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John T. Chalcraft - The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories, Crafts and Guilds in Egypt, 186 3-1914 (2004).jpg

All History - John T. Chalcraft - The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and...r Stories, Crafts and Guilds in Egypt, 1863-1914 2004.jpg

This book charts new directions in Egyptian social history, providing the first systematic account of adaptation and protest among crafts and service workers in Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using a wealth of new sources, John T. Chalcraft challenges conventional notions of craft stagnation and decline by recovering the largely unknown histories of crafts workers' restructuring in the face of world economic integration, and their petitions, demonstrations, and strikeaction at a time of statebuilding and colonial rule. Chalcraft demonstrates the economic importance of petty producers and service providers, and tells the story of widespread collective assertion couched in new discourses of citizenship and nationalism. He also gives a new interpretation of the end of the guilds in Egypt and addresses larger debates about unevenness under capitalism.

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John T. Chalcraft - The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories, Crafts and Guilds in Egypt, 186 3-1914 (2004).pdf

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Frantz Fanon - Toward the African Revolution (1994 ).jpg

This powerful collection of articles, essays, and letters spans the period between Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Fanon’s landmark manifesto on the psychology of the colonized and the means of empowerment necessary for their liberation. These pieces display the genesis of some of Fanon’s greatest ideas — ideas that became so vital to the leaders of the American civil rights movement.

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Frantz Fanon - Toward the African Revolution (1994 ).pdf

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Sarah Thursfield - The Medieval Tailor's Assistant , Making Common Garments 1200-1500 (2001).jpg

For anyone interested in making a medieval garment, but who doesn't know where to begin: this book is for you.

This book covers everything you ever wanted to know about medieval clothing, from measurements, patterns and materials to methods of construction. It has over 400 illustrations of medieval clothing, and 121 patterns for shirts and smocks, cotes, doublets, kirtles, hose, surcotes, cotehardies, gowns, overkirtles, cloaks, children's clothing, headwear, and accessories.

Current books on the subject of Medieval costume concentrate either on research (with good information on what was worn, but little on how to actually make it) or towards theatrical costume (with information on how to make the items, but dubious historical accuracy.) The Medieval Tailor's Assistant is the best of both worlds, combining solid research and detailed "how-to" information into one volume.

This book is geared more toward the novice or intermediate costumer and sewer than toward the advanced historic costume researcher. As it is not primarily a research work, it doesn't delve into original sources as much as books like Janet Arnold's "Patterns of Fashion." The research which went into it is very good, however, and it gives less experienced historic costumers a splendid place to start.

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Sarah Thursfield - The Medieval Tailor's Assistant , Making Common Garments 1200-1500 (2001).pdf

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Dana Arnold - Tracing Architecture, The Aesthetics of Antiquarianism (2003).jpg

Tracing Architecture looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design. It explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before the introduction of mass mechanical reproduction.
* Discusses the discovery of the ancient world through the medium of print in the long eighteenth century.
* Looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design.
* Considers the interrelationship between architecture, antiquity and aesthetics in a pan-European context.
* Explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before the introduction of mass mechanical reproduction.

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Dana Arnold - Tracing Architecture, The Aesthetics of Antiquarianism (2003).pdf

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Robert Holland - Britain and the Revolt in Cyprus, 1954-1959 (1999).jpg

This is the first in-depth reconstruction of a major British decolonization based fully on original documentation. It is essential reading for anybody interested in the response of policy makers to the challenge of 'terrorism' overseas after 1945, the liquidation of the British Empire, the breakdown of ethnic co-existence under intense pressure, and the effects of regional destabilization on the wider international system.

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Robert Holland - Britain and the Revolt in Cyprus, 1954-1959 (1999).pdf

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Jonathan Fenby - Alliance, The Inside Story of How Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill Won One War and B egan Another (2007).jpg

All History - Jonathan Fenby - Alliance, The Inside Story of How Ro...alin and Churchill Won One War and Began Another 2007.jpg

The history of the Second World War is usually told through its decisive battles and campaigns. But behind the front lines, behind even the command centres of Allied generals and military planners, a different level of strategic thinking was going on. Throughout the war the 'Big Three' - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin - met in various permutations and locations to thrash out ways to defeat Nazi Germany - and, just as importantly, to decide the way Europe would look after the war. This was the political rather than military struggle: a battle of wills and diplomacy between three men with vastly differing backgrounds, characters - and agendas. Focusing on the riveting interplay between these three extraordinary personalities, Jonathan Fenby re-creates the major Allied conferences including Casablanca, Potsdam and Yalta to show exactly who bullied whom, who was really in control, and how the key decisions were taken. With his customary flair for narrative, character and telling detail, Fenby's account reveals what really went on in those smoke-filled rooms and shows how "jaw-jaw" as well as "war-war" led to Hitler's defeat and the shape of the post-war world.

