Author: David Christie Murray
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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Author: David Christie Murray
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Tom Swift and his friend accept an assignment to salvage treasure from a wrecked ship.

Author: David Christie Murray
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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"In Direst Peril" by David Christie Murray. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author: James George Frazer
Publisher:
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Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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Author: Patrick B. Sharp
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806182423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Revisiting the racial origins of the conflict between “civilization” and “savagery” in twentieth-century America The atomic age brought the Bomb and spawned stories of nuclear apocalypse to remind us of impending doom. As Patrick Sharp reveals, those stories had their origins well before Hiroshima, reaching back to Charles Darwin and America’s frontier. In Savage Perils, Sharp examines the racial underpinnings of American culture, from the early industrial age to the Cold War. He explores the influence of Darwinism, frontier nostalgia, and literary modernism on the history and representations of nuclear weaponry. Taking into account such factors as anthropological race theory and Asian immigration, he charts the origins of a worldview that continues to shape our culture and politics. Sharp dissects Darwin’s arguments regarding the struggle between “civilization” and “savagery,” theories that fueled future-war stories ending in Anglo dominance in Britain and influenced Turnerian visions of the frontier in America. Citing George W. Bush’s “Axis of Evil,” Sharp argues that many Americans still believe in the racially charged opposition between civilization and savagery, and consider the possibility of nonwhite “savages” gaining control of technology the biggest threat in the “war on terror.” His insightful book shows us that this conflict is but the latest installment in an ongoing saga that has been at the heart of American identity from the beginning—and that understanding it is essential if we are to eradicate racist mythologies from American life.

Author: James McGrigor Allan
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Samuli Schielke
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815651910
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Mulids, festivals in honor of Muslim "friends of God," have been part of Muslim religious and cultural life for close to a thousand years. While many Egyptians see mulids as an expression of joy and love for the Prophet Muhammad and his family, many others see them as opposed to Islam, a sign of a backward mentality, a piece of folklore at best. What is it about a mulid that makes it a threat to Islam and modernity in the eyes of some, and an indication of pious devotion in the eyes of others? What makes the celebration of a saint’s festival appear in such dramatically different contours? The Perils of Joy offers a rich investigation, both historical and ethnographic, of conflicting and transforming attitudes toward festivals in contemporary Egypt. Schielke argues that mulids are characterized by a utopian momentum of the extraordinary that troubles the grand schemes of order and perfection that have become hegemonic in Egypt since the twentieth century. Not an opposition between state and civil society, nor a division between Islamists and secularists, but rather the competition between different perceptions of what makes up a complete life forms the central line of conflict in the contestation of festive culture.

Author: Hannah Maria Jones
Publisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 912

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Author: afterwards Lowndes Jones (Hannah Maria)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 900

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