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A Lasting Gift of Heritage - A History of the North Carolina Society for the Preservation of Antiquities, 1939-1974... A Lasting Gift of Heritage - A History of the North Carolina Society for the Preservation of Antiquities, 1939-1974 (Hardcover)
David L S Brook
R720 R621 Discovery Miles 6 210 Save R99 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pills, Shocks & Jabs - The Remarkable Dissenting Doctors Of Georgian Bristol (Paperback): Peter Cullimore Pills, Shocks & Jabs - The Remarkable Dissenting Doctors Of Georgian Bristol (Paperback)
Peter Cullimore
R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Murder Town, USA - Homicide, Structural Violence, and Activism in Wilmington (Paperback): Yasser Arafat Payne, Brooklynn K.... Murder Town, USA - Homicide, Structural Violence, and Activism in Wilmington (Paperback)
Yasser Arafat Payne, Brooklynn K. Hitchens, Darryl L Chambers
R1,001 Discovery Miles 10 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Far too many poor Black communities struggle with gun violence and homicide. The result has been the unnatural contortion of Black families and the inter-generational perpetuation of social chaos and untimely death. Young people are repeatedly ripped away from life by violence, while many men are locked away in prisons. In neighborhoods like those of Wilmington, Delaware, residents routinely face the pressures of violence, death, and incarceration. Murder Town, USA is thus a timely ethnography with an innovative structure: the authors helped organize fifteen residents formerly involved with the streets and/or the criminal justice system to document the relationship between structural opportunity and experiences with violence in Wilmington's Eastside and Southbridge neighborhoods.  Earlier scholars offered rich cultural analysis of violence in low-income Black communities, and yet this literature has mostly conceptualized violence through frameworks of personal responsibility or individual accountability. And even if acknowledging the pressure of structural inequality, most earlier researchers describe violence as the ultimate result of some moral failing, a propensity for crime, and the notion of helplessness. Instead, in Murder Town USA, Payne, Hitchens, and Chamber, along with their collaborative team of street ethnographers, instead offer a radical re-conceptualization of violence in low-income Black communities by describing the penchant for violence and involvement in crime overall to be a logical, "resilient" response to the perverse context of structural inequality.

Water for the People - The Acequia Heritage of New Mexico in a Global Context (Paperback): Enrique R. Lamadrid, Jose A. Rivera Water for the People - The Acequia Heritage of New Mexico in a Global Context (Paperback)
Enrique R. Lamadrid, Jose A. Rivera
R777 R643 Discovery Miles 6 430 Save R134 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Water for the People features twenty-five essays by world-renowned acequia scholars and community members that highlight acequia culture, use, and history in New Mexico, northern Mexico, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Spain, the Middle East, Nepal, and the Philippines, situating New Mexico's acequia heritage and its inherent sustainable design within a global framework. The lush landscapes of the upper Rio Grande watershed created by acequias dating from as far back as the late sixteenth century continue to irrigate their communities today despite threats of prolonged drought, urbanization, private water markets, extreme water scarcity, and climate change. Water for the People celebrates acequia practices and traditions worldwide and shows how these ancient irrigation systems continue to provide arid regions with a model for water governance, sustainable food systems, and community traditions that reaffirm a deep cultural and spiritual relationship with the land year after year.

Night Spirits - The Story of the Relocation of the Sayisi Dene (Paperback): Ila Bussidor, Ust un Bilgen-Reinart Night Spirits - The Story of the Relocation of the Sayisi Dene (Paperback)
Ila Bussidor, Ust un Bilgen-Reinart
R566 R467 Discovery Miles 4 670 Save R99 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For over 1500 years, the Sayisi Dene, 'The Dene from the East', led an independent life, following the caribou herds and having little contact with white society. In 1956, an arbitrary government decision to relocate them catapulted the Sayisi Dene into the 20th century. It replaced their traditional nomadic life of hunting and fishing with a slum settlement on the outskirts of Churchill, Manitoba. Inadequately housed, without jobs, unfamiliar with the language or the culture, their independence and self-determination deteriorated into a tragic cycle of discrimination, poverty, alcoholism and violent death.By the early 1970s, the band realized they had to take their future into their own hands again. After searching for a suitable location, they set up a new community at Tadoule Lake, 250 miles north of Churchill. Today they run their own health, education and community programs. But the scars of the relocation will take years to heal, and Tadoule Lake is grappling with the problems of a people whose ties to the land, and to one another, have been tragically severed.In Night Spirits, the survivors, including those who were children at the time of the move, as well as the few remaining elders, recount their stories. They offer a stark and brutally honest account of the near-destruction of the Sayisi Dene, and their struggle to reclaim their lives. It is a dark story, told in hope.

