Author: George Ticknor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spanish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
History of Spanish Literature
Author: George Ticknor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spanish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spanish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
New Catholic Encyclopedia: Fri-Hoh
Author: Catholic University of America
Publisher: Gale
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
This 15 volume, second edition features revised and new articles. Among the 12,000 entries in the encyclopedia are articles on theology, philosophy, history, literary figures, saints, musicians and much more.
Publisher: Gale
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
This 15 volume, second edition features revised and new articles. Among the 12,000 entries in the encyclopedia are articles on theology, philosophy, history, literary figures, saints, musicians and much more.
The Physical Phenomena Of Mysticism
Author: Montague Summers
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
New Catholic Encyclopedia
A Process Called Conversion
Author: David K. O'Rourke
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
New Catholic Encyclopedia: Ref-Sep
Author: Catholic University of America
Publisher: Gale
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
This 15 volume, second edition features revised and new articles. Among the 12,000 entries in the encyclopedia are articles on theology, philosophy, history, literary figures, saints, musicians and much more.
Publisher: Gale
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
This 15 volume, second edition features revised and new articles. Among the 12,000 entries in the encyclopedia are articles on theology, philosophy, history, literary figures, saints, musicians and much more.
The Spanish Stage in the Time of Lope de Vega
Author: Hugo Albert Rennert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : es
Pages : 660
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : es
Pages : 660
Book Description
Streetfighter in the Courtroom
Author: Charles R. Garry
Publisher: Dutton Adult
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher: Dutton Adult
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Constant Battles
Author: Steven A. LeBlanc
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466850191
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
With armed conflict in the Persian Gulf now upon us, Harvard archaeologist Steven LeBlanc takes a long-term view of the nature and roots of war, presenting a controversial thesis: The notion of the "noble savage" living in peace with one another and in harmony with nature is a fantasy. In Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage, LeBlanc contends that warfare and violent conflict have existed throughout human history, and that humans have never lived in ecological balance with nature. The start of the second major U.S. military action in the Persian Gulf, combined with regular headlines about spiraling environmental destruction, would tempt anyone to conclude that humankind is fast approaching a catastrophic end. But as LeBlanc brilliantly argues, the archaeological record shows that the warfare and ecological destruction we find today fit into patterns of human behavior that have gone on for millions of years. Constant Battles surveys human history in terms of social organization-from hunter gatherers, to tribal agriculturalists, to more complex societies. LeBlanc takes the reader on his own digs around the world -- from New Guinea to the Southwestern U.S. to Turkey -- to show how he has come to discover warfare everywhere at every time. His own fieldwork combined with his archaeological, ethnographic, and historical research, presents a riveting account of how, throughout human history, people always have outgrown the carrying capacity of their environment, which has led to war. Ultimately, though, LeBlanc's point of view is reassuring and optimistic. As he explains the roots of warfare in human history, he also demonstrates that warfare today has far less impact than it did in the past. He also argues that, as awareness of these patterns and the advantages of modern technology increase, so does our ability to avoid war in the future.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466850191
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
With armed conflict in the Persian Gulf now upon us, Harvard archaeologist Steven LeBlanc takes a long-term view of the nature and roots of war, presenting a controversial thesis: The notion of the "noble savage" living in peace with one another and in harmony with nature is a fantasy. In Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage, LeBlanc contends that warfare and violent conflict have existed throughout human history, and that humans have never lived in ecological balance with nature. The start of the second major U.S. military action in the Persian Gulf, combined with regular headlines about spiraling environmental destruction, would tempt anyone to conclude that humankind is fast approaching a catastrophic end. But as LeBlanc brilliantly argues, the archaeological record shows that the warfare and ecological destruction we find today fit into patterns of human behavior that have gone on for millions of years. Constant Battles surveys human history in terms of social organization-from hunter gatherers, to tribal agriculturalists, to more complex societies. LeBlanc takes the reader on his own digs around the world -- from New Guinea to the Southwestern U.S. to Turkey -- to show how he has come to discover warfare everywhere at every time. His own fieldwork combined with his archaeological, ethnographic, and historical research, presents a riveting account of how, throughout human history, people always have outgrown the carrying capacity of their environment, which has led to war. Ultimately, though, LeBlanc's point of view is reassuring and optimistic. As he explains the roots of warfare in human history, he also demonstrates that warfare today has far less impact than it did in the past. He also argues that, as awareness of these patterns and the advantages of modern technology increase, so does our ability to avoid war in the future.
On Becoming Cuban
Author: Louis A. PĂ©rez Jr.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469601419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
With this masterful work, Louis A. Perez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of the ways that this encounter helped shape Cubans' identity, nationality, and sense of modernity from the early 1850s until the revolution of 1959. Using an enormous range of Cuban and U.S. sources--from archival records and oral interviews to popular magazines, novels, and motion pictures--Perez reveals a powerful web of everyday, bilateral connections between the United States and Cuba and shows how U.S. cultural forms had a critical influence on the development of Cubans' sense of themselves as a people and as a nation. He also articulates the cultural context for the revolution that erupted in Cuba in 1959. In the middle of the twentieth century, Perez argues, when economic hard times and political crises combined to make Cubans painfully aware that their American-influenced expectations of prosperity and modernity would not be realized, the stage was set for revolution.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469601419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
With this masterful work, Louis A. Perez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of the ways that this encounter helped shape Cubans' identity, nationality, and sense of modernity from the early 1850s until the revolution of 1959. Using an enormous range of Cuban and U.S. sources--from archival records and oral interviews to popular magazines, novels, and motion pictures--Perez reveals a powerful web of everyday, bilateral connections between the United States and Cuba and shows how U.S. cultural forms had a critical influence on the development of Cubans' sense of themselves as a people and as a nation. He also articulates the cultural context for the revolution that erupted in Cuba in 1959. In the middle of the twentieth century, Perez argues, when economic hard times and political crises combined to make Cubans painfully aware that their American-influenced expectations of prosperity and modernity would not be realized, the stage was set for revolution.