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The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (Hardcover): Jacob Burckhardt The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (Hardcover)
Jacob Burckhardt
R1,251 Discovery Miles 12 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

Slavery Behind the Wall - An Archaeology of a Cuban Coffee Plantation (Paperback): Theresa A Singleton Slavery Behind the Wall - An Archaeology of a Cuban Coffee Plantation (Paperback)
Theresa A Singleton
R2,037 Discovery Miles 20 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Cuba had the largest slave society of the Spanish colonial empire and thus the most plantations. The lack of archaeological data for interpreting these sites is a glaring void in slavery and plantation studies. Theresa Singleton helps to fill this gap with the presentation of the first archaeological investigation of a Cuban plantation written by an English speaker. At Santa Ana de Biajacas, where the plantation owner sequestered slaves behind a massive masonry wall, Singleton explores how elite Cuban planters used the built environment to impose a hierarchical social order upon slave laborers. Behind the wall, slaves reclaimed the space as their own, forming communities, building their own houses, celebrating, gambling, and even harboring slave runaways. What emerged there is not just an identity distinct from other NorthAmerican and Caribbean plantations, but a unique slave culture that thrived despite a spartan lifestyle. Singleton's study provides insight into the larger historical context of the African diaspora, global patterns of enslavement, and the development of Cuba as an integral member of the larger Atlantic World.

Colonial Impotence - Virtue and Violence in a Congolese Concession (1911-1940) (Hardcover): Benoit Henriet Colonial Impotence - Virtue and Violence in a Congolese Concession (1911-1940) (Hardcover)
Benoit Henriet
R2,525 Discovery Miles 25 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Benoit Henriet is Assistant Professor of History at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Egyptian Deportations of the Late Bronze Age - A Study in Political Economy (Hardcover): Christian Langer Egyptian Deportations of the Late Bronze Age - A Study in Political Economy (Hardcover)
Christian Langer
R3,842 Discovery Miles 38 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Egyptian Deportations of the Late Bronze Age explores the political economy of deportations in New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1550-1070 BCE) from an interdisciplinary angle. The analysis of ancient Egyptian primary source material and the international correspondence of the time draws a comprehensive picture of the complex and far-reaching policies. The dataset reveals their geographic scope, economic and demographic impact in Egypt and abroad as well as their interconnection with territorial expansion, international relations, and labour management. The supply chain, profiting institutions and individuals in Egypt as the well as the labour tasks, origins and the composition of the deportees are discussed in detail. A comparative analytical framework integrates the Egyptian policies with a review of deportation discourses as well as historical premodern and modern cases and enables a global and diachronic understanding of the topic. The study is thus the first systematic investigation of deportations in ancient Egyptian history and offers new insights into Egyptian governance that revise previous assessments of the role of forced migration und unfree labour in ancient Egyptian society and their long-term effects.

The History of the American Pro-Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Paris (1815-1980) (Hardcover): Cameron Allen The History of the American Pro-Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Paris (1815-1980) (Hardcover)
Cameron Allen
R1,481 R1,261 Discovery Miles 12 610 Save R220 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Nestled in the heart of Paris, the American Cathedral of the Holy Trinity today stands as one of the great buildings of this ancient city. The history of the church itself presents a rich portrait of lively men and women who made it their mission to serve God and the people of Paris with all their hearts.

Meticulously researched, A History of the American Pro-Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Paris, 1815-1980 delivers an impressive narrative on each period of growth and development within this church. Beginning with the American Episcopal Church's need to serve Americans living in Paris, author Cameron Allen traces the development of the foundational congregation, the building of the first church, and its organization over the years.

Allen draws on diary entries, church documents, and other primary sources to reveal the personalities behind church leaders, including W. O. Lamson, who formally established the church, the pivotal role of J. P. Morgan, organist L. K. Whipp, and German Colonel Rudolph Damrath, a Lutheran minister who took over during the German Occupation of France during World War II. In addition, he discusses the church's role during major historical events and its present needs.

