Author: Charles Burney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780297004950
Category : Caucasus
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Peoples of the Hills (by) Charles Burney, David Marshall Lang
Author: Charles Burney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780297004950
Category : Caucasus
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780297004950
Category : Caucasus
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The People on the Hill
Author: Velda Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780396062813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Her exclusion from a conspiracy to conceal a crime plunges Karen Wentworth into a deadly intrigue.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780396062813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Her exclusion from a conspiracy to conceal a crime plunges Karen Wentworth into a deadly intrigue.
The Peoples of the Hills
Author: Charles Allen Burney
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9781842122525
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
"Historian David Marshall Lang then takes up the story with a history of the region after the Persian Empire, into the Greek and Roman periods relating the epic story of Tigranes the Great and Mithradates Eupator and their struggle for freedom against Rome. Special sections are devoted to the ancient Christian civilizations of Armenia and Georgia and their contributions to art, architecture, literature and learning, ending with the onslaught of the Mongols in the 13th century."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9781842122525
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
"Historian David Marshall Lang then takes up the story with a history of the region after the Persian Empire, into the Greek and Roman periods relating the epic story of Tigranes the Great and Mithradates Eupator and their struggle for freedom against Rome. Special sections are devoted to the ancient Christian civilizations of Armenia and Georgia and their contributions to art, architecture, literature and learning, ending with the onslaught of the Mongols in the 13th century."--BOOK JACKET.
The Peoples of the Hills
Author: Charles Allen Burney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armenia
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armenia
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Blood in the Hills
Author: Bruce Stewart
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813134277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
To many antebellum Americans, Appalachia was a frightening wilderness of lawlessness, peril, robbers, and hidden dangers. The extensive media coverage of horse stealing and scalping raids profiled the regionÕs residents as intrinsically violent. After the Civil War, this characterization continued to permeate perceptions of the area and news of the conflict between the Hatfields and the McCoys, as well as the bloodshed associated with the coal labor strikes, cemented AppalachiaÕs violent reputation. Blood in the Hills: A History of Violence in Appalachia provides an in-depth historical analysis of hostility in the region from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Editor Bruce E. Stewart discusses aspects of the Appalachian violence culture, examining skirmishes with the native population, conflicts resulting from the regionÕs rapid modernization, and violence as a function of social control. The contributors also address geographical isolation and ethnicity, kinship, gender, class, and race with the purpose of shedding light on an often-stereotyped regional past. Blood in the Hills does not attempt to apologize for the region but uses detailed research and analysis to explain it, delving into the social and political factors that have defined Appalachia throughout its violent history.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813134277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
To many antebellum Americans, Appalachia was a frightening wilderness of lawlessness, peril, robbers, and hidden dangers. The extensive media coverage of horse stealing and scalping raids profiled the regionÕs residents as intrinsically violent. After the Civil War, this characterization continued to permeate perceptions of the area and news of the conflict between the Hatfields and the McCoys, as well as the bloodshed associated with the coal labor strikes, cemented AppalachiaÕs violent reputation. Blood in the Hills: A History of Violence in Appalachia provides an in-depth historical analysis of hostility in the region from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Editor Bruce E. Stewart discusses aspects of the Appalachian violence culture, examining skirmishes with the native population, conflicts resulting from the regionÕs rapid modernization, and violence as a function of social control. The contributors also address geographical isolation and ethnicity, kinship, gender, class, and race with the purpose of shedding light on an often-stereotyped regional past. Blood in the Hills does not attempt to apologize for the region but uses detailed research and analysis to explain it, delving into the social and political factors that have defined Appalachia throughout its violent history.
The Boat in the Evening
Author: Tarjei Vesaas
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN: 0720617006
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Earning its author a third nomination for the Nobel Prize, this tale centers on a crane colony arriving at its breeding ground to play out a delicate drama, ending with the rarely observed ceremony of the ritual dance. All is observed by a transfixed child who has frozen into his background and become a piece of nature himself. With a kind of cinematic impressionism, this novel voyages back to episodes from childhood, adolescence, and maturity as well as conducts speculative forays into the unknown. Unfolding in a series of delicate sketches that record the changing moods of human experience, this story is at once pervaded by a sense of melancholy and a sensuous appreciation of nature. A profound and beautiful book, it is the summation of a literary artist's first-hand experience and observation of rural life—of landscape and people.
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN: 0720617006
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Earning its author a third nomination for the Nobel Prize, this tale centers on a crane colony arriving at its breeding ground to play out a delicate drama, ending with the rarely observed ceremony of the ritual dance. All is observed by a transfixed child who has frozen into his background and become a piece of nature himself. With a kind of cinematic impressionism, this novel voyages back to episodes from childhood, adolescence, and maturity as well as conducts speculative forays into the unknown. Unfolding in a series of delicate sketches that record the changing moods of human experience, this story is at once pervaded by a sense of melancholy and a sensuous appreciation of nature. A profound and beautiful book, it is the summation of a literary artist's first-hand experience and observation of rural life—of landscape and people.
Yesterday in the Hills
Author: Floyd C. Watkins
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820321936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Yesterday in the Hills recalls life in North Georgia from the 1890s until World War II and records vanished and vanishing folkways of the region. Here is folklore at its best--seen from the inside and mediated though the heart. Yesterday in the Hills is built upon the bedrock of experience and memory, but its sharply drawn characters and beautifully proportioned narrative transcend reminiscence and realistically depict hill country life as it once was.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820321936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Yesterday in the Hills recalls life in North Georgia from the 1890s until World War II and records vanished and vanishing folkways of the region. Here is folklore at its best--seen from the inside and mediated though the heart. Yesterday in the Hills is built upon the bedrock of experience and memory, but its sharply drawn characters and beautifully proportioned narrative transcend reminiscence and realistically depict hill country life as it once was.
The Peoples of the Hills
Author: Charles Burney
Publisher: New York : Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Armenia
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Armenia
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Peoples of the Hills
Author: Charles Allen Burney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Shepherd of the Hills
Author: Harold Bell Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description