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We've Done Them Wrong! - A History of the Native American Indians and How the United States Treated Them (Hardcover):... We've Done Them Wrong! - A History of the Native American Indians and How the United States Treated Them (Hardcover)
George E. Saurman
R547 R507 Discovery Miles 5 070 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"From the mountains, to the prairies To the oceans white with foam, Every Native American Must leave his home." l.

Imagine that someone comes to your home and forces you at gunpoint to leave. Your response might be termed "savage."

"Savage" was how the New World invaders described American Indians. Settlers chased them across the continent, as the government signed treaties that they later broke. They also subjected the native inhabitants to horrible atrocities.

Author George E. Saurman, a World War II veteran and proud American, explores what really happened to Native American Indians, examining Native American Indian tribes and their customs; the actions of early settlers, including William Penn and his holy experiment; contributions of the Native American Indians; and conditions on reservations today.

Saurman also considers how the Bureau of Indian Affairs handled relations between natives and settlers, as well as what Native American Indians from the past and today have had to say about events.

Even today, broken promises obscure what's really going on in Native American Indian communities. It's time that a serious effort be made to rectify the situation, and it starts by realizing that "We've Done Them Wrong."

Native American Short Stories (Hardcover): Jim Red Fox Native American Short Stories (Hardcover)
Jim Red Fox
R612 Discovery Miles 6 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition (Hardcover): Catherine Bartlett, Joachim Schloer The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition (Hardcover)
Catherine Bartlett, Joachim Schloer
R4,258 Discovery Miles 42 580 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Throughout history, Jews have often been regarded, and treated, as "strangers." In The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition, authors from a wide variety of disciplines discuss how the notion of "the stranger" can offer an integrative perspective on Jewish identities, on the non-Jewish perceptions of Jews, and on the relations between Jews and non-Jews in an innovative way. Contributions from history, philosophy, religion, sociology, literature, and the arts offer a new perspective on the Jewish experience in early modern and modern times: in contact and conflict, in processes of attribution and allegation, but also self-reflection and negotiation, focused on the figure of the stranger.

Hull-house Year Book [serial]; 1906/1907 (Hardcover): Ill ). Hull House (Chicago Hull-house Year Book [serial]; 1906/1907 (Hardcover)
Ill ). Hull House (Chicago
R732 Discovery Miles 7 320 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Orce Man - Controversy, Media and Politics in Human Origins Research (Hardcover): Miquel Carandell Baruzzi The Orce Man - Controversy, Media and Politics in Human Origins Research (Hardcover)
Miquel Carandell Baruzzi
R3,692 Discovery Miles 36 920 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In The Orce Man: Controversy, Media and Politics in Human Origins Research, Miquel Carandell presents a thrilling story of a controversy on an Spanish "First European" that involved scientists, politicians and newspapers. In the early 1980s, with Spanish democracy in its beginnings, the Orce bone was transformed from a famous human ancestor to an apparently ridiculous donkey remain. With a chronological narrative, this book is not centered on whether the bone was human or not, but on the circumstances that made a certain claim credible or not, from both the scientific community and the general public. Carandell's analysis draws on the thin line that separates success from failure and the role of media and politics in the controversy.

Ports of Globalisation, Places of Creolisation - Nordic Possessions in the Atlantic World during the Era of the Slave Trade... Ports of Globalisation, Places of Creolisation - Nordic Possessions in the Atlantic World during the Era of the Slave Trade (Hardcover)
Holger Weiss
R3,852 Discovery Miles 38 520 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This anthology addresses and analyses the transformation of interconnected spaces and spatial entanglements in the Atlantic rim during the era of the slave trade by focusing on the Danish possessions on the Gold Coast and their Caribbean islands of Saint Thomas, Saint Jan and Saint Croix as well as on the Swedish Caribbean island of Saint Barthelemy. The first part of the anthology addresses aspects of interconnectedness in West Africa, in particular the relationship between Africans and Danes on the Gold Coast. The second part of this volume examines various aspects of interconnectedness, creolisation and experiences of Danish and Swedish slave rules in the Caribbean. *Ports of Globalisationis now available in paperback for individual customers.

