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The University of Chicago Press Anthropological Demography Toward a New Synthesis
Book SynopsisA radical revelation of how American ideas of freedom, justice, and progress are rooted--and sometimes hidden--in the country's stunning landscapesTrade Review"Daegan Miller rekindles a legacy of environmental dissent. The ideas and landscapes of nineteenth-century 'countermoderns' are signposts, still legible, to alternative futures. This book bears witness like a burning bush."--Jared Farmer, author of Trees in Paradise: A California HIstory "Drawing on superb scholarly detective work, This Radical Land tells fascinating stories about the history of our ties to the land that give us an alternative to viewing natural spaces as either a resource to exploit or a wilderness museum for the privileged. Miller peels back the history to reveal that, however ignored, Americans have always resisted the exploitation of nature. Perhaps his more nuanced environmental history will inspire those today who, continuing the mute protest of the witness tree, would pull the planet back from the brink of death."--Richard Higgins, author of Thoreau and the Language of Trees
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INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US Slouching Toward Utopia
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The University of Michigan Press Cultures of Yusin
Book SynopsisExamines the turbulent period of South Korea's Fourth Republic (1972-79), beginning with its declaration by Park Chung Hee and ending with his assassination. This volume brings together a wide range of scholars to explore the rich and varied cultural production of the Yusin period, especially in its relationship to state power.Trade ReviewCultures of Yusin brings to the fore the hitherto neglected area of research: the culture of the 1970s as a site of national identity for both the state and the oppositional social movement; as a site of state indoctrination and mobilization of the citizenry and simultaneously of subversive-and individualized-expression of the people; and as a source of plural meanings and lived experiences for the people, among others. Each chapter presents new factual and historical knowledge on unfamiliar topics, and offers fresh and informed perspectives and interpretations on areas we thought we already knew."" - Namhee Lee, UCLA
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The University of Michigan Press Viet Nam Expose
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The University of Michigan Press Redefining History
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The University of Michigan Press Magnus Felix Ennodius
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The University of Michigan Press Canon Period and the Poetry of Charles of Orleans
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The University of Michigan Press Florentine Essays
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The University of Michigan Press Illegitimacy in Renaissance Florence
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The University of Michigan Press Missionary Tropics
Book SynopsisBy focusing on the Jesuit missionary's discovery of Indian ""pagan"" Hinduism, this book traces the stages of the Jesuit's disconcerting journey into religious relativism or accommodation. It files the construction of the Indian vernacular Catholicism through a complex layering of missionary religious and social intentions and indigenous responses.
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Random House USA Inc Batavias Graveyard The True Story of the Mad
Book SynopsisIn 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java; the ship itself was a tangible symbol of the world’s richest and most powerful monopoly. The company also sent along a new employee to guard its treasure. He was Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a disgraced and bankrupt man with great charisma and dangerously heretical ideas. With the help of a few disgruntled sailors, he hatched a plot to seize the ship and her riches. The mutiny might have succeeded, but in the dark morning hours of June 3, 1629, the Batavia smashed through a coral reef and ran aground on a small chain of islands near Australia. The captain and skipper escaped the wreck, and in a tiny lifeboat they set sail for Java—some 1,500 miles north—to summon help. More than 250 frightened survivors waded ashore, thankful to be alive. Unfortunately, Jeronimus and the mutineers had survived too, a
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University Press of Kansas The SovietAfghan War How a Superpower Fought and
Book SynopsisThe war in Afghanistan (1979-1989) has been called ""the Soviet Union's Vietnam War"", a conflict that pitted Soviet regulars against a relentless, Afghan guerilla force. In this work, the Russian general staff takes a close critical look at the Soviet military's performance in that war.Trade ReviewA formidable contribution to our understanding of this war.""- War in History;""Includes numerous evaluations and comments by the editors that are just as valuable as the Russian text. . . . Reading [this book] may help us avoid the costly mistakes made by the Soviets.""- Marine Corps Gazette;""If one is interested in the nuts and bolts of Russian military approaches to counter-guerrilla warfare, it would be hard to find a better analysis.""- Journal of Military History Quarterly Review;""Indispensable to students of military tactics, as well as area specialists, as its lessons continue to be pertinent to conflict in Central Asia.""- Naval War College Review;""This superb translation will generate widespread and unprecedented interest in the subject. Offering a candid view of a war that played a significant role in the ultimate demise of the Soviet Union, this book presents analysis absolutely vital to Western policymakers, as well as to political, diplomatic, and military historians, and anyone interested in Russian and Soviet history. It also provides insights regarding current and future Russian struggles in ethnic conflicts both at and within their borders, struggles that could potentially destroy the Russian Federation.""