Sketches and Reminiscences of the City of the Straits and Its Vicinity
Author | : Robert Ellis Roberts |
Publisher | : Detroit : Free Press Book and Job Printing House |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Detroit (Mich.) |
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Author | : Robert Ellis Roberts |
Publisher | : Detroit : Free Press Book and Job Printing House |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Detroit (Mich.) |
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Author | : Orson Scott Card |
Publisher | : Tor Books |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2009-11-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 142996619X |
In one of the most powerful and thought-provoking novels of his remarkable career, Orson Scott Card's Pastwatch interweaves a compelling portrait of Christopher Columbus with the story of a future scientist who believes she can alter human history from a tragedy of bloodshed and brutality to a world filled with hope and healing. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Total Pages | : 734 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Author | : William Adolphus Wheeler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1865 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Author | : Jenny Risher |
Publisher | : Momentum Books LLC |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Athletes |
ISBN | : 9781938018008 |
Author | : Daniel Jütte |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2015-09-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300216408 |
Exploring a chapter in the cultural history of the West not yet probed, The Strait Gate demonstrates how doors, gates, and related technologies such as the key and the lock have shaped the way we perceive and navigate the domestic and urban spaces that surround us in our everyday lives. Jütte reveals how doors have served as sites of power, exclusion, and inclusion, as well as metaphors for salvation in the course of Western history. More than any other parts of the house, doors are objects onto which we project our ideas of, and anxieties about, security, privacy, and shelter. Drawing on a wide range of archival, literary, and visual sources, as well as on research literature across various disciplines and languages, this book pays particular attention to the history of the practices that have developed over the centuries in order to handle and control doors in everyday life.
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Total Pages | : 2316 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Author | : Thomas James Russell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 019879052X |
In 330 AD, the Emperor Constantine consecrated the new capital of the eastern Roman Empire on the site of the ancient city of Byzantium. Its later history is well known, yet comparatively little is known about the city before it became Constantinople, and then Istanbul. Although it was just a minor Greek polis located on the northern fringes of Hellenic culture, surrounded by hostile Thracian tribes and denigrated by one ancient wit as the -armpit of Greece, - Byzantium did nevertheless possess one unique advantage--control of the Bosporus strait. This highly strategic waterway links the Aegean to the Black Sea, thereby conferring on the city the ability to tax maritime traffic passing between the two. Byzantium and the Bosporus is a historical study of the city of Byzantium and its society, epigraphy, culture, and economy, which seeks to establish the significance of its geographical circumstances and in particular its relationship with the Bosporus strait. Examining the history of the region through this lens reveals how over almost a millennium it came to shape many aspects of the lives of its inhabitants, illuminating not only the nature of economic exploitation and the attitudes of ancient imperialism, but also local industries and resources and the genesis of communities' local identities. Drawing extensively on Dionysius of Byzantium's Anaplous Bosporou, an ancient account of the journey up the Bosporus, and on local inscriptions, what emerges is a meditation on regional particularism which reveals the pervasive influence that the waterway had on the city of Byzantium and its local communities and illustrates how the history of this region cannot be understood in isolation from its geographical context. This volume will be of interest to all those interested in classical history more broadly and to Byzantinists seeking to explore the history of the city before it became Constantinople.