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Book Synopsis The Cloth of Many Colored Silks by : John O. Hunwick
Download or read book The Cloth of Many Colored Silks written by John O. Hunwick and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays honouring African scholar Ivor Wilks.
Book Synopsis Textile Painting - Silk, Velvet, Satin, Cotton, Linen and All Cloths by : D. M. Campan
Download or read book Textile Painting - Silk, Velvet, Satin, Cotton, Linen and All Cloths written by D. M. Campan and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Book Synopsis The Maritime Silk Road and Cultural Communication between China and the West by : Yan Chen
Download or read book The Maritime Silk Road and Cultural Communication between China and the West written by Yan Chen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation of collected articles by Yan Chen (1916–2016) examines the role of the Maritime Silk Road in the formation of world civilizations. Analyzing the Maritime Silk Road’s political, economic, cultural, and technological influence, Chen argues that this expansive trade network was vital to the spread of traditional Chinese culture.
Book Synopsis Fireflies, Honey, and Silk by : Gilbert Waldbauer
Download or read book Fireflies, Honey, and Silk written by Gilbert Waldbauer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gilbert Waldbauer takes us on a wild and storied ride through the insect world. Page after page, Fireflies, Honey, and Silk is highly entertaining, authoritative, encyclopedic, mesmerizing."—Erich Hoyt, author of Insect Lives and The Earth Dwellers: Adventures in the Land of Ants "In Fireflies, Honey, and Silk, Waldbauer serves up a veritable smorgasbord of insects from around the world whose lives directly intersect our whims and desires. With wide-ranging essays, the author reveals species that not only please and inspire us, but also those we have used to nourish, adorn, and cure our bodies."—Arthur V. Evans, author of National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Insects and Spiders of North America and What's Bugging You?
Book Synopsis Portrait of a Woman in Silk by : Zara Anishanslin
Download or read book Portrait of a Woman in Silk written by Zara Anishanslin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While most scholarship on commodities focuses either on labor and production or on consumption and use, Anishanslin unifies both, examining the worlds of four identifiable people who produced, wore, and represented this object: a London weaver, one of early modern Britain’s few women silk designers, a Philadelphia merchant’s wife, and a New England painter. Blending macro and micro history with nuanced gender analysis, Anishanslin shows how making, buying, and using goods in the British Atlantic created an object-based community that tied its inhabitants together, while also allowing for different views of the Empire. Investigating a range of subjects including self-fashioning, identity, natural history, politics, and trade, Anishanslin makes major contributions both to the study of material culture and to our ongoing conversation about how to write history.
Book Synopsis Secrets of Dry Cleaning by : Leslie Everett Foster
Download or read book Secrets of Dry Cleaning written by Leslie Everett Foster and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice by : Luca Molà
Download or read book The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice written by Luca Molà and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How 16th century Venetian silk manufacturers met the challenge of demand for lighter and cheaper fabric. The manufacture of luxury textiles, such as silk, was central to an Italian Renaissance economy based on status and conspicuous consumption. From the rapidly changing fashions that drove demand to the jobs created for craftsmen, weavers, and merchants, the wealth and prestige associated with silk throughout Europe made it Italy's leading export industry. In this important book, Luca Molà examines the silk industry in Renaissance Venice amid changing markets, suppliers, producers, and government regulations. Drawing on archival research and a vast amount of European scholarship, Molà documents the innovations Venetians made in manufacturing and marketing to spur the silk industry. He uncovers the alliance between manufacturers and government to promote the industry in a changing international economic environment. Through flexible laws, quality was regulated to meet the varying requirements of an increasing range of customers. Molà also analyzes state policy that favored the development and organization of silk producers throughout the Terraferma. His findings contribute in an important way to the ongoing scholarly assessment of Venice's place in the economy of the Renaissance and the Mediterranean world.
Book Synopsis United States Economist, and Dry Goods Reporter by :
Download or read book United States Economist, and Dry Goods Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road by : William E. Mierse
Download or read book Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road written by William E. Mierse and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road explores the interconnectivity of the Eurasian continent from 4000 BCE to 1000 CE. It focuses on the role played by Central Asia through which passed the major trade routes, the Silk Roads. Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road covers life along the Silk Road over 5000 years as it can be understood by considering objects. In this first object-based study to consider all of the peoples involved on the Silk Roads, objects provide the vehicles for explorations of different aspects of life for the various peoples of the Silk Roads, including the sedentary peoples who established urban life on the Silk Roads, the steppe nomads who regularly interacted with the settled peoples, and the peoples at either end of the Silk Roads who drove certain kinds of economic exchanges. The book looks at Central Asia as an international zone during ancient times when multiple religious, political, and technological ideas found acceptance in the region and allows for a better understanding of how some ideas and forms developed in Central Asia while others passed through or were modified.
Book Synopsis Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 by : John K. Thornton
Download or read book Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 written by John K. Thornton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 investigates the impact of warfare on the history of Africa in the period of the slave trade and the founding of empires. It includes the discussion of: : * the relationship between war and the slave trade * the role of Europeans in promoting African wars and supplying African armies * the influence of climatic and ecological factors on warfare patterns and dynamics * the impact of social organization and military technology, including the gunpowder revolution * case studies of warfare in Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, Benin and West Central Africa
Book Synopsis Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past by :
Download or read book Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past outlines new directions in the historiography of West Africa. Its chapters explore new trends across regional and disciplinary fields with a focus on how political conjunctures influence source production and circulation.
Book Synopsis Engaging with a Legacy: Nehemia Levtzion (1935-2003) by : E. Ann McDougall
Download or read book Engaging with a Legacy: Nehemia Levtzion (1935-2003) written by E. Ann McDougall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging with a Legacy shows how Nehemia Levtzion shaped our understanding of Islam in Africa and influenced successive scholarly generations in their approach to Islamization, conversion and fundamentalism. The book illuminates his work, career and family life – including his own ‘life vision’ on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It speaks to his relationship with researchers at home and abroad as mentor, colleague and provocateur; in one section, several authors reflect on those dynamics in terms of personal and professional development. Levtzion’s contemporaries also speak of interactions with him (and his life-long companion, wife Tirza) in the 1950s and 1960s; we see in these writings the birth of West African historical studies. Levtzion’s arrival as Israeli graduate-student in Nkrumah’s Egyptian-leaning Ghana, and the debate over what ‘African Studies’ should mean in an environment that included the personal intervention of W.E.B. Du Bois, are stories told for the first time. Most poignant is the account of Levtzion’s commitment to building African Studies, complete with emphasis on Islam, in the heart of the Jewish state at The Hebrew University. His never-ending defence of the program reflected his determination to be both ‘engaged historian’ and ‘engaged Israeli’ – a legacy he chose for himself. Finally, an ‘Epilogue’ to the original publication shows how one aspect this legacy, Levtzion’s growing preoccupation with the ‘public sphere in Muslim societies’, has become even more relevant in ‘post-Arab Spring’ Africa and the Middle East. This book was published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of African Studies.
Book Synopsis The Peterson Magazine by : Ann Sophia Stephens
Download or read book The Peterson Magazine written by Ann Sophia Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Elementary Home Economics by : Mary Lockwood Matthews
Download or read book Elementary Home Economics written by Mary Lockwood Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Silk Culturist and Farmer's Manual by :
Download or read book The Silk Culturist and Farmer's Manual written by and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
