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London 1560: Als Spionin der Krone fällt Eleanor of Waringham im Konflikt zwischen der protestantischen Königin Elizabeth I. und der katholischen Schottin Mary Stewart eine gefährliche Aufgabe zu. Ihre Nähe zur Königin schafft Neider, und als Eleanor sich in den geheimnisvollen König der Diebe verliebt, macht sie sich angreifbar. Unterdessen schleicht sich ihr fünfzehnjährige Bruder Isaac als blinder Passagier auf ein Schiff. Nach seiner Entdeckung wird er als Sklave an spanische Pflanzer...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
The book exposes various mechanisms and methods by which covert colonial mechanisms are employed to perpetuate colonialism, especially in Africa. Less overt and more covert perpetuation of colonialism is done through the use of networks. The main achievement of the initial phase of colonialism was the establishment of networks that are nefarious and omnipresent; constituting “distributed presence,” which allows for “action at a distance.” As a result,...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
In modern-day Mauritania, as in several multilingual states, tensions over language policy and identity between the two ethnic groups—Arab and afro-Mauritanian—have been flaring ever since the nation’s independence. In Language Policy and Identity in Mauritania: Multilingual and Multicultural Tensions , El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed investigates language policy and identity in this North African country. Moulaye Ahmed traces the past and the present Mauritania’s...
| Автор | El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed |
This study draws on the life of renowned historian, Robert H. Ferrell, to explore issues related to the history profession. Ferrell’s life story contextualizes postmodernism, the New Left, and the challenges of crafting history. The author analyzes Ferrell’s biases, examining distinctions between his morals and actions as well as his private and public life. This book provides crucial insight into the subjectivity of history, the boundaries of the discipline, and the effects...
| Автор | Douglas A. Dixon |
Although what we now call “analytic philosophy” has been around at least since the turn of the twentieth century, it wasn’t until the latter half of the twentieth century that it became the dominant mode of philosophizing in the Western world. In Race, Gender, and the History of Early Analytic Philosophy , Matt LaVine argues that the changes associated with this shift from early analytic philosophy, a revolutionary movement, to later analytic philosophy, the...
| Автор | Matt LaVine |
In this unapologetically African-centered monograph, Nwando Achebe considers the diverse forms and systems of female leadership in both the physical and spiritual worlds, as well as the complexities of female power in a multiplicity of distinct African societies. From Amma to the goddess inkosazana , Sobekneferu to Nzingha, Nehanda to Ahebi Ugbabe, Omu Okwei, and the daughters or umuada of Igboland, Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa documents the worlds and life histories of...
| Автор | Nwando Achebe |
Maggie Harris has left the quiet English village of her birth, with its apple orchards and all the people most dear to her, and travelled to Australia for the adventure of her life…<br /> <br />Despite all her planning, nothing can prepare her for when she arrives at McKinnley Sheep Station, in a blaze of dust and barking kelpies, and straight into the turbulent path of Jack McKinnley, the station owner’s handsome son and his dangerous girlfriend.<br /> <br />The...
| Автор | Tracey Friday |
When the southern African country of Rhodesia was reborn as Zimbabwe in 1980, democracy advocates celebrated the defeat of a white supremacist regime and the end of colonial rule. Zimbabwean crowds cheered their new prime minister, freedom fighter Robert Mugabe, with little idea of the misery he would bring them. Under his leadership for the next 30 years, Zimbabwe slid from self-sufficiency into poverty and astronomical inflation. The government once praised for its magnanimity and ethnic...
| Автор | Daniel Compagnon |
Irland Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts: Ciara, die Schwester eines rebellischen Clanoberhaupts, kehrt nach Jahren der Verbannung mit ihrer Familie in ihre Heimat in Ulster zurück. Doch dies bedeutet beileibe nicht Ruhe und Frieden, denn ihr Bruder und seine Männer wollen erneut für die Freiheit Irlands in den Kampf ziehen. Ohne Unterstützung scheint dies ein aussichtsloses Unternehmen zu sein, und so rufen sie dafür den deutschen Söldnerführer Simon von Kirchberg zu Hilfe. Dieser war die erste große...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
In contrast to the economic and cultural dominance by the south and the east coast over the past several centuries, influence in China in the early Middle Ages was centered in the north and featured a significantly multicultural society. Many events that were profoundly formative for the future of East Asian civilization occurred during this period, although much of this multiculturalism has long been obscured due to the Confucian monopoly of written records. Multicultural China in the Early...
| Автор | Sanping Chen |
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 |