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Author : Peter M. M. G. Akkermans
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (922 download)
Download or read book Villages in the Steppe written by Peter M. M. G. Akkermans and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Moon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317895193
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Russian Peasantry 1600-1930 written by David Moon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive work, set to become the standard history on the subject, offers a definitive survey of peasant society in Russia, from the consolidation of serfdom and tsarist autocracy in the 17th century through to the destruction of the peasant's traditional world under Stalin. Over three-quarters of Russian society were peasants in these years, and David Moon explores all aspects of their life xxx; including the rural economy, peasant households, village communities xxx; and their political role, including protest against the landowning elites. In the process he presents a fresh perspective on the history of Russia itself. A big book in every way xxx; and compellingly readable.
Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674268830
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Frontline written by Serhii Plokhy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Frontline presents a selection of essays drawn together for the first time to form a companion volume to Serhii Plokhy’s The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. Here he expands upon his analysis in earlier works of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine’s complex relations with Russia and the West, the burden of tragedies such as the Holodomor and World War II, the impact of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and Ukraine’s contribution to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Juxtaposing Ukraine’s history to the contemporary politics of memory, this volume provides a multidimensional image of a country that continues to make headlines around the world. Eloquent in style and comprehensive in approach, the essays collected here reveal the roots of the ongoing political, cultural, and military conflict in Ukraine, the largest country in Europe.
Author : Peter M. M. G. Akkermans
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Villages in the Steppe written by Peter M. M. G. Akkermans and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study aims to shed some light on the nature of prehistoric human occupation in the Balikh valley of northern Syria. Human settlement in the Balikh valley has a long history, and due to its central geographic position the region was of great importance in terms of communication and cultural interaction in many periods.
Author : Karen E. Rignall
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150175615X
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book An Elusive Common written by Karen E. Rignall and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Elusive Common details the fraught dynamics of rural life in the arid periphery of southeastern Morocco. Karen Rignall considers whether agrarian livelihoods can survive in the context of globalized capitalism and proposes a new way of thinking about agrarian practice, politics, and land in North Africa and the Middle East. Her book questions many of the assumptions underlying movements for land and food sovereignty, theories of the commons, and environmental governance. Global market forces, government disinvestment, political marginalization, and climate change are putting unprecedented pressures on contemporary rural life. At the same time, rural peoples are defying their exclusion by forging new economic and political possibilities. In southern Morocco, the vibrancy of rural life was sustained by creative and often contested efforts to sustain communal governance, especially of land, as a basis for agrarian livelihoods and a changing wage labor economy. An Elusive Common follows these diverse strategies ethnographically to show how land became a site for conflicts over community, political authority, and social hierarchy. Rignall makes the provocative argument that land enclosures can be an essential part of communal governance and the fight for autonomy against intrusive state power and historical inequalities.
Author : Peter Benedict
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004038899
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (388 download)
Download or read book Turkey written by Peter Benedict and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1974 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giorgio Buccellati
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040133932
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book At the Origins of Politics written by Giorgio Buccellati and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, now available in English, explores how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium B.C. shaped a new mentality, leading to new forms of social interaction, and to the development of the state, its laws and its religion to consolidate new managerial hierarchies in the region. How is it that the phenomenon of the state, a society structured along lines of power that frame individuals in a new supra-organism, suddenly came into being during the fourth millennium B.C.? In this book, Buccellati explores the emergence of statehood and power structures in ancient Mesopotamia against the background of the long prehistoric period. It was the arena in which the earliest cities and states were born and that offers us the first and richest documentation of the development of political life in antiquity. This book provides rich documentation of the causes that led to the formation of the territorial state, tracing its evolution from city-states to universal empires from ca 3500 B.C. to 500 B.C. At the same time, it examines the tension between individual rights and supra-personal systems of power during this period and explores new forms of social interaction that coincided with the economic dimension of the urban revolution. This paradigmatic history, newly translated into English for Anglophone readers, offers a key to understanding modern political forms and their transformations. At the Origins of Politics provides a thorough examination of the development of the state in ancient Mesopotamia, suitable for students, scholars, and researchers working on Near Eastern history and society, and ancient societies and politics more broadly.