Ripe for Revolution - Building Socialism in the Third World (Hardcover): Jeremy Friedman Ripe for Revolution - Building Socialism in the Third World (Hardcover)
Jeremy Friedman
R816 Discovery Miles 8 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide. In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent Asian and African countries and established Latin American states pursued a socialist development model. Jeremy Friedman traces the socialist experiment over forty years through the experience of five countries: Indonesia, Chile, Tanzania, Angola, and Iran. These states sought paths to socialism without formal adherence to the Soviet bloc or the programs that Soviets, East Germans, Cubans, Chinese, and other outsiders tried to promote. Instead, they attempted to forge new models of socialist development through their own trial and error, together with the help of existing socialist countries, demonstrating the flexibility and adaptability of socialism. All five countries would become Cold War battlegrounds and regional models, as new policies in one shaped evolving conceptions of development in another. Lessons from the collapse of democracy in Indonesia were later applied in Chile, just as the challenge of political Islam in Indonesia informed the policies of the left in Iran. Efforts to build agrarian economies in West Africa influenced Tanzania's approach to socialism, which in turn influenced the trajectory of the Angolan model. Ripe for Revolution shows socialism as more adaptable and pragmatic than often supposed. When we view it through the prism of a Stalinist orthodoxy, we miss its real effects and legacies, both good and bad. To understand how socialism succeeds and fails, and to grasp its evolution and potential horizons, we must do more than read manifestos. We must attend to history.

Tutankhamun's Trumpet - The Story of Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects (Paperback): Toby Wilkinson Tutankhamun's Trumpet - The Story of Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects (Paperback)
Toby Wilkinson
R360 R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Save R79 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'Beautifully written, sumptuously illustrated, constantly fascinating' The Times On 26 November 1922 Howard Carter first peered into the newly opened tomb of an ancient Egyptian boy-king. When asked if he could see anything, he replied: 'Yes, yes, wonderful things.' In Tutankhamun's Trumpet, acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes a unique approach to that tomb and its contents. Instead of concentrating on the oft-told story of the discovery, or speculating on the brief life and politically fractious reign of the boy king, Wilkinson takes the objects buried with him as the source material for a wide-ranging, detailed portrait of ancient Egypt - its geography, history, culture and legacy. One hundred artefacts from the tomb, arranged in ten thematic groups, are allowed to speak again - not only for themselves, but as witnesses of the civilization that created them. Never before have the treasures of Tutankhamun been analysed and presented for what they can tell us about ancient Egyptian culture, its development, its remarkable flourishing, and its lasting impact. Filled with surprising insights, unusual details, vivid descriptions and, above all, remarkable objects, Tutankhamun's Trumpet will appeal to all lovers of history, archaeology, art and culture, as well as all those fascinated by the Egypt of the pharaohs. 'I've read many books on ancient Egypt, but I've never felt closer to its people' The Sunday Times

Nomads - The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World (Paperback): Anthony Sattin Nomads - The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World (Paperback)
Anthony Sattin
R394 R320 Discovery Miles 3 200 Save R74 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A Spectator Book of the Year 'Sweeping . . . Poetic . . . Not only readable but also vital' Literary Review 'A terrific storyteller' New York Times 'Exceptional . . . tender and beautifully written' Country Life The groundbreaking story of Nomadic peoples on the move across history. Tracing the epic paths of wanderers across twelve thousand years, acclaimed travel writer Anthony Sattin recovers the stories of tribes who lived beyond imperial borders and created their own kingdoms and empires: Scythian, Xiongnu, Persian, Hun, Arab, Mongul, Mughal, Ottoman and others. With their embrace of multiculturalism, respect for nature's rhythms, and need for free movement, wandering peoples brought a glorious cultural flourishing to Eurasia, enabling the Renaissance and changing the human story. This sweeping narrative reconnects us with our deepest mythology, our unrecorded antiquity and our natural world. Nomads is the untold history of civilisation, told through its outsiders.

