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Author: Peter Mitchell Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0191066141 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 337
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Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants. They were probably the first animals that people ever rode, as well as the first used on a large-scale as beasts of burden. Associated with kingship and the gods in the ancient Near East, they have been (and in many places still are) a core technology for moving people and goods over both short and long distances, as well as a supplier of muscle power for threshing and grinding grain, pressing olives, raising water, ploughing fields, and pulling carts, to name just a few of the uses to which they have been put. Yet despite this, they remain one of the least studied, and most widely ignored, of all domestic animals, consigned to the margins of history like so many of those who still depend upon them. Spanning the globe and extending from the donkey's initial domestication up to the present, this book seeks to remedy this situation by using archaeological evidence, in combination with insights from history and anthropology, to resituate the donkey (and its hybrid offspring such as the mule) in the unfolding of human history, looking not just at what donkeys and mules did, but also at how people have thought about and understood them. Intended in part for university researchers and students working in the broad fields of world history, archaeology, animal history, and anthropology, but it should also interest anyone keen to learn more about one of the most widespread and important of the animals that people have domesticated.
Author: Chris Wickham Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019259849X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 836
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A new account of the Mediterranean economy in the 10th to 12th centuries, forcing readers to entirely rethink the underlying logic to medieval economic systems. Chris Wickham re-examines documentary and archaeological sources to give a detailed account of both individual economies, and their relationships with each other. Chris Wickham offers a new account of the Mediterranean economy in the tenth to twelfth centuries, based on a completely new look at the sources, documentary and archaeological. Our knowledge of the Mediterranean economy is based on syntheses which are between 50 and 150 years old; they are based on outdated assumptions and restricted data sets, and were written before there was any usable archaeology; and Wickham contends that they have to be properly rethought. This is the first book ever to give a fully detailed comparative account of the regions of the Mediterranean in this period, in their internal economies and in their relationships with each other. It focusses on Egypt, Tunisia, Sicily, the Byzantine empire, Islamic Spain and Portugal, and north-central Italy, and gives the first comprehensive account of the changing economies of each; only Byzantium has a good prior synthesis. It aims to force our rethinking of how economies worked in the medieval Mediterranean. It also offers a rethinking of how we should understand the underlying logic of the medieval economy in general.
Author: David R. Beasley Publisher: David Beasley ISBN: 091531746X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 508
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Volume One, 501p. Birth in Hamilton, family, education, life in Europe, love in Vienna, marriage to Anglo-Burmese and work in New York City, struggles to publish, tragedy, library school. Volume Two, 507p. The New York Public Research Libraries, union organizing, presidency, writing, literati, publications, Viola’s insights and phenomenal scholarship, return to Canada.
Author: David Beasley Publisher: David Beasley ISBN: 0915317478 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 200
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Eleven short stories dealing with a Church community in Ontario, loneliness in London, England, an English pub, a Spanish Don Juan, cuckolding in a provincial town in France, and a mother searching for her lost daughter and grandchild, plus an essay on theatre and one on old Ibiza.
Author: David Beasley Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442633409 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 218
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Beasley's Guide to Library Research offers straightforward help in navigating the complex labyrinth of library research. Suitable for novice and experienced researcher alike, this revised classic is an invaluable tool for locating and using materials from research libraries anywhere in the world. Written and organized for easy access, the reader is guided step-by-step through library rules and methods of operation, the effective use of microfilms and various cataloguing systems, and the location of materials using bibliographies, reference books, and periodical indices. Also covered are the most modern forms of research, including computer databases, inter-library loan systems, and online computer searches. Whether the reader is a student, teacher, writer, librarian or business person, Beasley's Guide to Library Research provides the essential information that enables all library users to make the most of their research time.
Author: David Beasley Publisher: David Beasley ISBN: 0915317087 Category : Automobile industry and trade Languages : en Pages : 194
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The automobile was perfected in 1829 and ran well on English roads. Who prevented its development? Beasley takes you into the railway and banking conflicts from the 1820s to the 1890's when the automobile is developed in France as he demonstrates an economic theory of invention. “Highly recommended,” —Stoney Creek News. “It is excellent,”—Charles Bishop, author of La France et l”Automobile.
Author: David R. Beasley Publisher: David Beasley ISBN: 0915317028 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 343
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In Vienna, Austria, after WW II, an American poet and mystic sets out with single- minded determination to unite the peoples of the earth through meditation, telepathy, and the collective subconscious to bring them to the knowledge of the one true God of humanity. He finds unlikely help from an English artist, a Turkish dervish and an Austrian bureaucrat. “... a terrific concept (a god for Cain) and a philosophically challenging one. Absorbing.”— Peter Rankin. “. . .a compelling book, a cry for peace at a time of widespread anarchy and unfettered violence,” Marcus van Steen, Expositor.