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Affiche du document Tactical and Strategic Insights from the Russo-Ukrainian War

Tactical and Strategic Insights from the Russo-Ukrainian War

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This edited collection is the first volume to consider potential new insights afforded by the Russo-Ukrainian War that could be salient for Western defence officials and planners. The contributors reflect on what are likely to be important issues that need to be addressed in order to ensure that Western armed forces are capable of deterring Russia. Closely examining how the war is being fought throughout the battlespace, the chapters avoid falling into the trap of making determinative statements about which developments might be trendsetters or are ‘new’ aspects of modern war.  Rather, and given that this conflict apparently is far from over, the contributors eschew determinism and instead offer open-ended and clear-eyed analysis of what is playing out on the ground.  Individual chapters address the following lines of analysis, among others, arising from the war: - Russian thinking on warfare and how it has been misunderstood by many in the West, as well as judging Russian military performance as simply being represented in numerical results. - Manoeuvre, and the growing importance of urban areas in land warfare. - Developments in the delivery of kinetic force (land, air, maritime and cyber) and operational fires. - Longer-term effects of Russia’s rejection of the law of war and its systematic breaches of international legal norms by actively attacking non-military targets (economic, infrastructure, cultural assets), and the implications of this for NATO’s logistic formations and higher-level policy. - Communications—both field signals and strategic narratives.Introduction: The scope of the Russo–Ukrainian War Jarosław Gryz and Thomas-Durell Young DOI: 10.47788/EGCI4249 1. The Russo–Ukraine War: How Russian Military Theory Presaged Future Wars Krisztián Jójárt  DOI: 10.47788/DJHU8663 2. OSINT Chronicles: Analysing Frontline Dynamics, Equipment Losses, and Casualties in the First 500 Days of the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine Zsolt Lazar  DOI: 10.47788/LUVD1621 3. Battlefield Communications in the Russo–Ukraine War: The First Six Months Glen Grant  DOI: 10.47788/PFVT3249 4. The Russo–Ukraine War and the Urban Battle Anthony King  DOI: 10.47788/SHOY7950 5. Operational Fires: Lessons Observed Zhirayr Amirkhanyan 10.47788/AREP3606 6. Ukraine’s Air War in Context Christian F. Anrig  DOI: 10.47788/EBYW9203 7. The Black Sea as an Area of Military Operations during the Russian ‘Special Operation’ Piotr Mickiewicz and Daniel D. Kasprzycki  DOI: 10.47788/IBXT9684 8. In the Classroom of Cyber-War: Lessons Observed from the Cyber-Kinetic Nexus Roman Kolodii  DOI: 10.47788/CHIW9689 9. Logistics Lessons Observed: A Critical Enabler and Vulnerability Ronald Ti  DOI: 10.47788/VPNU6680 10. Ukrainian Cultural Heritage in the Russian–Ukrainian War: Ukrainian Theatre—A Case Study Ilona Urych, Anna Korzeniowska-Bihun, Robert Boroch and Tadeusz Szczurek  DOI: 10.47788/PVYF5322 11. Lessons Observed from Critical Energy Infrastructure: Its Role in the Russian–Ukrainian War Jarosław Gryz, Andrzej Soboń, Dariusz Majchrzak, Krzysztof Król and Andrzej Wilk  DOI: 10.47788/GJCE7611 12. Lessons Observed: Countering Information Warfare Marlena Zadorożna  DOI: 10.47788/PWBY1376 Conclusion : Preliminary insights for NATO defence officials and planners Jarosław Gryz and Thomas-Durell Young  DOI: 10.47788/ESKG7392
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Affiche du document Finding Birt Acres