- David M. Glantz, coauthor of The Battle of Kursk;""Provides a treasure trove of information and analysis.""- William E. Odom, author of The Collapse of the Soviet Military and On Internal War;""This superb translation will generate widespread and unprecedented interest in the subject. Offering a candid view of a war that played a significant role in the ultimate demise of the Soviet Union, this book presents analysis absolutely vital to Western policymakers, as well as to political, diplomatic, and military historians, and anyone interested in Russian and Soviet history. It also provides insights regarding current and future Russian struggles in ethnic conflicts both at and within their borders, struggles that could potentially destroy the Russian Federation.""- David M. Glantz, coauthor of The Battle of Kursk;""Provides a treasure trove of information and analysis.""- William E. Odom, author of The Collapse of the Soviet Military and On Internal War
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University Press of Kansas The Union Soldier in Battle
Book SynopsisWinner of the US Civil War Center Ribbon of Honor.Trade ReviewRich with insight, Hess's book merits recognition among the most insightful studies of the Civil War fighting man of the past half-century. - Civil War History ""Packs an emotional punch.... Hess explores less why Billy Yank fought than how he coped successfully with the stresses and horrors of combat, both during the war and afterward."" - Journal of American History ""The most telling examination of the experience of Civil War battle we have."" - William C. Davis, author of The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy ""This book stands out as the best yet written within the genre. Hess takes us as close as we're likely to get to the shock and horror of battle without actually experiencing it."" - Steven E. Woodworth, author of Davis and Lee at War ""A major contribution."" - Infantry ""In a superb book, the finest to date on the ordeal of combat, Hess describes most memorably the sounds and smells and feel of combat; the randomness of death; the psychology of the battle line; changing definitions of courage; the Christian soldiers' struggle with the sinfulness of killing...."" - American Historical Review
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Gill Nineteenth Century Ireland New Gill History of Ireland 5
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Gill Books SixteenthCentury Ireland The Incomplete Conquest
Book SynopsisThe sixteenth century saw the decisive expansion of English royal power in Ireland, together with the failure of the Reformation.
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Prentice Hall Press Andrew Jackson Miracle Of No
Book SynopsisAnother pop history page-turner from the New York Times bestselling authors of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.
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Arcadia Publishing Baltimore in World War II Images of America
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The History Press Ltd Wellington pocket GIANTS
Book SynopsisWellington is a giant because he was one of the greatest military commanders in British history, an important figure in the emergence of Britain as a great imperial power, a man who dominated British society and politics for 35 years.
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The History Press Ltd Robin Hood
Book SynopsisA new edition with an updated gazetteer and filmography
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Cornell University Press Vikings Life and Legend
Book SynopsisThis book explores Viking culture from a global perspective, examining the influences of their varied contacts from around the world and how Viking Scandinavia drew from both Christian Europe and the Islamic world.Trade ReviewA beautiful, accessible book, with strong interpretive narration that will be enjoyed by Viking enthusiasts, medievalists, artists interested in material culture, and newcomers to the subject. * Library Journal *A rich and engaging work that offers insights about the worlds of the Viking Age, for both scholars and general readers, Vikings is a joy and a surprise to read.... Williams, Pentz and Wemhoff (as well as their museum staffs and other authors in text) are to be congratulated for putting together such a gorgeous and substantive work about the age of the Vikings. I am already imagining ways to use it in my World and Western history survey courses. * Itinerario *Much more than simply a lavish catalog to accompany the exhibition of the same name organized by the National Museum of Denmark, the British Museum, and the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin... this attractive, well-produced volume addresses a comprehensive array of subjects relevant to understanding the material and thought worlds of the Viking Age in northern Europe (roughly AD 750-1150). * Speculum *The book and the exhibition are visually stunning.... and the section on 'Belief and Ritual' is fascinating. * London Review of Books *The color photos provide a wonderfully close look at Viking artifacts but also move this exhibit catalog beyond the museum, with lush depictions of countrysides, archival photos of archaeological digs, and art from the era. Enthusiasts and amateurs alike will engage with this modern and cross-cultural take on the Viking age. * Booklist *This volume was written to accompany an exhibition organized by the national museums of Britain, Denmark, and Germany.... Contributor Neil Price does an excellent job interpreting belief and ritual for a subject always difficultto treat objectively. The writing is high quality as are the copious illustrations and publication standards. Filled with the latest scholarship, this book would be a valuable acquisition for college and university libraries. * Choice *
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Dufour Editions,U.S. A Knight and His Castle
Book SynopsisFrom the author's famous life of a medieval knight series, this book provides a lively and informative history of the castle, its design, building, defense, as well as its armoury, daily life, and the training of knights.
