This revised edition of a popular textbook is written for students, physical oceanographers, engineers, hydrologists, fisheries experts and a number of other professionals who require quantitative expressions of biological oceanographic phenomena. It is designed to lead the reader, step by step, through a progression from the distribution of marine organisms, to discussions on trophic relations, to a final chapter on some practical applications of biological oceanography to fisheries and pollution problems. The book covers subject matter in the pelagic and benthic environments, and is intended to bridge the gap between entirely descriptive oceanography texts and works on the mathematical modelling of marine ecosystems.

Biological Oceanographic Processes, Third Edition

Science & Math

Takahashi, M.

Hargrave, B.

Parsons, Timothy

Biological Sciences

Pergamon

This revised edition of a popular textbook is written for students, physical oceanographers, engineers, hydrologists, fisheries experts and a number of other professionals who require quantitative expressions of biological oceanographic phenomena. It is designed to lead the reader, step by step, through a progression from the distribution of marine organisms, to discussions on trophic relations, to a final chapter on some practical applications of biological oceanography to fisheries and pollution problems. The book covers subject matter in the pelagic and benthic environments, and is intended to bridge the gap between entirely descriptive oceanography texts and works on the mathematical modelling of marine ecosystems.

Biological Oceanographic Processes, Third Edition (Pergamon International Library of Science, Technology, Engineering & Social Studies)

In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment. He explains what constitutes an empire and offers suggestions about what empires of the past can tell us about our own historical moment. Parsons uses imperial examples that stretch from ancient Rome, to Britain's "new" imperialism in Kenya, to the Third Reich to parse the features common to all empires, their evolutions and self-justifying myths, and the reasons for their inevitable decline. Parsons argues that far from confirming some sort of Darwinian hierarchy of advanced and primitive societies, conquests were simply the products of a temporary advantage in military technology, wealth, and political will. Beneath the self-justifying rhetoric of benevolent paternalism and cultural superiority lay economic exploitation and the desire for power. Yet imperial ambitions still appear viable in the twenty-first century, Parsons shows, because their defenders and detractors alike employ abstract and romanticized perspectives that fail to grasp the historical reality of subjugation. Writing from the perspective of the common subject rather than that of the imperial conquerors, Parsons offers a historically grounded cautionary tale rich with accounts of subjugated peoples throwing off the yoke of empire time and time again. In providing an accurate picture of what it is like to live as a subject, The Rule of Empires lays bare the rationalizations of imperial conquerors and their apologists and exposes the true limits of hard power.

The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall

History

Americas

Oxford University Press

The African Rank-and-File explores why East Africans in the King's African Rifles (KAR) served a foreign power, which denied them the rights of full citizenship and was at best paternalistic and at worst openly oppressive. The KAR was a viable institution because it advanced, to varying degrees, the interests of the colonial state, the British military establishment, and African soldiers. These interests were quite often contradictory, and it took an ongoing process of negotiation and accommodation over the social status of the African soldiery to make the KAR work. Tensions such as these were not unique to the colonial military; the co-option of Africans as chiefs, policemen, teachers, and clergymen produced similar points of friction. Like other important intermediary classes, African soldiers performed a vital service for the colonial regime and sought to exploit its inherent weaknesses to enhance their position in colonial society. Their ability to do so exposed some of the most fundamental tensions and contradictions of British colonial rule.

The African Rank-and-File (Social History of Africa)

Africa

Heinemann

The African Rank-and-File explores why East Africans in the King's African Rifles (KAR) served a foreign power, which denied them the rights of full citizenship and was at best paternalistic and at worst openly oppressive. The KAR was a viable institution because it advanced, to varying degrees, the interests of the colonial state, the British military establishment, and African soldiers. These interests were quite often contradictory, and it took an ongoing process of negotiation and accommodation over the social status of the African soldiery to make the KAR work. Tensions such as these were not unique to the colonial military; the co-option of Africans as chiefs, policemen, teachers, and clergymen produced similar points of friction. Like other important intermediary classes, African soldiers performed a vital service for the colonial regime and sought to exploit its inherent weaknesses to enhance their position in colonial society. Their ability to do so exposed some of the most fundamental tensions and contradictions of British colonial rule.

