Gods of Thunder, Pauketat, Timothy R. (Professor of Anthropology and Medieval Studies, Professor of Anthropology and Medieval Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Автор: Darby Melissa Название: Thunder Go North: The Hunt for Sir Francis Drake`s Fair and Good Bay ISBN: 1607817446 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781607817444 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 20860.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: In the summer of 1579 Francis Drake and all those aboard the Golden Hind were in peril. The ship was leaking and they were in search of a protected beach to careen the ship to make repairs. They searched the coast and made landfall in what they called a 'Fair and Good Bay', generally thought to be in California. They stacked the treasure they had recently captured from the Spanish onto on this sandy shore, repaired the ship, explored the country, and after a number of weeks they set sail for home. When they returned to England, they became the second expedition to circumnavigate the earth, after Magellan's voyage in 1522, and the first to return with its commander.Thunder Go North unravels the mysteries surrounding Drake’s famous voyage and summer sojourn in this bay. Comparing Drake's observations of the Natives' houses, dress, foods, language, and lifeways with ethnographic material collected by early anthropologists, Melissa Darby makes a compelling case that Drake and his crew landed not in California but on the Oregon coast. She also uncovers the details of how an early twentieth-century hoax succeeded in maintaining the California landing theory and silencing contrary evidence. Presented here in an engaging narrative, Darby's research beckons for history to be rewritten.
Автор: Lengel Edward G. Название: Thunder and Flames: Americans in the Crucible of Combat, 1917-1918 ISBN: 0700627839 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700627837 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 27580.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award. Master Corporal Jan Stanislaw Jakobczak Memorial Book Award.
November 1917. The American troops were poorly trained, deficient in military equipment and doctrine, not remotely ready for armed conflict on a large scale—and they'd arrived on the Western front to help the French push back the Germans. The story of what happened next—the American Expeditionary Force's trial by fire on the brutal battlefields of France—is told in full for the first time in Thunder and Flames.
Where history has given us some perspective on the individual battles of the period—at Cantigny, Chateau Thierry, Belleau Wood, the Marne River, Soissons, and little-known Fismette—they appear here as part of a larger series of interconnected operations, all conducted by Americans new to the lethal killing fields of World War I and guided by the battle-tested French. Following the AEF from their initial landing to their emergence as an independent army in late September 1918, this book presents a complex picture of how, learning warfare on the fly, sometimes with devastating consequences, the American force played a critical role in blunting and then rolling back the German army's drive toward Paris. The picture that emerges is at once sweeping in scope and rich in detail, with firsthand testimony conjuring the real mud and blood of the combat that Edward Lengel so vividly describes. Official reports and documents provide the strategic and historical context for these ground-level accounts, from the perspective of the Germans as well as the Americans and French.
Battle by battle, Thunder and Flames reveals the cost of the inadequacies in U.S. training, equipment, logistics, intelligence, and command, along with the rifts in the Franco-American military marriage. But it also shows how, by trial and error, through luck and ingenuity, the AEF swiftly became the independent fighting force of General John ""Blackjack"" Pershing's long-held dream—its divisions ultimately among the most combat-effective military forces to see the war through.
Автор: Thunder Название: Citizenship and the Pursuit of the Worthy Life ISBN: 1107068932 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107068933 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 80250.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: What does citizenship have to do with living a worthy human life? Political scientists and philosophers who study the practice of citizenship, including Rawlsian liberals and Niebuhrian realists, have tended to either relegate this question to the private realm or insist that ethical principles must be silenced or seriously compromised in our deliberations as citizens. This book argues that the insulation of public life from the ethical standpoint puts in jeopardy not only our integrity as persons but also the legitimacy and long-term survival of our political communities. In response to this predicament, David Thunder aims to rehabilitate the ethical standpoint in political philosophy, by defending the legitimacy and importance of giving full play to our deepest ethical commitments in our civic roles and developing a set of guidelines for citizens who wish to enact their civic roles with integrity.
