With Alexander in India and Central Asia : Moving East and Back to West
Claudia Antonetti;P Biagi;Claudia Antonetti;P Biagi
Alexander conquered most parts of the Western World, but there is a great deal of cont...
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With Alexander in India and Central Asia : Moving East and Back to West
2017
Alexander conquered most parts of the Western World, but there is a great deal of controversy over his invasion of India , the least known of his campaigns. In BC 327 Alexander came to India , and tried to cross the Jhelum river for the invasion, but was then confronted by King Porus who ruled an area in what is now the Punjab. According to Indian history he was stopped by Porus at his entry into the country, but most of the world still believes that Alexander won the battle. Fearing the prospect of facing other large armies and exhausted by years of campaigning, Alexander's army mutinied at the Hyphasis River, refusing to march farther east. This river thus marks the easternmost extent of Alexander's conquests.Twelve papers in this volume examine aspects of Alexander's Indian campaign, the relationship between him and his generals, the potential to use Indian sources, and evidence for the influence of policies of Alexander in neighboring areas such as Iran and Russia.
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American Scholar. Summer98, Vol. 67 Issue 3, p85. 9p.
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American Scholar. Summer98, Vol. 67 Issue 3, p85. 9p.
Examines the work of author John Buchan . Background information on Buchan ; Identification of some of Buchan's books; Information on Buchan's marriage; Details on Buchan's achievements.
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KIPLING’S KIM, THE GREAT GAME, AND REAL SPIES – PART TWO.
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Kipling Journal. Jun2022, Vol. 96 Issue 391, p17-31. 15p.
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RICHARDS, DAVID ALAN
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Kipling Journal. Jun2022, Vol. 96 Issue 391, p17-31. 15p.
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A literary criticism is presented of the book "Kim" by Rudyard Kipling. The story unfo...
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KIPLING’S KIM, THE GREAT GAME, AND REAL SPIES – PART TWO.
Kipling Journal. Jun2022, Vol. 96 Issue 391, p17-31. 15p.
A literary criticism is presented of the book "Kim" by Rudyard Kipling. The story unfolds against the backdrop of the Great Game, the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. The novel is notable for its detailed portrait of the people, culture, and varied religions of India , and presents a vivid picture of India , its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road.
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Kim (Book : Kipling) - Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 - Great Game (Anglo-Russian relations) - Culture - 19th century Central Asian historyContent provider:
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Piracy in World History
Stefan Amirell;Hans Hägerdal;Bruce Buchan;Stefan Amirell;Hans Hägerdal;Bruc...
In a modern global historical context, scholars have often regarded piracy as an essen...
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Piracy in World History
2021
In a modern global historical context, scholars have often regarded piracy as an essentially European concept which was inappropriately applied by the expanding European powers to the rest of the world, mainly for the purpose of furthering colonial forms of domination in the economic, political, military, legal and cultural spheres. By contrast, this edited volume highlights the relevance of both European and non-European understandings of piracy to the development of global maritime security and freedom of navigation. It explores the significance of ‘legal posturing'on the part of those accused of piracy, as well as the existence of non-European laws and regulations regarding piracy and related forms of maritime violence in the early modern era. The authors in this volume highlight cases from various parts of the early-modern world, thereby explaining piracy as a global phenomenon.
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Strachan, Hew
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War in History. Jul2009, Vol. 16 Issue 3, p298-324. 27p.
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Steel City Readers : Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955
Mary Grover;Mary Grover
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Steel City Readers : Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955
2023; Vol. 00099
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Steel City Readers• makes available, and interprets in detail, a large body of new evidence about past cultures and communities of reading. Its distinctive method is to listen to readers'own voices, rather than theorising about them as an undifferentiated group. Its cogent and engaging structure traces reading journeys from childhood into education and adulthood, and attends to settings from home to school to library. It has a distinctive focus on reading for pleasure and its framework of argument situates that type of reading in relation to dimensions of gender and class. It is grounded in place, and particularly in the context of a specific industrial city: Sheffield. The men and women featured in the book, coming to adulthood in the 1930s and 1940s , rarely regarded reading as a means of self-improvement. It was more usually a compulsive and intensely pleasurable private activity.
