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Premodern Chinese described a great variety of the peoples they encountered as «black.» The earliest and most frequent of these encounters were with their Southeast Asian neighbors, specifically the Malayans. But by the midimperial times of the seventh through seventeenth centuries C.E., exposure to peoples from Africa, chiefly slaves arriving from the area of modern Somalia, Kenya, and Tanzania, gradually displaced the original Asian «blacks» in Chinese consciousness. In The Blacks of...
| Автор | Don J. Wyatt |
The Master of Game is the oldest and most important work on the chase in the English language. Based primarily on Gaston de Foix's Livre de chasse , originally composed in 1387, The Master of Game was written by Edward of Norwich at his leisure between 1406 and 1413, mostly while being held prisoner for having treasonous designs against his cousin, Henry IV. While much of the book is almost an exact translation of de Foix, Edward added five chapters of his own to form the major source...
| Автор | Edward of Norwich |
The Battle of Britain, regarded by historians as one of the greatest air battles in the history of warfare, was an early turning point in the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, the German army had, with astonishing speed, mercilessly swept aside all before them and were perched on the northern coastline of France. Outright victory over all of Europe was impeded only by the expanse of the English Channel. The supremely confident, yet-to-be defeated Luftwaffe (German Air Force) were eager...
| Автор | Dan Harvey |
Barcelona um 1700: Zuvi ist vierzehn, etwas unverschämt, ein Taugenichts mit rabenschwarzem Haar. Als ihn der Graf Vauban auf sein Schloss einlädt, ändert sich Zuvis Leben schlagartig. Tochter Jeanne führt ihn in die Liebeskunst ein und Vater Vauban, der berühmteste Baumeister seiner Zeit, lehrt ihn, die sichersten und schönsten Festungsmauern zu bauen. Aber dann tobt der Spanische Erbfolgekrieg und Zuvis Heimatstadt Barcelona droht, eingenommen zu werden. Zuvi, inzwischen mit allen Wassern...
| Автор | Albert Sanchez pinol |
Silas kommt trotz des vermeintlichen Mordes an seinem eigenen Vater aus dem Gefängnis frei. Er mietet sich ein Zimmer über einem Yorker Pub. Silas nutzt die Furcht der Bürger aus, verschafft sich Respekt und fasst recht schnell wieder Fuß in der Stadt. So freundet er sich mit der Prostituierten Claire an. Erst als auffliegt, dass sie ihn lediglich benutzt, um ihre Schulden zu begleichen, wird Silas Geheimnis gelüftet und er zeigt sein wahres Gesicht-
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Nach dem texanischen Unabhängigkeitskrieg von 1836 ist Walther Fichtner ein einflussreicher Mann in Texas geworden. Als seine zweite Frau, die Indianerin Nizhoni, ihre Tochter zur Welt bringt, scheint das Glück vollkommen. Bald aber ziehen Schatten über Texas auf, denn der Nachfolger von Präsident Sam Houston will die Komantschen aus ihren Jagdgründen vertreiben und betreibt im großen Stil Spekulation auf das Land der Indianer. Walthers Todfeind beteiligt sich daran und beginnt die Fehde gegen...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Wie wird ein junger Tagedieb, der seine Kindheit in einer Höhle verbracht hat, zu einem glühenden Verfechter der Freiheit? Wie wird ein jüdischer Betrüger zu einem berühmten Arzt? Und wie wird ein junges Mädchen ohne Perspektive zu einer einflussreichen Modeschöpferin? Die Antwort liegt in Venedig. Denn dort, im Labyrinth der Gassen und Kanäle der geheimnisvollsten Lagune Europas, zwischen der Pracht San Marcos und dem Elend der Spelunken von Rialto findet sich das gesamte Panorama des Lebens…
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Since the early decades of the eighteenth century, European, and especially British, thinkers were preoccupied with questions of taste. Whether Americans believed that taste was innate—and therefore a marker of breeding and station—or acquired—and thus the product of application and study—all could appreciate that taste was grounded in, demonstrated through, and confirmed by reading, writing, and looking. It was widely believed that shared aesthetic...
| Автор | Catherine E. Kelly |
Chinese food is one of the most recognizable and widely consumed cuisines in the world. Almost no town on earth is without a Chinese restaurant of some kind, and Chinese canned, frozen, and preserved foods are available in shops from Nairobi to Quito. But the particulars of Chinese cuisine vary widely from place to place as its major ingredients and techniques have been adapted to local agriculture and taste profiles. To trace the roots of Chinese foodways, one must look back to traditional food...
| Автор | E. N. Anderson |
In The Battle for Algeria Jennifer Johnson reinterprets one of the most violent wars of decolonization: the Algerian War (1954-1962). Johnson argues that the conflict was about who—France or the National Liberation Front (FLN)—would exercise sovereignty of Algeria. The fight between the two sides was not simply a military affair; it also involved diverse and competing claims about who was positioned to better care for the Algerian people's health and welfare. Johnson...
| Автор | Jennifer Johnson |
In the early nineteenth century, London publishers dominated the transatlantic book trade. No one felt this more keenly than authors from Ireland, Scotland, and the United States who struggled to establish their own national literary traditions while publishing in the English metropolis. Authors such as Maria Edgeworth, Sydney Owenson, Walter Scott, Washington Irving, and James Fenimore Cooper devised a range of strategies to transcend the national rivalries of the literary field. By writing...
