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The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume IV: Reactions to ColonialismThe collection of essays in this volume offers an overview of scholarly approaches to the ways in which diverse actors, representing the colonised or the colonising nations, or indeed the international community, reacted to colonialism during the lifetime of the modern colonial empires or...
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A Life in Another TimeA Life in Another Time is a true story of growing up in Mississippi, mainly during the nineteen-fifties and -sixties. The narrative is fast paced with a sense of humor and gives a rare insight into the thinking and feelings of a Southern teenager...
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Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of EmpireA profound and ground-breaking approach to one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century. Traditional interpretations of the British Empire's emerging success and expansion have long overshadowed the deep uncertainty that...
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The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War--An Oral HistoryThe first-ever oral history of the attack that started the Civil War that combines illuminating historical narrative with intense first-hand accounts. On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops began firing on Fort Sumter, beginning the bloodiest conflict in American history. Since that time numerous historians...
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ChinaWelcome to China--home of the Great Wall of China, the terracotta warriors of Xi'an, and giant pandas! Informative, easy-to-read text and oversize scenic photos draw in readers as they learn about China's history, government, major cities, land features, natural resources, culture, and more! Maps,...
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Blackholes: Every Thing You Need to Know About It for Space Agencies (The Key to Understanding the Universe): The Key to UnderstanBlack hole are the most fascinating object of this universe.there were always thousands of question revolving around my mind about black holes when i was a teenager. To find answer to those questions i read a lot of books.i tried to put all those...
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My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer WarNew edition with an eight-page biography of the author, and more than 60 footnotes explaining events, personalities and phrases to the present-day reader. General Ben Viljoen was one of the most important figures of the Second Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902, but because of his...
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Spare Parts: A Rollicking Ride through the Late 60s and 70sLacey Pierce, recently returned from the Peace Corps in Africa, falls in love with a young lawyer and peace activist, Doug Pierce. Doug has been sentenced to prison for resisting the local draft during the Vietnam War. While waiting for the appeal on the...
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Bird GodsBird Gods is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on...
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Homes for Our Time. Contemporary Houses Around the World. Vol. 2Climate, environment, history, and technology are transforming architecture worldwide. The second volume in the Homes for Our Time series documents this housing revolution. What role do homes play in our endangered world? How can they innovate?In Sri Lanka, Palinda Kannangara created the Frame Holiday...
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Netherlandish and Italian Female Portraiture in the Fifteenth Century: Gender, Identity, and the Tradition of PowerThis book investigates the aesthetic and conceptual characteristics of fifteenth-century female portraiture on panel. Portraits of women increased substantially during this century. They formed part of a material and a visual culture borne out of the rapid rise of an oligarchy from entrepreneurial activities...
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Classical Controversies: Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First CenturyModern receptions of Graeco-Roman Antiquity are important ideological markers of the ways we envisage our own twenty-first-century societies. An urgent topic of study is: what kinds of narratives - sometimes controversial - about Antiquity do people create for themselves at this moment in time,...
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Midnimo, Maandeeq, iyo Muraayaddii Jabtay"Halgankiyo midnimadiyoRaggii calanka soo mudeyAn baroorannee maye?Mataaneynti QarankiyoHaddii magicii naga lumayMaxay noloshu noo tahayKolley mowdku waa gareNafta maysku aasnaa?!Haddaan weynay maan iyoAqli noo maqooradaMa inaan gob nahay baanMartidiyo shisheeyaha'Masawira' niraahnaa?!Nin waliba muraad leheInuu qoys maciin bidoMajarihii XorriyaddunaKa habaabo marrinkiiMaangaabnimaa leheMarna mays tiraahdeen'Hanta labada kii...
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Evagrius and His LegacyEssays explore aspects of Evagrius's life and address his controversial but long-lasting influence on Latin, Byzantine, and Syriac cultures in antiquity and the Middle Ages.Author: Joel KalvesmakiPublisher: University of Notre Dame PressPublished: 08/15/2022Pages: 414Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94dISBN: 9780268024185
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Whitfield Lovell: PassagesThe most comprehensive survey to date of the contemporary artist Whitfield Lovell, whose poetic and intricately crafted tableaux and installations document and pay tribute to the history and cultural memory of the African American experience. Whitfield Lovell: Passages accompanies a major traveling exhibition of...
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America's Rolling - The Story of Our TimesAmerica's Rolling is the story of the United States as told around the fabric of the American railroad. Within you will learn about such luminaries as A.J. Russell and Kate Shelley. Touching on the histories of the Baltimore and Ohio and Union Pacific Railroads....
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Ladder on the FenceIn a good and just world, we would all sail through childhood on a solid foundation of unequivocal love, happiness and protection. But it is not always such a world, and for Margaret Lygnos, growing up amid a fractured set of adults and a...
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Living Theravada: Demystifying the People, Places, and Practices of a Buddhist TraditionAn illuminating introduction to the contemporary world of Theravada Buddhism and its rich culture and practices in modern mainland Southeast Asia. Theravada translates as "the way of the Elders," indicating that this Buddhist tradition considers itself to be the most authoritative and pure. Tracing...
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Spirit of Arnhem Land: Aboriginal AustraliansSituated in the far reaches of the Northern Territory, Arnhem Land is one of the few regions of Australia where traditional Aboriginal culture remains intact. Author/Photographer Penny Tweedie's twenty year relationship with the people of Arnhem Land has given her unparalleled access into their...
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Mythogeography: A Guide to Walking Sideways - Compiled from the Diaries, Manifestos, Notes, Prospectuses, Records and Everyday UtopiasAttributed to Phil Smith ("the Crab Man") on the publisher's webite.Author: Phil SmithPublisher: Triarchy Press LtdPublished: 04/20/2010Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsISBN: 9780956263131
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