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Books and reading--England--Sheffield--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Animal Welfare in Australia : Politics and Policy
Chen, Dr Peter John;Chen, Dr Peter John
The issue of animal welfare has attracted attention in Australia in recent decades. Ac...
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Animal Welfare in Australia : Politics and Policy
2016
The issue of animal welfare has attracted attention in Australia in recent decades. Activists and welfare organisations have become increasingly vigorous in promoting a new ethical relationship between humans and animals, and in challenging practices they identify as inhumane. In 2011 this agitation culminated in the temporary suspension of cattle live exports, with significant economic and political implications for Australia. Similar campaigns have focused on domestic food production systems and the use of animals in entertainment.Despite this increased interest, the policy process remains poorly understood. Animal Welfare in Australia is the first Australian book to examine the topic in a systematic manner. Without taking a specific ethical position, Peter John Chen draws on a wide range of sources – including activists, industry representatives and policy makers – to explain how policy is made and implemented. He explores the history of animal welfare in Australia, examines public opinion and media coverage of key issues, and comprehensively maps the policy domain. He shows how diverse social, ethical and economic interests interact to produce a complex and unpredictable climate.Animal Welfare in Australia will be of interest to scholars and practitioners of public policy, those interested in issues of animal welfare, and anyone wishing to understand how competing interests interact in the contemporary Australian policy landscape.Some supplementary graphs and images can be found at https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/15349
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Animal welfare--Moral and ethical aspects--Australia - Animal welfare--Government policy--Australia - Animal welfare--Political aspects--Australia - Human-animal relationships--AustraliaContent provider:
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Natural History of Lighthouses
Love, John A.;Love, John A.
The natural history contribution of keepers in the lighthouse story, as well as the hi...
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Natural History of Lighthouses
2015
The natural history contribution of keepers in the lighthouse story, as well as the history of lighthouses and the Stevenson dynasty.
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Birds--Great Britain - Lighthouses--Great Britain - Natural history--Great Britain - Ornithology--Great BritainContent provider:
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Ma`afu, Prince of Tonga, Chief of Fiji : The Life and Times of Fiji's First Tui Lau
John Spurway;John Spurway
Enele Ma`afu, son of Aleamotu`a, Tu`i Kanokupolu, grew up during a time of unprecedent...
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Ma`afu, Prince of Tonga, Chief of Fiji : The Life and Times of Fiji's First Tui Lau
2015
Enele Ma`afu, son of Aleamotu`a, Tu`i Kanokupolu, grew up during a time of unprecedented social and political change in Tonga following the advent of Christianity. Moving to Lau, Fiji, in 1847 when he was about 21, he skilfully exploited kinship links to establish a power base there and in eastern Cakaudrove. His achievements were recognised in 1853 when his cousin King Tupou I appointed Ma`afu as Governor of the Tongans in Fiji.Acting as a putative champion of the lotu, Ma`afu undertook successful military campaigns elsewhere in Fiji and, after adding the Yasayasa Moala and the Exploring Isles to the nascent Lauan state, he was able to establish the Tovata ko Lau, a union of Lau, Cakaudrove and Bua, with himself as head. His power was formally recognised in 1869 when the Lauan chiefs appointed him as Tui Lau, a new title in the polity of Fiji. Ma`afu was now able to challenge Cakobau for the mastery of Fiji.After serving as Viceroy during the farcical planter oligarchy known as the Kingdom of Fiji, Ma`afu underwent a severe humiliation when, in order to maintain his power in Lau, he was forced to accede to the wishes of Fiji's other great chiefs in offering their islands to Great Britain. He would end his days as Roko Tui Lau, a'subordinate administrator'in the Crown Colony of Fiji, presiding over a province characterised by corruption and maladministration but where the legacy of his earlier innovative land reforms has endured.
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Henry Prinsep's Empire : Framing a Distant Colony
Malcolm Allbrook;Malcolm Allbrook
Henry Prinsep is known as Western Australia's first Chief Protector of Aborigines in t...
