Hammer And Anvil

Author : James Swallow
Publisher : Games Workshop
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1849700664

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Hammer and Anvil by James Swallow Pdf

The Sisters of Battle are the Emperor's most devout worshippers, fierce warriors preaching the purity of the Imperium and scourging their enemies with bolter and flamer. When an Ecclesiarchy outpost, Sanctuary 101, comes under attack, the Sisters are quick to retaliate. But they face an unknown alien, an implacable foe that has never been encountered – the fearless, soulless necrons. With wave after wave of metallic nightmares assaulting the bastion, a vicious battle will be fought – one that can only end in the total destruction of the unrelenting xenos, or the annihilation of the proud Sororitas.

Author : Pamela Kyle Crossley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442214453

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Hammer and Anvil by Pamela Kyle Crossley Pdf

This groundbreaking book examines the role of rulers with nomadic roots in transforming the great societies of Eurasia, especially from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries. Distinguished historian Pamela Kyle Crossley, drawing on the long history of nomadic confrontation with Eurasia’s densely populated civilizations, argues that the distinctive changes we associate with modernity were founded on vernacular literature and arts, rising literacy, mercantile and financial economies, religious dissidence, independent learning, and self-legitimating rulership. Crossley finds that political traditions of Central Asia insulated rulers from established religious authority and promoted the objectification of cultural identities marked by language and faith, which created a mutual encouragement of cultural and political change. As religious and social hierarchies weakened, political centralization and militarization advanced. But in the spheres of religion and philosophy, iconoclasm enjoyed a new life. The changes cumulatively defined a threshold of the modern world, beyond which lay early nationalism, imperialism, and the novel divisions of Eurasia into “East” and “West.” Synthesizing new interpretive approaches and grand themes of world history from 1000 to 1500, Crossley reveals the unique importance of Turkic and Mongol regimes in shaping Eurasia’s economic, technological, and political evolution toward our modern world.

Author : Thomas E. Ewing
Publisher : Sinor Research Institute of Inner Asian Studies
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1980-12
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019982274

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Between the Hammer and the Anvil? by Thomas E. Ewing Pdf

Focusing on the decade from 1911 to 1921, which saw near cataclysmic upheavals throughout much of Eurasia that led to the collapse of major empires from the Hapsburg to the Romanov to the Qing, but also witnessed the rise of youthful regimes from their ashes. Among the latter was Outer Mongolia, which renounced two centuries of vasslage to China and declared its intention to create an independent, Westernized nation. This book examines the political maneuverings of Chinese and Russians over Mongolia's fate.

Author : Dwight Jon Zimmerman
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-17
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0809053586

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The Hammer and the Anvil by Dwight Jon Zimmerman Pdf

The period leading up to the Civil War was one of great change. Congress divided itself between Northerners and Southerners, citizens on the frontier took up arms against one another, and movements for secession and abolition were more urgent than ever. In The Hammer and the Anvil, the award-winning author Dwight Jon Zimmerman and the renowned artist Wayne Vansant vividly depict the tumultuous time through the lives of two men who defined it: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. With a foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson, The Hammer and the Anvil reveals that its protagonists each wrestled with the question of slavery from a young age. Douglass, a slave who was spared no brutality, once fought an especially cruel master and eventually escaped north to freedom. Lincoln, who was hired out by his father to do manual labor on neighbors' farms, found this harsh life intolerable. As a senator, Lincoln sought ways to end the westward spread of slavery, believing that adding free states to the Union would diminish the power of the Southern states and lead to the gradual disappearance of the "peculiar institution." Douglass was less patient. He had become a skilled orator and an influential editor of Northern abolitionist journals, and called on white Americans to honor their nation's founding commitment to liberty. When the Civil War erupted in April 1861, Douglass hoped that the conflict would mean the end of slavery. But Lincoln delayed emancipation, and Douglass despaired--until he met the president face-to-face and recognized that their causes were one and the same. Featuring evocative and dramatic scenes of this seminal time, The Hammer and the Anvil will engage both Civil War buffs and young people new to the study of American history.

Author : Holger H. Herwig
Publisher : Lexington, Mass. ; Toronto : D.C. Heath
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Germany
ISBN : UCSC:32106011030258

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Hammer Or Anvil? by Holger H. Herwig Pdf

Hammer or Anvil? explores the major forces shaping Germany during the modern era: the ongoing Austro-Prussian rivalry; the building of a nation-state; industrial and urban growth; and the formation of the modern bureaucratic and military state.

