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Plus ultra: Coloniality and the mapping of American natureculture in the empire of Philip II
No full textThis article studies the mapping of American natureculture in early Spanish colonial history by focusing on the critical aspects of media and anthropogenic altering of natural habitats as a discursive practice. The case of Francisco Hernández, General Physician of The Indies and director of the first scientific expedition 1570-1577, provides the base for a critical discussion of the onto-epistemology of the mapping impulse in early modern media. Hernández was sent out by Philip II to produce a natural history of the new world which resulted in over 20 volumes of text and illustrations. He also sent back a large number of plants and animals across the Atlantic. Simultaneously, the cosmographers at the Casa de Contratación in Seville were working on the same mapping project from a distance, using surveys to gather quantified data known as Relaciones geográficas. The decade of 1570-1580 in particular saw an intense activity of media practices of mapping the new world under the rule of Philip II, who became known as the paper king. He adopted the motto ‘Plus ultra’, meaning ‘further still’ in Latin, as an emblem of his transatlantic empire that came to reach over to the Pacific and the Philippines. The article draws on recent developments of media theory and environmental humanities and discusses how the colonial enterprise processed the geobotanical intervention associated with resource exploitation. It analyses the process, storage, and transmission of information and its material underpinnings and also draws on discussions of coloniality
Philip Chol Gai
No full textabstract: In 1987, Philip escaped the war before it reached his village. He was tending to the cattle and the goats when he saw smoke and fire coming from the war.
“Lost Boys Found” is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that is collecting, recording and archiving the oral histories of the Lost Boys/Girls of Sudan. The collection is a work-in-progress, seeking to record the oral history of as many Lost Boys/Girls as are willing, and will be used in a future book.Age: 26Region: Upper NileThis picture and bio was donated to the Lost Boys Found project from The Arizona Lost Boys Cente
Interview with Philip Gerard
No full textInterview with Philip Gerard, author and professor of creative writing at UNCW. Here, he discusses his background and education, the founding and structure of UNCW's MFA in Creative Writing program, and the concerns of memoir and creative nonfiction
A policy for Australia. Philip Methven
No full texttag=1 data=A policy for Australia. Philip Methven
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tag=3 data=Asia-Pacific Defence Reporter,
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tag=6 data=February/March 1993
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tag=10 data=The five power defence arrangements and military co-operation among the ASEAN states, the author proposes the development of further bilateral and intra-regional initiatives.
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tag=13 data=CABThe five power defence arrangements and military co-operation among the ASEAN states, the author proposes the development of further bilateral and intra-regional initiatives
November 21, 2007: Philip Pullman--Author of Hallowed Secularism?
No full textPhilip Pullman--Author of Hallowed Secularism
Motion and mobility in the realist novels of Philip K Dick
No full textThis essay explores the ways that ideas of motion and mobility support readings of Philip K Dick's early novels that take full account of the changing geographical context. They are set during a period of rapid suburban expansion, the building of the interstate and the spread of automobility through car ownership, and their characters frequently exist in a state between continuity through conformity and the potential for change. The open ended forms of the novels reflect a world around Dick that was still under construction, and where alternative realities can be glimpsed between incomplete materialities
Philip Shawcross
No full textPhilip Shawcross has a BA Honours degree from the University of Manchester, a teaching degree and a Masters from the University of Toulouse and a BTS in Translation. He worked as a training consultant within Aeroformation (Airbus Training) from 1972 to 1986 and the Air France Group from 1976 to 2008. He developed his first Aviation English course in 1974 and, with Fiona Robertson, co-founded ICAEA in 1991, being president from 2007 to 2013. He is the author of English for Aircraft (Editions Belin) and Flightpath (CUP). He is still involved in courseware development and teacher training.https://commons.erau.edu/icaea-workshop-images/1006/thumbnail.jp
Philip Livingston to Susannah Kean, April 24, 1795
No full textPhilip Livingston in New York, NY wrote to Susan Kean, addressed to Philadelphia, PA. The author discussed business with Susan and his illness. People included: Morris, Mr. [Thomas].https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/lhc_1790s/1251/thumbnail.jp
Philip Strong letter to Reuben Wood, January 27, 1852
No full textLegal correspondence written by Philip Strong to Governor Reuben Wood regarding a warrant to arrest Peyton Polly, dated January 27, 1852.
Reuben Wood was governor of Ohio from 1850 through 1853, and was closely involved with the Peyton Polly case and attempts to secure the Polly family's release. Peyton Polly and his family were freedmen living in Lawrence County, Ohio, when they were kidnapped on June 6, 1850, and sold back into slavery in Kentucky and Virginia
Philip Raisor, 37th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textPHILIP RAISOR is the author of four books of poetry, nonfiction and criticism, and has been published numerous times in such journals as The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, Prairie Schooner, The Writer\u27s Chronicle, Studies in English Literature, and Contemporary Literature. Raisor is professor emeritus of English at ODU, where he initiated the creative writing program, a visiting writers series, and the annual literary festival
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