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Henry Prinsep's Empire : Framing a Distant Colony
2014
Henry Prinsep is known as Western Australia's first Chief Protector of Aborigines in the colonial government of Sir John Forrest, a period which saw the introduction of oppressive laws that dominated the lives of Aboriginal people for most of the 20th century.But he was also an artist, horse-trader, member of a prominent East India Company family, and everyday citizen, whose identity was formed during his colonial upbringing in India and England. As a creator of Imperial culture, he supported the great men and women of history while he painted, wrote about and photographed the scenes around him. In terms of naked power he was a middle man, perhaps even a small man. His empire is an intensely personal place, a vast network of family and friends from every quarter of the British imperial world, engaged in the common tasks of making a home and a career, while framing new identities, new imaginings and new relationships with each other, Indigenous peoples and fellow colonists. This book traces Henry Prinsep's life from India to Western Australia and shows how these texts and images illuminate not only Prinsep the man, but the affectionate bonds that endured despite the geographic bounds of empire, and the historical, social, geographic and economic origins of Aboriginal and colonial relationships which are important to this day.
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Artists--Australia--Western Australia--Biography - Civil service--Officials and employees--BiographyContent provider:
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European Planning History in the 20th Century : A Continent of Urban Planning
Max Welch Guerra;Abdellah Abarkan;María A. Castrillo Romón;Martin Pekár;Max...
The history of Europe in the 20th century is closely tied to the history of urban plan...
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European Planning History in the 20th Century : A Continent of Urban Planning
2023
The history of Europe in the 20th century is closely tied to the history of urban planning. Social and economic progress but also the brute treatment of people and nature throughout Europe were possible due to the use of urban planning and the other levels of spatial planning. Thereby, planning has constituted itself in Europe as an international subject. Since its emergence, through intense exchange but also competition, despite country differences, planning has developed as a European field of practice and scientific discipline. Planning is here much more than the addition of individual histories; however, historiography has treated this history very selective regarding geography and content. This book searches for an understanding of the historiography of planning in a European dimension. Scholars from Eastern and Western, Southern and Northern Europe address the issues of the public led production of city and the social functions of urban planning in capitalist and state-socialist countries. The examined examples include Poland and USSR, Czech Republic and Slovakia, UK, Netherlands, Germany, France, Portugal and Spain, Italy, and Sweden. The book will be of interest to students and scholars for Urbanism, Urban/Town Planning, Spatial Planning, Spatial Politics, Urban Development, Urban Policies, Planning History and European History of the 20th Century. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Urban policy--Europe--History--20th century - Cities and towns--Growth - City planning--Europe--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Three Forts on the Tay: Excavations at Moncreiffe, Moredun and Abernethy, Perth and Kinross 2014–17
David Strachan;Martin Cook;Dawn McLaren;David Strachan;Martin Cook;Dawn McL...
Despite a resurgence in Scottish fort studies, few sites have been investigated, and f...
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Three Forts on the Tay: Excavations at Moncreiffe, Moredun and Abernethy, Perth and Kinross 2014–17
2023
Despite a resurgence in Scottish fort studies, few sites have been investigated, and fewer still at the scale reported in this volume. Over 2014-17, Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust, working with AOC Archaeology Group, excavated three hilltop forts on the Tay estuary to explore both their enclosing works and internal buildings, and uncovered an impressive assemblage of small finds. At Moredun fort on Moncreiffe Hill, a previously unknown monumental roundhouse, a rare La Tène bird-head brooch, and evidence of shale bangle industry were uncovered. At Castle Law, Abernethy, excavated in the 1890s and the type-site of Childe's ‘Abernethy complex', re-excavation prompted reassessment of the artefacts from original excavations to reveal new evidence of the deposition of artefacts and animal bones within its cistern. Excavation of the enclosing works of these sites, and Moncreiffe fort, suggest an evolution of fort defences from simple earth and stone ramparts to massive timber-laced walls – the murus Gallicus described by Caesar – reflecting high status sites with restricted access for a social elite. Hillforts of The Tay was part of the Tay Landscape Partnership Scheme, a community heritage initiative and the results of this citizen science project make a significant contribution to establishing Tayside as a well-studied area for the site type both within Scotland, and further afield.
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Perspektiven auf Stoffgeschichte : Materialität, Praktiken, Wissen
Sebastian Haumann;Eva-Maria Roelevink;Nora Thorade;Christian Zumbrägel;Seba...
