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Author : John O. Hunwick,Nancy Ellen Lawler
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 081011299X
A collection of essays honouring African scholar Ivor Wilks.
Author : D. M. Campan
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781473355361
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Yan Chen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498544061
This translation of collected articles by Yan Chen (1916–2016) examines the role of the Maritime Silk Road in the formation of world civilizations. Analyzing the Maritime Silk Road’s political, economic, cultural, and technological influence, Chen argues that this expansive trade network was vital to the spread of traditional Chinese culture.
Author : Gilbert Waldbauer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520268074
"Gilbert Waldbauer takes us on a wild and storied ride through the insect world. Page after page, Fireflies, Honey, and Silk is highly entertaining, authoritative, encyclopedic, mesmerizing."—Erich Hoyt, author of Insect Lives and The Earth Dwellers: Adventures in the Land of Ants "In Fireflies, Honey, and Silk, Waldbauer serves up a veritable smorgasbord of insects from around the world whose lives directly intersect our whims and desires. With wide-ranging essays, the author reveals species that not only please and inspire us, but also those we have used to nourish, adorn, and cure our bodies."—Arthur V. Evans, author of National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Insects and Spiders of North America and What's Bugging You?
Author : Zara Anishanslin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300220551
Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While most scholarship on commodities focuses either on labor and production or on consumption and use, Anishanslin unifies both, examining the worlds of four identifiable people who produced, wore, and represented this object: a London weaver, one of early modern Britain’s few women silk designers, a Philadelphia merchant’s wife, and a New England painter. Blending macro and micro history with nuanced gender analysis, Anishanslin shows how making, buying, and using goods in the British Atlantic created an object-based community that tied its inhabitants together, while also allowing for different views of the Empire. Investigating a range of subjects including self-fashioning, identity, natural history, politics, and trade, Anishanslin makes major contributions both to the study of material culture and to our ongoing conversation about how to write history.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Art
ISBN : MINN:319510007447197
Author : Luca Molà
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801876554
How 16th century Venetian silk manufacturers met the challenge of demand for lighter and cheaper fabric. The manufacture of luxury textiles, such as silk, was central to an Italian Renaissance economy based on status and conspicuous consumption. From the rapidly changing fashions that drove demand to the jobs created for craftsmen, weavers, and merchants, the wealth and prestige associated with silk throughout Europe made it Italy's leading export industry. In this important book, Luca Molà examines the silk industry in Renaissance Venice amid changing markets, suppliers, producers, and government regulations. Drawing on archival research and a vast amount of European scholarship, Molà documents the innovations Venetians made in manufacturing and marketing to spur the silk industry. He uncovers the alliance between manufacturers and government to promote the industry in a changing international economic environment. Through flexible laws, quality was regulated to meet the varying requirements of an increasing range of customers. Molà also analyzes state policy that favored the development and organization of silk producers throughout the Terraferma. His findings contribute in an important way to the ongoing scholarly assessment of Venice's place in the economy of the Renaissance and the Mediterranean world.
Author : William E. Mierse
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216184218
Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road explores the interconnectivity of the Eurasian continent from 4000 BCE to 1000 CE. It focuses on the role played by Central Asia through which passed the major trade routes, the Silk Roads. Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road covers life along the Silk Road over 5000 years as it can be understood by considering objects. In this first object-based study to consider all of the peoples involved on the Silk Roads, objects provide the vehicles for explorations of different aspects of life for the various peoples of the Silk Roads, including the sedentary peoples who established urban life on the Silk Roads, the steppe nomads who regularly interacted with the settled peoples, and the peoples at either end of the Silk Roads who drove certain kinds of economic exchanges. The book looks at Central Asia as an international zone during ancient times when multiple religious, political, and technological ideas found acceptance in the region and allows for a better understanding of how some ideas and forms developed in Central Asia while others passed through or were modified.
Author : John K. Thornton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135365844
Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 investigates the impact of warfare on the history of Africa in the period of the slave trade and the founding of empires. It includes the discussion of: : * the relationship between war and the slave trade * the role of Europeans in promoting African wars and supplying African armies * the influence of climatic and ecological factors on warfare patterns and dynamics * the impact of social organization and military technology, including the gunpowder revolution * case studies of warfare in Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, Benin and West Central Africa
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004380189
Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past outlines new directions in the historiography of West Africa. Its chapters explore new trends across regional and disciplinary fields with a focus on how political conjunctures influence source production and circulation.
Author : E. Ann McDougall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317980902
Engaging with a Legacy shows how Nehemia Levtzion shaped our understanding of Islam in Africa and influenced successive scholarly generations in their approach to Islamization, conversion and fundamentalism. The book illuminates his work, career and family life – including his own ‘life vision’ on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It speaks to his relationship with researchers at home and abroad as mentor, colleague and provocateur; in one section, several authors reflect on those dynamics in terms of personal and professional development. Levtzion’s contemporaries also speak of interactions with him (and his life-long companion, wife Tirza) in the 1950s and 1960s; we see in these writings the birth of West African historical studies. Levtzion’s arrival as Israeli graduate-student in Nkrumah’s Egyptian-leaning Ghana, and the debate over what ‘African Studies’ should mean in an environment that included the personal intervention of W.E.B. Du Bois, are stories told for the first time. Most poignant is the account of Levtzion’s commitment to building African Studies, complete with emphasis on Islam, in the heart of the Jewish state at The Hebrew University. His never-ending defence of the program reflected his determination to be both ‘engaged historian’ and ‘engaged Israeli’ – a legacy he chose for himself. Finally, an ‘Epilogue’ to the original publication shows how one aspect this legacy, Levtzion’s growing preoccupation with the ‘public sphere in Muslim societies’, has become even more relevant in ‘post-Arab Spring’ Africa and the Middle East. This book was published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of African Studies.
Author : Ann Sophia Stephens,Charles Jacobs Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435051607844
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : American literature
ISBN : IND:32000000715930
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Sericulture
ISBN : HARVARD:HNUJ2J
Author : Mary Schoeser
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300117417
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