Between Exile And Exodus - Argentinian Jewish Immigration to Israel, 1948-1967 (Hardcover): Sebastian Klor Between Exile And Exodus - Argentinian Jewish Immigration to Israel, 1948-1967 (Hardcover)
Sebastian Klor; Translated by Lenn Schramm
R1,548 Discovery Miles 15 480 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A primary source analysis of the migration of Jews from Argentina to Israel. Between Exile and Exodus: Argentinian Jewish Immigration to Israel, 1948-1967 examines the case of the 16,500 Argentine Jewish immigrants who arrived in Israel during the first two decades of its existence (1948-1967). Based on a thorough investigation of various archives in Argentina and Israel, author Sebastian Klor presents a sociohistoric analysis of that immigration with a comparative perspective. Although manystudies have explored Jewish immigration to the State of Israel, few have dealt with the immigrants themselves. Between Exile and Exodus offers fascinating insights into this migration, its social and economic profiles, and the motivation for the relocation of many of these people. It contributes to different areas of study-Argentina and its Jews, Jewish immigration to Israel, and immigration in general. This book's integration of a computerized database comprising the personal data of more than 10,000 Argentinian Jewish immigrants has allowed the author to uncover their stories in a direct, intimate manner. Because immigration is an individual experience, rather than a collective one, the author aims to address the individual's perspective in order to fully comprehend the process. In the area of Argentinian Jewry it brings a new approach to the study of Zionism and the relations of the community with Israel, pointing out the importance of family as a basis for mutual interactions. Klor's work clarifies the centrality of marginal groups in the case of Jewish immigration to Israel, and demystifies the idea that aliya from Argentina was solely ideological. In the area of Israeli studies the book takes a critical view of the "catastrophic" concept as a cause for Jewish immigration to Israel, analyzing the gap between the decision-makers in Israel and in Argentina and the real circumstances of the individual immigrants. It also contributes to migration studies, showing how an atypical case, such as the Argentinian Jewish immigrants to Israel, is shaped by similar patterns that characterize "classical" mass migrations, such as the impact of chain migrations and the immigration of marginal groups. This book's importance lies in uncovering and examining individual viewpoints alongside the official, bureaucratic immigration narrative.

The History of the Discovery and Study of Russian Medieval Painting (Hardcover): Gerold I. Vzdornov The History of the Discovery and Study of Russian Medieval Painting (Hardcover)
Gerold I. Vzdornov; Translated by Valerii G. Dereviagin; Edited by (consulting) John W. Emerich
R5,575 Discovery Miles 55 750 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This is the first study in any language to trace the emergence of the art historical interest in icon painting in the nineteenth century with its evident impact on the course of Russian modernism in the twentieth century. Given the surge in popularity of the Russian avant-garde, a book devoted to the gradual awareness of the artistic value of icons and their effect on Russian aesthetics is timely. The discoveries, the false starts, the incompetence, the interaction of dilettantes and academics, the meddling of tsars and church officials, all make for a fascinating tale of growing cultural awarenss. It is a story that prepares the ground for the explosioin of Russian cultural creativity and acceptability in the early twentieth century.

Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times (Hardcover): Henry Abramson Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times (Hardcover)
Henry Abramson
R1,084 Discovery Miles 10 840 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In 1917, Jewish and Ukrainian activists worked to overcome previous mutual antagonism in an independent Ukraine, but the bold experiment ended in terrible failure as anarchic violence swept the countryside.This revised edition of the 1999 printing includes a new Foreword and Afterword by the author. Praise for the First Edition: ""A highly readable book, breaking new ground and attaining a degree of objectivity that might settle most of the thorny issues involved."" The Journal of Modern History ""A landmark book on Ukrainian-Jewish Relations. Nationalities Papers ""A must for scholars and laymen alike."" Shofar ""Abramson s impressive command of Ukrainian and Jewish sources lends itself to a critical shift Association for Jewish Studies Review ""Abramson s book rises above national agendas to provide an objective analysis."" The Russian Review Abramson provides a serious, thoughtful, and carefully worded workfthe most balanced and complete existing account. Kritika

