Byzantium and the Pechenegs
Byzantium and the Pechenegs

Author: Mykola Melnyk

Publisher: East Central and Eastern Europ

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9789004280465

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"This book traces 150 years' worth of scholarly interpretations of relations between Byzantium and various North Pontic nomads, with particular attention to how colonialist or national aspirations often triggered, hampered, biased, or otherwise influenced these interpretations. Original in its interdisciplinary approach, Mykola Melnyk's book highlights an overlooked topic: the history of non-historic peoples. Going beyond the well-studied written sources for nomadic history, the author incorporates insights provided by archaeology, linguistics, and the natural sciences, bringing forth promising avenues of research into the subject of nomadic cultures in the medieval world"--

A Maritime History of India
A Maritime History of India

Author: REAR ADMIRAL K. SRIDHARAN

Publisher: Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting

Published: 2017-05-31

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 8123024339

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An interesting and authentic historical survey of India's maritime activities and achievements from the earliest times to the present day have been detailed in this book. The author Rear Admiral K. Sridharan (Retd.) had the distinction of serving in the Indian Navy for 33 years. He received Ati Visisht Seva Medal for his zeal, devotion to duty and initiative displayed in the betterment of the logistics of the Indian Navy.

America's National Game
America's National Game

Author: Albert Goodwill Spalding

Publisher:

Published: 1911

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13:

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This book is Albert Spaldings work of "historic facts concerning the beginning, evolution, development and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories and its votaries." It is one of the defining books in the early formative years of modern baseball.

Modernity on Endless Trial
Modernity on Endless Trial

Author: Leszek Kolakowski

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1997-06-23

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0226450465

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Leszek Kolakowski delves into some of the most intellectually vigorous questions of our time in this remarkable collection of essays garnished with his characteristic wit. Ten of the essays have never appeared before in English. "Exemplary. . . . It should be celebrated." —Arthur C. Danto, New York Times Book Review "This book . . . express[es] Kolakowski's thought on God, man, reason, history, moral truth and original sin, prompted by observation of the dramatic struggle among Christianity, the Enlightenment and modern totalitarianism. It is a wonderful collection of topics." —Thomas Nagel, Times Literary Supplement "No better antidote to bumper-sticker thinking exists than this collection of 24 'appeals for moderation in consistency,' and never has such an antidote been needed more than it is now." —Joseph Coates, Chicago Tribune "Whether learned or humorous, these essays offer gems in prose of diamond hardness, precision, and brilliance." —Thomas D'Evelyn, The Christian Science Monitor A "Notable Books of the Year 1991" selection, New York Times Book Review—a "Noted with Pleasure" selection, New York Times Book Review—a "Summer Reading 1991" selection, New York Times Book Review—a "Books of the Year" selection, The Times.

Galactic Pot-healer
Galactic Pot-healer

Author: Philip K. Dick

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 0679752978

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What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman's Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign? Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror, and deliriously paranoid theology, Galactic Pot-Healer is a uniquely Dickian voyage to alternate worlds of the imagination.

Orthodoxy and the Courts in Late Antiquity
Orthodoxy and the Courts in Late Antiquity

Author: Caroline Humfress

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2007-11

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0198208413

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Approaching the subject of late Roman law from the perspective of legal practice revealed in courtroom processes, Caroline Humfress argues for a vibrant culture of forensic argumentation in late Antiquity - which included Christian controversies concerning 'heresy' and 'orthodoxy', revealing its far-reaching effects on theological debate.

Confession and Community in Seventeenth-century France
Confession and Community in Seventeenth-century France

Author: Gregory Hanlon

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780812232059

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Examines the tolerance between Catholics and Protestants in a period when vicious sectarian strife was the rule of the day. Tolerance here means more than mere coexistence but a daily interaction between people without regard for their faith.

Short-term Empires in World History
Short-term Empires in World History

Author: Robert Rollinger

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-06-04

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 3658294353

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The volume will focus on a comparative level on a specific group of states that are commonly labelled as “empires” and that we encounter through all historical periods. Although they are very successful at the very beginning, like most empires are, this success is very ephemeral and transient. The era of conquest is never followed by a period of consolidation. Collapse and/or reduction to much smaller dimension run as fast as the process of wide-ranging conquest and expansion. The volume singles out a series of such “short-term empires” and aims to provide a methodologically clearly structured as well as a uniform and consistent approach by developing a general set of questions that guarantee the possibility to compare and distinguish. This way it intends to examine not only already well established empires but also to illuminate forgotten ones.