This inspiring, well-written history provides an excellent resource for current and past church members, rectory libraries, and historians.

The History of the Isle of Wight (Hardcover): Richard Worsley The History of the Isle of Wight (Hardcover)
Richard Worsley
R1,113 Discovery Miles 11 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Camel Driver (Hardcover): Leonard Krishtalka The Camel Driver (Hardcover)
Leonard Krishtalka
R801 R706 Discovery Miles 7 060 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A View of the Origin and Conduct of the war With Tippoo Sultaun; Comprising a Narrative of the Operations of the Army Under the... A View of the Origin and Conduct of the war With Tippoo Sultaun; Comprising a Narrative of the Operations of the Army Under the Command of Lieutenant-General George Harris, and of the Siege of Seringapatam (Hardcover)
Alexander Beatson
R1,108 Discovery Miles 11 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Beastly Questions - Animal Answers to Archaeological Issues (Hardcover): Naomi Sykes Beastly Questions - Animal Answers to Archaeological Issues (Hardcover)
Naomi Sykes
R4,238 Discovery Miles 42 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Zooarchaeology, or the study of ancient animal remains, is a vital but frequently side-lined subject in archaeology. Many disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, and geography, recognise human-animal interactions as a key source of information for understanding cultural ideology. Archaeological records are also composed largely of debris from human-animal relationships, be they in the form of animal bones, individual artefacts or entire landscapes. By integrating knowledge from archaeological remains with evidence from texts, iconography, social anthropology and cultural geography, Beastly Questions: Animal Answers to Archaeological Issues provides an intellectual tool-kit to enable archaeological students, researchers and those working in the commercial sector to offer more engaging interpretations of the evidence at their disposal. Going beyond the simple confines of 'what people ate', this accessible but in-depth study covers a variety of high-profile topics in European archaeology and provides novel insights into mainstream archaeological questions.This includes cultural responses to wild animals, the domestication of animals and its implications on human daily practice, experience and ideology, the transportation of species and the value of incorporating animals into landscape research, the importance of the study of foodways for understanding past societies and how animal studies can help us to comprehend issues of human identity and ideology: past, present and future.

The History of the Province of Moray - ... By the Reverend Mr. Lachlan Shaw, (Hardcover): Lachlan Shaw The History of the Province of Moray - ... By the Reverend Mr. Lachlan Shaw, (Hardcover)
Lachlan Shaw
R1,076 Discovery Miles 10 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Biosemiotics and Evolution - The Natural Foundations of Meaning and Symbolism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Elena Pagni, Richard... Biosemiotics and Evolution - The Natural Foundations of Meaning and Symbolism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Elena Pagni, Richard Theisen Simanke
R4,930 Discovery Miles 49 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book reviews the evolution of Biosemiotics and gives an outlook on the future of this interdisciplinary new discipline. In this volume, the foundations of symbolism are transformed into a phenomenological, technological, philosophical and psychological discussion enriching the readers' knowledge of these foundations. It offers the opportunity to rethink the impact that evolution theory and the confirmations about evolution as a historical and natural fact, has had and continues to have today. The book is divided into three parts: Part I Life, Meaning, and Information Part II Semiosis and Evolution Part III Physics, medicine, and bioenergetics It starts by laying out a general historical, philosophical, and scientific framework for the collection of studies that will follow. In the following some of the main reference models of evolutionary theories are revisited: Extended Synthesis, Formal Darwinism and Biosemiotics. The authors shed new light on how to rethink the processes underlying the origins and evolution of knowledge, the boundary between teleonomic and teleological paradigms of evolution and their possible integration, the relationship between linguistics and biological sciences, especially with reference to the concept of causality, biological information and the mechanisms of its transmission, the difference between physical and biosemiotic intentionality, as well as an examination of the results offered or deriving from the application in the economics and the engineering of design, of biosemiotic models for the transmission of culture, digitalization and proto-design. This volume is of fundamental scientific and philosophical interest, and seen as a possibility for a dialogue based on theoretical and methodological pluralism. The international nature of the publication, with contributions from all over the world, will allow a further development of academic relations, at the service of the international scientific and humanistic heritage.