Seit gut einem Jahrzehnt ist ein wachsendes Interesse an der Geschichte einzelner Stof...
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Perspektiven auf Stoffgeschichte : Materialität, Praktiken, Wissen
2023; Vol. 00212
Seit gut einem Jahrzehnt ist ein wachsendes Interesse an der Geschichte einzelner Stoffe zu verzeichnen: Es gibt Studien zu Kohle, Salz oder Baumwolle, aber auch zu komplexen Stoffprodukten wie Kunststoffen oder Kokain. Das geschichtswissenschaftliche Interesse an Stoffen ist zwar keineswegs neu, aber die Perspektiven haben sich in den letzten Jahren unter dem Eindruck einer neuen Debatte über »Materialität« erheblich gewandelt. Die Beiträger•innen bündeln aktuelle Debatten und arbeiten Umrisse einer Stoffgeschichte heraus. Sie liefern damit erstmals einen Einblick in Methoden und Praktiken des Forschungsfeldes - und geben Perspektiven für die Zukunft.
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La inmunidad soberana en los espacios marinos.
Arjona Hernández, Noelia;Arjona Hernández, Noelia
Inmunidad y Mar, Mar e Inmunidad, dos palabras altamente evocadoras y dinámicas, en su...
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La inmunidad soberana en los espacios marinos.
2023
Inmunidad y Mar, Mar e Inmunidad, dos palabras altamente evocadoras y dinámicas, en suma, reactivas, cuando las pensamos haciéndolas pasar por el tamiz del Derecho Internacional Público. Pese a la anquilosada institución de la inmunidad de jurisdicción, a veces un tanto anacrónica pero tantas veces útil, esperamos ilustrar su vitalidad relacionándola con las normas del derecho del mar y adentrándonos en los infinitos y actuales problemas particulares que sobrevienen. Ojalá no someter al lector al tedio sino antes, al contrario, proporcionarle un placer similar al de la lectura de una novela.
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Privileges and immunities - Law of the sea - Maritime lawContent provider:
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Local Self-Governance in Antiquity and in the Global South : Theoretical and Empirical Insights From an Interdisciplinary Perspective
Dominique Krüger;Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach;Rene Pfeilschifter;Dominique K...
The nucleus of society is situated at the local level: in the village, the neighborhoo...
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Local Self-Governance in Antiquity and in the Global South : Theoretical and Empirical Insights From an Interdisciplinary Perspective
2023
The nucleus of society is situated at the local level: in the village, the neighborhood, the city district. This is where a community first develops collective rules that are intended to ensure its continued existence. The contributors look at such configurations in geographical areas and time periods that lie outside of the modern Western world with its particular development of society and statehood: in Antiquity and in the Global South of the present. Here states tend to be weak, with obvious challenges and opportunities for local communities. How does governance in this context work? Scholars from various disciplines (Classics, Theology, Political Science, Sociology, Social Anthropology, Human Geography, Sinology) analyze different kinds of local arrangements in case studies, and they do so with a comparative approach. The sixteen papers examine the scope and spatial contingency of forms of self-governance; its legitimization and the collective identity of the groups behind them; the relations to different levels of state governance as well as to other local groups. Overall, this volume makes an interdisciplinary contribution to a better understanding of fundamental elements of local governance and statehood.
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Local government - Autonomy - Autonomy--History--To 1500Content provider:
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Educación, tecnología, innovación y transferencia del conocimiento.
López Meneses, Eloy (Editor);Bernal Bravo, César (Editor);López Meneses, El...
La presente obra es el resultado de las valiosas contribuciones científicas presentada...
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Educación, tecnología, innovación y transferencia del conocimiento.
