14302 results for "History"
A History of Landownership in Modern Egypt, 1800-1950
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International History of City Development: 8 Vols.
the first cities arose where and when agriculture was sufficiently advanced to supply food
My Life and History
Exalted People A History of People of Israel from the Destruction of the Second Sanctuary to the Sealing of the Talmud
A Histoty of the people of Israel from the destruction of the second sactuary to the saeling of the talmund.
South Dakota, Petitioner, v. Donald Opperman. U.S. Supreme Court Transcript of Record with Supporting Pleadings
The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world's most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation's highest court by leading legal practitioners - many who later became judges and associates of the court. It includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements and other official papers of the most-studied and talked-about cases, including many that resulted in landmark decisions. This collection serves the needs of students and researchers in American legal history, politics, society and government, as well as practicing attorneys. This book contains copies of all known US Supreme Court filings related to this case including any transcripts of record, briefs, petitions, motions, jurisdictional statements, and memorandum filed. This book does not contain the Court's opinion. The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping ensure edition identification: South Dakota, Petitioner, v. Donald Opperman. Appendix / U.S. Supreme Court / 1975 / 75-76 / 423 U.S. 923 / 96 S.Ct. 264 / 46 L.Ed.2d 249 / 12-20-1975 South Dakota, Petitioner, v. Donald Opperman. Petitioner's Brief / WILLIAM J JANKLOW / 1975 / 75-76 / 423 U.S. 923 / 96 S.Ct. 264 / 46 L.Ed.2d 249 / 12-20-1975 South Dakota, Petitioner, v. Donald Opperman. Respondent's Brief / LEE M MCCAHREN / 1975 / 75-76 / 423 U.S. 923 / 96 S.Ct. 264 / 46 L.Ed.2d 249 / 1-12-1976 South Dakota, Petitioner, v. Donald Opperman. Petitioner's Brief / THEODORE L SENDAK / 1975 / 75-76 / 423 U.S. 923 / 96 S.Ct. 264 / 46 L.Ed.2d 249 / 12-18-1975 South Dakota, Petitioner, v. Donald Opperman. Amicus Brief / EVELLE J YOUNGER / 1975 / 75-76 / 423 U.S. 923 / 96 S.Ct. 264 / 46 L.Ed.2d 249 / 12-18-1975 South Dakota, Petitioner, v. Donald Opperman. Amicus Brief / TONEY ANAYA / 1975 / 75-76 / 423 U.S. 923 / 96 S.Ct. 264 / 46 L.Ed.2d 249 / 12-19-1975 South Dakota, Petitioner, v. Donald Opperman. Amicus Brief / JOSHUA SACHS / 1975 / 75-76 / 423 U.S. 923 / 96 S.Ct. 264 / 46 L.Ed.2d 249 / 3-27-1976
Ideas in Process A Study on the Development of Philosophical Concepts
The book aims to provide a process-philosophical perspective philosophizing itself. It employs the perspectives of process philosophy for elucidating the historical development of philosophical ideas. The doctrine of historicism in the history of ideas has it that each era and perhaps even each thinker employs philosophical ideas in such a user-idiosyncratic way that there is no continuity and indeed no connectivity of public access across the divides of space, time, and culture. In opposition to such a view, the present processist deliberations see the development of ideas as a matter of generic processes that have ample room for connectivity and recurrence, permitting the very self-same conception to be shared by philosophers of different settings. Beyond arguing this histico-processism on general principles, the book presents a series of case studies of significant philosophical topics that illustrate and elaborate upon the developmental connectivities at issue.
