|
|
Showing 1 - 25 of
50 matches in All Departments
Fifty-six years after WW II, Germany again participated in military
actions against Yugoslavia. By fictionally putting the protagonists
of his book, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder and Foreign
Minister Joschka Fischer, on trial for war crimes, the author
reveals the secret agenda of the German government using original
quotations and a breathtaking collection of evidence. By strictly
adhering to the German and international laws, the fiction becomes
very real and may lead readers to question the legitimacy of their
governments when declaring war in the name of the people. The book
also reveals the propaganda tools used by those in power, which may
appear not to be too different from the dark past of Germany's
recent history.
From the hiding of the bones of Kamehameha the Great, to the
half-mile-long funeral procession of King Kamehameha III, to the
somber return of the embalmed remains of King Kalakaua from San
Francisco, Hawaii experienced changing responses to the deaths of
Hawaiian royalty. Missionary journals, government publications, and
articles in Hawaiian and English language newspapers provide the
source material for the first comprehensive look at the
transformation of funerary practices following permanent contact
with the West. The documentary evidence tells the story of the
adoption of new ways of honoring Hawaii royalty and the persistence
of traditional practices. Although the funeral observances for
British royalty provided an extravagant model for their Hawaii
counterparts, indigenous practices survived. While mourners no
longer knocked out their teeth or tattooed their tongues, other
traditional forms-the mass wailing, feather standards, and
composing of funeral dirges-continued well into the twentieth
century. Besides the contemporaneous accounts, dozens of historic
drawings and photographs provide rarely seen glimpses of the
obsequies of the Kamehameha and Kalakaua dynasties. Burial
locations, too, saw transformation as secret burial caves and
thatched structures housing ancient bones gave way to coral
sepulchers, Gothic mausoleums and underground crypts. The
description of the burial sites includes the locations of the final
resting places of the royalty of Hawaii.
|
You may like...
Warbreaker
Brandon Sanderson
Paperback
 (2)
R305
R272
Discovery Miles 2 720
Sword Catcher
Cassandra Clare
Paperback
R399
R362
Discovery Miles 3 620
|
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