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John Wiley & Sons The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant Volume 14
Book SynopsisTable of Contentsv. 1. 1837-1861 -- v. 2. April-September 1861 -- v. 3. October 1, 1861-January 7, 1862 -- v. 4. January 8-March 31, 1862 -- v. 5. April 1-August 31, 1862 -- v. 6. September 1-December 8, 1862 -- v. 7. December 9, 1862-March 31, 1863 -- v. 8. April 1-July6, 1863 -- v. 9. July 7-December 31, 1863 -- v. 10. January 1-May 31, 1864 -- v. 11. June 1-August 15, 1864 -- v. 12. August 16-November 15, 1864 -- v. 13. November 16, 1864-February 20, 1865 -- v. 14. February 21-April 30, 1865 -- v. 15. May 1-December 31, 1865 -- v. 16. 1866 -- v. 17. January 1-September 30, 1867 -- v. 18. October 1, 1867-June 30, 1868 -- v. 19. July 1, 1868-October 31, 1869 -- v. 20. November 1, 1869-October 31, 1870 -- v. 21. November 1, 1870-May 31, 1871 -- v. 22. June 1, 1871-January 31, 1872 -- v. 23. February 1-December 31, 1872 -- v. 24. 1873.
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Three Book Sebald Set
Book SynopsisThe masterworks of W. G. Sebald, now in gorgeous new covers by the famed designer Peter MendelsundTrade Review"Think of Sebald as memory’s Einstein." -- Richard Eder - Los Angeles Times"Sebald is a thrilling, original writer. He makes narration a state of investigative bliss." -- W. S. Di Piero - The New York Times Book Review"One of contemporary literature’s most transformative figures: utterly unique. His books combine memoir, fiction, travelogue, history, and biography in the crucible of his haunting prose style to create a strange new literary compound. Susan Sontag, in a 2000 essay in the Times Literary Supplement, asked whether ‘literary greatness [was] still possible’. She concluded that ‘one of the few answers available to English-language readers is the work of W. G. Sebald.’ The books are fascinating for the way they inhabit their own self-determined genre, but that’s not ultimately why they are essential reading. There is a moral magnitude and a weary, melancholy wisdom in Sebald’s writing that transcends the literary and attains something like an oracular register. Reading him feels like being spoken to in a dream." -- The New Yorker
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The University of Alabama Press Chemical Lands
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the relationship between farmers, aerial sprayers, agriculturalists, crop pests, chemicals, and the environment. David D. Vail’s analysis reveals a strong ethic in the North American grasslands where practitioners sought to deploy insecticides by designing local scientific experiments, engineering more precise aircraft sprayers, and developing more narrowly specific chemicals.Trade ReviewIn Chemical Lands, David Vail incisively documents the complex relationship between sprayers, pesticides, herbicides, and grassland landscapes in America and Canada. For the first time, we can appreciate what was happening on the ground and in the sky through this thoughtful analysis of the sprayer's perspective on the toxic chemicals that became intrinsic to American agriculture."" - Frederick Rowe Davis, author of Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology
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The University of Alabama Press Alabama Founders
Book SynopsisProvides an important examination of the lives of fourteen political and military leaders. These were the men who opened Alabama for settlement, secured Alabama's status as a territory in 1817 and as a state in 1819, and helped lay the foundation for the political and economic infrastructure of Alabama in its early years as a state.Trade ReviewThe individuals Lewis discusses here were instrumental in laying a figurative foundation for the development of the state of Alabama. They are therefore people we should know. Alabama Founders is an outstanding introduction to their lives and times and promises to be a valuable reference source for anyone seeking to understand Alabama’s beginnings."" - Mike Bunn, director of operations at Historic Blakeley State Park in Baldwin County, Alabama, author of Civil War Eufaula, and coauthor of Battle for the Southern Frontier: The Creek War and the War of 1812""Territorial and early statehood are topics that have long been neglected in favor of the more popular topics of Native Americans, the Civil War, and civil rights. Alabama Founders fills a need for scholarship that highlights this time period and the personalities who shaped it."" - Clay Williams, sites administrator for the museums division of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and coauthor of Battle for the Southern Frontier: The Creek War and the War of 1812
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University of Alabama Press Alabama Founders Fourteen Political and Military
