[PDF] Unfolding The South eBook

Author : Alison Chapman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 29,35 MB
Release : 2003-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780719061301

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A radically new version of Anglo-Italian cultural relations in the late Romantic and Victorian periods that corrects traditional male-centred accounts.

Author : Kevin Waite
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 24,74 MB
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1469663201

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When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through diplomacy, migration, and armed conquest. By the late 1850s, slaveholders and their allies had transformed the southwestern quarter of the nation – California, New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of Utah – into a political client of the plantation states. Across this vast swath of the map, white southerners defended the institution of African American chattel slavery as well as systems of Native American bondage. This surprising history uncovers the Old South in unexpected places, far beyond the region's cotton fields and sugar plantations. Slaveholders' western ambitions culminated in a coast-to-coast crisis of the Union. By 1861, the rebellion in the South inspired a series of separatist movements in the Far West. Even after the collapse of the Confederacy, the threads connecting South and West held, undermining the radical promise of Reconstruction. Kevin Waite brings to light what contemporaries recognized but historians have described only in part: The struggle over slavery played out on a transcontinental stage.

Author : Julian Müller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 21,56 MB
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351055801

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Ubuntu is the African idea of personhood: persons depend on other persons in order to be. This is summarised in the expression: umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, that is, a person is a person through persons. This edited collection illustrates the power of fictionalised representation in reporting research conducted on Ubuntu in Southern Africa. The chapters insert the concept of Ubuntu within the broad intellectual debate of self and community, to demonstrate its intellectual and philosophical value and theoretical grounding in known practices emanating from the African continent, and indeed how it works to unsettle some of our received notions of the self.

Author : Rakesh Ratti
Publisher : Alyson Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :

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An Unfolding of the South Asian gay and lesbian,experience,Gay men and lesbians from India, Pakistan and,other South Asian countries tell their stories.

Author : Geri H. Malandra
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,63 MB
Release : 1993-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438411774

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Ellora is one of the great cave temple sites of India, with thirty-four major Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain monuments of the late sixth to tenth centuries A. D. This book describes the Buddhist caves at Ellora and places them in the context of Buddhist art and iconography. Ellora's twelve Buddhist cave temples, dating from the early seventh to the early eighth centuries, preserve an unparalleled one-hundred-year sequence of architectural and iconographical development. They reveal the evolution of a Buddhist mandala at sites in other regions often considered "peripheral" to the heartland of Buddhism in eastern India. At Ellora, the mandala, ordinarily conceived as a two-dimensional diagram used to focus meditation, is unfolded into the three-dimensional program of the cave temples themselves, enabling devotees to walk through the mandala during worship. The mandala's development at Ellora is explained and its significance is considered for the evolution of Buddhist art and iconography elsewhere in India.

Author : Zach Vertin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1643130889

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The untold story of America's attempt to forge a nation from scratch, from euphoric birth to heart-wrenching collapse. South Sudan's independence was celebrated around the world—a triumph for global justice and an end to one of the world's most devastating wars. But the party would not last long: South Sudan's freedom fighters soon plunged their new nation into chaos, shattering the promise of liberation and exposing the hubris of their foreign backers. Chronicling extraordinary stories of hope, identity, and survival, A Rope from the Sky journeys inside an epic tale of paradise won and then lost. This character-driven narrative is first a story of power, promise, greed, compassion, violence, and redemption from the world's most neglected patch of territory. But it is also a story about the best and worst of America—both its big-hearted ideals and its difficult reckoning with the limits of American power amid a changing global landscape. Zach's Vertin's firsthand acounts, from deadly war zones to the halls of Washington power, brings readers inside this remarkable episode—an unprecedented experiment in state-building and a cautionary tale. It is brilliant and breathtaking, a moder-day Greek tragedy that will challenge our perspectives on global politics.

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Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 22,78 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0415398215

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First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.