Finding Birt Acres

Barry Anthony

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Apparently from Virginia, Birt Acres appeared out of nowhere in Britain aged 35, without a trace of his former life. Yet immediately he became a prominent figure in the late Victorian photographic world. He soon teamed up with Robert Paul to make a moving picture camera and then shot the first commercial films in Britain in spring 1895, in parallel with the work of the Lumière brothers in France, before repeating this in Germany. His innovations included being the first to establish a dedicated venue for watching films, to give a Royal Command Performance of moving pictures, to create screen advertising, and to design a home movie camera. A disdain for showbusiness led to Acres squandering the commercial opportunities he created, and initiated the erasure of his remarkable story. From early in the twentieth century, film historians have consistently underestimated and undervalued his achievements. In this book, for the first time, we see a detailed and compelling portrait of Birt Acres, with substantial new research on his early work in moving pictures and on the careers of his associates, leading directly to new interpretations of the importance of this elusive pioneer. It draws on a wealth of fresh sources, with a massively expanded filmography supporting this re-evaluation. Written by three specialists in early film history, this volume significantly revises the received story of Birt Acres, at the same time casting new light on the beginnings of cinema in Britain.
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Affiche du document Theatre and Politics in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland

Theatre and Politics in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland

Dónall Mac Cathmhaoill

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Theatre has played an important role in post-conflict northern Ireland, where it has been used by artists, communities, and organisations as a tool for political advocacy. This book provides an up-to-date assessment of the state of theatre in northern Ireland since the end of the conflict, across a period of complete transformation, from entrenched civil conflict to relative peace and prosperity. With a focus on applied theatre and works that use theatre as advocacy, the book investigates the ways the main communities in the region have used theatre to promote their agendas, combat prejudice, and deal with legacy issues of the conflict. It also explores the emergence of new theatres that reflect social and demographic changes in the post-conflict period, including theatre with migrants and minorities, LGBTQ and Irish language theatre. In doing so, it examines the crucial role that theatre (and by extension, arts) can play in processes of reconciliation. The book will prove valuable to students and academics in the fields of applied theatre, conflict studies, and arts for reconciliation. It will appeal also to the general reader with an interest in northern Irish politics and culture.Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction   Prologue   Notes on terminologies   A brief history of northern Irish theatre   A note on sources Part I: Post-Conflict Theatre – Winning the Peace 1. A society in sea change 2. Theatre of resistance: nationalist and republican communities 3. A movement for unity: theatre for social change 4. ‘Making our voices heard’: advocacy theatre in the PUL community 5. Mediating the legacy: testimonial theatre and the documentary Part II: New Communities: New Identities 6. The changing faces of northern Ireland: migration and ethnicity 7. Queering northern Irish theatre: performance and LGBTQ+ rights 8. ‘Actors for any play’: the emergence of Irish language theatre Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Affiche du document Henry Francis Lyte

Henry Francis Lyte

Basil Garnett Skinner

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Henry Francis Lyte moved to All-Saints Church in Brixham, Devon in 1824, where he became chairman of the schools committee, established the first Sunday school in the Torbay area and created a Sailors' Sunday School. The primary object of both schools was to provide education for children and seamen for whom other schooling was almost impossible. He organised an Annual Treat for the 800-1000 Sunday school children, which included a short religious service followed by tea and sports in the field. Shortly after Lyte's arrival in Brixham, he attracted such large crowds that the church had to be enlarged. Lyte was an expert flute player, spoke Latin, Greek, and French; enjoyed discussing literature; and was knowledgeable about wild flowers. At his Brixham home, Berry Head House, a former military hospital, Lyte created a magnificent library largely of theology and old English poetry, described in his obituary as one of the most extensive and valuable in the West of England. Nevertheless, Lyte was also able to identify with his parish of fishermen, visiting their homes and their ships in harbour, supplying every vessel with a Bible, and compiling songs and a manual of devotions for use at sea. A friend of Samuel Wilberforce, he also opposed slavery, organising an 1833 petition to Parliament requesting it be abolished in Great Britain. In poor health throughout his life, Lyte suffered various respiratory illnesses including asthma and bronchitis, and by the 1840s, he was spending much of his time in the warmer climates of France and Italy. Lyte spent the summer of 1847 at Berry Head, writing his best known hymn, Abide With Me. After one final sermon to his congregation he left again for Italy, and died at Nice on 20 November 1847. Other well-known hymns include Praise, my Soul, the King of Heaven and Pleasant are Thy Courts Above.
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Affiche du document Cornish Mines

