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Author | : David Frick |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2013-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801467535 |
In the mid-seventeenth century, Wilno (Vilnius), the second capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was home to Poles, Lithuanians, Germans, Ruthenians, Jews, and Tatars, who worshiped in Catholic, Uniate, Orthodox, Calvinist, and Lutheran churches, one synagogue, and one mosque. Visitors regularly commented on the relatively peaceful coexistence of this bewildering array of peoples, languages, and faiths. In Kith, Kin, and Neighbors, David Frick shows how Wilno's inhabitants navigated and negotiated these differences in their public and private lives. This remarkable book opens with a walk through the streets of Wilno, offering a look over the royal quartermaster's shoulder as he made his survey of the city's intramural houses in preparation for King Wladyslaw IV's visit in 1636. These surveys (Lustrations) provide concise descriptions of each house within the city walls that, in concert with court and church records, enable Frick to accurately discern Wilno's neighborhoods and human networks, ascertain the extent to which such networks were bounded confessionally and culturally, determine when citizens crossed these boundaries, and conclude which kinds of cross-confessional constellations were more likely than others. These maps provide the backdrops against which the dramas of Wilno lives played out: birth, baptism, education, marriage, separation or divorce, guild membership, poor relief, and death and funeral practices. Perhaps the most complete reconstruction ever written of life in an early modern European city, Kith, Kin, and Neighbors sets a new standard for urban history and for work on the religious and communal life of Eastern Europe.
Author | : Holly Black |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780439855631 |
While sixteen-year-old Rue Silver travels into the faerie realm to find her mother, faerie creatures are entering the human world and wreaking havoc, forcing Rue to ponder where her loyalty should lie.
Author | : Holly Black |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0439855624 |
Rue believes she is going crazy until she learns that the strange things she has been seeing are real, and that she is one of the faerie creatures that mortals cannot see.
Author | : Lee Ann Fujii |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Ethnic conflict |
ISBN | : 0801447054 |
"Fujii makes a much-needed contribution both to the field of Rwandan studies and of genocide studies, substituting data for ideology and local voices for political tracts."--David Newbury, Smith College
Author | : Stan Proper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1998-03 |
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ISBN | : 9780961999285 |
Author | : Jay Griffiths |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2014-07-03 |
Genre | : Child development |
ISBN | : 9780141039459 |
Why are so many Western children unhappy? Why has childhood become so unnatural? Why are we scared to let our kids be free? In Kith, Jay Griffiths seeks to discover why we deny our children the freedoms of space, time and the natural world. Visiting communities as far apart as West Papua and the Arctic, as well as the UK, and delving into history, philosophy, language and literature, she explores how children's affinity for nature is an essential and universal element of childhood. It is a journey deep into the heart of what it means to be a child, and it is central to all our experiences, young and old. 'Scintillating, passionate, supremely honest. Adults and children need more books like this.' Literary Review 'A subterranean book. We excavate it to refind the secrets of childhood, our own, and many other childhoods in times and places far from ours.' John Berger 'Griffiths' understanding of how it feels to be a child is extraordinary, and her writing is as vivid as poetry.' Mail on Sunday 'I didn't just read this book; I revelled in it. There's a rare vitality and robust energy . . . reading this book feels like playing in the woods. An unabashedly Romantic rallying cry for childhood. Playful and polemical, emotional and imaginative. As vital as play itself.' Independent
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Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Kindness |
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The perfect book to help build resilience in children.
Author | : Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Publisher | : Boston, Houghton, Mifflin |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1873 |
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Author | : Rachel S. Hallote |
Publisher | : Ivan R. Dee Publisher |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Burial |
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Rachel Hallote's Book examins the archaeological, literary, and artistic evidence for the burial practices of biblical times, their antecedents, and successors.
Author | : Holly Black |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1534453822 |
Holly Black’s acclaimed Modern Faerie Tales series is now available in this special bind-up edition featuring all three books! Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother’s rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself as an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms—a struggle that could very well mean her death. This special bind-up edition includes Tithe, Valiant, and Ironside.