Book SynopsisProvides an important examination of the lives of fourteen political and military leaders. These were the men who opened Alabama for settlement, secured Alabama's status as a territory in 1817 and as a state in 1819, and helped lay the foundation for the political and economic infrastructure of Alabama in its early years as a state.Trade ReviewThe individuals Lewis discusses here were instrumental in laying a figurative foundation for the development of the state of Alabama. They are therefore people we should know. Alabama Founders is an outstanding introduction to their lives and times and promises to be a valuable reference source for anyone seeking to understand Alabama’s beginnings."" - Mike Bunn, director of operations at Historic Blakeley State Park in Baldwin County, Alabama, author of Civil War Eufaula, and coauthor of Battle for the Southern Frontier: The Creek War and the War of 1812""Territorial and early statehood are topics that have long been neglected in favor of the more popular topics of Native Americans, the Civil War, and civil rights. Alabama Founders fills a need for scholarship that highlights this time period and the personalities who shaped it."" - Clay Williams, sites administrator for the museums division of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and coauthor of Battle for the Southern Frontier: The Creek War and the War of 1812
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. One Day We Will Live Without Fear Everyday Lives
Book SynopsisWhat was life in the Soviet Union really like? Through a series of true stories, One Day We Will Live Without Fear describes what people's day-to-day life was like under the regime of the Soviet police state. Drawing on events from the 1930s through the 1970s, Mark Harrison shows how, by accident or design, people became entangled in the workings of Soviet rule.
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Hammer Sickle and Soil
Book SynopsisIn Hammer, Sickle, and Soil, Jonathan Daly tells the harrowing story of Stalin's transformation of millions of family farms throughout the USSR into 250,000 collective farms during the period from 1929 to 1933. History's biggest experiment in social engineering at the time and the first example of the complete conquest of the bulk of a population by its rulers, the policy was above all intended to bring to Russia Marx's promised bright future of socialism. In the process, however, it caused widespread peasant unrest, massive relocations, and ultimately led to millions dying in the famine of 193233. Drawing on scholarly studies and primary-source collections published since the opening of the Soviet archives three decades ago, now, for the first time, this volume offers an accessible and accurate narrative for the general reader. The book is illustrated with propaganda posters from the period that graphically portray the drama and trauma of the revolution in Soviet agriculture under Sta
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Wesleyan University Press Solkattu Manual
Book SynopsisThe first hands-on introduction to South Indian spoken rhythm
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University of New Mexico Press Tucumcari Tonite A Story of Railroads Route 66
Book SynopsisBlends in-depth research and personal and family experiences to re-create a ‘memoir’ of Tucumcari. Drawing on newspapers and government documents as well as business records, personal interviews, and archival holdings, Stratton weaves a poignant tale of a western town’s rise and decline.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One. The Jewish Founding Fathers Chapter Two. Railroad Town Chapter Three. Highways and Byways Chapter Four. A Big Dam in the Middle of Nowhere Chapter Five. The Hometown of Billy Walters Chapter Six. The Townless Highway Chapter Seven. Railroad Blues Chapter Eight. Living with the Bypass Chapter Nine. Down the Slippery Slope Chapter Ten. Some Went Running Chapter Eleven. The Other Side: Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Exeter Press The Treaty of Bayonne 1388 Exeter Hispanic Texts
Book SynopsisThe Treaty of Bayonne of 1388 between Juan I, King of Castile, and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and Pretender to the Castilian throne, was one of the most important treaties of the Hundred Years War. In the transcription of the documents, the original spellings of words, however inconsistent, have been respected.Trade Review Table of Contents
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University of Exeter Press Gentry Leaders In Peace And War The Gentry