Cornish Mines

Roger Burt

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This is the seventh volume in a continuing series of The Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom 1845-1913 and completes coverage of the South West of England. Cornwall was the greatest mining district in the country during this period and the number and output of its mines dwarfed those of all other regions. This book shows the industry at its peak and through the first years of irreversible decline, recording, in detail, the output, ownership, management and employment of every working mine in the county. Drawing on the Mining Record Office’s own official published returns, it is designed to supplement and correct section of H.G. Dines, The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England and to provide a basic reference text for all interested in the history and geology of mining in Cornwall. The addition of new locational information in the form of Ordinance Survey Grid References makes this the most comprehensive field guide to the substantial surface and underground remained of the county.Preface Introduction I The Mineral Statistics II Cornish Mineral Production III The Mine Tables IV Bibliography V The County Tables Appendix A Cornwall's Principal Mines Appendix B List of Mines arranged by Grid Reference The Tables of Mine Production, Ownership, Management and Employment.
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Affiche du document Faction and Faith

Faction and Faith

Anne Duffin

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296 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h42min.
The history of Cornwall in the first half of the seventeenth century is both dramatic and turbulent. In Faction and Faith, Anne Duffin draws upon extensive new source material, combining national documents and local family collections with a detailed analysis of churchwardens' accounts, borough records and over 350 wills. She challenges the established view that Cornwall was naturally royalist and presents a picture of a politically-aware and religiously-splintered society. Makes use of extensive new source material from national and local records First major publication since 1933 on Cornwall in this period Challenges the established view of Cornish society in the early seventeenth century Market: Scholars of early seventeenth century history. Academic and local libraries. Postgraduate and undergraduate students of history. All those with an interest in Cornish and Civil War history. Introduction Cornwall and the Cornish gentry The religious landscape - Papists, Puritans and Arminians The political landscape - harmony and faction 1600-1638 Local government and defence 1600-1638 The impact of arbitrary taxation The approach of war
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Paganism Persisting

Francis Young

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Paganism in Europe was not defeated by Christianity: it never went away. From the fourth century to the twentieth, against the background of a largely Christian culture, people repeatedly attempted to revive various kinds of pre-Christian religion – beliefs and practices that we have come to label as ‘paganism’. Ancient paganism did not survive the Middle Ages in its original form; this book tells the story of the persistence of elements of paganism and the pagan idea through Europe’s pagan revivals, from Byzantine Greece to medieval Eastern Europe and Renaissance Florence, from eighteenth-century Norwich to revolutionary Paris and Edwardian England. While some of these revivals are well known and others are almost entirely forgotten, they reveal the rich diversity of interpretations of paganism – and how those interpretations have been conditioned by the surrounding culture. Revived paganisms ranged from the austerely rational to the earnestly romantic, from the mystical and occult to the stridently nationalistic. Paganism Persisting reveals European paganism’s long afterlife, up to and including the emergence of modern paganism as a mass movement in the twentieth century. The  authors are both historians of religion specializing, respectively, in the intellectual history of the idea of paganism and in the development of popular religion and folklore. This book has much to offer to anyone interested in European cultural history, the history of ideas and religious studies.Acknowledgement Abbreviations Introduction 1. The First (and Last) Pagans: Ancient Greece and Rome 2. Dealing with Past and Present Paganism in Medieval Western Christendom 3. Pagan Renaissances 4. Paganism in the Enlightenment 5. Poets and Priests: The Victorian Era 6. The Emergence of Modern Paganism Epilogue : Pagan Pasts, Pagan Futures? Notes Select Bibliography Index
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Affiche du document John Hamrick’s Blue Mouse Cinemas