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Cristina Rojas - Civilization And Violence, Regime s of Representation in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (2001).jpg

All History - Cristina Rojas - Civilization And Violence, Regimes o...of Representation in Nineteenth-Century Colombia 2001.jpg

Civilization and violence are not necessarily the antagonists we presume-with civilization taming violence, and violence unmaking civilization. Focusing on postindependence Colombia, this book brings to light the ways in which violence and civilization actually intertwined and reinforced each other in the development of postcolonial capitalism.
The narratives of civilization and violence, Cristina Rojas contends, play key roles in the formation of racial, gender, and class identities; they also provide pivotal logic to both the formation of the nation and the processes of capitalist development. During the Liberal era of Colombian history (1849-1878), a dominant Creole elite enforced a "will to civilization" that sought to create a new world in its own image. Rojas explores different arenas in which this pursuit meant the violent imposition of white, liberal, laissez-faire capitalism. Drawing on a wide range of social theory, Rojas develops a new way of understanding the relationship between violence and the formation of national identity-not just in the history of Colombia, but also in the broader narratives of civilization.
Cristina Rojas teaches Latin American politics and international political economy at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa.

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Cristina Rojas - Civilization And Violence, Regime s of Representation in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (2001).pdf

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Joan Fitzpatrick - Renaissance Food from Rabelais to Shakespeare (2010).jpg

Providing a unique perspective on a fascinating aspect of early modern culture, this volume focuses on the role of food and diet as represented in the works of a range of European authors, including Shakespeare, from the late medieval period to the mid seventeenth century. The volume is divided into several sections, the first of which is 'Eating in Early Modern Europe'; contributors consider cultural formations and cultural contexts for early modern attitudes to food and diet, moving from the more general consideration of European and English manners to the particular consideration of historical attitudes toward specific foodstuffs. The second section is 'Early Modern Cookbooks and Recipes', which takes readers into the kitchen and considers the development of the cultural artifact we now recognize as the cookbook, how early modern recipes might 'work' today, and whether cookery books specifically aimed at women might have shaped domestic creativity. Part Three, 'Food and Feeding in Early Modern Literature' offers analysis of the engagement with food and feeding in key literary European and English texts from the early sixteenth to the early seventeenth century: Francois Rabelais' "Quart livre", Shakespeare's plays, and seventeenth-century dramatic prologues. The essays included in this collection are international and interdisciplinary in their approach; they incorporate the perspectives of historians, cultural commentators, and literary critics who are leaders in the field of food and diet in early modern culture.

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Lynn H. Nicholas - The Rape of Europa, The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Sec ond World War (1995).jpg

All History - Lynn H. Nicholas - The Rape of Europa, The Fate of Eu...ures in the Third Reich and the Second World War 1995.jpg

The cast of characters includes Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from da Vinci to Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and at times suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate effort to preserve it. 90 illustrations and photos. 3 maps.
Every few months you'll read a newspaper story of the discovery of some long-lost art treasure hidden away in a German basement or a Russian attic: a Cranach, a Holbein, even, not long ago, a da Vinci. Such treasures ended up far from the museums and churches in which they once hung, taken as war loot by Allied and Axis soldiers alike. Thousands of important pieces have never been recovered. Lynn Nicholas offers an astonishingly good account of the wholesale ravaging of European art during World War II, of how teams of international experts have worked to recover lost masterpieces in the war's aftermath and of how governments "are still negotiating the restitution of objects held by their respective nations."

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Lynn H. Nicholas - The Rape of Europa, The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Sec ond World War (1995).epub

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William J. Murnane - The Road to Kadesh, A Histori cal Interpretation of the Battle Reliefs of King S ety I at Karnak (1990).jpg

All History - William J. Murnane - The Road to Kadesh, A Historical... of the Battle Reliefs of King Sety I at Karnak 1990.jpg

An exploration of the significance of the wars of Sety I and of the general pattern of Egyptian-Hittite relations, which culminated first in the battle of Kadesh and finally in the treaty enacted during the reign of Ramesses II.