Book SynopsisThe strength of the government of Devon in the early seventeenth century lay in the quality of its leaders. They ruled together in harmony, free from rivalries, the influence of any powerful resident nobles and saved from religious conflicts. This book emphasizes this strength through a series of biographical studies.Trade Review "Dr Wolffe offers a well-researched and positive contribution to appreciation of the local dimension of early Stuart government. Her pertinent questions elicit thoughtful and stimulating answers. Gentry Leaders enhances the burgeoning historical list of the University of Exeter Press." (Cathedral News, February 1998) "A well-researched and positive contribution to appreciation of the local dimension of early Stuart government. Her pertinent questions elicit thoughtful and stimulating answers." (Exeter Cathedral News, February 1998) Table of ContentsIllustrations Preface Abbreviations Part I: The Gentry Government of Devon 1625-1640 1. The Setting for the Gentry Government 2. The Collegiality of the Devon Bench from 1625 to 1640 3. Ancient and Modern Divisions in the Localities 4. The Devon Justice of the Peace at Work 5. The Gentry as Royal Tax Collectors Part II: The Gentry Governors of Devon in the Early Seventeenth Century 6. Sir George Chudleigh: His Rise to Prominence in the County 7. Sir George Chudleigh: Gentry Governor and Reluctant Rebel 8. Richard Reynell of Creedy: The Diligent Justice of the Peace 9. Walter Yonge: The Puritan Diarist 10. The Ship Money Sheriffs 11. John Willoughby: A New Class of Justice of the Peace 12. The Character of the Gentry Government of Devon Notes Bibliography Index
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British Museum Press A Royal Renaissance Treasure and its Afterlives
Book SynopsisBeautifully illustrated publication, showcasing spectacular contextual objects from the collection of the British Museum and other museums.Table of Contents Introduction by Timothy Schroder and Dora Thornton Chapter 1: Diplomatic gifts between Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England (Timothy Schroder) Chapter 2: Treasures associated with King Francis I in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, including the Cellini Salt Cellar and the Gemma Augustea (Paulus Rainer) Chapter 3: Pierre Mangot and goldsmiths at the court of King Francis I of France (Michèle Bimbenet-Privat) Chapter 4: The status and significance of the Sibyls Casket by Pierre Mangot in the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum (Dora Thornton) Chapter 5: Hans Holbein the Younger and his designs for goldsmiths’ work in relation to the Clock Salt (Olenka Horbatsch) Chapter 6: The Clock Salt and its history after the reign of Charles I (Rosemary Ransome Wallis) Chapter 7: Rothschild family collecting and their taste for continental Renaissance silver in the nineteenth century (Julia Siemon) Scientific study of the Clock Salt and its making: a new look at the clock mechanism (Andrew Meek, Oliver Cooke, Fleur Shearman, Denise Ling, Caroline Cartwright, Dan O’Flynn and Joanne Dyer) Conclusion by Timothy Schroder and Dora Thornton Bibliography Index
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Hebrew Union College Press,U.S. The Jew in the Medieval World
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1938, Jacob Rader Marcus's classic source book on medieval Judaism provides the documents and historical narratives which let the actors and witnesses of events speak for themselves. Marc Saperstein offers a new introduction and updated bibliography.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Independence and Democracy in Burma 19451952
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St Michael's Abbey Press Napoleon the Fourth
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Anomie Publishing Meekyoung Shin
Book SynopsisLondon and Seoul-based Korean artist Meekyoung Shin (b.1967) is internationally renowned for her sculptures that probe the mis- and re-translations that often emerge when objects of distinct cultural and historical specificity are dislocated from their original context.
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Amberley Publishing On the Trail of Mary Queen of Scots
Book SynopsisFollow Mary, Queen of Scots through the resplendent castles, towering cathedrals, manor houses and chapels associated with her turbulent life.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Total Onslaught: War and Revolution in Southern
Book SynopsisThe end of the Second World War may have heralded peace in Europe but conflicts in Southern Africa were about to begin. The imperial powers were weakened by the cost of war and a string of wars challenged colonial rule in countries such as Namibia, Angola and Rhodesia. Once independence was achieved, civil wars between rival factions unfamiliar with democratic principles resulted. Liberation movements such as those in South Africa demanded self-rule and end to Apartheid. Tribal feuds, corruption and the ambitions of dictators led to more conflicts such as the protracted fighting in the Congo. These were wars that ran on until both sides were exhausted often only to be re-kindled after short periods of uneasy peace. The cost in human and material terms has been devastating and in too many cases remain so. Economic development has been frustrated and the result is often poverty, abuse and genocide. The Author who knows Southern Africa as a native is superbly equipped to tell this fascinating if tragic record.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou: A Marriage of
