Author: Vincent Serventy
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Languages : en
Pages : 14
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The Barbarians of Barrow Island
Author: Vincent Serventy
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Report on Barrow Island
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Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Languages : en
Pages : 46
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The Barbarians
Author: Peter Bogucki
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780237650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Beginning in the Stone Age and continuing through the collapse of the Roman empire, a fascinating exploration of the increasing complexity, technological accomplishments, and distinctive practices of the non-literate peoples known as Barbarians. We often think of the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome as discrete incubators of Western culture, places where ideas about everything from government to art to philosophy were free to develop and then be distributed outward into the wider Mediterranean world. But as Peter Bogucki reminds us in this book, Greece and Rome did not develop in isolation. All around them were rural communities who had remarkably different cultures, ones few of us know anything about. Telling the stories of these nearly forgotten people, he offers a long-overdue enrichment of how we think about classical antiquity. As Bogucki shows, the lands to the north of the Greek and Roman peninsulas were inhabited by non-literate communities that stretched across river valleys, mountains, plains, and shorelines from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east. What we know about them is almost exclusively through archeological finds of settlements, offerings, monuments, and burials—but these remnants paint a portrait that is just as compelling as that of the great literate, urban civilizations of this time. Bogucki sketches the development of these groups’ cultures from the Stone Age through the collapse of the Roman Empire in the west, highlighting the increasing complexity of their societal structures, their technological accomplishments, and their distinct cultural practices. He shows that we are still learning much about them, as he examines new historical and archeological discoveries as well as the ways our knowledge about these groups has led to a vibrant tourist industry and even influenced politics. The result is a fascinating account of several nearly vanished cultures and the modern methods that have allowed us to rescue them from historical oblivion.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780237650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Beginning in the Stone Age and continuing through the collapse of the Roman empire, a fascinating exploration of the increasing complexity, technological accomplishments, and distinctive practices of the non-literate peoples known as Barbarians. We often think of the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome as discrete incubators of Western culture, places where ideas about everything from government to art to philosophy were free to develop and then be distributed outward into the wider Mediterranean world. But as Peter Bogucki reminds us in this book, Greece and Rome did not develop in isolation. All around them were rural communities who had remarkably different cultures, ones few of us know anything about. Telling the stories of these nearly forgotten people, he offers a long-overdue enrichment of how we think about classical antiquity. As Bogucki shows, the lands to the north of the Greek and Roman peninsulas were inhabited by non-literate communities that stretched across river valleys, mountains, plains, and shorelines from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east. What we know about them is almost exclusively through archeological finds of settlements, offerings, monuments, and burials—but these remnants paint a portrait that is just as compelling as that of the great literate, urban civilizations of this time. Bogucki sketches the development of these groups’ cultures from the Stone Age through the collapse of the Roman Empire in the west, highlighting the increasing complexity of their societal structures, their technological accomplishments, and their distinct cultural practices. He shows that we are still learning much about them, as he examines new historical and archeological discoveries as well as the ways our knowledge about these groups has led to a vibrant tourist industry and even influenced politics. The result is a fascinating account of several nearly vanished cultures and the modern methods that have allowed us to rescue them from historical oblivion.
The Discovery of Australia
Author: George Arnold Wood
Publisher: Melborne, Macmillan
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Publisher: Melborne, Macmillan
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Names
Author: Leopold Wagner
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Category : Names
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Category : Names
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Names: and Their Meaning
Author: Leopold Wagner
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow
Author: Isaac Barrow
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Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Unfinished Voyages
Author: Graeme Henderson
Publisher: UWA Publishing
ISBN: 9781920694883
Category : Coasts
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
An invaluable guide for maritime archeologists, recreational divers, historians and others interested in the drama adventure and romance of Western Australia's rich maritime history.
Publisher: UWA Publishing
ISBN: 9781920694883
Category : Coasts
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
An invaluable guide for maritime archeologists, recreational divers, historians and others interested in the drama adventure and romance of Western Australia's rich maritime history.
The Barbarian Conversion
Author: Richard A. Fletcher
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520218598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
"An investigation of the process by which large parts of Europe accepted the Christian faith between the fourth and the fourteenth centuries and of some of the cultural consequences that flowed therefrom." In a work of splendid scholarship that reflects both a firm mastery of difficult sources and a keen intuition, one of Britain's foremost medievalists tells the story of the Christianization of Europe. It is a very large story, for conversion encompassed much more than religious belief. With it came enormous cultural change: Latin literacy and books, Roman notions of law and property, and the concept of town life, as well as new tastes in food, drink, and dress. Whether from faith or by force, from self-interest or by revelation, conversion had an immense impact that is with us even today.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520218598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
"An investigation of the process by which large parts of Europe accepted the Christian faith between the fourth and the fourteenth centuries and of some of the cultural consequences that flowed therefrom." In a work of splendid scholarship that reflects both a firm mastery of difficult sources and a keen intuition, one of Britain's foremost medievalists tells the story of the Christianization of Europe. It is a very large story, for conversion encompassed much more than religious belief. With it came enormous cultural change: Latin literacy and books, Roman notions of law and property, and the concept of town life, as well as new tastes in food, drink, and dress. Whether from faith or by force, from self-interest or by revelation, conversion had an immense impact that is with us even today.
The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow, D.D., Etc. The English Works
Author: Isaac Barrow
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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