Author: Chicago Book & Art AuctionsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Entire Library of the Late Prof. Frederick Starr, Formerly Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago
Author: Chicago Book & Art AuctionsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Entire Library of the Late Prof. Frederick Starr ... Sale No. 68
Author: Chicago Book & Art Auctions, IncPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Entire Library of the Late Prof. Frederick Starr ...
Author: Frederick StarrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 14 and 15
Author: Robert WauchopePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477306889
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 831
Book Description
Volumes 14 and 15 of the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979), constitute Parts 3 and 4 of the Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources. The Guide has been assembled under the volume editorship of the late Howard F. Cline, Director of the Hispanic Foundation in the Library of Congress, with Charles Gibson, John B. Glass, and H. B. Nicholson as associate volume editors. It covers geography and ethnogeography (Volume 12); sources in the European tradition (Volume 13); and sources in the native tradition: prose and pictorial materials, checklist of repositories, title and synonymy index, and annotated bibliography on native sources (Volumes 14 and 15). The present volumes contain the following studies on sources in the native tradition: “A Survey of Native Middle American Pictorial Manuscripts,” by John B. Glass “A Census of Native Middle American Pictorial Manuscripts,” by John B. Glass in collaboration with Donald Robertson “Techialoyan Manuscripts and Paintings, with a Catalog,” by Donald Robertson “A Census of Middle American Testerian Manuscripts,” by John B. Glass “A Catalog of Falsified Middle American Pictorial Manuscripts,” by John B. Glass “Prose Sources in the Native Historical Tradition,” by Charles Gibson and John B. Glass “A Checklist of Institutional Holdings of Middle American Manuscripts in the Native Historical Tradition,” by John B. Glass “The Botutini Collection,” by John B. Glass “Middle American Ethnohistory: An Overview” by H. B. Nicholson The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Bibliographies compiled by the class in advanced reference, Division of library instruction
Author: University of Minnesota. Library SchoolPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Lost Enlightenment
Author: S. Frederick StarrPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691165858
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
The forgotten story of Central Asia's enlightenment—its rise, fall, and enduring legacy In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds—remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world. Because nearly all of these figures wrote in Arabic, they were long assumed to have been Arabs. In fact, they were from Central Asia—drawn from the Persianate and Turkic peoples of a region that today extends from Kazakhstan southward through Afghanistan, and from the easternmost province of Iran through Xinjiang, China. Lost Enlightenment recounts how, between the years 800 and 1200, Central Asia led the world in trade and economic development, the size and sophistication of its cities, the refinement of its arts, and, above all, in the advancement of knowledge in many fields. Central Asians achieved signal breakthroughs in astronomy, mathematics, geology, medicine, chemistry, music, social science, philosophy, and theology, among other subjects. They gave algebra its name, calculated the earth's diameter with unprecedented precision, wrote the books that later defined European medicine, and penned some of the world's greatest poetry. One scholar, working in Afghanistan, even predicted the existence of North and South America—five centuries before Columbus. Rarely in history has a more impressive group of polymaths appeared at one place and time. No wonder that their writings influenced European culture from the time of St. Thomas Aquinas down to the scientific revolution, and had a similarly deep impact in India and much of Asia. Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise. Informed by the latest scholarship yet written in a lively and accessible style, this is a book that will surprise general readers and specialists alike.
Handbook of Middle American Indians: Guide to ethnohistorical sources
Author: Robert WauchopePublisher:
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Category : Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Handbook of Middle American Indians: Guide to ethnohistorical sources, H. F. Cline, vol. editor
Author: Robert WauchopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
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