Book SynopsisHe became king before his first birthday, inheriting a vast empire from his military hero father; she was the daughter of a king without power, who made an unexpected marriage at the age of fifteen. Almost completely opposite in character, together they formed an unlikely but complimentary partnership. Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou have become famous as the Lancastrian king and queen who were deposed during the Wars of the Roses but there is so much more to their story. The political narrative of their years together is a tale of twists and turns, encompassing incredible highs, when they came close to fulfilling their desires, and terrible, heart-breaking lows. Personally, their story is an intriguing one that raises may questions. Henry was a complex, misunderstood man, enlightened and unsuited to his times and the pressures of kingship. In the end, overcome by fortune and the sheer determination of their enemies, their alliance collapsed. England simply wasn't ready for a gentle king like Henry, or woman like Margaret who defied contemporary stereotypes of gender and queenship. History has been a harsh judge to this royal couple. In this discerning dual biography, Amy Licence leads the way in a long-overdue re-evaluation of their characters and contributions during a tumultuous and defining period of British history.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Violent Abuse of Women in 17th and 18th
Book SynopsisThe seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are the gateway between the medieval world and the modern, centuries when the western societies moved from an age governed principally by religion and superstition to an age directed principally by reason and understanding. Although the worlds of science and philosophy took giant strides away from the medieval view of the world, attitudes to women did not change from those that had pertained for centuries. Girls were largely barred from education - only around 14% of women could read and write by 1700 - and the few educated women were not permitted to enter the professions. As a result women, especially if single, were employed in menial jobs or were forced into a life of petty crime. Many survived by entering the 'oldest profession in the world'. The social turbulence of the first half of the seventeenth century afforded women new opportunities and new religious freedoms and women were attracted into the many new sects where they were afforded a voice in preaching and teaching. In a time of unprecedented and unbridled political discussion, many better educated women saw no reason why they should not enter the debate and began to voice their opinions alongside those of men, publishing their own books and pamphlets. These new and unprecedented liberties thus gained by women were perceived as a threat by the leaders of society, and thus arose an unlikely masculine alliance against the new feminine assertions, across all sections of society from Puritan preachers to court judges, from husbands to court rakes. This reaction often found expression in the violent and brutal treatment of women who were seen to have stepped out of line, whether legally, socially or domestically. Often beaten and abused at home by husbands exercising their legal right, they were whipped, branded, exiled and burnt alive by the courts, from which their sex had no recourse to protection, justice or restitution. Many of the most brutal forms of punishment were reserved exclusively for women, and even where the same, they were more savagely applied than would be the case for similar crimes committed by men. This work records the many kinds of violent physical and verbal abuse perpetrated against women in Britain and her colonies, both domestically and under the law, during two centuries when huge strides in human knowledge and civilisation were being made in every other sphere of human activity, but social and legal attitudes to women and their punishment remained firmly embedded in the medieval.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Ancient Dynasties: The Families that Ruled the
Book SynopsisAncient Dynasties is a unique study of the ruling families of the ancient world known to the Greeks and Romans. The book is in two parts. The first offers analysis and discussion of various features of the ruling dynasties (including the leading families of republican Rome). It examines patterns, similarities and contrasts, categorizes types of dynasty and explores common themes such as how they were founded and maintained, the role of women and the various reasons for their decline. The second part is a catalogue of all the dynasties (over 150 of them) known to have existed between approximately 1000 BC and AD 750 from the Atlantic Ocean to Baktria (roughly modern Afghanistan). It gives genealogical tables and tells where and when they held power. Thoroughly researched and with geanological tables to support the lucid text, the whole forms a valuable study and invaluable reference to the families that wielded power in the Classical world.
