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Imagined Geographies: The Maritime Silk Roads in World History, 1001800 by Geoffrey C. Gunn;
epub |eng | 2021-07-02 | Author:Geoffrey C. Gunn; [Gunn;, Geoffrey C.]

* * * 1. Outside of the present discussion, the Vallard map has been the object of much discussion in connection with the “discovery” of Australia since the late nineteenth ...
( Category: Maritime History & Piracy September 19,2022 )
China Pop by Jianying Zha
epub |eng | 2011-09-08 | Author:Jianying Zha [Zha, Jianying]

IN THEIR pursuit of the average reader, many papers are testing the new boundaries the government has staked out. The average reader is apparently tired of “hard news”—the kind of ...
( Category: China September 19,2022 )
The Celts: A Sceptical History by Simon Jenkins
epub |eng | 2022-09-15 | Author:Simon Jenkins [Jenkins, Simon]

The lesson strikes home One place where events in France were watched with keen attention was on the streets of Ireland. London’s disregard of the 1691 Treaty of Limerick were ...
( Category: Western September 19,2022 )
Before Nature by Francesca Rochberg;
epub |eng | 2016-12-14 | Author:Francesca Rochberg; [Rochberg, Francesca]

These remarks on medieval science are not mentioned in order to explain cuneiform omens in terms of the epistemic practices of medieval Scholasticism, but simply to note that the history ...
( Category: Astronomy September 19,2022 )
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Bolton by Glynis Cooper
epub |eng | 2005-02-01 | Author:Glynis Cooper [Cooper, Glynis]

CHAPTER 15 Martyr at the Stake 1555 ‘Father in Heaven! Have mercy on me!’ n Deane Churchyard there stands a beautifully carved Celtic style cross set into a decorated block ...
( Category: United Kingdom September 19,2022 )
The Merovingians by Alexander Callander Murray;
epub |eng | 2022-09-15 | Author:Alexander Callander Murray; [Murray;, Alexander Callander]

I The Merovingian diploma in a broad sense consists of two classes of royal documents. The first class is made up of directives (called praecepta, auctoritates, among other names), embracing ...
( Category: France September 19,2022 )
Apollo and Thelma by Jon Faine
epub |eng | 2017-02-14 | Author:Jon Faine [Jon Faine]

Former volunteer Premier John Cain launched the Fitzroy Legal Service Law Handbook, 1987. [The Age] About this time, I moved from the ten-person share house in George Street. Years of ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand September 19,2022 )
The Oxford History of Modern China by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
epub |eng | 2021-12-09 | Author:Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom [Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N.]

Radical Cultural Revolution, 1966–1968 In the stand-off leading up to the Cultural Revolution, Mao’s rivals controlled Beijing and its national media. Mao’s initial political base was Shanghai, where writers associated ...
( Category: China September 19,2022 )
Moral Capital by Christopher Leslie Brown
epub |eng | 2006-09-15 | Author:Christopher Leslie Brown [Brown, Christopher Leslie]

Notes 1. Malachy Postlethwayt cited in David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, 2d ed., rev. (Oxford, 1988), 150; for further discussion on this point, see 151–154. ...
( Category: Slavery & Emancipation September 19,2022 )
Conflicting Missions by Piero Gleijeses
epub |eng | 2002-09-15 | Author:Piero Gleijeses [Gleijeses, Piero]

FRIENDS The United States was in the lead, flanked by Zaire and South Africa. England and France took up the rear. This was the coalition that was forming in the ...
( Category: South Africa September 19,2022 )
The Bible War in Ireland by Irene Whelan
epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Irene Whelan [Irene Whelan]

This is an imaginative portrait of serious religion at work in the domestic environment. But some of the more important features to be found on the larger canvas of Irish ...
( Category: Europe September 19,2022 )
The Assault on Elisha Green by Randolph Paul Runyon
epub |eng | 2021-09-15 | Author:Randolph Paul Runyon [Runyon, Randolph Paul]

Said I [Green, referring to himself]: “So far as nigger is concerned I do not like that; but negro, I am proud of it.”46 Given the weakness of his case, ...
( Category: History September 19,2022 )
The Trial of Giordano Bruno by Germano Maifreda;
epub |eng | 2022-04-11 | Author:Germano Maifreda; [Maifreda;, Germano]

Spies, Spies, and More Spies The history of the 16th century Roman Inquisition is strewn with heretics that became informants. Such is the case, for example, of Giovan Battista Scotti.25 ...
( Category: Renaissance September 19,2022 )
On Duties by Marcus Tullius Cicero
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-06-24 | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]

Book Three (1) Marcus, my son, Cato1 once wrote that the Publius Scipio who was first called Africanus,2 his near contemporary, was accustomed to say that he was never less ...
( Category: Rome September 19,2022 )
Spokane Story: A Colorful Early History of the Capital of the Inland Empire by Lucile Foster Foster
epub |eng | 2020-03-05 | Author:Lucile Foster Foster [Foster, Lucile Foster]

9 — A Whistle Blows in the County Seat SPOKANE FALLS had lusty rivals in its earlier years. The lustiest was Cheney, a score of miles away to the southwest. ...
( Category: Civil War September 19,2022 )

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