Under the Pinon Tree - Finding a Place in Pie Town (Paperback): Jerry D Thompson Under the Pinon Tree - Finding a Place in Pie Town (Paperback)
Jerry D Thompson
R532 R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Save R88 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Raised in Catron County around Pie Town, Jerry D. Thompson is a well-known Southwestern and Civil War historian. Part regional history, part family history, and part childhood memories, Under the Pinon Tree traces the lives of Catron County residents and explores how the area has grown and changed since the Depression and World War II, when Thompson's family first homesteaded the area. Those interested in storytelling and history will enjoy this richly detailed account. Under the Pinon Tree is a must-read for anyone interested in New Mexico and the Southwest.

Five Cities That Ruled the World - How Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and New York Shaped Global History (Paperback): Douglas... Five Cities That Ruled the World - How Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and New York Shaped Global History (Paperback)
Douglas Wilson
R338 R252 Discovery Miles 2 520 Save R86 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In "Five Cities that Ruled the World," theologian Douglas Wilson fuses together, in compelling detail, the critical moments birthed in history's most influential cities --Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and New York.

Wilson issues a challenge to our collective understanding of history with the juxtapositions of freedom and its intrinsic failures; liberty and its deep-seated liabilities. Each revelation beckoning us deeper into a city's story, its political systems, and how it flourished and floundered.

You'll discover the significance of:

  • Jerusalem's complex history and its deep-rooted character as the city of freedom, where people found their spiritual liberty.
  • Athens' intellectual influence as the city of reason and birthplace of democracy.
  • Rome's evolution as the city of law and justice and the freedoms and limitations that come with liberty.
  • London's place in the world's history as the city of literature where man's literary imagination found its wings.
  • New York's rise to global fame as the city of commerce and how it triggered unmatched wealth, industry, and trade throughout the world.

"Five Cities that Ruled the World" chronicles the destruction, redemption, personalities, and power structures that altered the world's political, spiritual, and moral center time and again. It's an inspiring, enlightening global perspective that encourages readers to honor our shared history, contribute to the present, and look to the future with unmistakable hope.

The History of Barbados - From the First Discovery of the Island, in the Year 1605, till the Accessio (Hardcover, New Ed Of... The History of Barbados - From the First Discovery of the Island, in the Year 1605, till the Accessio (Hardcover, New Ed Of 1808 Ed)
John Poyer
R3,996 Discovery Miles 39 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This politically focused work covers the latter part of the 18th century in Barbados.

Chronicle History of the West Indies (Hardcover): C.T. Southey Chronicle History of the West Indies (Hardcover)
C.T. Southey
R7,623 Discovery Miles 76 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Painting the Town - Scottish Urban History in Art (Hardcover): E.Patricia Dennison, Stuart Eydmann, Annie Lyell Painting the Town - Scottish Urban History in Art (Hardcover)
E.Patricia Dennison, Stuart Eydmann, Annie Lyell; Edited by Michael Lynch, Simon Stronach
R596 Discovery Miles 5 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Ship Ashore! - The U.S. Lifesavers of Coastal North Carolina (Paperback): Joe A Mobley Ship Ashore! - The U.S. Lifesavers of Coastal North Carolina (Paperback)
Joe A Mobley
R393 R333 Discovery Miles 3 330 Save R60 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From German Koenigsberg to Soviet Kaliningrad - Appropriating Place and Constructing Identity (Paperback): Jamie Freeman From German Koenigsberg to Soviet Kaliningrad - Appropriating Place and Constructing Identity (Paperback)
Jamie Freeman
R1,226 Discovery Miles 12 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores how the Soviet Union, after capturing and annexing the German East Prussian city of Koenigsberg in 1945 and renaming it Kaliningrad, worked to transform the city into a model of Soviet modernity. It examines how the Soviets expelled all the remaining German people, repopulated the city and region with settlers from elsewhere in the Soviet Union, destroyed the key remaining German buildings and began building a model Soviet city, a physical manifestation of the societal transformation brought about by communism. However, the book goes on to show that over time many of the model Soviet buildings were uncompleted and that the citizens, aware of their Polish and Lithuanian neighbours to both the east and the west and appreciating their place in the wider Baltic region, came to view themselves as something different from other Soviet and Russian citizens. The book concludes by assessing present developments as the people of Kaliningrad are increasingly rediscovering the city's pre-Soviet past and forging a new identity for themselves on their own terms.