| Автор | Joseph Rezek |
In the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more racially restrictive, black writers articulated an expansive, practice-based theory of citizenship. Grounded in political participation, mutual aid, critique and revolution, and the myriad daily interactions between people living in the same spaces, citizenship, they argued, is not defined by who one is but, rather, by what one does. In The Practice of...
| Автор | Derrick R. Spires |
In 1823, as the first American missionaries arrived in Hawai'i, the archipelago was experiencing a profound transformation in its rule, as oral law that had been maintained for hundreds of years was in the process of becoming codified anew through the medium of writing. The arrival of sailors in pursuit of the lucrative sandalwood trade obliged the ali'i (chiefs) of the islands to pronounce legal restrictions on foreigners' access to Hawaiian women. Assuming the new missionaries...
| Автор | Noelani Arista |
Americans are generally apprehensive about what they perceive as big government—especially when it comes to measures that target their bodies. Soda taxes, trans fat bans, and calorie counts on menus have all proven deeply controversial. Such interventions, Rachel Louise Moran argues, are merely the latest in a long, albeit often quiet, history of policy motivated by economic, military, and familial concerns. In Governing Bodies , Moran traces the tension between the intimate terrain...
| Автор | Rachel Louise Moran |
Beginning in the sixteenth century, ecclesiastics and others created religious texts written in the native languages of the Nahua and Yucatec Maya. These texts played an important role in the evangelization of central Mexico and Yucatan. Translated Christianities is the first book to provide readers with English translations of a variety of Nahuatl and Maya religious texts. It pulls Nahuatl and Maya sermons, catechisms, and confessional manuals out of relative obscurity and presents them to...
| Автор | Mark Z. Christensen |
In Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France , Tracy Adams offers a reevaluation of Christine de Pizan’s literary engagement with contemporary politics. Adams locates Christine’s works within a detailed narrative of the complex history of the dispute between the Burgundians and the Armagnacs, the two largest political factions in fifteenth-century France. Contrary to what many scholars have long believed, Christine consistently supported the Armagnac faction throughout her...
| Автор | Tracy Adams |
The United States emerged from World War II with generally good relations with the countries of Latin America and with the traditional Good Neighbor policy still largely intact. But it wasn’t too long before various overarching strategic and ideological priorities began to undermine those good relations as the Cold War came to exert its grip on U.S. policy formation and implementation. In The Truman Administration and Bolivia , Glenn Dorn tells the story of how the Truman...
| Автор | Glenn J. Dorn |
Jean Jaurès was a towering intellectual and political leader of the democratic Left at the turn of the twentieth century, but he is little remembered today outside of France, and his contributions to political thought are little studied anywhere. In Jean Jaurès: The Inner Life of Social Democracy , Geoffrey Kurtz introduces Jaurès to an American audience. The parliamentary and philosophical leader of French socialism from the 1890s until his assassination in...
| Автор | Geoffrey Kurtz |
“[Martí] added a social agenda to the historic program of national liberation and instantly converted a movement devoted to the establishment of a new nation into a force dedicated to shaping a new society. Martí transformed rebellion into revolution. . . . Like a master weaver, Martí pulled together all the separate threads of Cuban discontent—social, economic, political, racial, historical—and wove them into a radical movement of...
| Автор | José Martí |
In Chaos and Cosmos , Heidi Scott integrates literary readings with contemporary ecological methods to investigate two essential and contrasting paradigms of nature that scientific ecology continues to debate: chaos and balance. Ecological literature of the Romantic and Victorian eras uses environmental chaos and the figure of the balanced microcosm as tropes essential to understanding natural patterns, and these eras were the first to reflect upon the ecological degradations of the Industrial...
| Автор | Heidi C. M. Scott |
Ithell Colquhoun (1906–1988) is remembered today as a surrealist artist, writer, and occultist. Although her paintings hang in a number of public collections and her gothic novel Goose of Hermogenes (1961) remains in print, critical responses to her work have been severely constrained by the limited availability of her art and writings. The publication of her second novel, I Saw Water —presented here for the first time, together with a selection of her other writings and...
| Автор | Ithell Colquhoun |
Es ist eine Zeit des Umbruchs, eine Zeit der Finsternis. Aber auch der Hoffnung, die selbst das tiefste Dunkel erfüllt. Während sich die Lage in Europa gefährlich zuspitzt, versuchen drei junge Menschen heldenhaft ihr Schicksal zu meistern: Der Engländer Lloyd Williams wird Zeuge der Machtergreifung Hitlers und entschließt sich gegen den Faschismus zu kämpfen. Die deutsche Adelige Carla von Ulrich ist entsetzt über das Unrecht, das im Namen des Volkes geschieht, und geht in den Widerstand,...
| Автор | Кен Фоллетт |
Focusing on a turbulent time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, The Power and the Glorification considers how, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the papacy employed the visual arts to help reinforce Catholic power structures. All means of propaganda were deployed to counter the papacy’s eroding authority in the wake of the Great Schism of 1378 and in response to the upheaval surrounding the Protestant Reformation a century later. In the Vatican and elsewhere in...
| Автор | Jan L. de Jong |
Few works of art better illustrate the splendor of eleventh-century painting than the manuscript often referred to as the “precious gospels” of Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim, with its peculiar combination of sophistication and naïveté, its dramatically gesturing figures, and the saturated colors of its densely ornamented surfaces. In The Bernward Gospels , Jennifer Kingsley offers the first interpretive study of the pictorial program of this famed...
| Автор | Jennifer P. Kingsley |