John Hamrick’s Blue Mouse Cinemas

Michael Aronson

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John Hamrick's Blue Mouse Cinemas offers a unique, in-depth case study of regional independent film exhibition in the American Pacific Northwest. Focusing on the silent and early sound periods, this book provides important evidence of the ways an independent entrepreneur, John Hamrick—a charismatic if highly flawed theatre-owner and card-carrying Klansman—could influence Hollywood film culture, as well as exhibition and distribution patterns both within and beyond his region of operation. The Blue Mouse(s) were a set of charmingly same-named theatres that, beginning in 1920, Hamrick built, opened, and operated across the Pacific Northwest: in Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, and Astoria. In addition to the Mouses, Hamrick would at various times own, in full or in partnership, dozens of other movie houses across Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. But the Mouses were always his marquee theatres, and ultimately those most closely associated with his theatrical persona, both regionally and within the wider industry. This book helps us understand the unexplored role and influence of American indie small-chain exhibitors as they continually balanced local and national interests in the name of profitably providing entertainment. The Blue Mouse theatres were part of a well-networked commercial web working across this previously unstudied region. By considering this phenomenon, we can begin to more fully grasp the limits and possibilities of independent exhibition at the height of the studio era, and how the multivalent forces of regionalism intersected with the wider film industry.Introduction: Mouse 1. Seattle: Mouse Moves House  2. Pacific Northwest: Klan Mouse  3. Tacoma: City Mouse, Suburban Mouse  4. Astoria: Failure Mouse, Trial by Fire  5. Portland: Sync Sound Mouse  Afterword: Three Decades Long  Notes  Select Bibliography  Index 
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Affiche du document Caesarism in the 21st Century

Caesarism in the 21st Century

Eric Fattor

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The troubles of the contemporary moment in history can be interpreted many different ways. Indeed, there has been no shortage of analysis and commentary on events like the attacks of September 11th, the Great Recession, the Arab Spring, the election of Donald Trump and the global pandemic. This book, however, argues that the most insightful analysis comes from the application of a neo-Gramscian framework that sees these events as “morbid symptoms” of an interregnum in world order between an older historic bloc of power losing its legitimacy and a still undefined new historic bloc in the process of being born. Like previous interregnums, this period of transition is marked by eruptions of Caesarism where charismatic “men of destiny” boosted by populist fervor assume leading roles in the governing institutions of their states and make bids for global leadership or domination. Unlike previous eras, however, these “digital Caesars” have been most empowered by the proliferation of electronic information and media capabilities that have revolutionized human interaction since the end of the previous century. At the head of superpower states and Silicon Valley technology companies, this new breed of Caesar is taking advantage of the loss of legitimacy in conventional institutions to remake the world according to their eclectic visions. Like previous Caesars, however, their power is fragile and will likely disappear assuming a new world order can take hold before they do permanent damage to human civilization.  Introduction: From Monsters to Caesars 1. Caesarism and Crisis 2. From Interregnum to Caesarism 3. The Digital Revolution of Global Affairs 4. The Caesars of the Twenty-First-Century Interregnum 5. After the Fall of Caesar Conclusion: The Paralysis of the Present Notes Bibliography Index
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Affiche du document Alternative Cornwalls

Alternative Cornwalls

Gemma Goodman

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This book takes a fresh look at the representation of Cornwall in literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. It identifies alternative literary ‘Cornwalls’ and seeks to understand these lost, hidden or subsumed versions of place and their relationship to the dominant, tourist-friendly ways in which Cornwall has been culturally produced. Digging down (a fitting metaphor given the importance of mining) below a sun, sea and sand promotion of Cornwall as an exotic haven, the volume offers new readings of familiar texts and locations, reintroduces little-known, forgotten or rarely studied material and inhabits places that are seldom centre stage. Considering class, gender, rural and urban locales, exterior and interior landscapes, and conceptualizations of the edge, it presents novel and invigorating perspectives. Taking as her subject matter the work of both Cornish and visiting writers, literary scholar and Cornishwoman Gemma Goodman explores the fictional terrain beyond the creative landmarks that dominate how Cornwall is fashioned and understood in the national imaginary. In doing so, she begins to establish a more detailed cultural geography of this intricate land- and seascape. This book helps position Cornish literature as a body of work in its own right as well as within the wider context of British writing and literary studies.Introduction: Cornwalls 1. Mining Class and Gender 2. Beyond England 3. On the Edge 4. Urban Cornwall 5. Moor and Clay Conclusion: Looking and Seeing Notes Bibliography Index
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Affiche du document Identity Politics Past and Present