The epic distilled: studies in the composition of the Aeneid
A rich exploration of the sources used by Virgil in his epic poem, the Aeneid, by a leading Virgilian scholar Provides a fresh approach to understanding this key piece of classical literature Focuses on a selection of especially complex passages to reveal the importance of intricate detail within Virgil's style Incorporates elements derived from history, geography, mythology, and ethnography --
Changing perspectives in literature and the visual arts, 1650-1820
Continuing with the theme of his work Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts , Murray Roston applies to a later period the same critical principle: that for each generation there exists a central complex of inherited ideas and urgent contemporary concerns to which each creative artist and writer responds in his or her own way. Roston demonstrates that what emerges is not a fixed or monolithic pattern for each generation but a dynamic series of responses to shared challenges. The book relates leading English writers and literary modes to contemporary developments in architecture, painting, and sculpture. "A sumptuous book. . . . Clearly and gracefully written and cogently argued, Roston's admirable achievement is of paramount significance to literary studies, to cultural and art history, and to aesthetics. . . . Outstanding."--Choice Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Cosmopolitan desires: global modernity and world literature in Latin America
Mariano Siskind’s groundbreaking debut book redefines the scope of world literature, particularly regarding the place of Latin America in its imaginaries and mappings. In Siskind’s formulation, world literature is a modernizing discursive strategy, a way in which cultures negotiate their aspirations to participate in global networks of cultural exchange, and an original tool to reorganize literary history. Working with novels, poems, essays, travel narratives, and historical documents, Siskind reads the way Latin American literary modernity was produced as a global relation, from the rise of planetary novels in the 1870s and the cosmopolitan imaginaries of modernism at the turn of the twentieth century, to the global spread of magical realism. With its unusual breadth of reference and firm but unobtrusive grounding in philosophy, literary theory, and psychoanalysis, Cosmopolitan Desires will have a major impact in the fields of Latin American studies and comparative literature.
Modern Hebrew Literature Made Into Films
This book analyzes seven important works in the field of Modern Hebrew fiction that were translated to English and adapted into films. The author presents a brief history of Modern Hebrew literature, and a brief survey of Israeli cinema and of the adaptation of Israeli prose fiction into films. The chapters include a presentation of the literary world of the author whose work is studied and an itemization of his literary works in English translations. At the end of each chapter there is a discussion of the cinematic adaptation of the literary work studied in that chapter followed by a bibliography.
The cultural space of the arts and the infelicities of reductionism
Joseph Margolis, known for his considerable contributions to the philosophy of art and aesthetics, pragmatism, and American philosophy, has focused primarily on the troublesome concepts of culture, history, language, agency, art, interpretation, and the human person or self. For Margolis, the signal problem has always been the same: how can we distinguish between physical nature and human culture? How do these realms relate? The Cultural Space of the Arts and the Infelicities of Reductionism identifies a conceptual tendency that can be drawn from the work of the twentieth century's best-known analytic philosophers of art: Arthur Danto, Richard Wollheim, Kendall Walton, Nelson Goodman, Monroe Beardsley, Nol Carroll, and Jerrold Levinson, among others. This trend threatens to impoverish our grasp and appreciation of the arts by failing to do justice to the culturally informed nature of the arts themselves. Through his analysis, Margolis sets out to retrieve an adequate picture of the essential differences between physical nature and human culture& mdash;particularly through language, history, meaning, significance, the emergence of the human self or person, and the essential features of human life& mdash;all to explain how such difference bears on our perception of paintings and literature. Clearly argued and provocatively engaging, Margolis's work reestablishes what is essential to a productive encounter with art.
The culture of war in China: empire and the military under the Qing Dynasty
Was the primary focus of the Qing dynasty really civil rather than military matters? In this ground-breaking book, Joanna Waley-Cohen overturns conventional wisdom to put warfare at the heart of seventeenth and eighteenth century China. She argues that the civil and the military were understood as mutually complementary forces. Emperors underpinned military expansion with a wide-ranging cultural campaign intended to bring military success, and the martial values associated with it, into the mainstream of cultural life. The Culture of War in China is a striking revisionist history that brings new insight into the roots of Chinese nationalism and the modern militarised state.