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world. Unlike most studies, which assume that the "rise of the West" is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World, constructs a story in which those parts of the world play major roles. Robert B. Marks defines the modern world as one marked by industry, the nation state, interstate warfare, a large and growing gap between the wealthiest and poorest parts of the world, and an escape from "the biological old regime." He explains its origins by emphasizing contingencies (such as the conquest of the New World); the broad comparability of the most advanced regions in China, India, and Europe; the reasons why England was able to escape from common ecological constraints facing all of those regions by the 18th century; and a conjuncture of human and natural forces that solidified a gap between the industrialized and non-industrialized parts of the world.View an online study guide for this book.

The Origins of the Modern World: A Global And Ecological Narrative

Marks, Robert

World

Rowman & Littlefield Pub

Although Britain's overseas empire may not have been 'acquired in a fit of absence of mind,' as one of its most prominent historians once alleged, neither was it the brainchild of politicians and bureaucrats in London. Why, then, has so much imperial history been written from this metropolitan perspective? Timothy Parsons strongly contends that the scope and duration of this, the largest of all modern European empires, can only be understood from a non-Western perspective. In an exceptionally concise and informative fashion, The British Imperial Century offers its readers a comprehensive overview of the formation and administration of the empire from its origins in the early nineteenth century, to its climax at mid-century, to its denouement on the eve of the First World War. This was the era in which a previously 'informal' empire based on trade and commerce was transformed into a 'formal' empire in which trade was often of secondary importance to strategic or political considerations. Parsons devotes chapters to key colonies and regions, many of them overlooked by previous scholars, that include the Indian 'raj,' Africa, the Middle East, and China. He also considers the long-term consequences of imperialism on the cultures of the colonized and the colonizers alike. An ambitious and thoughtful contribution to the field of imperial history, The British Imperial Century will find a useful place in courses on World History and European History, or as a supplemental text for classes on African, Asian, British, or Middle Eastern History.

The British Imperial Century, 1815-1914

Asia

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Although Britain's overseas empire may not have been "acquired in a fit of absence of mind," as one of its most prominent historians once alleged, neither was it the brainchild of politicians and bureaucrats in London. Why, then, has so much imperial history been written from this metropolitan perspective? Timothy Parsons strongly contends that the scope and duration of this, the largest of all modern European empires, can only be understood from a nonWestern perspective. In an exceptionally concise and informative fashion, "The British Imperial Century" offers its readers a comprehensive overview of the formation and administration of the empire from its origins in the early nineteenth century, to its climax at midcentury, to its denouement on the eve of the First World War. This was the era in which a previously "informal" empire based on trade and commerce was transformed into a "formal" empire in which trade was often of secondary importance to strategic or political considerations. Parsons devotes chapters to key colonies and regions, many of them overlooked by previous scholars, that include the Indian "raj," Africa, the Middle East, and China. He also considers the longterm consequences of imperialism on the cultures of the colonized and the colonizers alike. An ambitious and thoughtful contribution to the field of imperial history, "The British Imperial Century" will find a useful place in courses on World History and European History, or as a supplemental text for classes on African, Asian, British, or Middle Eastern History.

The British Imperial Century, 1815D1914: A World History Perspective (Critical Issues in History) (Critical Issues in World and International History)

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

The African Rank-And-File: Social Implications of Colonial Military Service in the King's African Rifles, 1902-1964 (Social History of Africa)

Why did East Africans in the King's African Rifles serve a foreign power? By examining the military experiences of African soldiers, the author reveals the tensions and contradictions of British colonial rule.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

James Currey Ltd.

By examining the military experiences of African soldiers, the author reveals the tensions and contradictions of British colonial rule. North America: Heinemann

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

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Biological Oceanographic Processes, Third Edition

Biological Oceanographic Processes, Third Edition (Pergamon International Library of Science, Technology, Engineering & Social Studies)

The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall

The African Rank-and-File (Social History of Africa)

The African Rank-and-File (Social History of Africa)

The Origins of the Modern World: A Global And Ecological Narrative

The British Imperial Century, 1815-1914

The British Imperial Century, 1815D1914: A World History Perspective (Critical Issues in History) (Critical Issues in World and International History)

The African Rank-And-File: Social Implications of Colonial Military Service in the King's African Rifles, 1902-1964 (Social History of Africa)

The African Rank-And-File: Social Implications of Colonial Military Service in the King's African Rifles, 1902-1964 (Social History of Africa)