Identity Politics Past and Present

Ruth Wodak

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This book traces the re-emergence of nationalism in the media, popular culture and politics, and the normalization of far-right nativist ideologies and attitudes in Austria between 1995 and 2015, within the framework of Critical Discourse Studies. In doing so, it brings together a range of theoretical and empirical approaches to identity politics, contemporary popular culture, far-right populism and commemoration. While contradictory yet intertwined tendencies towards renationalization and transnationalization have often framed debates about European identities, the so-called refugee crisis of 2015 intensified and polarized these debates. The COVID-19 pandemic, as another major crisis, saw nation-states react by closing borders, while symbols of banal nationalism proliferated. The data under discussion here, drawn from a variety of empirical studies, suggest that changes in memory politics—the way past events are collectively remembered and tied into current political discourses—are also linked to the dynamics of migration; the influence of financial and climate crises; changing gender politics; and a new transnational European politics of the past. Accordingly, the authors assess current challenges to liberal democracies, as well as fundamental human and constitutional rights, in relation to new trends of renationalization across Europe and beyond.Introduction: Nationalisms old and new Ruth Wodak and Markus Rheindorf DOI: 10.47788/RHDJ8561 1. Discourses about Nationalism Ruth Wodak DOI: 10.47788/HLEG4607 2. The Discourse-Historical Approach: Methodological innovation and Triangulation Markus Rheindorf DOI: 10.47788/XXFA7162 3. Negotiations of a Shared Past and National Identity 1995-2015 Markus Rheindorf and Ruth Wodak DOI: 10.47788/XELZ4501 4. Whose story? – Narratives of persecution, flight and survival told by the children of Austrian Holocaust survivors Ruth Wodak and Markus Rheindorf DOI: 10.47788/DTVP8573 5. Disciplining the Unwilling: Normalization of (Demands for) Punitive Measures against Immigrants in Austrian Populist Discourse Markus Rheindorf DOI: 10.47788/LHPY1173 6. Nativist gender and body politics Ruth Wodak and Markus Rheindorf DOI: 10.47788/FAVS5678 7. Entering the Post-Shame Era. The Rise of Illiberal Democracy, Populism and Neo-Authoritarianism in Europe. The case of the turquoise-blue government in Austria 2017/2018 Ruth Wodak DOI: 10.47788/JDDM6921 8. Borders, Fences and Limits: Protecting Austria from Refugees. Metadiscursive negotiation of meaning in the current refugee crisis Markus Rheindorf and Ruth Wodak DOI: 10.47788/GLVB8739 9. Re/inventing nationalism: Crisis Communication and Crisis Management during COVID-19 in Austria Ruth Wodak DOI: 10.47788/NYWQ6835
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Affiche du document Roman Finds From Exeter

Roman Finds From Exeter

Neil Holbrook

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Exeter, fortress of the Second Augustan Legion and subsequently the capital of the civitas Dumnoniorum, played an important part in the history of Roman Britain. This comprehensive study of finds from Exeter throws new light on the economy of south-west England and its foreign trade in Roman times. There are extensive type-series of Roman pottery found in the South West, based not only on first-hand study of material from Exeter but also from throughout the region, and detailed catalogues of the many imports by K. Greene, K.Hartley, V. Rigby, V. Swan and others. Finds apart from pottery include Roman coins (R. Reece and N. Shiel) and small finds (L. Allason-Jones); the many alleged finds of Byzantine and other Eastern Mediterranean coins are shown to be spurious by G. Boon. Wide-ranging discussions assess the significance of the finds for the history of the Roman fortress and town and for the local economy.1. Introduction and chronology of Roman Exeter 2. Aspects of the supply and trading links of Roman Exeter 3. The coins 4. The Samian ware 5. The fine wares 6. The coarse potttery 7. The mortaria and amphorae 8. The glass 9. The small objects 10. Building materials Appendices Bibliography Index
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Affiche du document The New Germany