Memoirs of the Life of Gilbert Wakefield, ... Written by Himself (Hardcover): Gilbert Wakefield Memoirs of the Life of Gilbert Wakefield, ... Written by Himself (Hardcover)
Gilbert Wakefield
R1,039 Discovery Miles 10 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Ritual Civilization and Mythological Coding - Cultural Interpretation of Li Ji (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Qicui Tang Ritual Civilization and Mythological Coding - Cultural Interpretation of Li Ji (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Qicui Tang
R1,584 Discovery Miles 15 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book places Li Ji (the Book of Rites) back in the overall context of "books," "rites" and its research history, drawing on the interrelations between myth, ritual and "materialized" symbols to do so. Further, it employs the double perspectives of "books" and "rites" to explore the sources and symbols of the capping ceremony (rites of passage), decode the prototypes of Miao and Ming Tang, and restore the discourse patterns of "people of five directions." The book subsequently investigates the formation and function of the Yue Ling calendar and disaster ritual, so as to reveal the human cognitive encoding and metalanguage of ritual behavior involved. In the process, it demonstrates that Li Ji, its textual memories, archaeological remains and "traditional ceremony" narratives are all subject to the latent myth coding mechanism in China's cultural system, while the "compilation" and "materialized" remains are merely forms of ritual refactoring, interpretation and exhibition, used when authority seeks the aid of ritual civilization to strengthen its legitimacy and maintain the social order.

Ogham Inscriptions in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland (Hardcover): Samuel Ferguson Ogham Inscriptions in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland (Hardcover)
Samuel Ferguson
R863 Discovery Miles 8 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Archaeology of Utopian and Intentional Communities (Hardcover): Stacy C Kozakavich The Archaeology of Utopian and Intentional Communities (Hardcover)
Stacy C Kozakavich
R2,159 Discovery Miles 21 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Utopian and intentional communities have dotted the American landscape since the colonial era, yet only in recent decades have archaeologists begun analyzing the material culture left behind by these groups. The case studies in this volume use archaeological evidence to reveal how these communities upheld their societal ideals - and how some diverged from them in everyday life. Surveying settlement patterns, the built environment, and even the smallest artifacts such as tobacco pipes and buttons, Stacy Kozakavich explores groups including the Shakers, the Harmony Society, the Moravians, the Ephrata Cloister, the Oneida community, Brook Farm, Mormon towns, the Llano del Rio colony, and the Kaweah colony. She urges researchers not to dismiss these communal experiments as quaint failures but to question how the lifestyles of the people in these groups are interpreted for visitors today. She reminds us that there is inspiration to be found in the unique ways these intentional communities pursued radical social goals.

Maya Pilgrimage to Ritual Landscapes - Insights from Archaeology, History, and Ethnography (Hardcover): Joel W Palka Maya Pilgrimage to Ritual Landscapes - Insights from Archaeology, History, and Ethnography (Hardcover)
Joel W Palka
R2,274 Discovery Miles 22 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Pilgrimage to ritually significant places is a part of daily life in the Maya world. These journeys involve important social and practical concerns, such as the maintenance of food sources and world order. Frequent pilgrimages to ceremonial hills to pay offerings to spiritual forces for good harvests, for instance, are just as necessary for farming as planting fields. Why has Maya pilgrimage to ritual landscapes prevailed from the distant past and why are journeys to ritual landscapes important in Maya religion? How can archaeologists recognize Maya pilgrimage, and how does it compare to similar behavior at ritual landscapes around the world? The author addresses these questions and others through cross-cultural comparisons, archaeological data, and ethnographic insights.

The Cliff Ruins of Canyon De Chelly, Arizona - with Original Illustrations and Index - Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of... The Cliff Ruins of Canyon De Chelly, Arizona - with Original Illustrations and Index - Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, Pages 73-198 (Hardcover)
Cosmos Mindeleff
R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Canyon de Chelly is one of the best Cliff Ruins regions in the United States. This book details the pueblo dwellings in the region, with over a hundred black and white diagrams and photographs. The original index and footnotes have been preserved.

