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Author : Lucy Der Manuelian
Release : 1984-01-01
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Book Synopsis Weavers, Merchants, and Kings by : Lucy Der Manuelian
Download or read book Weavers, Merchants, and Kings written by Lucy Der Manuelian. This book was released on 1984-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lucy Der Manuelian
Release : 1984
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Weavers, Merchants, and Kings by : Lucy Der Manuelian
Download or read book Weavers, Merchants, and Kings written by Lucy Der Manuelian. This book was released on 1984. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Release : 2022
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Book Synopsis Weavers, Merchants and Kings: Large Print Guide by :
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Author : Prasannan Parthasarathi
Release : 2001-04-19
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis The Transition to a Colonial Economy by : Prasannan Parthasarathi
Download or read book The Transition to a Colonial Economy written by Prasannan Parthasarathi. This book was released on 2001-04-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to widespread belief, poverty and low standards of living have been characteristic of India for centuries. Challenging this view, Prasannan Parthasarathi demonstrates that, until the late eighteenth century, labouring groups in South India, those at the bottom of the social order, were in a powerful position, receiving incomes well above subsistence. The decline in their economic fortunes, the author asserts, was a process initiated towards the end of that century, with the rise of colonial rule. Building on revisionist interpretations, he examines the transformation of Indian society and its economy under British rule through the prism of the labouring classes, arguing that their treatment by the early colonial state had no precedent in the pre-colonial past and that poverty and low wages were a product of colonial rule. The book promises to make an important contribution to the economic history of the region, and to the study of colonialism.
Author : Amanda H. Podany
Release : 2022
Genre : Middle East
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Book Synopsis Weavers, Scribes, and Kings by : Amanda H. Podany
Download or read book Weavers, Scribes, and Kings written by Amanda H. Podany. This book was released on 2022. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This sweeping history of the ancient Near East (Mesopotamia, Syria, Anatolia, Iran) takes readers on a journey from the creation of the world's first cities to the conquest of Alexander the Great. The book is built around the life stories of many ancient men and women, from kings, priestesses, and merchants to bricklayers, musicians, and weavers. Their habits of daily life, beliefs, triumphs, and crises, and the changes that they faced over time are explored through their written words and the archaeological remains of the buildings, cities, and empires in which they lived. Rather than chronicling three thousand years of kingdoms, the book instead creates a tapestry of life stories through which readers come to know specific individuals from many walks of life, and to understand their places within the broad history of events and institutions in the ancient Near East. These life stories are preserved on ancient cuneiform tablets, which allow us to trace, for example, the career of a weaver as she advanced to became a supervisor of a workshop, listen to a king trying to persuade his generals to prepare for a siege, and feel the pain of a starving young couple who were driven to sell all four of their young children into slavery during a famine. What might seem at first glance to be a remote and inaccessible ancient culture proves to be a comprehensible world, one that bequeathed to us many of our institutions and beliefs, a truly fascinating place to visit"--
