Every Traveller Needs a Compass

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Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785701002
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Book Synopsis Every Traveller Needs a Compass by : Neil Cooke

Download or read book Every Traveller Needs a Compass written by Neil Cooke and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A varied and charming collection of 17 papers that bring something new about the people from many countries and backgrounds who traveled to, from and within Egypt and the Near East, either singly or as a group, and explored, observed and recorded, or stayed for a short period of time to improve their health or simply to enjoy the experience. While some travelers kept a diary or journal that has survived until today, others did not. Their travels have to be extracted from the wide range of manuscript sources that are thankfully retained in libraries and archives, or which still remain with their descendants. Sometimes, the name of a traveler is only contained in a few words within a single piece of correspondence or journal entry, yet from such small beginnings and through detective work to link the chance meetings between travelers with a location, or news of a shared event, it is often possible to chart part of a traveler’s journey and bring to life a person who has long been forgotten. These minor characters and their travails often bring a new perspective to well-known places and events.

Adventures in Egypt and Nubia

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Total Pages : 238 pages
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Book Synopsis Adventures in Egypt and Nubia by : Patricia Usick

Download or read book Adventures in Egypt and Nubia written by Patricia Usick and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William John Bankes (1786-1855) was a brilliant and remarkable man. In 1812 he went to Spain and Portugal to pursue a Bohemian lifestyle among the gypsies. This was followed by travels in the Near East. Bankes amassed a vast portfolio of notes, manuscripts and drawings by the artists who accompanied him on his Egyptian travels. Their extremely high degree of accuracy makes them a very valuable record of the ancient monuments, many of which have since been damaged or lost. His intuitive detective work and the many copies of hieroglyphic inscriptions he accumulated were instrumental in the struggle to decipher hieroglyphs. This book tells Bankes' story, describing his travels in detail and assessing his contribution to Egyptology.

A Short History of Italy

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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
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Book Synopsis A Short History of Italy by : Henry Dwight Sedgwick

Download or read book A Short History of Italy written by Henry Dwight Sedgwick and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 2011 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Travels in Egypt and Nubia

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
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Book Synopsis Travels in Egypt and Nubia by : Frederik Ludvig Norden

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Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472901117
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Book Synopsis Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews by : Cathy Gelbin

Download or read book Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews written by Cathy Gelbin and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews adds significantly to contemporary scholarship on cosmopolitanism by making the experience of Jews central to the discussion, as it traces the evolution of Jewish cosmopolitanism over the last two centuries. The book sets out from an exploration of the nature and cultural-political implications of the shifting perceptions of Jewish mobility and fluidity around 1800, when modern cosmopolitanist discourse arose. Through a series of case studies, the authors analyze the historical and discursive junctures that mark the central paradigm shifts in the Jewish self-image, from the Wandering Jew to the rootless parasite, the cosmopolitan, and the socialist internationalist. Chapters analyze the tensions and dualisms in the constructed relationship between cosmopolitanism and the Jews at particular historical junctures between 1800 and the present, and probe into the relationship between earlier anti-Semitic discourses on Jewish cosmopolitanism and Stalinist rhetoric.

Orient Line Guide

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)

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Book Synopsis Orient Line Guide by : William John Loftie

Download or read book Orient Line Guide written by William John Loftie and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Three-Way Street

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472130129
Total Pages : 361 pages
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Book Synopsis Three-Way Street by : Jay Howard Geller

Download or read book Three-Way Street written by Jay Howard Geller and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing Germany's significance as an essential crossroads and incubator for modern Jewish culture

A Classical and Topographical Tour Through Greece

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
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Book Synopsis A Classical and Topographical Tour Through Greece by : Edward Dodwell

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Becoming a Nazi Town

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472118994
Total Pages : 291 pages
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Book Synopsis Becoming a Nazi Town by : David Imhoof

Download or read book Becoming a Nazi Town written by David Imhoof and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local cultural activities played a key role in altering Germany’s political landscape between the world wars

Yvain

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300187580
Total Pages : 242 pages
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Book Synopsis Yvain by : Chretien de Troyes

Download or read book Yvain written by Chretien de Troyes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-09-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.

