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Author : Richard Francis Burton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome written by Richard Francis Burton and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
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Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Francis Burton
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849662438
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book A Mission to Gelele written by Richard Francis Burton and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2022-07-22 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Mission to Gelele", the former King of Dahomey, which has taken place in the 1860s, describes with minuteness the rituals of Dahomeyan "customs," of which, before Captain Burton's visit, tales had been spread mixed with wild exaggerations. Written in Burton's lively style, it shows his powers of observation and description, as well as his cynical disposition and sometimes indelicacy of expression. The ethnology and philology of the country are carefully treated, and there is an important chapter on the Amazons, an all-female military regiment of the Kingdom, which describes the ferocity of these women and makes an excellent companion to the upcoming movie "The Woman King." Captain Burton clearly foretold the gradual but sure deterioration of Dahomey, consequent on the "custom" of periodical slaughter and of an Amazonian soldiery, which by limiting reproduction caused both weakness in the country and degeneracy in its inhabitants. The continuance of these causes has led to the easy breaking up of the Kingdom by the French. This edition comes with more than 600 footnotes for an even better understanding of the text.
Author : Richard Francis Burton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A mission to Gelele, King to Dahome written by Richard Francis Burton and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Francis Burton
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Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A mission to Gelele, King to Dahome written by Richard Francis Burton and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Achmed Abdullah
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434497410
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Dreamers of Empire written by Achmed Abdullah and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies of some of the greatest adventurers of the British empire: Cecil John Rhodes, Richard Francis Burton, John Nicholson, Henry Montgomery Lawrence, William Walker, and Charles George Gordon.
Author : Alison Futrell
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029272523X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Blood in the Arena written by Alison Futrell and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the center of Imperial Rome to the farthest reaches of ancient Britain, Gaul, and Spain, amphitheaters marked the landscape of the Western Roman Empire. Built to bring Roman institutions and the spectacle of Roman power to conquered peoples, many still remain as witnesses to the extent and control of the empire. In this book, Alison Futrell explores the arena as a key social and political institution for binding Rome and its provinces. She begins with the origins of the gladiatorial contest and shows how it came to play an important role in restructuring Roman authority in the later Republic. She then traces the spread of amphitheaters across the Western Empire as a means of transmitting and maintaining Roman culture and control in the provinces. Futrell also examines the larger implications of the arena as a venue for the ritualized mass slaughter of human beings, showing how the gladiatorial contest took on both religious and political overtones. This wide-ranging study, which draws insights from archaeology and anthropology, as well as Classics, broadens our understanding of the gladiatorial contest and its place within the highly politicized cult practice of the Roman Empire.
Author : London Library
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Total Pages : 984 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the London Library ... written by London Library and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Storey
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844681300
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Great British Adventurers written by Nicholas Storey and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with tales of 'derring-do' and keeping a stiff upper lip in the face of adversity, this new guide thrusts the country's well known, and lesser-known, adventurers of the centuries past and present into the limelight. The book introduces 26 male and female characters, whose achievements have contributed to society's progress and understanding since the 19th century. Read about feats from the likes of aviator Amy Johnson CBE and sailor Dame Ellen MacArthur. All pioneers in their field, from missionaries to pilots, their stories are an inspiration.
Author : Thomas Wägenbaur
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Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Poetics of Memory written by Thomas Wägenbaur and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume share a Poetics of Memory as the constant shift between representation in different kinds of cultural archives and its performance in various acts of cultural recollection. They are engaged in four main projects of mnemonic inquiry: The first deals with the history of the subject and the moment of recollection. The second opens the scope of an aesthetic reading of literary texts towards cultural memory in general. The third examines the nature of (literary) memory as such. The final group of contributors delimits the literary text towards intertextuality and electronic hypertext which challenges but also confirms the proposed Poetics of Memory
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Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Saturday Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Society of African Culture
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Africa from the Point of View of American Negro Scholars written by American Society of African Culture and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 558 pages
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Download or read book The Literary World written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James L. Newman
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597975966
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)
Download or read book Paths Without Glory written by James L. Newman and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people have garnered so much enduring interest as Sir Richard Burton. A true polymath, Burton is best known today for his translations of the "Kama Sutra" and "Arabian Nights." Yet, Africa stood at the center of his adult life. The Burton-Speke expedition (1856 59) that put Lake Tanganyika on the map led to years of controversy over the source of the White Nile. From 1861 to 1864 Burton served as British consul in Fernando Po and traveled widely between Ghana and Angola. He wrote prodigiously and contributed some of the first detailed ethnographic accounts of Africa s peoples. In many ways, however, Africa proved to be Burton s undoing. Injuries and sickness sapped his strength, he made enemies in high places, and, ironically, even the discovery of Lake Tanganyika worked to his disadvantage. Increasingly frustrated and bitter, he turned to alcohol as a frequent remedy.In this fascinating story of the relationship between a man and a continent, geographer James L. Newman provides an intimate portrait of Burton through careful examination of his journals and biographers rich analyses. Delving deepest into Burton s later life and travels, Newman pinpoints the thematic mainstays of his career as a diplomat and explorer, namely his strong advocacy of aggressive imperial policies and his belief that race explained crucial human differences. Historians and scholars of the golden age of empire, as well as armchair adventurers, will not only discover what defined this famously enigmatic figure, but venture, themselves, into the heart of mid-nineteenth-century Africa. "
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Total Pages : 1118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeremy Seymour Eades
Publisher : Oxford, England : Clio Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Benin written by Jeremy Seymour Eades and published by Oxford, England : Clio Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes material relating to the small West African country that was formerly known as the Republic of Dahomey. Some of the sections focus on types of material, including travel guides, travellers' accounts, archives and libraries, and bibliographies. Most however consider topics such as the environment ad natural resources, history, politics, trade, religion, performing arts, and statistics. Includes one simple map. Indexed by title and author as well as subject. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