Material Cultures, Material Minds - The Impact of Things on Human Thought, Society, and Evolution (Hardcover): Nicole Boivin Material Cultures, Material Minds - The Impact of Things on Human Thought, Society, and Evolution (Hardcover)
Nicole Boivin
R2,828 Discovery Miles 28 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Material culture has been part of a distinctively human way of life for over two million years. Recent symbolic and social analyses have drawn much attention to the role of material culture in human society, emphasizing the representational and ideological aspects of the material world. These studies have, nonetheless, often overlooked how the very physicality of material culture and our material surroundings make them unique and distinctive from text and discourse. In this study, Nicole Boivin explores how the physicality of the material world shapes our thoughts, emotions, cosmological frameworks, social relations, and even our bodies. Focusing on the agency of material culture, she draws on the work of a diverse range of thinkers, from Marx and Merleau-Ponty to Darwin, while highlighting a wide selection of new studies in archaeology, cultural anthropology, history, cognitive science, and evolutionary biology. She asks what is distinctive about material culture compared to other aspects of human culture and presents a comprehensive overview of material agency that has much to offer to both scholars and students

John Grider's Century - African Americans in Solano, Napa, and Sonoma Counties from 1845 to 1925 (Hardcover): Sharon... John Grider's Century - African Americans in Solano, Napa, and Sonoma Counties from 1845 to 1925 (Hardcover)
Sharon McGriff-Payne
R663 R595 Discovery Miles 5 950 Save R68 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sharon McGriff-Payne has spent the past three years of this first decade of the 21st Century mesmerized by African Americans from the 19th Century, especially the insistent voice of John Grider. Grider captured McGriff-Payne's imagination and guided her to mine largely neglected archives to unearth and compile the stories of African Americans in California's North Bay counties of Solano, Napa, and Sonoma from the 1840s through the 1920s.

Grider, a former slave, Bear Flag veteran, and hardworking everyman has inspired McGriff-Payne's research. The indomitable Miss Delilah L. Beasley has also inspired the author. Her 1919 book, The Negro Trail Blazers of California, preserved the names and deeds of many of the North Bay's African American pioneers. John Grider's Century seeks to add those black voices to California's larger historical narrative, with the message, "We were here "

"Tell my story," Grider prompted. McGriff-Payne has attempted to fulfill that command and dedicates this volume to him and the other pioneers who founded schools, formed churches and civic organizations, advocated policy, built businesses, raised families and triumphed over daunting odds.

The History and Lives of all the Most Notorious Pirates, and Their Crews, From Capt. Avery, who First Settled at Madagascar, to... The History and Lives of all the Most Notorious Pirates, and Their Crews, From Capt. Avery, who First Settled at Madagascar, to Capt. John Gow, ... The Third Edition. To Which is Prefixed, an Abstract of the Laws Against Piracy (Hardcover)
Daniel Defoe
R857 Discovery Miles 8 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Painting, Poetry, and the Invention of Tenderness in the Early Roman Empire (Hardcover): Herica Valladares Painting, Poetry, and the Invention of Tenderness in the Early Roman Empire (Hardcover)
Herica Valladares
R2,837 Discovery Miles 28 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Tenderness is not a notion commonly associated with the Romans, whose mythical origin was attributed to brutal rape. Yet, as Herica Valladares argues in this ground-breaking study, in the second half of the first century BCE Roman poets, artists, and their audience became increasingly interested in describing, depicting, and visualizing the more sentimental aspects of amatory experience. During this period, we see two important and simultaneous developments: Latin love elegy crystallizes as a poetic genre, while a new style in Roman wall painting emerges. Valladares' book is the first to correlate these two phenomena properly, showing that they are deeply intertwined. Rather than postulating a direct correspondence between images and texts, she offers a series of mutually reinforcing readings of painting and poetry that ultimately locate the invention of a new romantic ideal within early imperial debates about domesticity and the role of citizens in Roman society.