The New Germany

Derek Lewis and John R.P. McKenzie

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377 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 4h43min.
The New Germany provides a picture of contemporary Germany from a variety of perspectives, establishing relationships between recent political events and society and cultural life. Contributors include distinguished specialists in German Studies, including John Sandford, Michael Patterson, Karl Koch and Charles Jeffery. Part 1 sets the scene, discussing the demise of East Germany from historical perspective and unification in terms of the social problems that have been provoked. Part 2 covers the new political structure and Germany’s role as a European power as well as the social, educational and economic problems generated, especially in the east, by the western takeover of the former GDR. Part 3 is an extensive section devoted to culture and the arts, with studies of the media, literature, theatre, film and language.Contents: Part 1 Setting the scene - the demise of the GDR: the revolution of 1989 - post mortem on the GDR, Derek Lewis; views of the Wende from observers and participants, Gerald Opie. Part 2 The new Germany - the political, social and economic challenges: the political shape of Germany today, Charles Jeffery; Germany as a European power, Mark Blacksell; the German economy - stability or decline?, Karl Koch; from euphoria to reality - the social problems of post-unification, Jurgen Thomaneck; education in the new Germany, Edward Neather. Part 3 The cultural and artistic challenge: the German media, John Sandford; the end of East German literature?, James Mellis; literature of the new Germany, Jochen Rohlfs; the German cinema, Helen Hughes; the German theatre, Michael Patterson; German feminism in a European context, Ingrid Sharp; from the language of revolt to the language of division, Derek Lewis.
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Affiche du document State and Society in Syria and Lebanon

State and Society in Syria and Lebanon

Youssef M. Choueiri

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This text traces the social and political development of Syria and Lebanon from the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire to the present day. Written by a number of specialists and scholars, it offers a comparative study by means of concentration on major turning-points in the modern history of both countries. The book opens with the foundation of the first modern Arab government in 1919 and ends with an analysis of the Syrian-Lebanese co-operation treaty. Based on new research data and offering original approaches, the book should be a useful addition to literature on both Lebanon and Syria.Contents: Arabism, society and economy in Syria, 1918-1920, Abdul-Karim Rafeq; an evaluation of the Arab goverment in Damascus, 1918-1920, Khairia Kasmieh; le grand-Liban et le projet de la confederation Syrienne d'apres des documents Francais, Wajih Kawtharani; les orthodoxes entre Beyrouth et Damas - une millet chretienne dans deux villes Ottomanes, May Davie; greater Lebanon - the formation of a caste system?, Sofia Saadeh; laissez-faire, outward-orientation, and regional economic disintegration - a case study of the dissolution of the Syro-Lebanese customs union, Carolyn L. Gates; linkages and constraints of the Syrian economy, Huda Hawwa; Syrian foreign policy at the crossroads - continuity and change in the post-Gulf War era, Ghayth N. Armanazi; the treat of brotherhood, co-operation and co-ordination - an assessment, Fida Nasrallah; concepts of nation and state with special reference to the Sunnis in Lebanon, al-Fadl Shalaq.
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Affiche du document The Blood-Red Arab Flag

The Blood-Red Arab Flag

Charles E. Davies

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493 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 6h10min.
During the years 1797-1820 the Qasimi Arabs or Qawasim, inhabitants of the present day United Arab Emirates, acquired an enduring reputation as ruthless pirates. Some of their victims flew the British flag, and thus their actions were to provide the initial stimulus and justification for 150 years of British involvement in the Gulf. Recently, however, it has been doubted whether the Qawasim were in fact pirates. In a scholarly but accessible account founded on contemporary sources, illustrated with testimonies of eye-witnesses and participants, this book sets out to decide this controversial question. By making use of valuable and hitherto untapped archival material, Charles Davies strongly evokes a flavour of life in the Gulf in this turbulent and formative period in the Gulf's history. This book represents the first in-depth investigation into this controversial subject. It is based on original research and and helps to explain why the Gulf is as it is today. Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface A Brief Chronology of Events Dramatis Personae Part One: Introductory Prologue 1 Outline 2 The Setting 3 The Players Part Two: Of the Evidence 4 The Question of Piracy   a) Tableux 5 Incidents at Sea, in the Years 1797-1819, Which are Attested by Virtue of Admissions or Possession 6 The Most Important Cases of Alleged Piracy by the Qawasim Against British Vessels    b) Perspectives 7 Local Opinion 8 Cruiser Commanders' Blunders 9 Off the Indian Coast Part Three: Interpretation 10 Preliminary Sketch 11 Political History 12 The Port of Ras al-Khaima, Her Society and Economy 13 Some More Piquant Ingredients in Qasimi Maritime Plunder, Conclusion Afterword: The Motivation behind Britain's Two Expeditions Against Ras al-Khaima in 1809/10 and 1819/20 Appendix A The Qawasim's Seizures off the Coast of India Appendix B Qasimi Voyages to South Arabia Appendix C Ras al-Khaima's War with Muscat, and the Political Fortunes of the Za'ab and the Tanaij, 1808-1809 Appendix D Hostilities Between Muscat and the Wahhabis in the Aftermath of the First Ras al-Khaima Expedition of 1809/10 Notes Bibliography Index
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Affiche du document Locating the Shakers

