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By: Linda Simon
ISBN: 9781789140712
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
UK Publication Date: 15th April 2019
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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(Hardback)
By: Dan Diner
ISBN: 9780691129112
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Argues that Islam's cultural stasis is not due to the Muslim faith itself, but to the nature of the sacred it is infused with and that penetrates every aspect of life - spiritual and material. This book shows how the sacred in Islam suspends the acceleration of social time, hinders change, and circumvents secularization and modernity.
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By: Martin Edmond
ISBN: 9781842433195
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Oldcastle Books Ltd
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Part memoir, travelogue, history and part detective story, Luca Antara is a rich tapestry of history and the present. It parallels the life of the author, an migr to Sydney, and the life of an historical figure, Antnio da Nova, the servant of a Portuguese explorer who in the 1600s sends him to find out more...
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By: Rukmini Bhaya Nair
ISBN: 9780816633661
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2002
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Paperback)
By: Thomas Maier
ISBN: 9781510763265
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Faith Thompson
ISBN: 9780816672110
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 1948
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Paperback)
By: Nicholas Vincent
ISBN: 9781851243631
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Drawing on recent extensive archival research, this book looks at the publication and survival of Magna Carta. It also tells the story of how a peace treaty between a group of barons and a medieval English king became one of the chief cornerstones of civil liberties, informing universal ideas of liberty and justice across the centuries.
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By: S.M. Burke
ISBN: 9780816657148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1974
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Paperback)
By: Frank G Schafer
ISBN: 9781667810119
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: BookBaby
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A frank opinion about what is, and in many cases has always been wrong with our American form of Democracy.
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By: William J. Glover
ISBN: 9780816650224
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2008
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Graham Day
ISBN: 9780708317716
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2002
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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A thorough analysis of changes in the economic and social, linguistic and cultural climate of Wales during the second half of the 20th century, and of the practical steps taken to solve any problems, in both industrial and rural communities.
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By: Nigel Harris
ISBN: 9781608464654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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The essential Marxist history of China under Mao.
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By: Paul Lacroix
ISBN: 9781616081928
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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Offers a glimpse into the art and lifestyles of the people of the Middle Ages and Renaissance era. This title offers hundreds of illustrations from wooden engravings and more than a dozen replications of beautifully intricate chromolithographic prints.
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By: Elmer L. Andersen
ISBN: 9780816637393
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2004
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Hardback)
By: Judith Herrin
ISBN: 9780691153018
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Explores the political, cultural, and ecclesiastical forces that linked the metropolis of Byzantium to the margins of its far-flung empire. Focusing on the provincial region of Hellas and Peloponnesos in central and southern Greece, this title shows how the prestige of Constantinople was reflected in the military, civilian, and more.
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By: Larry Silver
ISBN: 9780691130194
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Long before the photo op, political rulers were manipulating visual imagery to cultivate their authority. The Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) was, this title argues, the first ruler to exploit the propaganda power of printed images and text. It explores how Maximilian used illustrations and other visual arts.
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By: Michael M. Sheehan
ISBN: 9780708313541
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1996
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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This collection of essays presents the work of the late Michael Sheehan on the social and legal realities of medieval marriages and family life. Evidence drawn from records of church courts is juxtaposed with statements of canon and civil law of medieval Europe.
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By: Jodi Magness
ISBN: 9780691216775
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Michael Quentin Morton
ISBN: 9781789143119
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Sheds new light on Qatar, a country that has previously defied explanation.
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By: Robert Harvey
ISBN: 9781620876145
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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Harvey delivers laudatory biographies of twelve [commanders] who fought from the mid-eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Americans will enjoy reading of less familiar eighteenth-century British commanders such as Robert Clive, who triumphed...
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By: Lewis F. Fisher
ISBN: 9781595348388
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Trinity University Press,U.S.
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A cultural exploration of the iconic word and the family who made it legend
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By: Henry "Sam" Chauncey
ISBN: 9781632260666
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Easton Studio Press
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(Hardback)
By: Mark Towhey
ISBN: 9781634500425
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Kathleen Ashley
ISBN: 9780816635764
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2001
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Medieval conduct texts provided behavioral guidelines for men, women and children on a wide range of issues, including food, fashion and general behaviour.
