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Hovenierskunst in palmet en pauwstaart.
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ISBN: 9069060175 Year: 1994 Publisher: Rotterdam De Hef

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An attractive treatment of the history of espalier fruit trees from the Middle Ages on and a handbook for the cultivation of trained trees. An unique combination of history, horticulture and techniques, illustrated with many reproductions of old engraving.


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Les propriétés collectives face aux attaques libérales (1750-1914) : Europe occidentale et Amérique latine
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ISBN: 2868478727 2753524343 9782868478726 Year: 2015 Publisher: Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes,

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Les recherches réunies dans ce volume donnent une vision renouvelée de la question des propriétés collectives, question jadis déformée par les passions avant d’être naguère oubliée, surtout en Europe. Les doctrines économiques libérales avaient jeté l’anathème sur ces terres qu’elles considéraient comme un obstacle au progrès, opinion confortée par les analyses marxistes. Aujourd’hui, les historiens essaient de se dégager du carcan idéologique. Ces terres suscitent de nouveau une réflexion théorique qui trouve sa place dans une réflexion globale sur la gestion de l’environnement et le concept d’agriculture durable. Les études rassemblées dans ce volume dressent un bilan, pays par pays, de cette histoire mal connue, et se risquent à une première confrontation des expériences européennes et latino-américaines, soulignant l’unité de ce phénomène malgré la grande diversité de ses rythmes et de ses résultats


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In the shadow of slavery
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ISBN: 128333187X 9786613331878 0520949536 9780520949539 9780520944855 0520944852 9781283331876 0520269969 9780520269965 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berkeley [Calif.] University of California Press

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The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. In the Shadow of Slavery provides a startling new assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops slaves were forced to produce to the foods they planted for their own nourishment. Many familiar foods-millet, sorghum, coffee, okra, watermelon, and the "Asian" long bean, for example-are native to Africa, while commercial products such as Coca Cola, Worcestershire Sauce, and Palmolive Soap rely on African plants that were brought to the Americas on slave ships as provisions, medicines, cordage, and bedding. In this exciting, original, and groundbreaking book, Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff draw on archaeological records, oral histories, and the accounts of slave ship captains to show how slaves' food plots-"botanical gardens of the dispossessed"-became the incubators of African survival in the Americas and Africanized the foodways of plantation societies.


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A shark going inland is my chief
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ISBN: 1282233920 9786613811660 0520953835 9780520953833 9781282233928 9780520273306 0520273303 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China Sea, archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch follows their voyages of discovery across the Pacific in this fascinating history of Hawaiian culture from about one thousand years ago. Combining more than four decades of his own research with Native Hawaiian oral traditions and the evidence of archaeology, Kirch puts a human face on the gradual rise to power of the Hawaiian god-kings, who by the late eighteenth century were locked in a series of wars for ultimate control of the entire archipelago.This lively, accessible chronicle works back from Captain James Cook's encounter with the pristine kingdom in 1778, when the British explorers encountered an island civilization governed by rulers who could not be gazed upon by common people. Interweaving anecdotes from his own widespread travel and extensive archaeological investigations into the broader historical narrative, Kirch shows how the early Polynesian settlers of Hawai'i adapted to this new island landscape and created highly productive agricultural systems.

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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. --- Hawaii --- Chavaē --- Gavaĭi --- Gavaĭskie Ostrova --- Gavaĭtæ --- H.I. --- HA --- Hahuai --- Hauaiʻi --- Haṿai Inzlen --- Havaiji --- Havajai --- Havajas --- Hawai-shū --- Hawaii Eyaleti --- Hawaii-Inseln --- Hawaii (Kingdom) --- Hawaii (Republic) --- Hawaii (State) --- Hawaii (Ter.) --- Hawaii (Territory) --- Hawaiian Islands --- Hawaiju --- Hawaje --- HI --- Khavai --- Kingdom of Hawaiʻi --- Mokuʻāina o Hawaiʻi --- Republic of Hawaii --- Shtat Havaï --- State of Hawaii --- Territory of Hawaii --- Tlahtohcāyōtl Hahuai --- Xiaweiyi --- Xiaweiyi Zhou --- Χαβάη --- Хаваји --- Хаваи --- Штат Гаваї --- Гавайтæ --- Гавайи --- Гаваї --- האוואי --- הוואי --- ハワイ --- ハワイ州 --- 夏威夷 --- 夏威夷州 --- 하와이 --- 하와이주 --- Civilization. --- Antiquities. --- History --- Environmental conditions. --- 18th century history. --- agriculture history. --- american indians. --- archaeologist books. --- archipelago history. --- books based on facts. --- books for history lovers. --- british history. --- captain james hook. --- distractions for kids. --- easy to read. --- engaging. --- european history. --- hawaiian culture. --- hawaiian religion. --- hawaiian tradition. --- history of hawaii. --- learning while reading. --- leisure reads. --- native american history. --- nonfiction history books. --- page turner. --- polynesian history. --- polynesian settlers. --- power struggle. --- south china sea. --- vacation books.

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