Locating the Shakers

Mick Gidley

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  • Religions et spiritualité
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177 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h13min.
The Shakers were a celibate, mystical and communitarian sect led by Mother Ann Lee of Manchester, which flourished in the United States from the 1770s to the end of the nineteenth century. Their cultural influence far exceeded their statistical presence in American society. Aspects of utopian thought and behaviour, religious belief, gender relations, design and attitudes to war were all affected by Shakerism. In this volume, leading American and British scholars from a range of disciplines identify the origins of the Shakers, indicate some of their characteristic ideas and practices, and outline affinities with other movements of the time and since. The collection both places the Shakers in their historical situation, and examines their continuing appeal. 
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Affiche du document Landscape and Townscape in the South West

Landscape and Townscape in the South West

Robert Higham

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143 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h47min.
History develops not only from our thoughts and actions but also from the physical and cultural environment which we mould for ourselves. Six essays, displaying the combined skills of historians, archaeologists and geographers, explore the creation of the South West across many centuries. Peter Fowler examines the similarities and contrasts between the South West and the North East. Mick Aston explores the creation of the medieval settlement pattern, while Harold Fox analyzes a further period of change in the later middle ages. Michael Turner looks at urban reconstructions in the eighteenth century. Steven Pugsley reveals the importance of grand Georgian country houses and their landscaped surroundings. Finally, Mark Brayshay shows how the idea of town planning can be traced to the mid-Victorian era. Between them these essays provide not only a fascinating subject for study in their own right, but also the backcloth against which all other aspects of the region's history were worked out. The Contributors List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Preface Robert Higham 1. English Uplands, South West and North East: local history and archaeology at inter-regional level. (The Harte Lecture, 1987) Peter Fowler 2. The development of medieval rural settlement in Somerset Michael Aston 3. Peasant farmers, patterns of settlement and pays: transformations in the landscapes of Devon and Cornwall during the Later Middle Ages Harold Fox 4. New towns for old? Urban reconstruction after fires in the South West: the case of Blandford Forum, Dorset, 1731 Michael Turner 5. The Georgian landscape garden: Devon in the national context Steven Pugsley 6. The reform of urban management and the shaping of Plymouth's mid-Victorian landscape Mark Brayshay
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Affiche du document The Geology of Devon

The Geology of Devon

E. M. Durrance and D. J. C. Laming

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390 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 4h52min.
Devon shows perhaps one of the most varied displays of geology in the British Isles. Intended for anyone with an interest in geology, The Geology of Devon covers the geological development of the county and adjacent areas from Devonian times to the present day. Each appropriate chapter has a list of representative localities so that the book can also serve as an excursion guide for fieldwork.Foreword-J. W. Murray Preface-Geological Field Work A Code for Geological Field Work Contributors List of Plates Acknowledgements Chapter One: Introduction, E.M. Durrance and D.J.C. Laming Chapter Two: The Devonian Rocks, E.B. Selwood and E.M. Durrance Chapter Three: The Carboniferous Rocks, J.M. Thomas Chapter Four: The Variscan Structures, E.B. Selwood, E.C. Freshney and E.M. Durrance Chapter Five: The Dartmoor Granite and Later Volcanic Rocks, J.R. Hawkes Chapter Six: Metalliferous Mineralisation, K.E. Beer and R.C. Scrivener Chapter Seven: The New Red Sandstone, D.J.C Laming Chapter Eight: The Marine Rocks of the Mesozoic, M.B. Hart Chapter Nine: The Tertiary Sedimentary Rocks, R.A. Edwards and E.C. Freshney Chapter Ten: The Tertiary Igneous Complex of Lundy, J. Dangerfield Chapter Eleven: Industrial Minerals, A. Vincent and C. Nicholas Chapter Twelve: Hydrogeology, C.D.N Tubb References Index
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Negotiating Justice

