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Book Synopsis Bury the Chains by : Adam Hochschild
Download or read book Bury the Chains written by Adam Hochschild and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a handful of men, led by Thomas Clarkson, who defied the slave trade and ignited the first great human rights movement. Beginning in 1788, a group of Abolitionists moved the cause of anti-slavery from the floor of Parliament to the homes of 300,000 people boycotting Caribbean sugar, and gave a platform to freed slaves.
Download or read book The Buried Book written by David Damrosch and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-12-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “lively and accessible” history of the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh, and its sensational rediscovery in the nineteenth century (The Boston Sunday Globe). Composed in Middle Babylonia around 1200 BCE, The Epic of Gilgamesh foreshadowed later stories that would become as fundamental as any in human history: the Bible, Homer, The Thousand and One Nights. But in 600 BCE, the clay tablets that bore the story were lost—buried beneath ashes and ruins when the library of the wild king Ashurbanipal was sacked in a raid. The Buried Book begins with the rediscovery of the forgotten epic and its deciphering in 1872 by George Smith, a brilliant self-taught linguist who created a sensation—and controversy—when he discovered Gilgamesh among the thousands of tablets in the British Museum’s collection. From there the story goes backward in time, all the way to Gilgamesh himself. Damrosch reveals the story as a literary bridge between East and West: a document lost in Babylonia, discovered by an Iraqi, decoded by an Englishman, and appropriated in novels by both Philip Roth and Saddam Hussein. This is an illuminating, fast-paced tale of history as it was written, stolen, lost, and—after 2,000 years, countless battles, fevered digs, conspiracies, and revelations—finally found. “Damrosch creates vivid portraits of archaeologists, Assyriologists, and ancient kings, lending his history an almost novelistic sense of character. [He] has done a superb job of bringing what was buried to life.” —The New York Times Book Review “As astounding as the content of the Epic of Gilgamesh in which the questing hero travels to the underworld and back . . . superb and engrossing.” —Booklist (starred review) “Damrosch’s fascinating literary sleuthing will appeal to scholars and lay readers alike.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Book Synopsis Remains of Lost Empires by : Philip Van Ness Myers
Download or read book Remains of Lost Empires written by Philip Van Ness Myers and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Buried Mirror by : Carlos Fuentes
Download or read book The Buried Mirror written by Carlos Fuentes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of Spanish culture in Spain and the Americas traces the social, political, and economic forces that created that culture.
Book Synopsis Cæsar's Column by : Ignatius Donnelly
Download or read book Cæsar's Column written by Ignatius Donnelly and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Remains of Lost Empires by : Peter Van Ness Myers
Download or read book Remains of Lost Empires written by Peter Van Ness Myers and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis China's Buried Kingdoms by : Time-Life Books
Download or read book China's Buried Kingdoms written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 2003 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The valley of the Huan River is wide and flat, green when the spring crops of the farming collectives sprout in the fertile soil, parched and dusty under the baking sun of the northern China summer. On the river's south bank spreads Anyang. This modest provincial town has a railway station, but it is hardly the place where one would expect travellers from around the world to alight. Yet hundreds of visitors come here each year with one purpose in mind - to see the remains of one of the great civilizations of ancient China, the more than three-millennium-old capital of Shang that lies less than two miles northwest of town. The area is recognized as one of the world's foremost archaeological sites. It is also one of the most dug.
Download or read book Buried Lives written by Robin Bury and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early twentieth century saw the transformation of the southern Irish Protestants from a once strong people into an isolated, pacified community. Their influence, status and numbers had all but disappeared by the end of the civil war in 1923 and they were to form a quiescent minority up to modern times. This book tells the tale of this transformation and their forced adaptation, exploring the lasting effect that it had on both the Protestant community and the wider Irish society and investigating how Protestants in southern Ireland view their place in the Republic today.
Book Synopsis Caxton's Book by : William Henry Rhodes
Download or read book Caxton's Book written by William Henry Rhodes and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Documents Accompanying the Journal by : Michigan. Legislature. Senate
Download or read book Documents Accompanying the Journal written by Michigan. Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bible Society record written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life of Theodorick Bland Pryor by : Thomas Danly Suplée
Download or read book The Life of Theodorick Bland Pryor written by Thomas Danly Suplée and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Englander and Yale Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire to AD 300 by : John D. Grainger
Download or read book Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire to AD 300 written by John D. Grainger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of Syria as a Roman province has been neglected by comparison with equivalent geographical regions such as Italy, Egypt, Greece and even Gaul. It was, however, one of the economic powerhouses of the empire from its annexation until after the empire’s dissolution. As such it clearly deserves some particular consideration, but at the same time it was a major contributor to the military strength of the empire, notably in the form of the recruitment of auxiliary regiments, several dozens of which were formed from Syrians. Many pagan gods, such as Jupiter Dolichenus and Jupiter Heliopolitanus Dea Syra, and also Judaism, originated in Syria and reached the far bounds of the empire. This book is a consideration, based on original sources, of the means by which Syrians, whose country was only annexed to the empire in 64 BC, saw their influence penetrate into all levels of society from private soldiers and ordinary citizens to priests and to imperial families.
Book Synopsis So Very Human by : Alfred Bate Richards
Download or read book So Very Human written by Alfred Bate Richards and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The British Empire at Home and Abroad by : Edgar Sanderson
Download or read book The British Empire at Home and Abroad written by Edgar Sanderson and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