The Papers of William Woods Holden, Volume 1 - 1841-1868 (Hardcover): Horace Raper, Thornton W Mitchell The Papers of William Woods Holden, Volume 1 - 1841-1868 (Hardcover)
Horace Raper, Thornton W Mitchell
R1,494 Discovery Miles 14 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gold Mining in North Carolina - A Bicentennial History (Paperback): Richard F. Knapp, Brent D Glass Gold Mining in North Carolina - A Bicentennial History (Paperback)
Richard F. Knapp, Brent D Glass
R433 R363 Discovery Miles 3 630 Save R70 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
James City - A Black Community in North Carolina, 1863-1900 (Paperback): Joe A Mobley James City - A Black Community in North Carolina, 1863-1900 (Paperback)
Joe A Mobley
R322 R269 Discovery Miles 2 690 Save R53 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Murderer, The Monarch and The Fakir - A New Investigation of Mahatma Gandhi's Assassination (Paperback): Appu Esthose... The Murderer, The Monarch and The Fakir - A New Investigation of Mahatma Gandhi's Assassination (Paperback)
Appu Esthose Suresh, Priyanka Kotamraju
R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger/ Volume II / The Voyages of 1814, 1815 and 1816 (Paperback): C Ian... The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger/ Volume II / The Voyages of 1814, 1815 and 1816 (Paperback)
C Ian Jackson; William Scoresby
R1,334 Discovery Miles 13 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This second volume of William Scoresby's journals contains the unpublished accounts of his three voyages in the Esk in 1814-16. As before, these lengthy journals combine scientific records and social and religious comment as well as detailed descriptions of navigation and whaling. They also continue to demonstrate the competence and confidence of Scoresby which were evident from the moment he assumed command of the Resolution in 1811. However, each of the journals also shows the dangers inherent in what might otherwise seem to be routine annual sailings to the Greenland Sea in latitudes 78 Degrees to 80 Degrees N.

Prairie Bachelor - The Story of a Kansas Homesteader and the Populist Movement (Hardcover): Lynda Beck Fenwick Prairie Bachelor - The Story of a Kansas Homesteader and the Populist Movement (Hardcover)
Lynda Beck Fenwick
R2,110 Discovery Miles 21 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The People's Party, the most successful third party in America's history, emerged from the Populist Movement of the late 1800s. And of the People's Party, there was perhaps no more exemplary proponent than homesteader Isaac Beckley Werner of Stafford County, Kansas. Very much a man of his community, Werner contributed columns to the County Capital and other Kansas newspapers, spoke at the county seat, regularly attended Populist lectures, and - most fortunately for posterity - from 1884 until a few years before his death in 1895, kept a journal reporting on the world around him and noting the advice of Henry Ward Beecher. With this journal as a starting point, Isaac Beckley Werner, prairie bachelor, becomes an eloquent guide to the practical, social, and political realities of rural life in late nineteenth-century Kansas. In this portrait Lynda Beck Fenwick finds the Populist thinking that would eventually take hold in numerous ways, big and small, in American life - and would make a mark the imprint of which can be seen in the nation's political culture to this day. Expanding her search to local cemeteries, courthouses, museums, and fields where homesteaders once staked their claims, Fenwick reveals a farming community much denser than today's, where Prohibition, women's rights, and income inequality were shared concerns, and where enduring problems, like substance abuse, immigration, and racial bias, made an early appearance. The Populist Movement both arose from and focused upon these issues, as Werner's journal demonstrates; and in his world of farmers, small-town businessmen, engaged women, and working people, Fenwick's Prairie Bachelor shows us the provenance and lived reality of a rural populism that would forever alter the American political scene.

