Blood And Bronze

Author : Paddy Docherty
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 178738456X

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The famous Benin Bronzes are among the most prized possessions of the British Museum. Celebrated for their great beauty, they embody the history, myth and artistry of the ancient Kingdom of Benin, once the most powerful in West Africa and now part of Nigeria. But despite their renown, little has been written about the brutal act of imperial violence through which the Bronzes were plundered. This incisive new history tells that neglected story: the 1897 British invasion of Benin. Diving into the archives, Blood and Bronze sets the assault on Benin in its late Victorian context. As Britain faced new commercial and strategic pressures on its power elsewhere, it ruthlessly expanded its rule in West Africa. Revealing both the extent of African resistance and previously concealed British outrages, this is a definitive account of the conquest and destruction of Benin. By laying bare the Empire's true motives and its violent means, Paddy Docherty demolishes any moral claim for Britain retaining the Bronzes, and makes a passionate case for their immediate repatriation to Nigeria.

Author : Paddy Docherty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787387553

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Blood and Bronze by Paddy Docherty Pdf

The famous Benin Bronzes are among the most prized possessions of the British Museum. Celebrated for their great beauty, they embody the history, myth and artistry of the ancient Kingdom of Benin, once the most powerful in West Africa and now part of Nigeria. But despite their renown, little has been written about the brutal act of imperial violence through which the Bronzes were plundered. This incisive new history tells that neglected story: the 1897 British invasion of Benin. Diving into the archives, Blood and Bronze sets the assault on Benin in its late Victorian context. As Britain faced new commercial and strategic pressures on its power elsewhere, it ruthlessly expanded its rule in West Africa. Revealing both the extent of African resistance and previously concealed British outrages, this is a definitive account of the conquest and destruction of Benin. By laying bare the Empire's true motives and its violent means, Paddy Docherty demolishes any moral claim for Britain retaining the Bronzes, and makes a passionate case for their immediate repatriation to Nigeria.

Author : David J. Guyton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : Heroes
ISBN : 1456379240

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Blood and Bronze by David J. Guyton Pdf

Book Two of The Legend of Reason SeriesThe doom of the western world is on the horizon. Hope that was promised has turned to dust, and the violent storms of rebellion begin. Armies march from distant lands to destroy Medora as it rots from within. Beings from hidden realms demand their freedom, or threaten all of mankind with their legions of the dead.But saving them would send every living soul into darkness, and Rommus will not obey. Threads are removed from the fabric of reality and mighty nations fall. The god of war may have been robbed of his power, but there is more to this man than his enemies know.Will Medora fall to shadow and flame? Or can our heroes bring the light of freedom to the fallen realms?

Author : John-Matthew DeFoggi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781472837431

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Jackals by John-Matthew DeFoggi Pdf

The Zaharets, the land between the Vori Wastes and the Plains of Aeco, is well-known as the Land of Risings. Dominated by the rising city-states of Ameena Noani and Sentem, facing each other along the great War Road, the Zaharets has always been home to powerful civilizations. Beastmen ruins dot the landscape, a constant reminder of the Kingdom of Sin and the fragility of the Law of Men. Even older are the great ruins of the Hulathi, the legendary sea peoples, and the Hannic mansions sealed beneath the mountains, awaiting those who would seek out the Lost Folk. Scars abound from the wars between ruined Keta in the north and Gerwa in the south. And, far to the east, the legends of Muadah still beckon occultists and Jackals who seek to plunder its corrupted ruins. Inspired by the myths, cultures, and history of the Ancient Near East, and by such ancient texts as the Iliad, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Old Testament, Jackals is a Sword & Sorcery roleplaying game set in a Fantasy Bronze Age. With mechanics based on the popular OpenQuest system, the game places players in the role of Jackals – adventurers, explorers, sellswords, and scavengers – and sends them out into the peril-filled land of the Zaharets to make their fortune... or perhaps fulfill a greater destiny...

Author : Benno Schotz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Sculptors
ISBN : 0903065371

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Bronze in My Blood by Benno Schotz Pdf

Author : Eric Farrington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781472832597

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Men of Bronze by Eric Farrington Pdf

Men of Bronze is a wargame that allows you to play out Classical Greek hoplite battles on the tabletop. Players are Strategoi (generals) leading phalanxes of bronze-clad warriors in pursuit of fame, glory, and the honor of their city-states. To win such prizes, however, you must prove your mettle, display your valor, and bring the other Strategoi to their knees! Designed to recreate small battles or larger skirmishes with 50–80 figures per side, each army will have its own unique mix of rules, advantages, backgrounds, and abilities. Strategoi must understand and appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of their forces in order to win glory on the battlefield. Of course, there's no telling what tricks a rival Strategos might have up their tunic sleeves...

