10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEMICIVILISED»
Discover the use of
semicivilised in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
semicivilised and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
War in International Society
Abarbarous society referred to the semicivilised character of the state or peoples.
As GerritGong (1984; 56)comments, 'those in the barbarous spherewere granted
at best onlypartial recognition as “semicivilised” stateswith limitedor ...
2
Collection of the Age of Reason Volume 2:
73; also chap. xx. on the practice of selection by semicivilised people.For the
Berburagoat,see Dr. Gray, 'Catalogue,' ibid. p. 157.) Themane, which occurs only
in therams of an African breedof sheep, is a true secondary sexual character, for
...
3
Charles Darwin's Collection (18 Books):
The socalled natural breeds, on the other hand, are those which are found in
semicivilised countries, and whichformerly inhabited separatedistricts innearly all
theEuropean kingdoms.They have been rarely acted onbyman's intentional ...
4
Finger Prints: The Classic 1892 Treatise
Suchhand prints have beenmade and repeated in many semicivilised nations,
andhaveeven beenimpressed in vermilionon their State documents, as formerly
by thesovereignof Japan. Though mere smudges, they serveinaslight degree to ...
5
Pagan Christs: Studies In Comparative Hierology
Itis in fact certain that anthropophagy has been practisedin allpartsofthe
worldinthe savage and semicivilised stages; and it isno less certain
thatcannibalism had persistedlongin its religious form after ithad ceased tobea
normal practice: the ...
6
Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature
Among more modern writers I. G. Miiller, in his excellent Gesrlzz'r/zle der
anterikam'sr/zcn Urrc/lgz'aum (it? 5 5) clearly recognises “ gespensterhafter
Geisterglaube" as the foundation of all savage and semicivilised theology, and I
need do no ...
John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele, 1886
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
Among more modern writers I. G. Miiller, in his excellent Gerrlzz'r/zte a'
cramcrikam'sr/zm Urre/zlgrione/z (1855) clearly recognises “ gespensterhafter
Geisterglaube" as the foundation of all savage and semicivilised theology, and I
need do no ...
8
Tomorrow's Schools: Towards Integrity
systems of 'other' cultures and civilisations are often defined out, and they are
seen to be either un or semicivilised. This has a direct consequence in excluding
the linguistic andknowledge systems ofsome of the groups who live in Britain.
Ron Best, Caroline Lodge, Chris Watkins, 2002
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View ...
They are celebrated for hospitality, and as faithful friends as they are bitter and
implacable enemies; but, surrounded as they are by a vitiated and but
semicivilised people, 0ppressed for three centuries by grasping and tyrannical
government, ...
10
Our antipodes: or, Residence and rambles in the Australasian ...
It was the affair of the Wairau first broke down the prestige of the superiority of the
white man, especiallyof the white gentleman, over the semicivilised Maori. Heki's
well-known taunt on his foray to Kororarika, ' Is Rauperaha to have all the ...
Godfrey Charles Mundy, 1857
