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Category : Celtic languages
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Bibliotheca Celtica
Author: Malinowski Among the Magi
Author: Bronislaw MalinowskiPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415262446
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A reissue of Malinowski's first field monograph, containing historical and theoretical material. This edition includes a major essay by Michael Young who draws on Malinowski's diary, unpublished notebooks and letters.
The Israel of the Alps
Author: Alexis MustonPublisher:
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Category : Waldenses
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Weik's History of Putnam County, Indiana
Author: Jesse William WeikPublisher:
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Category : Putnam County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 978
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Feuds and State Formation, 1550–1700
Author: Osvaldo RaggioPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319946439
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
This book re-evaluates the role of local agency and provides a new perspective to the political, social and cultural history of state formation, taking a microhistorical approach and through close analysis of archival sources between 1550 to 1700. The backcountry of the Republic of Genoa is a laboratory for gauging the weight and significance of two elements which, according to Charles Tilly and other scholars, have characterized the construction of the modern state: judicial administration and fiscal extraction. The instruments employed in this respect were arbitration and compensation. Interactions between center and periphery occurred within a stratified and discontinuous fabric of fluid jurisdictions and segmented residential topographies, which constituted spaces of mediation. Such spaces were generated by conflicts between kin groups (feuds and factional alignments) and managed both by Genoese officials and by local notables and notaries, who translated a whole set of local practices into judicial procedures. This book offers a rich contextualization of material life, family relationships, economic activities, and power struggles in a corner of the Mediterranean world that was extremely important, but about which very little has been published in English.
History of Greene County, Ohio
Author: Michael A. BroadstonePublisher:
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Category : Greene County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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King Hereafter
Author: Dorothy DunnettPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1405934417
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
'A storyteller who could teach Scheherazade a thing or two about pace, suspense and imaginative invention'New York Times THE REAL MACBETH . . . It is the eleventh century and in the isles of Orkney a young boy is born. He is named Thorfinn, baptized as Macbeth. To the north are the warring Vikings and south lies Alba - the Scottish mainland. Orkney is the prize in between, and an unlikely place from which a young man might launch a bid as ruler of a united Scotland. Yet Thorfinn is unlike other men. He has a warrior's courage and the wiliness of the underdog. By his side stands his wife Groa, as shrewd and valiant as her husband. Together they will navigate the treacherous waters of the new millennium, uniting a divided nation and birthing a legend that will survive a thousand years. Thorfinn Macbeth will be King Hereafter . . . 'Stunning' Washington Post
History of Fayette County, Ohio
Author: Frank M. AllenPublisher:
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Category : Fayette County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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The Physical Phenomena Of Mysticism
Author: Montague SummersPublisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
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Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Bastard Or Playmate?
Author: Robrecht VanderbeekenPublisher: Theater Topics
ISBN: 9789089642585
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"Artistic media seem to be in a permanent condition of mutation and transformation. Contemporary artists often investigate the limits and possibilities of the media they use and experiment with the crossing, upgrading and mutilation of media. Others explicitly explore the unknown intermedial space between existing media, searching for the hybrid beings that occupy these in-betweens. This issue of Theater topics explores the theme of mutating and adapting media in its relation with theatre and performance"--P. [4] of cover.