Consumption and Violence

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047203605X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis Consumption and Violence by : Alexander Sedlmaier

Download or read book Consumption and Violence written by Alexander Sedlmaier and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the relationship between the rise of political violence in West Germany to the unprecedented growth of consumption

German Colonialism Revisited

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472119125
Total Pages : 357 pages
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Book Synopsis German Colonialism Revisited by : Nina Berman

Download or read book German Colonialism Revisited written by Nina Berman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of interdisciplinary and comparative studies focusing on diverse interactions among African, Asian, and Oceanic peoples and German colonizers

The People's Own Landscape

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472119133
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Book Synopsis The People's Own Landscape by : Scott Moranda

Download or read book The People's Own Landscape written by Scott Moranda and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of East German tourist practices of the 1970s and 1980s provides new insight into the country’s environmental politics

Stop Reading! Look!

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472121383
Total Pages : 263 pages
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Book Synopsis Stop Reading! Look! by : Pepper Stetler

Download or read book Stop Reading! Look! written by Pepper Stetler and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the Weimar period (1918–33), photographers produced books consisting almost entirely of sequenced images. The subjects ranged widely: from plants and nature to the modern metropolis, from exotic cultures to the German Volk, from anonymous workers to historical figures. While many of the books were created by key practitioners and theorists of modern photography, scholars have rarely addressed the significance of the book format to modern conceptions of photographic meaning. The term “photo-essay” implies that these photographic books were equivalent to literary endeavors, created by replacing text with images, but such assumptions fail to explore the motivations of the books’ makers. Stop Reading! Look! argues that Weimar photographic books stood at the center of debates about photography’s ability to provide uniquely visual forms of perception and cognition that exceed the capacity of the textual realm. Each chapter provides a sustained analysis of a photographic book, while also bringing the cultural, social, and political context of the Weimar Republic to bear on its relevance and meaning.

Beyond the Bauhaus

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472121944
Total Pages : 269 pages
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Book Synopsis Beyond the Bauhaus by : Deborah Ascher Barnstone

Download or read book Beyond the Bauhaus written by Deborah Ascher Barnstone and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the Breslau arts scene was one of the most vibrant in all of Weimar-era Germany, it has largely disappeared from memory. Studies of the influence of Weimar culture on modernism have focused almost exclusively on Berlin and the Dessau Bauhaus, yet the advances that occurred in Breslau affected nearly every intellectual field, forming the basis for aesthetic modernism internationally and having an enduring impact on visual art and architecture. Breslau boasted a thriving modern arts scene and one of the premier German arts academies of the day until the Nazis began their assault on so-called degenerate art. This book charts the cultural production of Breslau-based artists, architects, art collectors, urban designers, and arts educators who operated in the margins of Weimar-era cultural debates. Rather than accepting the radical position of the German avant-garde or the reactionary position of German conservatives, many Breslauers sought a middle ground. This richly illustrated volume is the first book in English to address this history, constituting an invaluable addition to the literature on the Weimar period. Its readership includes scholars of German history, art, architecture, urban design, planning, collecting, and exhibition history; of the avant-garde, and of the development of arts academies and arts pedagogy.

Communism Day-to-day

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ISBN 13 : 9780472118717
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Communism Day-to-day by : Sandrine Kott

Download or read book Communism Day-to-day written by Sandrine Kott and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful examination of how communism was instituted, debated, and "lived" in the workplaces and in state enterprises of East Germany

A Discourse Concerning Sanchoniathon's Phoenician History

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Total Pages : 138 pages
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Book Synopsis A Discourse Concerning Sanchoniathon's Phoenician History by : Henry Dodwell

Download or read book A Discourse Concerning Sanchoniathon's Phoenician History written by Henry Dodwell and published by . This book was released on 1681 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: