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The Equatorial Rain Forest

A Geological History

By: John R. Flenley

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The Equatorial Rain Forest: A Geological History presents the equatorial vegetation as a dynamic entity with varied and highly significant history. It also discusses other types of equatorial regions. It addresses the vegetational history from a palaeoecological viewpoint. Some of the topics covered in the book are the vegetation of equatorial regions; the prelude to the quaternary; the quaternary vegetation of equatorial Latin America; the quaternary vegetation of equatorial Africa; the cretaceous period; and the quaternary vegetation of equatorial indo-malesia. The value of vegetational history is fully covered. The effect of man on vegetation is discussed in detail. The text describes in depth the methods of studying vegetational history. The Paleocene, Eocene, and Oligocene epochs are presented completely. A chapter is devoted to the palynological evidence and synthesis. Another section focuses on the xeroseres, hydroseres and related successions. The book can provide useful information to botanists, geologists, students, and researchers.

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171

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Elsevier

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1483192547

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9781483192543

Unlocking the World

Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930

By: John Darwin

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Unlocking the World

Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930

By: John Darwin

From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world order Steam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the consequences of which we live with today. It revolutionized work and production, but also the ease and cost of movement over land and water. The result was to throw open vast areas of the world to the rampaging expansion of Europeans and Americans on a scale previously unimaginable. Unlocking the World is the captivating history of the great port cities which emerged as the bridgeheads of this new steam-driven economy, reshaping not just the trade and industry of the regions around them but their culture and politics as well. They were the agents of what we now call 'globalization', but their impact and influence, and the reactions they provoked, were far from predictable. Nor were they immune to the great upheavals in world politics across the 'steam century'. This book is global history at its very best. Packed with fascinating case histories (from New Orleans to Montreal, Bombay to Singapore, Calcutta to Shanghai), individual stories and original ideas, Darwin's book allows us, for better or worse, to see the modern age taking shape.

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496

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Penguin UK

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0141992808

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9780141992808

The Law of Treason in England in the Later Middle Ages

By: J. G. Bellamy,John G. Bellamy

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The Law of Treason in England in the Later Middle Ages

By: J. G. Bellamy,John G. Bellamy

Professor Bellamy places the theory of treason in its political setting and analyses the part it played in the development of legal and political thought in this period. He pays particular attention to the Statute of Treason of 1352, an act with a notable effect on later constitutional history and which, in the opinion of Edward Coke, had a legal importance second only to that of Magna Carta. He traces the English law of treason to Roman and Germanic origins, and discusses the development of royal attitudes towards rebellion, the judicial procedures used to try and condemn suspected traitors, and the interaction of the law of treason and constitutional ideas.

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290

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Cambridge University Press

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0521526388

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9780521526388

Collected Papers on English Legal History

By: John Baker

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Collected Papers on English Legal History

By: John Baker

Over the last forty years, Sir John Baker has written on most aspects of English legal history, and this collection of his writings includes many papers that have been widely cited. Providing points of reference and foundations for further research, the papers cover the legal profession, the inns of court and chancery, legal education, legal institutions, legal literature, legal antiquities, public law and individual liberty, criminal justice, private law (including contract, tort and restitution) and legal history in general. An introduction traces the development of some of the research represented by the papers, and cross-references and new endnotes have been added. A full bibliography of the author's works is also included.

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1908

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Cambridge University Press

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131610219X

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9781316102190

Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change

By: John Flenley,Mark Bush

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Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change

By: John Flenley,Mark Bush

This is the first book to examine how tropical rain forest ecology is altered by climate change, rather than simply seeing how plant communities were altered. The book’s goal is to provide a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests. It aims to investigate past, present, and future climatic influences on the ecosystems with the highest biodiversity on the planet.

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427

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540488421

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9783540488422

Piety and Politics in Britain, 14th–15th Centuries

The Essays of John A.F. Thomson

By: John A.F. Thomson,edited by Graeme Small

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Piety and Politics in Britain, 14th–15th Centuries

The Essays of John A.F. Thomson

By: John A.F. Thomson,edited by Graeme Small

This volume explores a range of topics during a turbulent period in British history, with particular emphasis on political change and popular piety. On the eve of the Reformation, religious beliefs were shaped by a church which was falling under the growing control of the state, and by responses to England's one and only heretical movement, Lollardy. In political life, gradual disengagement from a cross-Channel political world was followed by civil war and the eventual rise of a strong Tudor monarchy. As this volume demonstrates in a number of ways, the impact of many of these macro changes was felt across the British Isles, not just in England. But the studies presented here frequently explore major change through the experience of the middling sort: the gentry active in local government, the English merchants and Scottish immigrants making important life choices in major cities, or the industrious clerics charged with the routine administration of the church. By looking at the case studies of these men in more detail, we begin to appreciate that even in this age of great change, there were profound continuities which carried through into the sixteenth century. Along the way, too, new light is thrown on the authorship, date and redaction of texts which continue to shape our understanding of late medieval British history.

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192

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Taylor & Francis

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100094915X

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9781000949155

Concise Historical Atlas of Canada

By: Geoffrey J. Matthews,Conrad Heidenreich,Byron Moldofsky,Thomas F. McIlwraith,John Warkentin

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Concise Historical Atlas of Canada

By: Geoffrey J. Matthews,Conrad Heidenreich,Byron Moldofsky,Thomas F. McIlwraith,John Warkentin

A distillation of sixty-seven of the best and most important plates from the original three volumes of the bestselling of the Historical Atlas of Canada.

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212

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University of Toronto Press

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0802042031

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9780802042033

The Empire Project

The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970

By: John Darwin

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The Empire Project

The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970

By: John Darwin

The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was, above all, a global phenomenon. Its power derived rather less from the assertion of imperial authority than from the fusing together of three different kinds of empire: the settler empire of the 'white dominions'; the commercial empire of the City of London; and 'Greater India' which contributed markets, manpower and military muscle. This unprecedented history charts how this intricate imperial web was first strengthened, then weakened and finally severed on the rollercoaster of global economic, political and geostrategic upheaval on which it rode from beginning to end.

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815

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Cambridge University Press

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1139482149

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9781139482141

Henry VI and the Politics of Kingship

By: John Watts

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Henry VI and the Politics of Kingship

By: John Watts

A re-evaluation of politics and political structure in the reign of Henry VI (1422-61), first published in 1996.

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422

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Cambridge University Press

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0521653932

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9780521653930

Book's by John R. Flenley

The Equatorial Rain Forest

The Equatorial Rain Forest

Unlocking the World

Unlocking the World

The Law of Treason in England in the Later Middle Ages

The Law of Treason in England in the Later Middle Ages

Collected Papers on English Legal History

Collected Papers on English Legal History

Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change

Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change

Piety and Politics in Britain, 14th–15th Centuries

Piety and Politics in Britain, 14th–15th Centuries

Concise Historical Atlas of Canada

Concise Historical Atlas of Canada

The Empire Project

The Empire Project

Henry VI and the Politics of Kingship

Henry VI and the Politics of Kingship

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