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Medieval Institute Publications Church and Society in Late Byzantium
Book SynopsisIt has long been noted that the prestige and power of the church were steadily growing in the period of the late Byzantine empire, a tendency that was complex, multifaceted, and sometimes ambivalent. The essays in this collection seek to shed light on various aspects of the church's role in late Byzantine society, especially on the relationship between the church and the lay world and the response of individuals to the challenges faced by Orthodoxy. The volume is divided into three sections: (1) Politics, Society, and the Economy; (2) Intellectual Life and Ideology; and (3) The Church and the Turkish Conquests. By exploring these different areas, the essays in this volume contribute to scholarly understanding of how the church was embedded into the fabric of late Byzantine society and intellectual life.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction by Dimiter G. Angelov Politics and Society and Economy The Relations between Secular and Religious Authorities in the State of Epiros after 1204 by Alkmini Stavridou-Zafraka Abbot or Bishop? The Conflict about the Spiritual Obedience of the Vlach Peasants in the region of Bothrotos ca. 1220: Case No. 80 of the Legal Works of Demetrios Chomatenos Reconsidered by Gunter Prinzing Priests and Bishops in the Byzantine Countryside, Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries by Angeliki E. Laiou The State, the Land, and Private Property: Confiscating Monastic and Church Properties in the Palaiologan Period by Kostis Smyrlis Intellectual Life and Ideology The Donation of Constantine and the Church in Late Byzantium by Dimiter G. Angelov Emperors, Embassies, and Scholars: Diplomacy and the Transmission of Byzantine Humanism to Renaissance Italy by John W. Barker The Church and the Turkish Conquests The Turkish Conquests and Decline of the Church Reconsidered by Tom Papademetriou From Constantinople to Moscow: The Fourteenth-Century Liturgical Response to the Muslim Incursions in Byzantium and Russia by Philip Slavin Contributors Index
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Medieval Institute Publications Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women: A Sourcebook in
Book SynopsisThis sourcebook presents editions and translations of seven fourteenth- and fifteenth-century texts that advance our understanding of gender, sexuality, and class in the late medieval German-speaking world. Three of the translated texts are fiction. Additionally, there is a religious treatise, a religious legend, an inventory of books, and a legal document. While each of these texts is instructive in and of itself, they gain in complexity when brought into dialogue with one another.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Die Beichte einer Frau / A Woman’s Confession Chapter 2 Schwester Katrei and Die Frau von ein-und-zwanzig Jahren / Sister Catherine and the Twenty-One-Year-Old Woman Chapter 3 Bücherverzeichnis der Elisabeth von Volkenstorff / Elisabeth of Volkenstorff’s Booklist Chapter 4 Stiefmutter und Tochter / Stepmother and Daughter (Augsburg Redaction and Nuremberg Redaction) Chapter 5 Ordnung der gemeinen Weiber in den Frauenhäusern / Regulations concerning Prostitutes Dwelling in Brothels
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Medieval Institute Publications Books Most Needful to Know : Contexts for the
Book Synopsis"Books Most Needful to Know" is the newest edition in the Richard Rawlinson Center's OEN Subsidia series. It includes essays covering topics such as Old English, Old Norse, Anglo-Latin literature, and Early Medieval Ireland.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Anglo-Latin Literature in the Foreground 2. North Sea Currents: Old English and Old Norse in Comparison and in Contact 3. Legend hErenn: ''The Learning of Ireland'' in the Early Medieval Period
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Medieval Institute Publications Authority of Images / Images of Authority:
Book SynopsisFocusing on language's political power, these essays discuss how representation, through language norms, plays and court spectacles, manipulations and adaptations of texts and images, both constitutes and reflects a cultural milieu. The volume brings together various disciplinary approaches, offering a complex appreciation of these questions. While a core of the essays focuses on France, the contributions engage a broad range of geographical contexts, from Byzantium to eastern Germany and England from the early centuries of the Common Era to the seventeenth century, revealing the prevalence and persistence of the key interconnected issues of images and authority. Contributors: Carla Bozzolo; Philippe Caron; Robert L. A. Clark; Paul Cohen; Thomas Conley; Jean-Philippe Genet; Douglas Kibbee; Gillette Labory; Nicole Pons; Mara R. Wade.Trade Review"The book serves as a reminder that we can only translate the past that has been left to us--and much of the time that past has been skewed--whether intentionally or not. The essays included in this collection offer new insights, new data, and new interpretations of their subjects which are a welcome addition to studyes in translation, art, literature, and history. The transdisciplinarity of the collection is to be commended, and will no doubt be of use to many scholars working on aspects of medieval and early modern authority." Rachel Reid, Queen's University Belfast, The Medieval Review 17.11.03Table of ContentsIntroduction I. Language and Norms Language and Identity: The Case of Byzantium, by Thomas Conley Le « Père des bonnes lettres » et le « prince de la riche locution françoyse » ; L'image du roi-polyglotte et l'élévation du français à la Renaissance, sens et ambivalences, by Paul Cohen Les images de l'autorité en matière de langue en France (1453-1647), by Philippe Caron and Douglas Kibbee II. Performances and Authorities The Parlement de Paris and the Plays: A Reconsideration of the 1548 Ban of the "Mystères sacrés," by Robert L. A. Clark The Construction of Electoral Saxon Identity in the Court Festivities of 1548, by Mara R. Wade III. Collection and Compilation Reflecting and Constituting Authority Les Bibliothèques privées en Angleterre: Livres et littérature politique, by Jean-Philippe Genet Diffusion et autorité de la Grande Chronique de Normandie (XIVe-XVe siècles): Mouvance du texte et réseau de circulation, by Gillette Labory IV. The Power of Translators Un « homme populaire et de petite science au service des hommes de pouvoir »: L'humaniste Laurent de Premierfait, by Carla Bozzolo Un « Manuel » d'économie domestique bourgeoise: Laurent de Premierfait et les Économiques du Pseudo-Aristote, by Nicole Pons† Dürer's Self-Portrait (1500) and the Charisma of Images, by C. Stephen Jaeger List of Manuscripts Bibliography Index
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Medieval Institute Publications Medieval London: Collected Papers of Caroline M.
