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Peopling The World
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Author : Charlotte Sussman
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2020-04-24
Peopling The World written by Charlotte Sussman and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
A compelling study of views about population and demographic mobility in the British long eighteenth century In John Milton's Paradise Lost of 1667, Adam and Eve are promised they will produce a "race to fill the world," a thought that consoles them even after the trauma of the fall. By 1798, the idea that the world would one day be entirely filled by people had become, in Thomas Malthus's hands, a nightmarish vision. In Peopling the World, Charlotte Sussman asks how and why this shift took place. How did Britain's understanding of the value of reproduction, the vacancy of the planet, and the necessity of moving people around to fill its empty spaces change? Sussman addresses these questions through readings of texts by Malthus, Milton, Swift, Defoe, Goldsmith, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, and others, and by placing these authors in the context of debates about scientific innovation, emigration, cultural memory, and colonial settlement. Sussman argues that a shift in thinking about population and mobility occurred in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. Before that point, both political and literary texts were preoccupied with "useless" populations that could be made useful by being dispersed over Britain's domestic and colonial territories; after 1760, a concern with the depopulation caused by emigration began to take hold. She explains this change in terms of the interrelated developments of a labor theory of value, a new idea of national identity after the collapse of Britain's American empire, and a move from thinking of reproduction as a national resource to thinking of it as an individual choice. She places Malthus at the end of this history because he so decisively moved thinking about population away from a worldview in which there was always more space to be filled and toward the temporal inevitability of the whole world filling up with people.
The Oxford Handbook Of Archaeology
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Author : Barry W. Cunliffe
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2009
The Oxford Handbook Of Archaeology written by Barry W. Cunliffe and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Architecture categories.
This handbook provides an authoritative guide to the full range of archaeological activities past and present. It will give the reader a sense of the history of the subject and of the main theoretical debates, as well as a taste of the excitement generated by archeological exploration.
Exploration
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Author : Stewart Angas Weaver
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2015
Exploration written by Stewart Angas Weaver and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
This clear, succinct, and elegant contribution to the 'Very Short Introductions' series surveys the history of global exploration and assesses the motives, for good and ill, of those who undertook it. Stewart Weaver traces the history of exploration from the first explorers (including Polynesian and Micronesian peoples, the ancient Greeks, Marco Polo, and Ibn BattÐta), to the European discover of America, the Enlightenment and exploration (focusing on James Cook), and the race to the north and south poles
The Settlement Of The American Continents
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Author : C. Michael Barton
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2016-03-04
The Settlement Of The American Continents written by C. Michael Barton and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-04 with Social Science categories.
When many scholars are asked about early human settlement in the Americas, they might point to a handful of archaeological sites as evidence. Yet the process was not a simple one, and today there is no consistent argument favoring a particular scenario for the peopling of the New World. This book approaches the human settlement of the Americas from a biogeographical perspective in order to provide a better understanding of the mechanisms and consequences of this unique event. It considers many of the questions that continue to surround the peopling of the Western Hemisphere, focusing not on sites, dates, and artifacts but rather on theories and models that attempt to explain how the colonization occurred. Unlike other studies, this book draws on a wide range of disciplines—archaeology, human genetics and osteology, linguistics, ethnology, and ecology—to present the big picture of this migration. Its wide-ranging content considers who the Pleistocene settlers were and where they came from, their likely routes of migration, and the ecological role of these pioneers and the consequences of colonization. Comprehensive in both geographic and topical coverage, the contributions include an explanation of how the first inhabitants could have spread across North America within several centuries, the most comprehensive review of new mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome data relating to the colonization, and a critique of recent linguistic theories. Although the authors lean toward a conservative rather than an extreme chronology, this volume goes beyond the simplistic emphasis on dating that has dominated the debate so far to a concern with late Pleistocene forager adaptations and how foragers may have coped with a wide range of environmental and ecological factors. It offers researchers in this exciting field the most complete summary of current knowledge and provides non-specialists and general readers with new answers to the questions surrounding the origins of the first Americans.
The Journey From Eden
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Author : Brian M. Fagan
language : en
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Release Date : 1990
The Journey From Eden written by Brian M. Fagan and has been published by Thames & Hudson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Anthropology categories.
Discusses a controversial theory of common human ancestry in the form of one woman who lived in Africa approximately 150,000 years ago, and discusses the ways in which early humans evolved and spread out around the world
The Journey From Eden
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Author : Brian M. Fagan
language : en
Publisher: ACLS History E-Book Project
Release Date : 2012-01-01
The Journey From Eden written by Brian M. Fagan and has been published by ACLS History E-Book Project this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Science categories.
A history of Homo sapiens and the spread of humanity across the continents. Line illustrations are included.
The Peopling Of Planet Earth
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Author : Roy A. Gallant
language : en
Publisher: Atheneum
Release Date : 1990
The Peopling Of Planet Earth written by Roy A. Gallant and has been published by Atheneum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Homme - Évolution - Ouvrages pour la jeunesse categories.
Examines the impact of human population growth, discussing the origins of the human species, the rise of cities, migration to the new world, population trends, and the scarcity of natural resources.
Out Of Eden The Peopling Of The World
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Author : Stephen Oppenheimer
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-03-01
Out Of Eden The Peopling Of The World written by Stephen Oppenheimer and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-01 with Social Science categories.
In a brilliant synthesis of genetic, archaeological, linguistic and climatic data, Oppenheimer challenges current thinking with his claim that there was only one successful migration out of Africa. In 1988 Newsweek headlined the startling discovery that everyone alive on the earth today can trace their maternal DNA back to one woman who lived in Africa 150,000 years ago. It was thought that modern humans populated the world through a series of migratory waves from their African homeland. Now an even more radical view has emerged, that the members of just one group are the ancestors of all non-Africans now alive, and that this group crossed the mouth of the Red Sea a mere 85,000 years ago. It means that not only is every person on the planet descended from one African 'Eve' but every non-African is related to a more recent Eve, from that original migratory group. This is a revolutionary new theory about our origins that is both scholarly and entertaining, a remarkable account of the kinship of all humans. Further details of the findings in this book are presented at www.bradshawfoundation.com/stephenoppenheimer/
The Peopling Of British North America
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Author : Bernard Bailyn
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-06-08
The Peopling Of British North America written by Bernard Bailyn and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-08 with History categories.
In this introduction to his large-scale work The Peopling of British North America, Bernard Bailyn identifies central themes in a formative passage of our history: the transatlantic transfer of people from the Old World to the North American continent that formed the basis of American society. Voyagers to the West, which covers the British migration in the years just before the American Revolution and is the first major volume in the Peopling project, is also available from Vintage Books.
Ethnolinguistic Prehistory
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Author : George L. van Driem
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-05-25
Ethnolinguistic Prehistory written by George L. van Driem and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume provides the most up-to-date and holistic but compact account of the peopling of the world from the perspective of language, genes and material culture. The book provides detailed answers to the question of where we all came from.