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Author: Margaret Connolly
Publisher: Proceedings of the British Aca
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780197265833
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Insular Books' discusses literary texts written in Anglo-French, Middle English, Older Scots, and Middle Welsh. The particular focus of the collection is one type of manuscript: the miscellany - essentially a multi-text manuscript whose contents are of a varied nature, often accumulated over time and added by different users.
Author: Bartholomew H. Sparrow
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocuses on America's first attempts at empire-building through a string of U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the early part of the 20th century that tried to define the legal and constitutional status of America's island territories: Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines, among others, and reveals how the Court provided the rationalization for the establishment of an American empire.
Author: George Henderson
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780500234747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShows examples of medieval British Gospel-books, discusses what is known about their history, and assesses the books as art
Author: Robert Armstrong
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-02-05
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780719086984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays on the alternative establishments which both Presbyterians and Catholics attempted to create in Britain and Ireland offers a dynamic new perspective on the evolution of post-reformation religious communities. Deriving from the Insular Christianity project in Dublin, the book combines essays by some of the leading scholars in the field with work by brilliant and upcoming researchers. The contributions, all of which were commissioned, range from synoptic essays which fill in gaps in the existing historiography to tightly coherent research essays that break new ground with regard to a series of central institutional and intellectual issues and problems. This is a book which will appeal to all those interested in the religious history of early modern Britain and Ireland.
Author: Gerald L. Neuman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2015-05-25
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0979639573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver a century ago the United States Supreme Court decided the “Insular Cases,” which limited the applicability of constitutional rights in Puerto Rico and other overseas territories. Essays in Reconsidering the Insular Cases examine the history and legacy of these cases and explore possible solutions for the dilemmas they created.
Author: Colum Hourihane
Publisher: Index of Christian Art Department of Art and Archeology Princeton
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780983753704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn interdisciplinary collection of essays examining Irish and Anglo-Saxon art in the early medieval period.
Author: Corinne L. Hofman
Publisher:
Published: 2019-05-09
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9789088907807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarly Settlers of the Insular Caribbean: Dearchaizing the Archaic offers a comprehensive coverage of the most recent advances in interdisciplinary research on the early human settling of the Caribbean islands. It covers the time span of the so-called Archaic Age and focuses on the Middle to Late Holocene period which - depending on specific case studies discussed in this volume - could range between 6000 BC and AD 1000. A similar approach to the early settlers of the Caribbean islands has never been published in one volume, impeding the realization of a holistic view on indigenous peoples' settling, subsistence, movements, and interactions in this vast and naturally diversified macroregion.Delivered by a panel of international experts, this book provides recent and new data in the fields of archaeology, collection studies, palaeo-botany, geomorphology, paleoclimate and bioarchaeology that challenge currently existing perspectives on early human settlement patterns, subsistence strategies, migration routes and mobility and exchange. This publication compiles new approaches to 'old' data and museum collections, presents the results of starch grain analysis, paleocoring, seascape modelling, and network analysis. Moreover, it features newer published data from the islands such as Margarita and Aruba. All the above-mentioned data compiled in one volume fills the gap in scholarly literature, transforms some of the interpretations in vogue and enables the integration of the first settlers of the insular Caribbean into the larger Pan-American perspective.This book not only provides scholars and students with compelling new and interdisciplinary perspectives on the Early Settlers of the Insular Caribbean. It is also of interest to unspecialized readers as it discusses subjects related to archaeology, anthropology, and - broadly speaking - to the intersections between humanities and social and environmental sciences, which are of great interest to the present-day general public.
Author: Lars Müller
Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783037782552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe islands of Naoshima, Teshima, and Inujima in Japan's Seto Inland Sea are places of pilgrimage for friends of contemporary art and architecture. Alongside works in public spaces as well as site-specific installations, the islands are also full of numerous museums and collections of contemporary art. This publication offers a comprehensive documentation of this unique cultural landscape surrounded by Japan's Inland Sea. The photographs by the Dutch photographer Iwan Baan, ranging from tiny details to giant panoramas, create a comprehensive portrait of the islands with their fluid transitions between nature, art, and architecture. Numerous texts introduce readers to the individual areas and projects that are either permanently on display on the islands or have taken place there temporarily. In addition, other essays deal with the island as a cultural concept and phenomenon. Among others, the book presents buildings by Kazuyo Sejima, Ruye Nishizawa, Tadao Ando, and Hiroshi Sambuichi. ILLUSTRATIONS: 300
Author: Joshua Nash
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2013-08-15
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9027271879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do people name places on islands? Is toponymy in small island communities affected by degrees of connection to larger neighbours such as a mainland? Are island (contact) languages and mainland languages different in how they are used in naming places? How can we conceptualise the human-human interface in the fieldwork situation when collecting placenames on islands? This book offers answers relevant to toponymists, linguists, island studies scholars, and anthropologists. It focuses on two island environments within Australia – Norfolk Island, South Pacific and Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, South Australia – and puts forward a number of novel findings relevant to Australian linguistics and the linguistics and toponymy of islands anywhere.
Author: Lotte Hellinga
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-12-09
Total Pages: 846
ISBN-13: 9780521573467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain presents an overview of the century-and-a-half between the death of Chaucer in 1400 and the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557. The profound changes during that time in social, political and religious conditions are reflected in the dissemination and reception of the written word. The manuscript culture of Chaucer's day was replaced by an ambience in which printed books would become the norm. The emphasis in this collection of essays is on the demand and use of books. Patterns of ownership are identified as well as patterns of where, why and how books were written, printed, bound, acquired, read and passed from hand to hand. The book trade receives special attention, with emphasis on the large part played by imports and on links with printers in other countries, which were decisive for the development of printing and publishing in Britain.