Memorial Book of 13 Shtetls of Galicia - The Jewish Communities of Dziedzilow, Winniki, Barszczowice, Pidelisek, Pidbaritz,... Memorial Book of 13 Shtetls of Galicia - The Jewish Communities of Dziedzilow, Winniki, Barszczowice, Pidelisek, Pidbaritz, Kukizov, Old Jarczow, Pekalowice, Kamenopole, Nowy Jarczow, Kamionka Strumilowa, Kulikow (Presently in the Ukraine) and Osijek in Croatia (Hardcover)
William Leibner; Edited by Ingrid Rockberger
R1,079 R927 Discovery Miles 9 270 Save R152 (14%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
New Voyages to North America [microform] - Giving a Full Account of the Customs, Commerce, Religion, and Strange Opinions of... New Voyages to North America [microform] - Giving a Full Account of the Customs, Commerce, Religion, and Strange Opinions of the Savages of That Country, With Political Remarks Upon the Courts of Portugal and Denmark, and the Present State of The... (Hardcover)
Louis Armand De Lom D'Arce Lahontan, Nicolas Ca 1654-Ca 1721 Gueudeville
R889 Discovery Miles 8 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Journey to Christ Through the Tabernacle (Hardcover): Leonard Carter A Journey to Christ Through the Tabernacle (Hardcover)
Leonard Carter
R896 Discovery Miles 8 960 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Food and Drink in Antiquity: A Sourcebook - Readings from the Graeco-Roman World (Hardcover): John F. Donahue Food and Drink in Antiquity: A Sourcebook - Readings from the Graeco-Roman World (Hardcover)
John F. Donahue
R5,286 Discovery Miles 52 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Interest in food and drink as an academic discipline has been growing significantly in recent years. This sourcebook is a unique asset to many courses on food as it offers a thematic approach to eating and drinking in antiquity. For classics courses focusing on ancient social history to introductory courses on the history of food and drink, as well as those offerings with a strong sociological or anthropological approach this volume provides an unparalleled compilation of essential source material. The chronological scope of the excerpts extends from Homer in the Eighth Century BCE to the Roman emperor Constantine in the Fourth Century CE. Each thematic chapter consists of an introduction along with a bibliography of suggested readings. Translated excerpts are then presented accompanied by an explanatory background paragraph identifying the author and context of each passage. Most of the evidence is literary, but additional sources - inscriptional, legal and religious - are also included.

Islamic and Cultural Foundations of Kashmiriyat (Hardcover): Mohammed Ishaq Khan Islamic and Cultural Foundations of Kashmiriyat (Hardcover)
Mohammed Ishaq Khan
R1,181 Discovery Miles 11 810 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Frontiers of Jewish Scholarship - Expanding Origins, Transcending Borders (Hardcover): Anne O. Albert, Noah S. Gerber, Michael... Frontiers of Jewish Scholarship - Expanding Origins, Transcending Borders (Hardcover)
Anne O. Albert, Noah S. Gerber, Michael A. Meyer
R1,491 Discovery Miles 14 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The birth of modern Jewish studies can be traced to the nineteenth-century emergence of the Wissenschaft des Judentums, a movement to promote a scholarly approach to the study of Judaism and Jewish culture. Frontiers of Jewish Scholarship offers a collection of essays examining how Wissenschaft extended beyond its original German intellectual contexts and was transformed into a diverse, global field. From the early expansion of the new scholarly approaches into Jewish publications across Europe to their translation and reinterpretation in the twentieth century, the studies included here collectively trace a path through largely neglected subject matter, newly recognized as deserving attention. Beginning with an introduction that surveys the field's German origins, fortunes, and contexts, the volume goes on to document dimensions of the growth of Wissenschaft des Judentums elsewhere in Europe and throughout the world. Some of the contributions turn to literary and semantic issues, while others reveal the penetration of Jewish studies into new national contexts that include Hungary, Italy, and even India. Individual essays explore how the United States, along with Israel, emerged as a main center for Jewish historical scholarship and how critical Jewish scholarship began to accommodate Zionist ideology originating in Eastern Europe and eventually Marxist ideology, primarily in the Soviet Union. Finally, the focus of the volume moves on to the land of Israel, focusing on the reception of Orientalism and Jewish scholarly contacts with Yemenite and native Muslim intellectuals. Taken together, the contributors to the volume offer new material and fresh approaches that rethink the relationship of Jewish studies to the larger enterprise of critical scholarship while highlighting its relevance to the history of humanistic inquiry worldwide.

Georgia Women - Their Lives and Times - Volume 2 (Hardcover): Ann Short Chirhart, Kathleen Clark Georgia Women - Their Lives and Times - Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Ann Short Chirhart, Kathleen Clark
R3,093 Discovery Miles 30 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Women were leading actors in twentieth-century developments in Georgia, yet most histories minimize their contributions. The essays in the second volume of "Georgia Women," edited by Ann Short Chirhart and Kathleen Ann Clark, vividly portray a wide array of Georgia women who played an important role in the state's history, from little-known Progressive Era activists to famous present-day figures such as Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.