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Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Donald
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0713670215
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (136 download)
Download or read book Facing Extinction written by Paul Donald and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost two hundred species of birds have become extinct in the past 400 years, and a similar number today are in imminent danger of following them. The world's conservationists are leading the fight to prevent the demise of these remaining critically endangered birds, with a fair degree of success. This new book examines the process and issues concerning extinction - how and why it happens and what can be done about it. Whilst man is to blame for many of the causes, such as persecution and habitat loss, species have become extinct on a regular basis since life began. After several thought-provoking introductory chapters, the book showcases about 20 species on the brink of extinction from around the world and describes the work that is being undertaken to save them. Some are success stories, but a few are not. This is a subject close to the hearts of all birders and ornithologists and this book, written by a team of leading conservationists, will strike a chord in most of them.
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Total Pages : 1010 pages
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Download or read book Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. von Lankenau
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Total Pages : 838 pages
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Download or read book Russia, Past and Present written by H. von Lankenau and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1056 pages
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Author : Hans Kasdorf
Publisher : Kindred Productions
ISBN 13 : 9781877941108
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Design of My Journey written by Hans Kasdorf and published by Kindred Productions. This book was released on 2004 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 976 pages
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Download or read book Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bradley J. Parker
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816524525
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)
Download or read book Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology, Archaeology, and History written by Bradley J. Parker and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a half century of attempts by social scientists to compare frontiers around the world, the study of these regions is still closely associated with the nineteenth-century American West and the work of Frederick Jackson Turner. As a result, the very concept of the frontier is bound up in Victorian notions of manifest destiny and rugged individualism. The frontier, it would seem, has been tamed. This book seeks to open a new debate about the processes of frontier history in a variety of cultural contexts, untaming the frontier as an analytic concept, and releasing it in a range of unfamiliar settings. Drawing on examples from over four millennia, it shows that, throughout history, societies have been formed and transformed in relation to their frontiers, and that no one historical case represents the normal or typical frontier pattern. The contributorsÑhistorians, anthropologists, and archaeologistsÑpresent numerous examples of the frontier as a shifting zone of innovation and recombination through which cultural materials from many sources have been unpredictably channeled and transformed. At the same time, they reveal recurring processes of frontier history that enable world-historical comparison: the emergence of the frontier in relation to a core area; the mutually structuring interactions between frontier and core; and the development of social exchange, merger, or conflict between previously separate populations brought together on the frontier. Any frontier situation has many dimensions, and each of the chapters highlights one or more of these, from the physical and ideological aspects of EgyptÕs Nubian frontier to the military and cultural components of Inka outposts in Bolivia to the shifting agrarian, religious, and political boundaries in Bengal. They explore cases in which the centripetal forces at work in frontier zones have resulted in cultural hybridization or Òcreolization,Ó and in some instances show how satellite settlements on the frontiers of core polities themselves develop into new core polities. Each of the chapters suggests that frontiers are shaped in critical ways by topography, climate, vegetation, and the availability of water and other strategic resources, and most also consider cases of population shifts within or through a frontier zone. As these studies reveal, transnationalism in todayÕs world can best be understood as an extension of frontier processes that have developed over thousands of years. This bookÕs interdisciplinary perspective challenges readers to look beyond their own fields of interest to reconsider the true nature and meaning of frontiers.
Author : Johannes Müller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317247922
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Trypillia Mega-Sites and European Prehistory written by Johannes Müller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In European prehistory population agglomerations of more than 10,000 inhabitants per site are a seldom phenomenon. A big surprise to the archaeological community was the discovery of Trypillia mega-sites of more than 250 hectares and with remains of more than 2000 houses by a multidisciplinary approach of Soviet and Ukrainian archaeology, including aerial photography, geophysical prospection and excavations nearly 50 years ago. The extraordinary development took place at the border of the North Pontic Forest Steppe and Steppe zone ca. 4100–3400 BCE. Since then many questions arose which are of main relevance: Why, how and under which environmental conditions did Trypillia mega-sites develop? How long did they last? Were social and/or ecological reasons responsible for this social experiment? Are Trypillia and the similar sized settlement of Uruk two different concepts of social behaviour? Paradigm change in fieldwork and excavation strategies enabled research teams during the last decade to analyse the mega-sites in their spatial and social complexity. High precision geophysics, target excavations and a new design of systematic field strategies deliver empirical data representative for the large sites. Archaeological research contributed immensely to aspects of anthropogenic induced steppe development and subsistence concepts that did not reach the carrying capacities. Probabilistic models based on 14C-dates made the contemporaneity of the mega-site house structures most probable. In consequence, Trypillia mega-sites are an independent European phenomenon that contrasts both concepts of urbanism and social stratification that is seen with similar demographic figures in Mesopotamia. The new Trypillia research can be read as the methodological progress in European archaeology.
Author : Harold Peake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Steppe & the Sown written by Harold Peake and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
