Author: Mary Eyre MatchamPublisher: London : E. Arnold
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A Forgotten John Russell
Author: Mary Eyre MatchamPublisher: London : E. Arnold
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
No Triumphant Procession
Author: John RussellPublisher: Arms & Armour
ISBN: 9781854092342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms
Author: Gerard RussellPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471114724
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek prophets as incarnations of God, another reveres Lucifer in the form of a peacock, and yet another believes that their followers are reincarnated beings who have existed in various forms for thousands of years. These religions represent the last vestiges of the magnificent civilizations in ancient history: Persia, Babylon, Egypt in the time of the Pharaohs. Their followers have learned how to survive foreign attacks and the perils of assimilation. But today, with the Middle East in turmoil, they face greater challenges than ever before. In Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms, former diplomat Gerard Russell ventures to the distant, nearly impassable regions where these mysterious religions still cling to survival. He lives alongside the Mandaeans and Ezidis of Iraq, the Zoroastrians of Iran, the Copts of Egypt, and others. He learns their histories, participates in their rituals, and comes to understand the threats to their communities. Historically a tolerant faith, Islam has, since the early 20th century, witnessed the rise of militant, extremist sects. This development, along with the rippling effects of Western invasion, now pose existential threats to these minority faiths. And as more and more of their youth flee to the West in search of greater freedoms and job prospects, these religions face the dire possibility of extinction. Drawing on his extensive travels and archival research, Russell provides an essential record of the past, present, and perilous future of these remarkable religions.
Theirs the Strife
Author: John RussellPublisher: Helion
ISBN: 9781913118563
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Bitter but forgotten battles fought by the British and Germans in North Germany in April 1945.
Naval Power and British Culture, 1760–1850
Author: Roger MorrissPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351915584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Recent work on the growth of British naval power during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has emphasised developments in the political, constitutional and financial infrastructure of the British state. Naval Power and British Culture, 1760-1850 takes these considerations one step further, and examines the relationship of administrative culture within government bureaucracy to contemporary perceptions of efficiency in the period 1760-1850. By administrative culture is meant the ideas, attitudes, structures, practices and mores of public employees. Inevitably these changed over time and this shift is examined as the naval departments passed through times of crisis and peace. Focusing on the transition in the culture of government employees in the naval establishments in London - in the Navy and Victualling Offices - as well as the victualling yard towns along the Thames and Medway, Naval Power and British Culture, 1760-1850 concerns itself with attitudes at all levels of the organisation. Yet it is concerned above all with those whose views and conduct are seldom reported, the clerks, artificers, secretaries and commissioners; those employees of government who lived in local communities and took their work experience back home with them. As such, this book illuminates not only the employees of government, but also the society which surrounded and impinged upon naval establishments, and the reciprocal nature of their attitudes and influences.
The American Catalogue
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
Book Description
Memories
Author: Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron RedesdalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
MEMORIES
Author: LORD REDESDALE, G.C.V.O K.C.BPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
A Forgotten John Russell
Author: Mary Eyre MatchamPublisher: London : E. Arnold
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Author: