Author: Leo (Africanus)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The History and Description of Africa
Author: Leo (Africanus)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The History and Description of Africa and of the Notable Things Therein Contained
Author: Leo (Africanus.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The History and Description of Africa
Author: Leo (Africanus)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Book of the Knowledge of All the Kingdoms, Lands, and Lordships that are in the World
Author: Sir Clements Markham
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317173317
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Translation of the Libro del Conoscimiento de todos los reynos. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1912.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317173317
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Translation of the Libro del Conoscimiento de todos los reynos. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1912.
The Book of Duarte Barbosa: Including the coasts of Malabar, eastern India, further India, China, and the Indian archipelago
Author: Duarte Barbosa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Horse as Cultural Icon
Author: Peter Edwards
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004222421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
In modern Western society horses appear as unexpected visitors: not quite exotic, but not familiar either. This estrangement between humans and horses is a recent one since, until the 1930s, horses were fully present in the everyday world. Indeed, as well as performing utilitarian functions, horses possessed iconic appeal. But, despite the importance of horses, scholars have paid little attention to their lives, roles and meanings. This volume helps to redress the balance. It considers the value that the influential elite placed on horses as essential accompaniments to their way of life and as status symbols, as well as the role that horses played in society as a whole and the people who used and cared for them. Contributors include Greg Bankoff, Pia F. Cuneo, Louise Hill Curth, Amanda Eisemann, Jennifer Flaherty, Ian F. MacInnes, Richard Nash, Gavin Robinson, Elizabeth Anne Socolow, Sandra Swart, Elizabeth M. Tobey, Andrea Tonni, and Elaine Walker.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004222421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
In modern Western society horses appear as unexpected visitors: not quite exotic, but not familiar either. This estrangement between humans and horses is a recent one since, until the 1930s, horses were fully present in the everyday world. Indeed, as well as performing utilitarian functions, horses possessed iconic appeal. But, despite the importance of horses, scholars have paid little attention to their lives, roles and meanings. This volume helps to redress the balance. It considers the value that the influential elite placed on horses as essential accompaniments to their way of life and as status symbols, as well as the role that horses played in society as a whole and the people who used and cared for them. Contributors include Greg Bankoff, Pia F. Cuneo, Louise Hill Curth, Amanda Eisemann, Jennifer Flaherty, Ian F. MacInnes, Richard Nash, Gavin Robinson, Elizabeth Anne Socolow, Sandra Swart, Elizabeth M. Tobey, Andrea Tonni, and Elaine Walker.
Shifting Currents
Author: Karen Eva Carr
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789145775
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
A deep dive into the history of aquatics that exposes centuries-old tensions of race, gender, and power at the root of many contemporary swimming controversies. Shifting Currents is an original and comprehensive history of swimming. It examines the tension that arose when non-swimming northerners met African and Southeast Asian swimmers. Using archaeological, textual, and art-historical sources, Karen Eva Carr shows how the water simultaneously attracted and repelled these northerners—swimming seemed uncanny, related to witchcraft and sin. Europeans used Africans’ and Native Americans’ swimming skills to justify enslaving them, but northerners also wanted to claim water’s power for themselves. They imagined that swimming would bring them health and demonstrate their scientific modernity. As Carr reveals, this unresolved tension still sexualizes women’s swimming and marginalizes Black and Indigenous swimmers today. Thus, the history of swimming offers a new lens through which to gain a clearer view of race, gender, and power on a centuries-long scale.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789145775
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
A deep dive into the history of aquatics that exposes centuries-old tensions of race, gender, and power at the root of many contemporary swimming controversies. Shifting Currents is an original and comprehensive history of swimming. It examines the tension that arose when non-swimming northerners met African and Southeast Asian swimmers. Using archaeological, textual, and art-historical sources, Karen Eva Carr shows how the water simultaneously attracted and repelled these northerners—swimming seemed uncanny, related to witchcraft and sin. Europeans used Africans’ and Native Americans’ swimming skills to justify enslaving them, but northerners also wanted to claim water’s power for themselves. They imagined that swimming would bring them health and demonstrate their scientific modernity. As Carr reveals, this unresolved tension still sexualizes women’s swimming and marginalizes Black and Indigenous swimmers today. Thus, the history of swimming offers a new lens through which to gain a clearer view of race, gender, and power on a centuries-long scale.
The Book of Duarte Barbosa
Author: Duarte Barbosa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Book of the Knowledge of All the Kingdoms, Lands, and Lordships that are in the World
Author: Marcos Jiménez de la Espada
Publisher: London, Hakluyt Society
ISBN:
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher: London, Hakluyt Society
ISBN:
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Book of the Knowledge of All the Kingdoms, Lands, and Lordships that are in the World
Author: Sir Clements Robert Markham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emblems, National
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emblems, National
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description