This entertaining account of the English in India studies the behavior and the customs of the English from the very first connections down to the end of the eighteenth-century. It attempts to trace and account for the various phases of the development of the social life of the English in eighteenth-century India. The author, the late Dr. Percival Spear (1901-1982) taught history at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and was the author of The Oxford History of Modern India 1740-1975.
Rhetorik von Produktwerbeplakaten und Theaterplakaten im Vergleich
by Sabrina Trivigno
A Voice Great Within Us (Transmontanus, #7)
by Charles Lillard, Terry Glavin, and Terry Galvin
Das bayerische Nationalmuseum
by Vorstand Des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums
This book sets out to answer the question of why Eastern Church writers showed no interest in analytical reasoning - the so-called "intellectual silence" of Rus' culture - while Western Church writers, by the time of the Scholastics, routinely incorporated analytical reasoning into their defences of the faith. Donald Ostrowski suggests that Western, post-Enlightenment- trained, analytical scholars miss the point, not because of an inability to comprehend cultural ideas which seem abstract and in...
Traffic in Asian Women (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)
by Laura Hyun Yi Kang
In Traffic in Asian Women Laura Hyun Yi Kang demonstrates that the figure of "Asian women" functions as an analytic with which to understand the emergence, decline, and permutation of U.S. power/knowledge at the nexus of capitalism, state power, global governance, and knowledge production throughout the twentieth century. Kang analyzes the establishment, suppression, forgetting, and illegibility of the Japanese military "comfort system" (1932-1945) within that broader geohistorical arc. Although...
Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States (From the Colonial Times Through the Civil War, #1)
by Herbert Aptheker
The advent of the twenty-first century marks a significant moment in the history of Latinos in the United States. The “fourth wave” of immigration to America is primarily Latino, and the last decades of the twentieth century saw a significant increase in the number of Latino migrants, a diversification of the nations contributing to this migration, and an increase in the size of the native-born Latino population. A backlash against unauthorized immigration, which may indict all Latinos, is also...
Wider Erwarten hielt auch der Neutestamentler Rudolf Bultmann seinerzeit die Existenz eines "Urmarkus" fur gegeben. Doch dessen Rekonstruktion galt damals als kaum moeglich. Der Autor dieser Arbeit stutzt sich nun auf eine theologisch orientierte Literarkritik und arbeitet zwei Fassungen des Markusevangeliums heraus: ein juden-christlich-apokalyptisches Fruhevangelium aus der Zeit kurz vor dem Jahr 70 und dessen hellenisierende Bearbeitung eine Weile nach 70. Theologisch zielt das Fruhevangelium...
In this book, Sharada Balachandran Orihuela examines property ownership and its connections to citizenship, race and slavery, and piracy as seen through the lens of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature. Balachandran Orihuela defines piracy expansively, from the familiar concept of nautical pirates and robbery in international waters to post-revolutionary counterfeiting, transnational slave escape, and the illegal trade of cotton across the Americas during the Civil War. Weaving...
Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery
by Professor Noah Brooks
Walking and the French Romantics (French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, v. 13)
by C.W. Thompson
A study of race and sexuality and their interdependencies in American literature from 1945 to 1955, Desegregating Desire examines the varied strategies used by eight American poets and novelists to integrate sexuality into their respective depictions of desegregated places and emergent identities in the aftermath of World War II. Focusing on both progressive and conventional forms of cross-race writing and interracial intimacy, the book is organized around four pairs of writers. Chapter one exam...