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575121119

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Hammer and Anvil by Harry Turtledove Pdf

Videssos was beset by enemies. A pretender held the throne - a despot who cared little that barbarian hordes and rival realms carved away at his empire, so long as the wealth and booty of the land satisfied his unbridled appetites. Few stood against him. And those few soon found their heads on pikes. Only one name held hope for freedom: Maniakes. And from his exile on the very edge of the civilised world, young Maniakes took up the challenge, rallied his forces, and sailed off to topple the tyrant. But that tyrant would use every means at his disposal - fair or most hideously foul - to destroy the crusading upstart. And even if Maniakes could stay alive, he would till have to pull together a battered, divided land as well as fend off a host of enemies - and thwart the former friend who had become his empire's most deadly foe!

Author : Ali Al Shihabi
Publisher : Markus Wiener Publishers
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1558766138

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The Saudi Kingdom by Ali Al Shihabi Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Skipjack Press, Inc.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1879535092

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New Edge of the Anvil by Anonim Pdf

Designed as a comprehensive guide for the beginner or a reference for the advanced metalworker, with complete coverage of tools, equipment, and creative and technical processes. Includes very fine b & w photographs of the work of Samuel Yellin and Martin Rose.

Author : Larissa Reisner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912926911

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The Hammer and the Anvil by Larissa Reisner Pdf

Written in a unique style, which combines poetic flourishes with first-rate reportage, Larissa Reisner's reports include vivid descriptions of the disastrous retreat from Volga naval base at Kazan and the miraculous turnaround which emerged after the arrival of Trotsky's famous armoured train and the heroic defence of the hitherto unknown outpost of Sviyazhsk. In this crucible, the beginnings of what would become the Red Army and Red Navy were forged. In addition to a new translation of Larissa Reisner's writings from this period, this book includes a chapter by Trotsky from his autobiography, plus brief biographies of leading participants, most of whom did not survive the Stalin era and were subsequently written out of history.

Author : Thomas Kala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : English fiction
ISBN : LCCN:gb80016921

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The Hammer and the Anvil by Thomas Kala Pdf

Based on the life of Joan of Arc.

Author : Friedrich Spielhagen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : German fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:32044087195012

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Hammer and Anvil by Friedrich Spielhagen Pdf

Author : Pamela Kyle Crossley
Publisher : Polity
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745633008

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What is Global History? by Pamela Kyle Crossley Pdf

Global and world history address the deep structural changes that have shaped human experience. Many are material, related to environmental and climatic alteration, to the domestication of livestock and development of agriculture, to technology, to disease, and to variations in human immunity, reproduction, and physiology. Others are social and cultural, touching upon issues of migration, trade, language development and differentiation, institutions of enslavement and of freedom, traditions of marriage and child-rearing, the emergence of large-scale political organization from early kingdoms to vast empires, republics and federations, and the management of war and peace. To deal with such challenging issues, global historians draw upon new techniques of analysis and comparison. But they also continue venerable traditions, inherited from the earliest civilizations, of narrating the past on the most comprehensive and significant scale possible. This book examines the long search for an integrated human story, and particularly the points at which rapid changes of philosophy and perspective in the twentieth century transformed the historical disciplines. It provides the perfect introduction to global history for students and scholars alike.

Author : Richard A. Postman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Anvils
ISBN : CORNELL:31924086630682

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Anvils in America by Richard A. Postman Pdf

Author : J. Boyce Gleason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578902532

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Anvil of God by J. Boyce Gleason Pdf

It is 741. After conquering a continent for the Merovingian kings, only one thing stands between Charles Martel and the throne - he's dying. Charles cobbles together a plan to divide the kingdom among his three sons, betroth his daughter to a Lombard prince, and keep the Church unified behind them through his friend Bishop Boniface. Despite his best efforts, the only thing to reign after Charles's death is chaos. His daughter has no intention of marrying anyone, let alone a Lombard prince. His two eldest sons question the rights of their younger pagan stepbrother, and the Church demands a steep price for their support. Son battles son, Christianity battles paganism, and Charles's daughter flees his court for an enemy's love. Based on a true story, Anvil of God is a whirlwind of love, honor, sacrifice, and betrayal that follows a bereaved family's relentless quest for power and destiny.

Author : James Swallow
Publisher : Games Workshop
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1844162893

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Faith and Fire by James Swallow Pdf

Science fiction-roman.