Georgia women were instrumental to state and national politics even before they achieved suffrage, and as essays on Lillian Smith, Frances Pauley, Coretta Scott King, and others demonstrate, they played a key role in twentieth-century struggles over civil rights, gender equality, and the proper size and reach of government. Georgia women's contributions have been wide ranging in the arena of arts and culture and include the works of renowned blues singer Gertrude "Ma" Rainey and such nationally prominent literary figures as Margaret Mitchell, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor, as well as Walker.

While many of the volume's essays take a fresh look at relatively well-known figures, readers will also have the opportunity to discover women who were vital to Georgia's history yet remain relatively obscure today, such as Atlanta educator and activist Lugenia Burns Hope, World War II aviator Hazel Raines, entrepreneur and carpet manufacturer Catherine Evans Whitener, and rural activist and author Vara A. Majette. Collectively, the life stories portrayed in this volume deepen our understanding of the multifaceted history of not only Georgia women but also the state itself.

Published with the generous support of the Honorable Dr. M. Louise McBee

Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis - Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky (Hardcover): Glenn Dynner,... Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis - Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky (Hardcover)
Glenn Dynner, Francois Guesnet
R4,681 Discovery Miles 46 810 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Warsaw was once home to the largest and most diverse Jewish community in the world. It was a center of rich varieties of Orthodox Judaism, Jewish Socialism, Diaspora Nationalism, Zionism, and Polonization. This volume is the first to reflect on the entire history of the Warsaw Jewish community, from its inception in the late 18th century to its emergence as a Jewish metropolis within a few generations, to its destruction during the German occupation and tentative re-emergence in the postwar period. The highly original contributions collected here investigate Warsaw Jewry's religious and cultural life, press and publications, political life, and relations with the surrounding Polish society. This monumental volume is dedicated to Professor Antony Polonsky, chief historian of the new Warsaw Museum for the History of Polish Jews, on the occasion of his 75th birthday.

The Conquest of Mexico - 500 Years of Reinvention (Hardcover): Peter B. Villella, Pablo Garcia Loaeza The Conquest of Mexico - 500 Years of Reinvention (Hardcover)
Peter B. Villella, Pablo Garcia Loaeza; Matthew Restall
R1,583 Discovery Miles 15 830 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519, which led to the end of the Aztec Empire, was one of the most influential events in the history of the modern Atlantic world. But equally consequential, as this volume makes clear, were the ways the Conquest was portrayed. In essays spanning five centuries and three continents, The Conquest of Mexico: 500 Years of Reinventions explores how politicians, writers, artists, activists, and others have strategically reimagined the Conquest to influence and manipulate perceptions within a wide variety of controversies and debates, including those touching on indigeneity, nationalism, imperialism, modernity, and multiculturalism. Writing from a range of perspectives and disciplines, the authors demonstrate that the Conquest of Mexico, whose significance has ever been marked by fundamental ambiguity, has consistently influenced how people across the modern Atlantic world conceptualize themselves and their societies. After considering the looming, ubiquitous role of the Conquest in Mexican thought and discourse since the sixteenth century, the contributors go farther afield to examine the symbolic relevance of the Conquest in contexts as diverse as Tudor England, Bourbon France, postimperial Spain, modern Latin America, and even contemporary Hollywood. Highlighting the extent to which the Spanish-Aztec conflict inspired historical reimaginings, these essays reveal how the Conquest became such an iconic event-and a perennial medium by which both Europe and the Americas have, for centuries, endeavored to understand themselves as well as their relationship to others. A valuable contribution to ongoing efforts to demythologize and properly memorialize the Spanish-Aztec War of 1519-21, this volume also aptly illustrates how we make history of the past and how that history-making shapes our present-and possibly our future.

Views on Europe - Gender Historical and Postcolonial Perspectives on Journeys (Hardcover): Lilli Riettiens, Elke Kleinau Views on Europe - Gender Historical and Postcolonial Perspectives on Journeys (Hardcover)
Lilli Riettiens, Elke Kleinau
R2,347 Discovery Miles 23 470 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The history of travel has long been constructed and described almost exclusively as a history of "European", male mobility, without, however, explicitly making the gender and whiteness of the travellers a topic. The anthology takes this as an occasion to focus on journeys to Europe that gave "non-Europeans" the opportunity to glance at "Europe" and to draw a picture of it by themselves. So far, little attention has been paid to the questions with which attributes these travellers endowed "Europe" and its people, which similarities and differences they observed and which idea(s) of "Europe" they produced. The focus is once again on "Europe", but not as the starting point for conquests or journeys. From a postcolonial and gender historical view, the anthology's contributions rather juxtapose (self-)representations of "Europe" with perspectives that move in a field of tension between agreement, contradiction and oscillation.