Hammer Or Anvil
FOR SEVERAL decades German Labour was the pride and model of the international working-class movement. It led the nation out of the first World War and into the post-war period; it was the founder and backbone of the first German Republic. Yet, the world remembers and judges this movement by one thing only: its failure to stem the rise of German Fascism and its inglorious capitulation before Hitler. As a statement of fact this is true; in 1933 the German Labour movement capitulated without so much as a token of resistance. As a political judgment it is meaningless, because it explains nothing. The collapse of German Labour in 1933 cannot be explained by the circumstances in which it occurred, nor can one gauge the chances of a possible rebirth in the future without an understanding of the deeper, and more distant, causes which paralysed so powerful a force and led to its eventual surrender.
Mack (Roy) v. Florida State Board of Dentistry. U.S. Supreme Court Transcript of Record with Supporting Pleadings
The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world's most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation's highest court by leading legal practitioners - many who later became judges and associates of the court. It includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements and other official papers of the most-studied and talked-about cases, including many that resulted in landmark decisions. This collection serves the needs of students and researchers in American legal history, politics, society and government, as well as practicing attorneys. This book contains copies of all known US Supreme Court filings related to this case including any transcripts of record, briefs, petitions, motions, jurisdictional statements, and memorandum filed. This book does not contain the Court's opinion. The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping ensure edition identification: Mack (Roy) v. Florida State Board of Dentistry. Petition / ROBERT J BECKHAM / 1970 / 963 / 401 U.S. 954 / 91 S.Ct. 970 / 28 L.Ed.2d 237 / 11-13-1970 Mack (Roy) v. Florida State Board of Dentistry. Brief in Opposition (P) / EDWARD H ROBINSON / 1970 / 963 / 401 U.S. 954 / 91 S.Ct. 970 / 28 L.Ed.2d 237 / 12-10-1970
The Shadow-Eater
The Shadow-Eater, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work, and hence their text is clear and readable. This remarkable volume falls within the genres of Language and Literatures American and Canadian literature
Studies on Byzantine literature of the eleventh and twelfth centuries
Byzantine literature is often regarded as little more than an agglomeration of stereotyped forms and generic conventions which allows no scope for individual thought or expression. Accordingly, histories of Byzantine literature tend to focus on the history of genres. The essays in this book challenge the traditional view. They attempt to show the coherence and individuality not of the genre but of author. By careful analysis of all the works of a given author, regardless of genre, these studies aim to reach behind the facade of convention, to discover not only biographical facts but also the writer's own likes and dislikes, his social views, his political sympathies and antipathies, his ethical and aesthetic standards. Most of the authors under consideration lived in the twelfth century. Several of them experienced or wrote about the same set of events; often they were acquainted with one another, or else had mutual friends. Thus each essay is both complete in itself and complementary to the others in the book; the individuality of each writer is most fully revealed in the comparison with his contemporaries and conversely the separate portraits may be combined to form a broader picture of Byzantine literary society of the time.
Joyzelle
Joyzelle is a play in four acts written by Maurice Maeterlinck. This edition is translated into English by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos and Alfred Sutro. The play is a tragic fairy tale about Joyzelle, a fairy queen, who leaves her realm and falls in love with a mortal. Her actions set off a series of events that lead to her own destruction and the downfall of her realm. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Disunited States
""By dint of names, dates, and figures, of classified ads, of sundry facts, of statistics, of the confessions of great writers and of anonymous passersby, of quotations from small-town newspapers and from official discourses, Vladimir Pozner reconstructs, vibrantly, so terribly vibrantly and magnificently, the American civilization." --Les Lettres Françaises Vladimir Pozner--influential French novelist, screenwriter, pioneer in literary genre and Oscar nominee, came to the United States in the 1930's. He found the nation and its people in a state of profound material and spiritual crisis, and took it upon himself to chronicle the life of the worker, the striker, the politician, the starlet, the gangster, the everyman; to document the bitter, violent racism tearing its society asunder, the overwhelming despair permeating everyday life, and the unyielding human struggle against it all. In the spirit of Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Pozner writes about America and Americans with the searing criticism and deep compassion of an outsider who loved the country and its people far too much to render anything less than a brutally honest portrayal. Recalling Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, he shatters the rules of reportage to create a complete portrait of America, enduring and profound"--