Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Éventail de L'histoire Vivante
Author: The French Communist Party and the Algerian War
Author: Daniele JolyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349212873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Catastrophe and Creation
Author: K. Elkholm FriedmannPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134345267
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
First Published in 1992. This is a study of what happened to Kongo society and culture at the turn of the 20th century, when the area was penetrated, brutally violated and colonized by Europeans. This book is the outcome of a project called Society and Culture in Crisis whereby the author found that evolution was a continuous, more or less unbroken process only at the global system level, whereas repeated rises and falls took place at the local level. This study closely looks at the declining development process in the Lower Congo and calls to the effects of colonization on society and culture.
Ibss: Anthropology: 1975
Author: International Committee for Social Science Information and DocumentationPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780422762502
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
First published in 1978. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The illusion of the Burgundian state
Author: Élodie Lecuppre-DesjardinPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526144352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
On 25 January 1474, Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, appeared before his subjects in Dijon. Robed in silk, gold and precious jewels and wearing a headpiece that gave the illusion of a crown, he made a speech in which he cryptically expressed his desire to become a king. Three years later, Charles was killed at the battle of Nancy, an event that plunged the Great Principality of Burgundy into chaos. This book, innovative and essential, not only explores Burgundian history and historiography but offers a complete synthesis about the nature of politics in this region, considered both from the north and the south. Focusing on political ideologies, a number of important issues are raised relating to the medieval state, the signification of the nation under the ‘Ancien Regime’, the role of warfare in the creation of political power and the impact of political loyalties in the exercise of government. In doing so, the book challenges a number of existing ideas about the Burgundian state.
The World of the Haitian Revolution
Author: David Patrick GeggusPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253220173
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
These essays deepen our understanding of Haiti during the period from 1791 to 1815. They consider the colony's history and material culture as well as it 'free people of colour' and the events leading up to the revolution and its violent unfolding.
The National Union Catalogs, 1963-
Author: Living in and from the forests of Central Africa
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251094896
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Living in and from the forests of Central Africa is intended first and foremost as a full-scale extension tool concerning NWFPs in Central Africa. It is a work on the groups who have always lived in these forests, forests that contribute to every aspect of their daily lives, both material and spiritual, and enable them to survive even in periods of extreme crisis.
African Philosophy
Author: Théophile ObengaPublisher:
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Science and Social Status
Author: David J. SturdyPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780851153957
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
This comprehensive survey of the members of France's Academie des Sciences to the 1750s takes up the challenge to search for a way to connect history of science with social and cultural history at the bottom (the level of the scientists) rather than at the top (the level of philosophical debate about science and culture) (T.L. Hankins, In Defence of Biography: the Use of Biography in the History of Science, in History of Science, 17 (1979), 1-16). The book focuses primarily on the academicians themselves; and although it has much to say about the Academie as an institution, it does so in the light of the changing positions which the academicians occupied in the social hierarchy of early modern France. It explores the implications of those changes for the development of the Academie down to the mid-1700s, and it argues that throughout this period the the relationship which the Academie had with the Bourbon regime, and with French society in general, was governed governed to a large extent by the personal circumstances of the academicians.