2023
La presente obra es el resultado de las valiosas contribuciones científicas presentadas en el I Congreso Internacional de Educación, Tecnología, Innovación y Transferencia del Conocimiento EduEmer 2023 los días 25 y 26 de mayo de 23, Congreso Internacional organizado por la Cátedra institucional de Educación y Tecnologías Emergentes, Gamificación e Inteligencia Artificial en colaboración con AFOE Formación, bajo el título “Educación, Tecnología, Innovación y Transferencia de Conocimiento”, Esta publicación recopila doscientos dieciocho aportaciones científicas que representan una miscelánea de innovaciones y reflexiones docentes en distintas áreas del currículo y de las diversas etapas educativas, Estas contribuciones suponen un abanico de buenas prácticas para el desarrollo profesional, El trabajo agrupa tres conceptos clave para el desarrollo económico y social de cualquier país: innovación, educación y transferencia tecnológica, Sin embargo, no siempre se les presta la debida atención ni se les asigna los recursos necesarios para impulsarlos, La obra pretende ofrecer una visión integral y actualizada de estos temas, analizando sus fundamentos teóricos, sus experiencias prácticas y sus desafíos futuros, A lo largo de sus capítulos, se abordan aspectos como el papel de la investigación, la creatividad, el emprendimiento, la cooperación, la aplicabilidad de las tecnologías emergentes, la evaluación o el proceso de transferencia de conocimiento, Asimismo, se presentan casos de éxito y buenas prácticas de diferentes profesionales, que ilustran cómo la innovación, la educación y la transferencia de conocimiento pueden contribuir al bienestar colectivo y al progreso sostenible formativo, Esperamos que esta publicación socio-educativa contribuya al desarrollo de buenas prácticas profesionales y futuras experiencias que fomenten el desarrollo sostenible de la calidad docente y la innovación en las estructuras curriculares,
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'Order, Order!' : A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Clerks of the Australian House of Representatives
Stephen Wilks;Stephen Wilks
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'Order, Order!' : A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Clerks of the Australian House of Representatives
2023
'Order, Order!': A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Clerks of the Australian House of Representativesshines a first-ever historical light on the remarkable men and women who have served in these national offices since Federation.The Speakers include Frederick Holder, whose campaign to embed a Westminster-style Speakership died with him when he collapsed dramatically in the parliament; the much-loved Joan Child, Australia's first female Speaker, whose struggles as a widow with five children fostered her commitment to social justice and made her, in the words of another Speaker, Anna Burke, ‘pretty fierce'; and Ian Sinclair, a warhorse of a parliamentarian who seemed to prove the poacher-turned-gamekeeper principle. The Deputy Speakers, a particularly eclectic assortment, include the strange and bleakly serious James Fowler, who once hopefully mailed a film synopsis to the American director Cecil B. DeMille and who ended his days warning of the perils of democracy. Amongst the Clerks are Frank Green, who, at the height of the Cold War, indiscreetly befriended members of the Communist Party, and the popular Jack Pettifer—a true child of parliament—who grew up in an apartment in the building.This book includes analysis of what sorts of individuals typically filled these vital parliamentary positions, and the appearance of an Australian model of the Speakership based on pragmatic compromise. All three offices are typically more than just creatures of political parties—something that Australians should be prepared to defend against the remorseless encroachment of political partisanship.
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Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies : Volume 1: Contexts
Sitta Reden;Sitta Reden
The notion of the “Silk Road” that the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen inve...
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Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies : Volume 1: Contexts
2019
The notion of the “Silk Road” that the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen invented in the 19th century has lost attraction to scholars in light of large amounts of new evidence and new approaches. The handbook suggests new conceptual and methodological tools for researching ancient economic exchange in a global perspective with a strong focus on recent debates on the nature of pre-modern empires.The interdisciplinary team of Chinese, Indian and Graeco-Roman historians, archaeologists and anthropologists that has written this handbook compares different forms of economic development in agrarian and steppe regions in a period of accelerated empire formation during 300 BCE and 300 CE. It investigates inter-imperial zones and networks of exchange which were crucial for ancient Eurasian connections.Volume I provides a comparative history of the most important empires forming in Northern Africa, Europe and Asia between 300 BCE and 300 CE. It surveys a wide range of evidence that can be brought to bear on economic development in the these empires, and takes stock of the ways academic traditions have shaped different understandings of economic and imperial development as well as Silk-Road exchange in Russia, China, India and Western Graeco-Roman history.
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Economic history--To 500 - Economic history and conditions - History, Ancient - Xiongnu (Asian people)--Economic conditions--To 500 - History of Asia - Hellenism--Economic conditions--To 500Content provider:
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The View From Malakand: Harold Deane’s ‘Note on Udyana and Gandhara’
Llewelyn Morgan;Luca Maria Oliveri;Llewelyn Morgan;Luca Maria Oliveri
The View from Malakand: Harold Deane's ‘Note on Udyana and Gandhara'presents an editio...
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The View From Malakand: Harold Deane’s ‘Note on Udyana and Gandhara’
2022; Vol. 00003
The View from Malakand: Harold Deane's ‘Note on Udyana and Gandhara'presents an edition with introductions and extensive commentary of a manuscript, discovered by Luca M. Olivieri in the fort at Malakand, Swat, Pakistan, of a seminal and pioneering account of the antiquities of Swat and Peshawar by Harold Deane. The article of which this manuscript is an earlier draft, the first significant contribution to the archaeology of Swat, was published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society (1896), and the manuscript contains interesting additional information that did not make the final text. The book presents and transcribes the manuscript, also including introductory material on its discovery and the life and significance of Deane, and (most importantly) extended notes identifying and describing the places that Deane discusses in his article. The book thus doubles as a gazetteer of this immensely rich archaeological space, and a history of its archaeological discovery. The book includes images of the original article, the manuscript, some of the artefacts referred to by Deane in his article, and an appendix publishing a manuscript by J. W. McCrindle, ‘Alexander's Campaign in Afghanistan', found among a small number of Deane's papers in the possession of his great-grandson in England, which is directly relevant to the composition of his article.
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At the Edges of Sleep : Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators
Jean Ma;Jean Ma
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.or...
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At the Edges of Sleep : Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators
2022
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Many recent works of contemporary art, performance, and film turn a spotlight on sleep, wresting it from the hidden, private spaces to which it is commonly relegated. At the Edges of Sleep considers sleep in film and moving image art as both a subject matter to explore onscreen and a state to induce in the audience. Far from negating action or meaning, sleep extends into new territories as it designates ways of existing in the world, in relation to people, places, and the past. Defined positively, sleep also expands our understanding of reception beyond the binary of concentration and distraction. These possibilities converge in the work of Thai filmmaker and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who has explored the subject of sleep systematically throughout his career. In examining Apichatpong's work, Jean Ma brings together an array of interlocutors—from Freud to Proust, George Méliès to Tsai Ming-liang, Weegee to Warhol—to rethink moving images through the lens of sleep. Ma exposes an affinity between cinema, spectatorship, and sleep that dates to the earliest years of filmmaking, and sheds light upon the shifting cultural valences of sleep in the present moment.
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Motion picture audiences - Art and motion pictures - Dreams in motion pictures - Sleep--Psychological aspectsContent provider:
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Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean : Spaces, Mobilities, Imaginaries
Thomas Galoppin;Elodie Guillon;Max Luaces;Asuman Lätzer-Lasar;Sylvain Lebre...
Ancient religions are definitely complex systems of gods, which resist our understandi...
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Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean : Spaces, Mobilities, Imaginaries
2022
Ancient religions are definitely complex systems of gods, which resist our understanding. Divine names provide fundamental keys to gain access to the multiples ways gods were conceived, characterized, and organized. Among the names given to the gods many of them refer to spaces: cities, landscapes, sanctuaries, houses, cosmic elements. They reflect mental maps which need to be explored in order to gain new knowledge on both the structure of the pantheons and the human agency in the cultic dimension. By considering the intersection between naming and mapping, this book opens up new perspectives on how tradition and innovation, appropriation and creation play a role in the making of polytheistic and monotheistic religions.Far from being confined to sanctuaries, in fact, gods dwell in human environments in multiple ways. They move into imaginary spaces and explore the cosmos. By proposing a new and interdiciplinary angle of approach, which involves texts, images, spatial and archeaeological data, this book sheds light on ritual practices and representations of gods in the whole Mediterranean, from Italy to Mesopotamia, from Greece to North Africa and Egypt. Names and spaces enable to better define, differentiate, and connect gods.
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Gods--History--To 1500Content provider:
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The Circular Archetype in Microcosm: The Carved Stone Balls of Late Neolithic Scotland
Chris L. Stewart-Moffitt;Chris L. Stewart-Moffitt
The Circular Archetype in Microcosm is the culmination of seven years research into th...
