The Speed of Change
The Speed of Change

Author: Jan-Bart Gewald

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009-07-31

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9047430794

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In the early 1900s the motor-vehicle (car, bus, lorry or motor-cycle) was introduced in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially the plaything and symbol of colonial domination, the motor-vehicle transformed the economic and social life of the continent. Indeed, the motor-vehicle is arguably the single most important factor for change in Africa in the twentieth century. A factor for change that thus far has been neglected in research and literature. Yet its impact extends across the totality of human existence; from ecological devastation to economic advancement, from cultural transformation to political change, through to a myriad of other themes. This edited volume of eleven contributions by historians, anthropologists and social and political scientists explores aspects of the social history and anthropology of the motor-vehicle in Africa.

European Post-medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
European Post-medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Author: Edith Appleton Standen

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 0870994069

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Tapestry making flourished in the major centers of western Europe from the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Thousands of tapestries were woven as special commissions for church, crown, and nobility. This publication is a comprehensive catalogue of the Museum's collection of tapestries and allied works made after the Middle Ages.-- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Before the Trumpet
Before the Trumpet

Author: Geoffrey C. Ward

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2014-09-09

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0804173346

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Before Pearl Harbor, before polio and his entry into politics, FDR was a handsome, pampered, but strong-willed youth, the center of a rarefied world. In Before the Trumpet, the award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward transports the reader to that world—Hyde Park on the Hudson and Campobello Island, Groton and Harvard and the Continent—to recreate as never before the formative years of the man who would become the 20th century’s greatest president. Here, drawn from thousands of original documents (many never previously published), is a richly-detailed, intimate biography, its central figure surrounded by a colorful cast that includes an opium smuggler and a pious headmaster; Franklin's distant cousin, Theodore and his remarkable mother, Sara; and the still-more remarkable young woman he wooed and won, his cousin Eleanor. This is a tale that would grip the reader even if its central character had not grown up to be FDR.

The Principles of Equity
The Principles of Equity

Author: Edmund H. T. Snell

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-01

Total Pages: 720

ISBN-13: 9781333095031

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Excerpt from The Principles of Equity: Intended for the Use of Students-and of Practitioners This. Sixteenth Edition of Snell's Equity is the thirteenth edition of that work which has been published since 1875, when law and equity were for the first time fused effectively under one and the same juridical administration; and it was my chief duty as Editor, in 1875, to suggest, how the fusion would operate as regards the different subject-matters comprised in the Book; and it has been my endeavour, continuously in all the twelve successive editions which I have edited since 1875, to further show (by state ment and illustration), how the fusion was. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.