Book SynopsisCaroline M. Barron is the world's leading authority on the history of medieval London. For half a century she has investigated London's role as medieval England's political, cultural, and commercial capital, together with the urban landscape and the social, occupational, and religious cultures that shaped the lives of its inhabitants. This collection of eighteen papers focuses on four themes: crown and city; parish, church, and religious culture; the people of medieval London; and the city's intellectual and cultural world. They represent essential reading on the history of one of the world's greatest cities by its foremost scholar.Table of ContentsCrown and City 1. The Tyranny of Richard II 2. The Quarrel of Richard II with London, 1392-7 3. London and the Crown, 1451-61 4. The Deposition of Richard II 5. Richard II and London Parish, Church, and Religious Culture 6. The Parish Fraternities of Medieval London 7. London and St. Paul's Cathedral in the Later Middle Ages 8. The Travelling Saint: Zita of Lucca and England 9. The Will as Autobiography: The Case of Thomas Salter, Priest, Died November 1558 The People of Medieval London 10. Richard Whittington: The Man behind the Myth 11. Ralph Holland and the London Radicals: 1438-1444 12. The "Golden Age" of Women in Medieval London 13. Johanna Hill (d. 1441) and Johanna Sturdy (d. c. 1460), Bell-Founders 14. The Child in Medieval London: The Legal Evidence The Intellectual & Cultural World 15. Centres of Conspicuous Consumption: The Aristocratic Townhouse in London, 1200-1550 16. The Expansion of Education in Fifteenth-Century London 17. Chivalry, Pageantry and Merchant Culture in Medieval London 18. The Political Culture of Medieval London
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Medieval Institute Publications St. Albans and the Markyate Psalter: Seeing and
Book SynopsisOne of the most compelling and provocative books of twelfth-century England, the Markyate Psalter was probably produced at St. Albans Abbey between 1120 and 1140. Heralded as a high point of English Romanesque illumination, the manuscript contains the Chanson de St. Alexis. Leading scholars of twelfth-century manuscript studies explore the Psalter, understanding it through new methodologies, pursuing innovative lines of inquiry. The collection shines fresh light on a well-known manuscript, and broadens the discourse about the book and its readers.Trade Review"...Readers interested in a deep dive of the Psalter itself will be thankful for such careful, detailed analyses and for such numerous, glistening, often full-page reproductions of the Psalter's pages and initials." --Lauren Mancia, The Medieval Review 18.10.08Table of ContentsAbbreviations Illustrations Introduction by Kristen Collins and Matthew Fisher Saint Anselm's "Grand Tour" and the Full-Page Picture Cycle in the Markyate Psalter by T. A. Heslop The Patronage and Ownership of the Markyate Psalter by Nigel Morgan Handling the Letter by Aden Kumler The Repainting of Psalm 101 and Meaningful Change in the Markyate Psalter by Kristen Collins and Nancy Turner Voicing the Psalms in the Markyate Psalter: Devotional Experience and Experiments with Images and Words by Kerry Boeye Intercessory Prayer and the Initials of the Markyate Psalter by Rachel Koopmans La Vie de Saint Alexis and the Alexis Quire in the Crusading Context by Zrinka Stahuljak The Psalmist and the Saint: David, Alexis, and the Construction of Meaning in a Twelfth-Century Composite Manuscript by Kathryn Gerry Blindness and Insight, Seeing and Believing: Reading Two Emmaus Sequences from St. Albans by Morgan Powell Praying with Pictures in the Gough Psalter by Martin Kauffmann Madness and Innocence: Reading the Infancy Cycle of a Romanesque Vita Christi by Kristen Collins The St. Alban's Psalter Monograph of 1960: Fifty Years Later by J. J. G. Alexander
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