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Author : Alison Chapman
Release : 2003-06-28
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Unfolding the South by : Alison Chapman
Download or read book Unfolding the South written by Alison Chapman. This book was released on 2003-06-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radically new version of Anglo-Italian cultural relations in the late Romantic and Victorian periods that corrects traditional male-centred accounts.
Author : Kevin Waite
Release : 2021-04-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 201/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis West of Slavery by : Kevin Waite
Download or read book West of Slavery written by Kevin Waite. This book was released on 2021-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through diplomacy, migration, and armed conquest. By the late 1850s, slaveholders and their allies had transformed the southwestern quarter of the nation – California, New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of Utah – into a political client of the plantation states. Across this vast swath of the map, white southerners defended the institution of African American chattel slavery as well as systems of Native American bondage. This surprising history uncovers the Old South in unexpected places, far beyond the region's cotton fields and sugar plantations. Slaveholders' western ambitions culminated in a coast-to-coast crisis of the Union. By 1861, the rebellion in the South inspired a series of separatist movements in the Far West. Even after the collapse of the Confederacy, the threads connecting South and West held, undermining the radical promise of Reconstruction. Kevin Waite brings to light what contemporaries recognized but historians have described only in part: The struggle over slavery played out on a transcontinental stage.
Author : Julian Müller
Release : 2018-07-06
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 801/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Unfolding Narratives of Ubuntu in Southern Africa by : Julian Müller
Download or read book Unfolding Narratives of Ubuntu in Southern Africa written by Julian Müller. This book was released on 2018-07-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ubuntu is the African idea of personhood: persons depend on other persons in order to be. This is summarised in the expression: umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, that is, a person is a person through persons. This edited collection illustrates the power of fictionalised representation in reporting research conducted on Ubuntu in Southern Africa. The chapters insert the concept of Ubuntu within the broad intellectual debate of self and community, to demonstrate its intellectual and philosophical value and theoretical grounding in known practices emanating from the African continent, and indeed how it works to unsettle some of our received notions of the self.
Author : Rakesh Ratti
Release : 1993
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Synopsis A Lotus of Another Color by : Rakesh Ratti
Download or read book A Lotus of Another Color written by Rakesh Ratti. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Unfolding of the South Asian gay and lesbian,experience,Gay men and lesbians from India, Pakistan and,other South Asian countries tell their stories.
Author : Geri H. Malandra
Release : 1993-07-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Unfolding A Mạṇdala by : Geri H. Malandra
Download or read book Unfolding A Mạṇdala written by Geri H. Malandra. This book was released on 1993-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellora is one of the great cave temple sites of India, with thirty-four major Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain monuments of the late sixth to tenth centuries A. D. This book describes the Buddhist caves at Ellora and places them in the context of Buddhist art and iconography. Ellora's twelve Buddhist cave temples, dating from the early seventh to the early eighth centuries, preserve an unparalleled one-hundred-year sequence of architectural and iconographical development. They reveal the evolution of a Buddhist mandala at sites in other regions often considered "peripheral" to the heartland of Buddhism in eastern India. At Ellora, the mandala, ordinarily conceived as a two-dimensional diagram used to focus meditation, is unfolded into the three-dimensional program of the cave temples themselves, enabling devotees to walk through the mandala during worship. The mandala's development at Ellora is explained and its significance is considered for the evolution of Buddhist art and iconography elsewhere in India.