The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind - Thomas Jefferson's Idea of a University (Hardcover): Andrew J.... The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind - Thomas Jefferson's Idea of a University (Hardcover)
Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy, Howard Morhaim, Edward L. Ayers
R950 R785 Discovery Miles 7 850 Save R165 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Already renowned as a statesman, Thomas Jefferson in his retirement from government turned his attention to the founding of an institution of higher learning. Never merely a patron, the former president oversaw every aspect of the creation of what would become the University of Virginia. Along with the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, he regarded it as one of the three greatest achievements in his life. Nonetheless, historians often treat this period as an epilogue to Jefferson's career. In The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind, Andrew O'Shaughnessy offers a twin biography of Jefferson in retirement and of the University of Virginia in its earliest years. He reveals how Jefferson's vision anticipated the modern university and profoundly influenced the development of American higher education. The University of Virginia was the most visible apex of what was a much broader educational vision that distinguishes Jefferson as one of the earliest advocates of a public education system. Just as Jefferson's proclamation that "all men are created equal" was tainted by the ongoing institution of slavery, however, so was his university. O'Shaughnessy addresses this tragic conflict in Jefferson's conception of the university and society, showing how Jefferson's loftier aspirations for the university were not fully realized. Nevertheless, his remarkable vision in founding the university remains vital to any consideration of the role of education in the success of the democratic experiment.

Eleven Winters of Discontent - The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan (Hardcover): Sherzod Muminov Eleven Winters of Discontent - The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan (Hardcover)
Sherzod Muminov
R999 Discovery Miles 9 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The odyssey of 600,000 imperial Japanese soldiers incarcerated in Soviet labor camps after World War II and their fraught repatriation to postwar Japan. In August 1945 the Soviet Union seized the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo and the colony of Southern Sakhalin, capturing more than 600,000 Japanese soldiers, who were transported to labor camps across the Soviet Union but primarily concentrated in Siberia and the Far East. Imprisonment came as a surprise to the soldiers, who thought they were being shipped home. The Japanese prisoners became a workforce for the rebuilding Soviets, as well as pawns in the Cold War. Alongside other Axis POWs, they did backbreaking jobs, from mining and logging to agriculture and construction. They were routinely subjected to "reeducation" glorifying the Soviet system and urging them to support the newly legalized Japanese Communist Party and to resist American influence in Japan upon repatriation. About 60,000 Japanese didn't survive Siberia. The rest were sent home in waves, the last lingering in the camps until 1956. Already laid low by war and years of hard labor, returnees faced the final shock and alienation of an unrecognizable homeland, transformed after the demise of the imperial state. Sherzod Muminov draws on extensive Japanese, Russian, and English archives-including memoirs and survivor interviews-to piece together a portrait of life in Siberia and in Japan afterward. Eleven Winters of Discontent reveals the real people underneath facile tropes of the prisoner of war and expands our understanding of the Cold War front. Superpower confrontation played out in the Siberian camps as surely as it did in Berlin or the Bay of Pigs.

Hungary - A Short History (Paperback): Norman Stone Hungary - A Short History (Paperback)
Norman Stone 1
R286 R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Save R15 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The victors of the First World War created Hungary from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but, in the centuries before, many called for its creation. Norman Stone traces the country's roots from the traditional representative councils of land-owning nobles to the Magyar nationalists of the nineteenth century and the first wars of independence.

Hungary's history since 1918 has not been a happy one. Economic collapse and hyperinflation in the post-war years led to fascist dictatorships and then Nazi occupation. Optimism at the end of the Second World War ended when the Iron Curtain descended, and Soviet tanks crushed the last hopes for independence in 1956 along with the peaceful protests in Budapest. Even after the fall of the Berlin Wall, consistent economic growth has remained elusive.

This is an extraordinary history - unique yet also representative of both the post-Soviet bloc and of nations forged from the fall of empires.

Class and Colonialism in Antarctic Exploration, 1750-1920 (Paperback): Ben Maddison Class and Colonialism in Antarctic Exploration, 1750-1920 (Paperback)
Ben Maddison
R1,504 Discovery Miles 15 040 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Between 1750 and 1920 over 15,000 people visited Antarctica. Despite such a large number the historiography has ignored all but a few celebrated explorers. Maddison presents a study of Antarctic exploration, telling the story of these forgotten facilitators, he argues that Antarctic exploration can be seen as an offshoot of European colonialism.

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