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William J. Murnane - The Road to Kadesh, A Histori cal Interpretation of the Battle Reliefs of King S ety I at Karnak (1990).pdf

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Nathaniel Philbrick - In the Heart of the Sea, The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (2000).jpg

The appeal of Dava Sobel's Longitude was, in part, that it illuminated a little-known piece of history through a series of captivating incidents and engaging personalities. Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea is certainly cast from the same mold, examining the 19th-century Pacific whaling industry through the arc of the sinking of the whaleship Essex by a boisterous sperm whale. The story that inspired Herman Melville's classic Moby-Dick has a lot going for it--derring-do, cannibalism, rescue--and Philbrick proves an amiable and well-informed narrator, providing both context and detail. We learn about the importance and mechanics of blubber production--a vital source of oil--and we get the nuts and bolts of harpooning and life aboard whalers. We are spared neither the nitty-gritty of open boats nor the sucking of human bones dry.
By sticking to the tried and tested Longitude formula, Philbrick has missed a slight trick or two. The epicenter of the whaling industry was Nantucket, a small island off Cape Cod; most of the whales were in the Pacific, necessitating a huge journey around the southernmost tip of South America. We never learn why no one ever tried to create an alternative whaling capital somewhere nearer. Similarly, Philbrick tells us that the story of the Essex was well known to Americans for decades, but he never explores how such legends fade from our consciousness. Philbrick would no doubt reply that such questions were beyond his remit, and you can't exactly accuse him of skimping on his research. By any standard, 50 pages of footnotes impress, though he wears his learning lightly. He doesn't get bogged down in turgid detail, and his narrative rattles along at a nice pace. When the storyline is as good as this, you can't really ask for more.

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John Comaroff, Jean Comaroff - Ethnography And The Historical Imagination (1992).jpg

Over the years John and Jean Comaroff have broadened the study of culture and society with their reflections on power and meaning. In their work on Africa and colonialism they have explored some of the fundamental questions of social science, delving into the nature of history and human agency, culture and consciousness, ritual and representation. How are human differences constructed and institutionalized, transformed and (sometimes) effaced, empowered and (sometimes) resisted? How do local cultures articulate with global forms? How is the power of some people over others built, sustained, eroded, and negated? How does the social imagination take shape in novel yet collectively meaningful ways?Addressing these questions, the essays in this volume—several never before published—work toward an “imaginative sociology,” demonstrating the techniques by which social science may capture the contexts that human beings construct and inhabit. In the introduction, the authors offer their most complete statement to date on the nature of historical anthropology. Standing apart from the traditional disciplines of social history and modernist social science, their work is dedicated to discovering how human worlds are made and signified, forgotten and remade.

Contents:

* Preface
* Editorial Note
* Theory, Ethnography, Historiography
* Ethnography and the Historical Imagination
* Of totemism and ethnicity
* Bodily reform as historical practice
* Dialectical systems, imaginative sociologies
* The long and the short of it
* Goodly beasts, beastly goods
* The madman and the migrant
* Colonialism and modernity
* Images of Empire, contests of conscience
* Medicine, colonialism, and the Black body
* The colonization of consciousness
* Homemade hegemony
* Bibliography
* About the book and the authors
* Index

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Uniformology CD-2004-03 - Knötel's Napoleon's Adve rsaries of the Napoleonic Wars (2004).jpg

All History - Uniformology CD-2004-03 - Kntels Napoleons Adversaries of the Napoleonic Wars 2004.jpg

Napoleon's Adversaries Uniforms Plates: Brunswick; Denmark; England; Hannover; Austria; Russia; Sweden; Spain.

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Uniformology CD-2004-03 - Knötel's Napoleon's Adve rsaries of the Napoleonic Wars (2004).pdf

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Uniformology CD-2004-05 - The French Army of the N apoleonic Wars, Vol I (2004).jpg

This is a reproduction of one of the numerous sets of uniform card prints that were quite popular in France in the early 20th Century and remain a great reference today. The prints illustrate various French Napoleonic subjects with one plate of the British army and a few German States thrown in.

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Uniformology CD-2004-05 - The French Army of the N apoleonic Wars, Vol I (2004).pdf

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Uniformology CD-2004-06 - The French Army of the N apoleonic Wars, Vol II (2004).jpg

This is a reproduction of one of the numerous sets of uniform card prints that were quite popular in France in the early 20th Century and remain a great reference today. The prints illustrate various French Napoleonic subjects.

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Uniformology CD-2004-06 - The French Army of the N apoleonic Wars, Vol II (2004).pdf

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John T. Koch - Celtic Culture, A Historical Encycl opedia, Five Volume Set (2006).jpg

This encyclopedia covers the entirety of the Celtic world, both through time and across geography. Although emphasizing the areas where Celtic languages and traditions survive into the present, the work does not slight the reaches of the Celtic empire, which was the largest language and cultural group on earth prior to the rise of Rome. In some 1,500 articles, many representing original research by the finest Celtic scholars, the work covers the Celts from prehistory to the present, giving comprehensive treatment to all topics from myth to music, religion to rulers, literature to language, government to games, and all topics in between.

Entry into the rich world of Celtic scholarship has been difficult: The available information must be teased out of dense scholarly tomes or lightweight books emphasizing such popular elements of Celtic tradition as wee people, Druids, and blue-painted pagans. While this work treats those topics within its broad scope, the information is presented as scholarship, without the pop patina.

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