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The Ruins of Time by David Adamson;
epub |eng | 2023-02-14 | Author:David Adamson;

The only sounds came from troupes of monkeys, forty or fifty strong, who moved through the trees in long processions. It was the first time Stephens and Catherwood had seen ...
( Category: History June 14,2023 )
Religion, Landscape and Material Culture in Pre-modern South Asia by Tilottama Mukherjee
epub |eng | 2023-02-21 | Author:Tilottama Mukherjee

Accounts of Miraculous Conversion There is a general belief in a dominant historiographical tradition that early mystic records did not refer to a single case of conversion.22 However, the Chishti ...
( Category: History June 14,2023 )
The Life and Times of the Murray Cod by Paul Humphries
epub |eng | 2023-03-09 | Author:Paul Humphries

The Murray Fishing Company apparently originated with ‘our correspondent’ to The Argus who most likely lived on the Murray, probably at or near Echuca. Their familiarity with the subject of ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania June 14,2023 )
Age of Emergency by Erik Linstrum;
epub |eng | 2023-06-15 | Author:Erik Linstrum;

Apologists for colonial violence, in turn, exploited distaste for partisan squabbling to deflect scrutiny. For critics of colonial war, the journalistic hesitance to take sides created a quandary. They recognized ...
( Category: Great Britain June 14,2023 )
The Early Imperial Republic by Michael A. Blaakman;Emily Conroy-Krutz;Noelani Arista;
epub |eng | | Author:Michael A. Blaakman;Emily Conroy-Krutz;Noelani Arista;

Migration and Jurisdiction on Slavery’s Frontier The familiar connection between expanding slavery and expanding U.S. borders played out not only when plantations pushed onto fresh soil but also when the ...
( Category: Americas June 14,2023 )
Forbidden Rites by Richard Kieckhefer
epub |eng | 1997-06-15 | Author:Richard Kieckhefer

7 Demons and Daimons: The Spirits Conjured In his recent study of late Byzantine demonology, Richard Greenfield distinguishes between a ‘standard orthodox’ tradition of demonology and ‘alternative’ traditions. The former ...
( Category: General June 14,2023 )
Holy Matter by Sara Ritchey
epub |eng | 2014-06-15 | Author:Sara Ritchey

FIGURE 3.1. Pacino di Bonaguida (fl. 1302–after 1340), “Tree of Life (Tree of the Cross).” Tempera on panel, 248 x 151 cm. Ca. 1305–10. Accademia, Florence, Italy. Photo credit: Scala/ ...
( Category: Catholicism June 14,2023 )
Ambassadors of Goodwill by Mark Peel
epub |eng | 2018-06-15 | Author:Mark Peel

Chapter 11 India, Pakistan and Ceylon 1961/62 TEN years after the previous tour of India, Pakistan and Ceylon, MCC undertook a similar one in 1961/62, which Wisden called the most ...
( Category: Europe June 14,2023 )
The Welsh Braveheart by Phil Carradice
epub, pdf |eng | 2022-04-29 | Author:Phil Carradice

***** In May 1404, after months of siege and almost continuous assault, the castles of Harlech and Aberystwyth were eventually taken by Owain Glyndwr. Despite repeated attempts, the Welsh besiegers ...
( Category: Wales June 14,2023 )
Norman Cousins by Allen Pietrobon
epub |eng | 2022-06-15 | Author:Allen Pietrobon

CHAPTER 25 A SOJOURN with KHRUSHCHEV After arriving in Moscow, Cousins was informed that his meeting with Khrushchev would actually take place at the chairman’s dacha in the small resort ...
( Category: Nuclear June 14,2023 )
The Life of Permafrost by Pey-Yi Chu;
epub |eng | | Author:Pey-Yi Chu;

Figure 2. Redozubov’s diagrams of temperature changes in the layer of vechnaia merzlota given a warming climate (above) and a cooling climate (below). Translated and reproduced from Trudy Instituta merzlotovedeniia ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica June 14,2023 )
A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Peter Higginbotham

20 JUNE 1810 According to The Globe, a ‘scene most shocking to humanity’ occurred this evening ‘near Fitzroy Square’ – presumably at the parish workhouse of St Paul, Covent Garden, ...
( Category: England June 14,2023 )
Medieval Wales c.1050-1332: Centuries of Ambiguity by David Stephenson
epub |eng | 2013-06-15 | Author:David Stephenson

5 New ascendancies By the close of 1283 Edward I’s armies and their allies in Wales and the March had secured the death of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the capture and ...
( Category: Europe June 14,2023 )
Chronos: the West Confronts Time by François Hartog
epub |eng | | Author:François Hartog

“INDEFINITE PROGRESS” Once humanity has arrived at that seventh epoch, with all those happy perspectives opening ahead, Condorcet readily takes the baton, offering a vision of the “indefinite progress of ...
( Category: Historiography June 14,2023 )
Worldmaking in the Long Great War by Jonathan Wyrtzen
epub |eng | 2022-08-09 | Author:Jonathan Wyrtzen

Figure 4.2 Amir Abdullah, Herbert Samuel, T. E. Lawrence, and Gertrude Bell at the Amman aerodrome following the British proclamation about Transjordan, April 1921. Source: American Colony Photo Department, Library ...
( Category: North Africa June 14,2023 )

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