Author : A. A. Aguirre
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101622384

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Bronze Gods by A. A. Aguirre Pdf

Danger stalks the city of steam and shadows. Janus Mikani and Celeste Ritsuko work all hours in the Criminal Investigation Division, keeping citizens safe. He’s a charming rogue with an uncanny sixth sense; she’s all logic—and the division’s first female inspector. Between his instincts and her brains, they collar more criminals than any other partnership in the CID. Then they’re assigned a potentially volatile case in which one misstep could end their careers. At first, the search for a missing heiress seems straightforward, but when the girl is found murdered—her body charred to cinders—Mikani and Ritsuko’s modus operandi is challenged as never before. It soon becomes clear the bogeyman has stepped out of nightmares to stalk gaslit streets, and it’s up to them to hunt him down. There’s a madman on the loose, weaving blood and magic in an intricate, lethal ritual that could mean the end of everything…

Author : Barnaby Phillips
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786079367

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Loot by Barnaby Phillips Pdf

A Prospect Best Book of 2021 ‘A fascinating and timely book.’ William Boyd ‘Gripping…a must read.’ FT ‘Compelling…humane, reasonable, and ultimately optimistic.’ Evening Standard ‘[A] valuable guide to a complex narrative.’ The Times In 1897, Britain sent a punitive expedition to the Kingdom of Benin, in what is today Nigeria, in retaliation for the killing of seven British officials and traders. British soldiers and sailors captured Benin, exiled its king and annexed the territory. They also made off with some of Africa’s greatest works of art. The ‘Benin Bronzes’ are now amongst the most admired and valuable artworks in the world. But seeing them in the British Museum today is, in the words of one Benin City artist, like ‘visiting relatives behind bars’. In a time of huge controversy about the legacy of empire, racial justice and the future of museums, what does the future hold for the Bronzes?

Author : Helen Hills
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781526100399

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The matter of miracles by Helen Hills Pdf

This book investigates baroque architecture through the lens of San Gennaro’s miraculously liquefying blood in Naples. This vantage point allows a bracing and thoroughly original rethink of the power of baroque relics and reliquaries. It shows how a focus on miracles produces original interpretations of architecture, sanctity and place which will engage architectural historians everywhere. The matter of the baroque miracle extends into a rigorous engagement with natural history, telluric philosophy, new materialism, theory and philosophy. The study will transform our understanding of baroque art and architecture, sanctity and Naples. Bristling with new archival materials and historical insights, this study lifts the baroque from its previous marginalisation to engage fiercely with materiality and potentiality and thus unleash baroque art and architecture as productive and transformational.

Author : Ian Livingstone
Publisher : Wizard Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1848314051

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Blood of the Zombies by Ian Livingstone Pdf

Fighting Fantasy co-creator Ian Livingstone OBE brings the world's original gamebook series - 30 years old in August 2012 - to the world of the zombie. Terrible things are happening in Goraya castle... Insane megalomaniac Gingrich Yurr is preparing to unleash an army of monstrous zombies upon the world. He must be stopped and his undead horde defeated. In this life-or-death adventure the decisions YOU make will decide the fate of the world. Can YOU survive or will YOU become a zombie too? A Fighting Fantasy gamebook in which YOU are the hero.

Author : George Jackson
Publisher : Black Classic Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0933121237

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Blood in My Eye by George Jackson Pdf

Originally published: New York: Random House, 1972.

Author : Paul Langan,D. M. Blackwell
Publisher : Townsend Press
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781591940166

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Blood is Thicker by Paul Langan,D. M. Blackwell Pdf

Hakeem and Savon are cousins who do not get along at first but work things out.

Author : Michael W. Cole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521813212

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Cellini and the Principles of Sculpture by Michael W. Cole Pdf

Benvenuto Cellini is an incomparable source on the nature of artmaking in sixteenth century Italy. A practicing artist who worked in gold, bronze, marble, as well as on paper, he was also the author of treatises, discourses, poems and letters about his own work and the works of contemporaries. By examining how Cellini and those around him viewed the act of sculpture in the late Renaissance, Michael Cole demonstrates his continuing relevance to the broader study of artistic theory and practice in his time.

Author : Jane Nickerson
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307976062

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Strands of Bronze and Gold by Jane Nickerson Pdf

The Bluebeard fairy tale retold. . . . When seventeen-year-old Sophia Petheram’s beloved father dies, she receives an unexpected letter. An invitation—on fine ivory paper, in bold black handwriting—from the mysterious Monsieur Bernard de Cressac, her godfather. With no money and fewer options, Sophie accepts, leaving her humble childhood home for the astonishingly lavish Wyndriven Abbey, in the heart of Mississippi. Sophie has always longed for a comfortable life, and she finds herself both attracted to and shocked by the charm and easy manners of her overgenerous guardian. But as she begins to piece together the mystery of his past, it’s as if, thread by thread, a silken net is tightening around her. And as she gathers stories and catches whispers of his former wives—all with hair as red as her own—in the forgotten corners of the abbey, Sophie knows she’s trapped in the passion and danger of de Cressac’s intoxicating world. Glowing strands of romance, mystery, and suspense are woven into this breathtaking debut—a thrilling retelling of the “Bluebeard” fairy tale.

Author : James FitzGerald
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679313168

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What Disturbs Our Blood by James FitzGerald Pdf

A rich, unmined piece of Canadian history, an intense psychological drama, a mystery to be solved . . . and a hardwon escape from a family curse. Like his friends Banting and Best, Dr. John FitzGerald was a Canadian hero. He founded Connaught Labs, saved untold lives with his vaccines and transformed the idea of public health in Canada and the world. What so darkened his reputation that his memory has been all but erased? A sensitive, withdrawn boy is born into the gothic house of his long dead grandfather, a brilliant yet tormented pathologist of Irish blood and epic accomplishment whose memory has been mysteriously erased from public consciousness. As the boy watches his own father—also an eminent doctor—plunge into a suicidal psychosis, he intuits, as the psychiatrists do not, some unspeakable secret buried like a tumour deep in the multi-generational layers of the family unconscious. Growing into manhood, he knows in his bones that he must stalk an ancient curse before it stalks him. To set himself free, he must break the silence and put words to the page. His future lies in the past.