Автор: Brian D. McInnes Название: Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow ISBN: 0887558240 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780887558245 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 20860.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Francis Pegahmagabow (1889-1952), an Ojibwe of the Caribou clan, wasborn in Shawanaga First Nation, Ontario. Enlisting at the onset of the FirstWorld War, he served overseas as a scout and sniper and became Canada'smost decorated Indigenous soldier. After the war, Pegahmagabow settledin Wasauksing First Nation, Ontario, where he married and raised sixchildren. He served his community as both Chief and Councillor and was afounding member of the Brotherhood of Canadian Indians, the first nationalIndigenous political organization. In 1949 and 1950, he was elected theSupreme Chief of the National Indian Government.Francis Pegahmagabow's stories describe many parts of his life and arecharacterized by classic Ojibwe narrative. They reveal aspects of Francis's Anishinaabe life and worldview. Interceding chapters by Brian McInnesprovide valuable cultural, spiritual, linguistic, and historic insights that givea greater context and application for Francis's words and world. Presentedin their original Ojibwe as well as in English translation, the stories alsoreveal a rich and evocative relationship to the lands and waters of GeorgianBay. In Sounding Thunder, Brian McInnes provides new perspective onPegahmagabow and his experience through a unique synthesis of Ojibweoral history, historical record, and Pegahmagabow family stories.
Автор: Schafer Название: Thunder On The River ISBN: 0813060540 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813060545 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 22170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "Captures in rich detail the competition between the Confederates and Unionists, blacks and whites, and civilians and soldiers in the region. A fascinating and illuminating story told through compelling and persuasive prose."--Aaron Sheehan-Dean, author of Why Confederates Fought "A fast-paced social history of the Civil War in northeastern Florida."--John David Smith, editor of Black Soldiers in Blue When the Civil War finally came to North Florida, it did so with an intermittent fury that destroyed much of Jacksonville and scattered its residents. The city was taken four separate times by Federal forces but abandoned after each of the first three occupations. During the fourth occupation, it was used as a staging ground for the ill-fated Union invasion of the Florida interior, which ended in the bloody Battle of Olustee in February 1864. This late Confederate victory, along with the deadly use of underwater mines against the U.S. Navy along the St. Johns, nearly succeeded in ending the fourth Union occupation of Jacksonville. Writing in clear, engaging prose, Daniel Schafer sheds light on this oft-forgotten theatre of war and details the dynamic racial and cultural factors that led to Florida's engagement on behalf of the South. He investigates how fears about the black population increased and held sway over whites, seeking out the true motives behind both the state and federal initiatives that drove freed blacks from the cities back to the plantations even before the war's end. From the Missouri Compromise to Reconstruction, Thunder on the River offers the history of a city and a region precariously situated as a major center of commerce on the brink of frontier Florida. Historians and Civil War aficionados alike will not want to miss this important addition to the literature. Daniel L. Schafer, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Florida, is the author of six books, including Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner.
Автор: Bohr Roland Название: Gifts from the Thunder Beings ISBN: 0803248385 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803248380 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 75510.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Gifts from the Thunder Beings examines North American Aboriginal peoples’ use of Indigenous and European distance weapons in big-game hunting and combat. Beyond the capabilities of European weapons, Aboriginal peoples’ ways of adapting and using this technology in combination with Indigenous weaponry contributed greatly to the impact these weapons had on Aboriginal cultures. This gradual transition took place from the beginning of the fur trade in the Hudson’s Bay Company trading territory to the treaty and reserve period that began in Canada in the 1870s.
Technological change and the effects of European contact were not uniform throughout North America, as Roland Bohr illustrates by comparing the northern Great Plains and the Central Subarctic—two adjacent but environmentally different regions of North America—and their respective Indigenous cultures. Beginning with a brief survey of the subarctic and Northern Plains environments and the most common subsistence strategies in these regions around the time of contact, Bohr provides the context for a detailed examination of social, spiritual, and cultural aspects of bows, arrows, quivers, and firearms. His detailed analysis of the shifting usage of bows and arrows and firearms in the northern Great Plains and the Central Subarctic makes Gifts from the Thunder Beings an important addition to the canon of North American ethnology.
Автор: Mikhail Alan Название: God`s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World ISBN: 1324091029 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781324091028 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 18350.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book is for researchers and students in statistics, data mining, computer science, machine learning, marketing and also practitioners who implement recommender systems. It provides an in-depth discussion of challenges encountered in deploying real-life large-scale systems and state-of-the-art solutions in personalization, explore/exploit, dimension reduction and multi-objective optimization.
