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The Byzantine Neighbourhood contributes to a new narrative
regarding Byzantine cities through the adoption of a neighbourhood
perspective. It offers a multi-disciplinary investigation of the
spatial and social practices that produced Byzantine concepts of
neighbourhood and afforded dynamic interactions between different
actors, elite and non-elite. Authors further consider
neighbourhoods as political entities, examining how varieties of
collectivity formed in Byzantine neighbourhoods translated into
political action. By both acknowledging the unique position of
Constantinople, and giving serious attention to the varieties of
provincial experience, the contributors consider regional factors
(social, economic, and political) that formed the ties of local
communities to the state and illuminate the mechanisms of empire.
Beyond its Byzantine focus, this volume contributes to broader
discussions of premodern urbanism by drawing attention to the
spatial dimension of social life and highlighting the involvement
of multiple agents in city-making.
Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline? Rather than provide
a definitive answer to this question, this book defines the
parameters of the debate and proposes ways of thinking about what
it would mean to engage seriously with the field’s political and
intellectual genealogies, hierarchies, and forms of exclusion. In
this volume, scholars of art, history, and literature address the
entanglements, past and present, among the academic discipline of
Byzantine Studies and the practice and legacies of European
colonialism. Starting with the premise that Byzantium and the field
of Byzantine studies are simultaneously colonial and colonized, the
chapters address topics ranging from the material basis of
philological scholarship and its uses in modern politics to the
colonial plunder of art and its consequences for curatorial
practice in the present. The book concludes with a bibliography
that serves as a foundation for a coherent and systematic critical
historiography. Bringing together insights from scholars working in
different disciplines, regions, and institutions, Is Byzantine
Studies a Colonialist Discipline? urges practitioners to reckon
with the discipline’s colonialist, imperialist, and white
supremacist history. In addition to the editors, the contributors
to this volume include Andrea Myers Achi, Nathanael Aschenbrenner,
Bahattin Bayram, Averil Cameron, Stephanie R. Caruso, Şebnem
Dönbekci, Hugh G. Jeffery, Anthony Kaldellis, Matthew Kinloch,
Nicholas S. M. Matheou, Maria Mavroudi, Zeynep Olgun, Arietta
Papaconstantinou, Jake Ransohoff, Alexandra Vukovich, Elizabeth
Dospěl Williams, and Arielle Winnik.
In the turbulent years between passage of the Federal Reserve Act
(1913) and the Bretton Woods Agreement (1945), the peoples of the
Western world suffered two World Wars, two major and several minor
international financial panics, an epidemic of currency
devaluations and debt repudiations, civil wars, and revolutions.
They also enjoyed a decade of unprecedented prosperity and a decade
of unprecedented depression and deflation. They also saw the
beginning of a period of prolonged, world-wide inflation.No period
in history could serve better as a case study for the analysis of
applied economic policy. From his vantage point as economist for
the Chase Manhattan Bank and editor of the Chase Economic Bulletin,
who participated in much of what he records, Dr. Anderson here
describes the climactic events of a turbulent era.Arthur Kemp is
Professor Emeritus of Economics at Claremont McKenna College.
First published in the 1750s, The Ruins of Palmyra and The Ruins of
Baalbek are a remarkable record of an expedition to the Levant by
three antiquarians - Robert Wood, John Bouverie and James Dawkins -
along with a draftsman, Giovanni Battista Borra. With over 100
engravings of the classical architecture of the two ancient cities
of Palmyra and Baalbek, the volumes represent the earliest-known
examples of monographs on archaeological sites. They were unique in
providing systematic discussion of the sites' physical and human
geography alongside two kinds of pictorial evidence: views of the
ancient sites in their then-present state and detailed plans, with
measurements, of architectural features. This new approach was
immediately copied by antiquarians in the later 18th century and
also had great influence upon Neoclassical architecture in Britain,
Europe and North America. This new edition features reproductions
of all the engravings from the original publications and includes a
new introduction by noted scholar, Benjamin Anderson (Cornell
University, USA).
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
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++++ Narrative Of A Journey To Musarda, The Capital Of The Western
Mandigoes Benjamin Anderson
European adventurers began exploring Palmyra's priceless Roman
ruins in the 17th century, but it wasn't until the advent of
photography that the public became aware of its scale and majesty.
In 1885, the sight of Palmyra astounded members of the Wolfe
Expedition as they journeyed home from Mesopotamia. The group's
photographer, John Henry Haynes, documented the monumental temples,
tombs and colonnades in more than a hundred invaluable images.
Since then, Haynes and his work have largely been forgotten, and
the forces of the self-styled Islamic State have destroyed the key
monuments of this world-renowned site, including the glorious
Temple of Bel. Haynes's images of Palmyra - published here for the
first time - are all the more poignant. The Syrian city of Palmyra
- known as ‘the Pearl of the Desert’ - was one of the most
important cultural centres of the ancient world. A key stop on the
Silk Road, it was a vital link between the East and the West, and a
prize fought over by successive conquering armies.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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