Frank Safford: 2 books
The Ideal of the Practical
Colombia’s Struggle to Form a Technical Elite
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The Ideal of the Practical is a study of efforts by a segment of the upper class in an aristocratic Latin American society to alter cultural values in the society, creating stronger orientations toward the technical and the practical. Frank Safford describes attempts by members of Colombia’s nineteenth-century...
by Roger Safford, Adrian Skerrett, Frank Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
The Malagasy region contains one of the most extraordinary concentrations of biodiversity in the world. Its recognition as a zoogeographic region in its own right has recently been confirmed and, all taxa combined, the region was found to hold the second most distinct assemblage of vertebrates in...