Автор: Baron Joanne Название: Patron Gods and Patron Lords: The Semiotics of Classic Maya Community Cults ISBN: 1646420047 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781646420049 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 45910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In the first comprehensive treatment of Classic Maya patron deity veneration, Joanne P. Baron demonstrates the central importance of patron deity cults in political relationships between both rulers and their subjects and among different Maya kingdoms. Weaving together evidence from inscriptions, images, and artifacts, Patron Gods and Patron Lords provides new insights into how the Classic Maya polity was organized and maintained.
Using semiotic theory, Baron draws on three bodies of evidence: ethnographies and manuscripts from Postclassic, Colonial, and modern Maya communities that connect patron saints to pre-Columbian patron gods; hieroglyphic texts from the Classic period that discuss patron deity veneration; and excavations from four patron deity temples at the site of La Corona, Guatemala. She shows how the Classic Maya used patron deity effigies, temples, and acts of devotion to negotiate group membership, social entitlements, and obligations between individuals and communities. She also explores the wider role of these processes in politics, arguing that rituals and discourses related to patron deities ultimately formulated Maya rulership as a locally oriented institution, which limited the ability of powerful kingdoms to create wider religious communities.
Applying a new theoretical approach for the archaeological study of ideology and power dynamics, Patron Gods and Patron Lords reveals an overlooked aspect of the belief system of Maya communities.
Автор: Barry Hankins Название: God`s Rascal: J. Frank Norris and the Beginnings of Southern Fundamentalism ISBN: 1621906493 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781621906490 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 25040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Loathed by mainstream Southern Baptists, J. Frank Norris (1877–1952) was in many ways the Southern Baptist Convention’s first fundamentalist. Twenty-five years after its first publication, this second edition of Barry Hankins’s field-defining work God’s Rascal: J. Frank Norris and the Beginnings of Southern Fundamentalism engages new scholar- ship on American fundamentalism to reassess one of the most controversial figures in the history of American Christianity. In this completely revised edition, Hankins pens an entirely new chapter on J. Frank Norris’s murder trial, examines newly uncovered details regarding his recurrent sexual improprieties, and reconsiders his views on race in order to place J. Frank Norris, a man both despicable and captivating, among the most significant Southern fundamentalists of the twentieth century.Norris merged a southern populist tradition with militant fundamentalism, carving out a distinctly take-no-prisoners political niche within the Baptist church that often offended his allies as much as his enemies. Indeed, Norris was about as bad as a fundamentalist could be. He resided in a world of swirling conspiracies of leftists who, he argued, intended to subvert both evangelical religion and American culture. There are times when Norris’s ego looms so large in his story that he seemed less interested in the threat these alleged conspiracies posed than in their power to keep him in the limelight. Finally, his tactics foreshadowed those employed in the fundamentalists’ tenacious takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention that would occur more than twenty years after Norris’s death.
Автор: Jane Karoline Vieth Название: Tempting All the Gods: Joseph P. Kennedy, Ambassador to Great Britain, 1938-1940 ISBN: 1611863902 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611863901 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 55440.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: A detailed study of Joseph P. Kennedy`s diplomatic career in London. It examines Kennedy`s role as ambassador to the Court of St. James`s from 1938-1940, a crucial time in world history. It describes his attitudes toward American foreign policy before the outbreak of war and after the war began, explains why he held those views, and assesses their impact on Anglo-American relations.
Автор: Lisa Ayotte Название: Peeps Plant Seeds From A-Z: Bible Verses To Help Kids Grow In Gods Word ISBN: 1951278143 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781951278144 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 17150.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Peeps have planted 26 seeds, from A-Z , using words from the Bible to help children learn some important Scripture verses. The adorable photographed scenes were created to be a sweet visual aid to help kids make a connection between each word, from A-Z, and the verse its used in, making it easier to take root and grow in the hearts of little readers. By learning more about the God Who loves them, children will grow stronger spiritually. God is as real as the flowers He has created and knowing and understanding Gods Word can give children the strength, courage and wisdom needed for each new day and provide them hope for the future. "And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts as you trust him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of Gods marvelous love. And may you have the power to understand, as all Gods people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it. Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from God." Ephesians 3:17-19 (NLT)
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