Author: Kym AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Evolving from a Rum State
Author: Kym AndersonThe Rum Seljuqs
Author: Songul MecitPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134508999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Charting the expansion of the Rum Seljuqs from rulers of a small principality to a fully- fledged sultanate ruling over almost the whole of Anatolia, this book demonstrates how ideology, rather than military success, was crucial in this development. The Rum Seljuqs examines four distinct phases of development, beginning with the rule of Sulaymān (473-478/1081-1086) and ending with the rule of Kay Khusraw II (634-644/ 1237-1246). Firstly, Songül Mecit examines the Great Seljuq ideology as a pre-cursor to the ideology of the Rum Seljuqs. Continuing to explore the foundation of the Seljuq principality in Nicaea, the book then examines the third phase and the period of decline for the Great Seljuqs. Finally, the book turns to the apogee of the Rum Seljuq state and questions whether these sultans can, at this stage, be considered truly Perso-Islamic rulers? Employing the few available Rum Seljuq primary sources in Arabic and Persian, and drawing on the evidence of coins and monumental inscriptions, this book will be of use to scholars and students of History and Middle East Studies.
States and Social Evolution
Author: Robert Gregory WilliamsPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807844632
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The national governments of Central America were constructed between 1840 and 1900, a time when coffee was transformed from a botanical curiosity to the region's most important export. In spite of their geographic proximity, the national governments that
The Evolution of Prohibition in the United States of America
Author: Ernest Hurst CherringtonPublisher: Westerville, Ohio : American Issue Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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The Industrial Evolution of the United States
Author: Carroll Davidson WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Alcohol in America
Author: United States Department of TransportationPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309034493
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Alcohol is a killerâ€"1 of every 13 deaths in the United States is alcohol-related. In addition, 5 percent of the population consumes 50 percent of the alcohol. The authors take a close look at the problem in a "classy little study," as The Washington Post called this book. The Library Journal states, "...[T]his is one book that addresses solutions....And it's enjoyably readable....This is an excellent review for anyone in the alcoholism prevention business, and good background reading for the interested layperson." The Washington Post agrees: the book "...likely will wind up on the bookshelves of counselors, politicians, judges, medical professionals, and law enforcement officials throughout the country."
Alcohol and Public Policy
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309031494
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The Evolution of American Legislatures
Author: Peverill SquirePublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472118315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Squire offers a comprehensive history of legislatures, core institutions in American political development
Reciprocity, Evolution, and Decision Games in Network and Data Science
Author: Yan ChenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108494749
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
A unique treatment of evolutionary games, indirect reciprocity, sequential decision making, and application to wireless and social networks.
Rum Maniacs
Author: Matthew Warner OsbornPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022609992X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
"This important study explores the medicalization of alcohol abuse in the 19th century US” and its influence on American literature and popular culture (Choice). In Rum Maniacs, Matthew Warner Osborn examines the rise of pathological drinking as a subject of medical interest, social controversy, and lurid fascination in 19th century America. At the heart of that story is the disease that afflicted Edgar Allen Poe: delirium tremens. Poe’s alcohol addiction was so severe that it gave him hallucinations, such as his vivid recollection of standing in a prison cell, fearing for his life, as he watched men mutilate his mother’s body—an event that never happened. First described in 1813, delirium tremens and its characteristic hallucinations inspired sweeping changes in how the medical profession saw and treated the problems of alcohol abuse. Based on new theories of pathological anatomy, human physiology, and mental illness, the new diagnosis established the popular belief that habitual drinking could become a psychological and physiological disease. By midcentury, delirium tremens had inspired a wide range of popular theater, poetry, fiction, and illustration. This romantic fascination endured into the twentieth century, most notably in the classic Disney cartoon Dumbo, in which a pink pachyderm marching band haunts a drunken young elephant. Rum Maniacs reveals just how delirium tremens shaped the modern experience of alcohol addiction as a psychic struggle with inner demons.