women in American cartography.

International Perspectives on Translation, Education and Innovation in Japanese and Korean Societies

International Perspectives on Translation, Education and Innovation in Japanese and Korean Societies
Author: David G. Hebert
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2018-03-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319684345

This book studies the three concepts of translation, education and innovation from a Nordic and international perspective on Japanese and Korean societies. It presents findings from pioneering research into cultural translation, Japanese and Korean linguistics, urban development, traditional arts, and related fields. Across recent decades, Northern European scholars have shown increasing interest in East Asia. Even though they are situated on opposite sides of the Eurasia landmass, the Nordic nations have a great deal in common with Japan and Korea, including vibrant cultural traditions, strong educational systems, and productive social democratic economies. Taking a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach, and in addition to the examination of the three key concepts, the book explores several additional intersecting themes, including sustainability, nature, humour, aesthetics, cultural survival and social change, discourse and representation. This book offers a collection of original interdisciplinary research from the 25th anniversary conference of the Nordic Association for Japanese and Korean Studies (2013). Its 21 chapters are divided into five parts according to interdisciplinary themes: Translational Issues in Literature, Analyses of Korean and Japanese Languages, Language Education, Innovation and New Perspectives on Culture, and The Arts in Innovative Societies.