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Author: Tony Francis
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Published: 2014-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781906122676
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"[The author] ... gathers together photographs and stories of 50 extraordinary villages he has visited on his travels around the country"--Front jacket flap.
Author: Alina Mungiu
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9639776785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis dramatic story of land and power from twentieth-century Eastern Europe is set in two extraordinary villages: a rebel village, where peasants fought the advent of Communism and became its first martyrs, and a model village turned forcibly into a town, Dictator Ceauşescu’s birthplace. The two villages capture among themselves nearly a century of dramatic transformation and social engineering, ending up with their charged heritage in the present European Union. "One of Romania’s foremost social critics, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi offers a valuable look at several decades of policy that marginalized that country’s rural population, from the 1918 land reform to the post-1989 property restitution. Illustrating her arguments with a close comparison of two contrasting villages, she describes the actions of a long series of “predatory elites,” from feudal landowners through the Communist Party through post-communist leaders, all of whom maintained the rural population’s dependency. A forceful concluding chapter shows that its prospects for improvement are scarcely better within the EU. Romania’s villagers have an eminent and spirited advocate in the author.”
Author: Steven House
Publisher: Images Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781864701067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis remarkable new book celebrates village architecture in four Mediterranean regions the hilltowns of central Italy, the Aegean islands of Greece, the Dalmatian coast, and the Andalulsian region of southern Spain. It showcases a collection of drawings
Author: Dr Ben Robinson
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Published: 2021-09-16
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1786580977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE STUNNING NEW BOOK FROM THE HOST OF BBC 2'S VILLAGES BY THE SEA England's villages have survived, developed, and thrived over hundreds of years. But what makes a village and how has that changed over time? Take a charming and unexpected journey through the quirks of England's villages throughout the ages in the excellent company of Dr Ben Robinson, expert archaeologist. Join him in visiting villages from prehistoric, to Roman, to medieval times, all the way through to today's modern, urban villages. Discover how landowners, governments and communities have shaped villages, why village greens, village pubs and village halls exist, and the real meaning behind names like Bunny, Yelling, Lover, Great Snoring and Slaughter. A compelling study of archaeology, history and architecture, England's Villages is a thoughtful, enlightening and informative look at our oldest homes, uncovering and revealing the extraordinary heritage of the places that surround us.
Author: Myron Goldfinger
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ruth Bjorklund
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-07-15
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 1627132104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the geography, history, people, government, and economy of the Land of Enchantment. Lists of key people, places, celebrations, plants and animals, cities, and political figures, plus recipes and craft projects, add to the understanding of an ancient place that is one of the newest of the United States. All books in the It's My State! ® series are the definitive research tool for readers looking to know the ins and outs of a specific state, including comprehensive coverage of its history, people, culture, geography, economy and government.
Author: Choon Hwee Koh
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2024-09-17
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0300270534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the postal system that once connected the Ottoman Empire Before the advent of steamships or the telegraph, the premier technology for long-distance communication was the horse-run relay system. Every empire had one--including the Ottoman Empire. In The Sublime Post, Choon Hwee Koh examines how the vast Ottoman postal system worked across three centuries by tracking the roles of eight small-scale actors--the Courier, the Tatar, Imperial Decrees, the Bookkeeper, the Postmaster, the Villager, Money, and the Horse. There are stories of price-gouging postmasters; of murdered couriers and their bereaved widows; of moonlighting officials transporting merchandise; of neighboring villages engaged in long-running feuds; of bookkeepers calculating the annual costs of horseshoes, halters, and hay; of Tatar couriers and British travelers sharing drunken nights at post stations; of swimming with horses across rivers; and of hiding from marauding bandits in the desert. By weaving together chronicles, sharia court records, fiscal registers, collective petitions, appointment contracts, and imperial decrees from the Ottoman archive, this study of a large-scale communications infrastructure reveals the interdependence of an empire and its diverse imperial subjects. Koh traces this evolving interdependence between 1500 and 1840 to tell the history of the Ottoman Empire and its changing social order.
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 874
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patrick Leigh Fermor
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 2010-10-28
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1848545444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPatrick Leigh Fermor's Mani compellingly revealed a hidden world of Southern Greece and its past. Its northern counterpart takes the reader among Sarakatsan shepherds, the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Krakora, among itinerant pedlars and beggars, and even tracks down at Missolonghi a pair of Byron's slippers. Roumeli is not on modern maps: it is the ancient name for the lands from the Bosphorus to the Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth. But it is the perfect, evocative name for the Greece that Fermor captures in writing that carries throughout his trademark vividness of description. But what is more, the pictures of people, traditions and landscapes that he creates on the page are imbued with an intimate understanding of Greece and its history.