«Nos sumus Romani qui fuimus ante…» Memory of ancient Italy (Paperback, New edition): Michel Aberson, Maria Cristina... «Nos sumus Romani qui fuimus ante…» Memory of ancient Italy (Paperback, New edition)
Michel Aberson, Maria Cristina Biella, Massimiliano Di Fazio, Manuela Wullschleger
R1,672 Discovery Miles 16 720 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In 2011 Michel Aberson, Maria Cristina Biella, Massimiliano Di Fazio and Manuela Wullschleger (two Italians and two Swiss, two archaeologists and two historians of antiquity) met in Geneva at the Fondation Hardt pour l'étude de l'Antiquite classique and decided to undertake a challenging project together: to organize three conferences on the peoples of central Italy, taking into consideration the key milestones in their history, from their independence, through their relations with Rome and ending with the (re)construction of their identities within the Roman world. Underpinning the project, which immediately found the support of many colleagues and institutions, was the idea of bringing historians, archaeologists, linguists and specialists of Latin literature together to collaboratively create a comprehensive picture of these significantly multifaceted and sometimes even conflicting topics. The present volume is the outcome of the third conference of the series E pluribus unum? Italy from the Pre-Roman fragmentation to the Augustan Unity, held at the University of Oxford in October 2016; it deals with the specific moments of conscious rediscovery of conquered peoples’ contribution to Roman culture from the late Republic and during the Empire. These influences can be recognized particularly during the Late Republic and Augustan period, and the final outcome is the formation of a connective tissue, which can be described as the cement of the "unaccomplished identity" of ancient Italy. The volume investigates the issue from different perspectives in order to avoid the adoption of a Romanocentric perspective.

Commentaries of the Late war in Italy, Translated From the Original Latin of Castruccio Buonamici - To Which is Prefixed an... Commentaries of the Late war in Italy, Translated From the Original Latin of Castruccio Buonamici - To Which is Prefixed an Introduction. By A. Wishart, M.A (Hardcover)
Castruccio Buonamici
R1,145 Discovery Miles 11 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt (Hardcover, New): Christelle Fischer-Bovet Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt (Hardcover, New)
Christelle Fischer-Bovet
R3,758 Discovery Miles 37 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the only substantial and up-to-date reference work on the Ptolemaic army. Employing Greek and Egyptian papyri and inscriptions, and building on approaches developed in state-formation theory, it offers a coherent account of how the changing structures of the army in Egypt after Alexander's conquest led to the development of an ethnically more integrated society. A new tripartite division of Ptolemaic history challenges the idea of gradual decline, and emphasizes the reshaping of military structures that took place between c.220 and c.160 BC in response to changes in the nature of warfare, mobilization and demobilization, and financial constraints. An investigation of the socio-economic role played by soldiers permits a reassessment of the cleruchic system and shows how soldiers' associations generated interethnic group solidarity. By integrating Egyptian evidence, Christelle Fischer-Bovet also demonstrates that the connection between the army and local temples offered new ways for Greeks and Egyptians to interact.

Heritage at the Interface - Interpretation and Identity (Hardcover): Glenn Hooper Heritage at the Interface - Interpretation and Identity (Hardcover)
Glenn Hooper
R2,367 Discovery Miles 23 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bringing together high-profile cultural heritage sites from around the world, this volume shows how the term heritage has been used or understood by different groups of people over time. For some, the term has meant a celebration of a particular culture and history or the promotion of accessibility, tolerance, and inclusivity. But for others it has been connected with cultural privilege, social exclusion, or exploitation via the tourism industry. These case studies are taken from America, Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, India, China, and the Caribbean. The varied approaches to heritage seen here range from the Nazi regime's vision of German national history to the present-day push to recover Native American culture from outdated Hollywood portrayals. Featuring a tribute to Sir Gregory Ashworth, whose influential work drew attention to the contested meanings of heritage, this volume illuminates a fascinating international debate.

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