Breeding Superman - Nietzsche, Race and Eugenics in Edwardian and Interwar Britain (Hardcover): Dan Stone Breeding Superman - Nietzsche, Race and Eugenics in Edwardian and Interwar Britain (Hardcover)
Dan Stone
R3,808 Discovery Miles 38 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Before the First World War there existed an intellectual turmoil in Britain as great as any in Germany, France or Russia, as the debates over Nietzsche and eugenics in the context of early modernism reveal. With the rise of fascism after 1918, these debates became more ideologically driven, with science and vitalist philosophy being hailed in some quarters as saviours from bourgeois decadence, vituperated in others as heralding the onset of barbarism. Breeding Superman looks at several of the leading Nietzscheans and eugenicists, and challenges the long-cherished belief that British intellectuals were fundamentally uninterested in race. The result is a study of radical ideas which are conventionally written out of histories of the politics and culture of the period.

Tribes, Forest & Social Formation in Indian History (Hardcover): B.B. Chaudhuri Tribes, Forest & Social Formation in Indian History (Hardcover)
B.B. Chaudhuri
R1,370 Discovery Miles 13 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Published in association with Indian History Congress. A comprehensive social history of tribes and forests in India is yet to be written. However, considerable research work has been done in the last few decades on the variations of social formation emanating from the relationship between tribes and forests in India. Questions multiplied over time. To what extent were the tribes or communities residing in forests living in isolation of peasant society? How far were they prudent in the use of forest resources in different periods? How did state formations affect natural resource exploitation and the respective social formations over time? What was the exact nature of colonial watershed in ecologic terms? How have the issues related to forest management and community rights been tackled in post-colonial years? In the wake of the emergence of subaltern studies in the 1980s and the ecological studies in the 1990s, a need was felt to approach these questions from new perspectives. The present volume, mainly combines revised versions of the papers presented at a Panel organized by the Indian History Congress in 2001. It includes twelve articles besides an Introduction by the editors. It argues that since the 1970s old issues of economic development and social integration have given place to the new ones of community, culture, power, class and identity in recent years. The contributors represent multiple viewpoints, question old assumptions, revise them whenever possible and often take altogether new positions to stimulate academic interest to promote further studies and research on the subject.

There Was a Shtetl in Lithuania - Dusiat Reflected in Reminiscences (Hardcover): Sara Weiss-Slep There Was a Shtetl in Lithuania - Dusiat Reflected in Reminiscences (Hardcover)
Sara Weiss-Slep; Edited by Hedva Scop, Olga Zabludoff
R1,547 Discovery Miles 15 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Detroit Tigers Gone Wild - Mischief, Crimes and Hard Time (Paperback): George Hunter Detroit Tigers Gone Wild - Mischief, Crimes and Hard Time (Paperback)
George Hunter
R496 R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Balkan Route - Historical Transformations from Via Militaris to Autoput (Hardcover): Florian Riedler, Nenad Stefanov The Balkan Route - Historical Transformations from Via Militaris to Autoput (Hardcover)
Florian Riedler, Nenad Stefanov
R2,729 Discovery Miles 27 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume approaches the topic of mobility in Southeast Europe by offering the first detailed historical study of the land route connecting Istanbul with Belgrade. After this route that diagonally crosses Southeast Europe had been established in Roman times, it was as important for the Byzantines as the Ottomans to rule their Balkan territories. In the nineteenth century, the road was upgraded to a railroad and, most recently, to a motorway. The contributions in this volume focus on the period from the Middle Ages to the present day. They explore the various transformations of the route as well as its transformative role for the cities and regions along its course. This not only concerns the political function of the route to project the power of the successive empires. Also the historical actors such as merchants, travelling diplomats, Turkish guest workers or Middle Eastern refugees together with the various social, economic and cultural effects of their mobility are in the focus of attention. The overall aim is to gain a deeper understanding of Southeast Europe by foregrounding historical continuities and disruptions from a long-term perspective and by bringing into dialogue different national and regional approaches.

Canada on the Pacific [microform] - Being an Account of a Journey From Edmonton to the Pacific by the Peace River Valley and of... Canada on the Pacific [microform] - Being an Account of a Journey From Edmonton to the Pacific by the Peace River Valley and of a Winter Voyage Along the Western Coast of the Dominion With Remarks on the Physical Features of the Pacific Railway Route... (Hardcover)
Charles 1840-1900 Horetzky
R866 Discovery Miles 8 660 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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