MERVYN BENNUN

2h36min45

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209 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h37min.
Between February 1990 when the South African president, F.W. De Klerk, released Nelson Mandela from prison and legalised the ANC, and April 1994 when the first democratic elections were held, South Africa experienced revolutionary changes. This book investigates some of the problems that came to the fore during this 'interregnum' and seeks to explain how a peaceful transition was eventually achieved. Ordinary South Africans as well as those entrusted with building the new state were forced to consider questions of profound importance —human rights and land reform, the future of the Homelands and the validity of the democratic process. The book focuses on these issues and on the interplay of forces of stability and instability in a period that saw the spread of communal violence on a horrific scale such that many prophesied the outbreak of civil war. It offers a way of understanding this violence by looking at the way it served the perceived interests of traditional apartheid and the objectives of the whites in the 'decolonisation' period. The book also explores the way in which De Klerk's National Party changed from support for Inkatha and the idea of Federalism to an alliance of convenience with the ANC which made the elections of April 1994 possible. The historical dimension of the new constitution is examined and the way in which the concept of democracy was negotiated. The book also focuses on the National Peace Accord and the attempt to create institu-tions to defuse the communal violence — the first time in the modern history of South Africa that an attempt was made to create institutions to serve the needs of the population as a whole. Other chapters examine the issue of a Bill of Rights and land reform. A close look at the experience of India since its independence throws light on what can and cannot be achieved through a formal Bill of Rights, and the options facing the new government in achieving stability in this area are realistically appraised. 
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Affiche du document Music and Musicians in Early Nineteenth-Century Cornwall

Music and Musicians in Early Nineteenth-Century Cornwall

Richard McGrady

2h12min45

  • Histoire
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177 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h13min.
Taken from Africa into slavery by the Portuguese, kidnapped by the British Navy and held captive aboard ship during the French wars of the 1790s before being abandoned in Falmouth, the stranger-than-fiction story of Joseph Emidy deserves telling in its own right. What makes it more remarkable is that Emidy — a violinist and composer — became a prominent figure in the musical scene in Cornwall for the remaining thirty years of his life. This account sets his life against the musical activities of the assemblies, harmonic societies, theatre, church and chapel. By producing comic operas and introducing novelty acts professional theatre companies offered musical entertainment as an integral part of their activities, amateur orchestras flourished, and militia bands became a regular feature of the life of several communities. There were even attempts to create a regular pattern of tours by national and international figures, especially the stars of Italian opera and the London stage. Through the installation of organs and by the work of locally-based composers the Anglican church sought to raise standards of music in services. The richly varied pattern of local activity is illustrated by accounts in local newspapers, as well as by personal memoirs; many of the anecdotes are amusing and always enlightening in the view they offer of a provincial society at a time of great and hitherto unsuspected activity and change.Foreword, vii; Prologue The Native of Portugal, 1; PART ONE: 1775-1799; 1 The Slave: Portugal and the Guinea Coast, 15; 2 The Indefatigable, 23; PART TWO: CORNWALL 1799-1835; 3 New Life: Falmouth, 39; 4 A 'display of Beauty, Rank and Fashion': Cornwall's First Music Festivals, 48; 5 Truro: Assemblies, Balls and Concerts, 63; 6 'So innocent yet so fascinating an amusement...': Concerts across the County, 77; PART THREE: CHURCH AND CHAPEL; 7 'A strain so grand and impressive': The Church and its Music, 89; 8 Bennett Swaffield and the St. Austell Choir, 103; 9 'None but persons of ability and good moral conduct need apply': Organs and organists, 109; PART FOUR: THE THEATRE; 10 'A moral and instructive school of rational entertainment': The Theatre, 127; Epilogue The Lost Composer, 143. Appendix A The Byfield Organ in St. Mary's Parish Church, Truro, 150; Appendix B Composers mentioned in concert reports, 152; Notes, 156; Select Bibliography, 162; Index, 165.    
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