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The Circular Archetype in Microcosm: The Carved Stone Balls of Late Neolithic Scotland
2022
The Circular Archetype in Microcosm is the culmination of seven years research into the Carved Stone Balls of Late Neolithic Scotland. It is the first study of these enigmatic artefacts since that undertaken by Dorothy Marshall in 1977 and includes all currently known examples in both museums and private hands, described and analysed in considerable detail. For the first time, visual geological characterisation has been undertaken on approximately a third of carved stone balls, which has enabled a more detailed analysis of their potential origin and the landscapes in which they were found. The book offers a revised classification/typology of these artefacts which, following careful analysis, suggests that it is possible to determine individual craftspeople with a wide range of skills. It suggests that carved stone balls were used as unique and distinctive gestalts that represented the ideology of the core area of Aberdeenshire and enabled disparate groups to recognise one another.
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Neolithic period--Scotland - Stone carving--Scotland--HistoryContent provider:
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Animals, Plants and Afterimages : The Art and Science of Representing Extinction
Valérie Bienvenue;Nicholas Chare;Valérie Bienvenue;Nicholas Chare
The sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction is one of the most pervasive issu...
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Animals, Plants and Afterimages : The Art and Science of Representing Extinction
2022
The sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction is one of the most pervasive issues of our time. Animals, Plants and Afterimages brings together leading scholars in the humanities and life sciences to explore how extinct species are represented in art and visual culture, with a special emphasis on museums. Engaging with celebrated cases of vanished species such as the quagga and the thylacine as well as less well-known examples of animals and plants, these essays explore how representations of recent and ancient extinctions help advance scientific understanding and speak to contemporary ecological and environmental concerns.
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Extinct plants--Exhibitions - Art and biology - Museum techniques--Moral and ethical aspects - Extinct animals in art - Extinct plants in art - Extinct animals--ExhibitionsContent provider:
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Suva Stories : A History of the Capital of Fiji
Nicholas Halter;Nicholas Halter
Suva Stories explores a fascinating tapestry of histories in one of the Pacific's olde...
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Suva Stories : A History of the Capital of Fiji
2022
Suva Stories explores a fascinating tapestry of histories in one of the Pacific's oldest and most culturally diverse urban centres, the capital of Fiji. Charting the trajectory of Suva from indigenous village to colonial hub to contemporary Pacific metropolis, it draws on a rich colonial archive and moving personal memoirs that bear witness to their time. The diverse contributions in this volume form a complex mosaic of urban lives and histories that contribute fresh insights into historical and ongoing debates about race, place and belonging. Suva Stories is a valuable companion to those seeking to engage with the city's pasts and present, and will prompt new conversations about history and memory in Fiji.
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Who Saved the Parthenon? : A New History of the Acropolis Before, During and After the Greek Revolution
William St Clair;David St Clair;Lucy Barnes;William St Clair;David St Clair...
In this magisterial book, William St Clair unfolds the history of the Parthenon throug...
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Who Saved the Parthenon? : A New History of the Acropolis Before, During and After the Greek Revolution
2022
In this magisterial book, William St Clair unfolds the history of the Parthenon throughout the modern era to the present day, with special emphasis on the period before, during, and after the Greek War of Independence of 1821–32. Focusing particularly on the question of who saved the Parthenon from destruction during this conflict, with the help of documents that shed a new light on this enduring question, he explores the contributions made by the Philhellenes, Ancient Athenians, Ottomans and the Great Powers. Marshalling a vast amount of primary evidence, much of it previously unexamined and published here for the first time, St Clair rigorously explores the multiple ways in which the Parthenon has served both as a cultural icon onto which meanings are projected and as a symbol of particular national, religious and racial identities, as well as how it illuminates larger questions about the uses of built heritage. This book has a companion volume with the classical Parthenon as its main focus, which offers new ways of recovering the monument and its meanings in ancient times. St Clair builds on the success of his classic text, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period, to present this rich and authoritative account of the Parthenon's presentation and reception throughout history. With weighty implications for the present life of the Parthenon, it is itself a monumental contribution to accounts of the Greek Revolution, to classical studies, and to intellectual history.
