G. W. Bowersock:Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity
- Taschenbuch 2012, ISBN: 9781611683219
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Boston: Ginn & Co, 1903. ....Green cloth with gilt, xi + 714 + 7 pages, headband, tight square and clean, former owners names and addresses on ffep, minor edge wear/rubbing, light bum… Mehr…
Boston: Ginn & Co, 1903. ....Green cloth with gilt, xi + 714 + 7 pages, headband, tight square and clean, former owners names and addresses on ffep, minor edge wear/rubbing, light bump to front top right corner, with 36 maps including 2 full colour single plates and 13 full colour 2 page plates, with 8 b & w illustrated plates including frontis. Contents include: The historical point of view / Western Europe before the Barbarian invasions / The German invasions and the break-up of the Roman Empire / The rise of the Papacy / The monks and the conversion of the Germans / Charles Martel and Pippin / Charlemagne / The disruption of Charlemagne's Empire / Feudalism / The development of France / England in the Middle Ages / Germany and Italy in the Tenth and Eleventh centuries / The conflict between Gregory vii and Henry iv / The Honenstaufen Emperors and the Popes / The Crusades / The medieval Church at its height / Heresy and the Friars / The people in country and town / The culture of the Middfle Ages / The Hundred Years' War / The Popes and the Councils / The Italian cities and the Renaissance / Europe at the opening of the Sixteenth century / Germany before the Protestant revolt / Martin Luther and his revolt against the Church / Course of the Protestant revolt in Germany, 1521 - 1555 / The Protestant revolt in Switzerland and England / The Catholic Reformation - Philip II / The Thirty Years' War / Struggle in England for constitutional government / The Ascedency of France under Louis XIV / Rise of Russia and Prussia / The expansion of England / The eve of the French Revolution / The French Revolution / The first French Republic / Napoleon Bonaparte / Europe and Napoleon / Europe after the Congress of Vienna / The Unification of Italy and Germany / Europe of to-day / List of Books / index. Any image directly beside this lsiting is the actual book and not a stock photo!. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Ginn & Co, 1903, 3, Pairs: Histoire and Collections. Fine. 2012. Paperback. 2352502357 . Officers And Soldiers Of Series; Color Illustrations; 9.4 X 7.6 X 0.2 inches; 65 pages; Title #19 in the series of Officers and Soldiers of....Soft cover has white spine with black lettering. Slight rumbbing and bumping to covers. Pages are clean and tight. Appears as if unused. Lavishly illustrated with 100+ color illustrations. Translated from the French by Alan McKay. 'That association of mountainous territories shut in among the European powers, Switzerland solved part of its financial problems as early as the Renaissance by developing a truly mercenary industry. Each canton could sign a contract (a capitulation) to recruit military units with their own officers and regulations in exchange for pay and equipment for a neighbouring state. On the eve of the Revolution there were therefore Swiss units in the government guards or the troops of the Line in France, the Italian States, Spain and the United Provinces. During the vast European reorganisation led by France between 1793 and 1813, Switzerland was politically and geographically transformed and furnished its big neighbour whether it liked it or not with troops of great worth who upheld their favourite motto"Honneur et Fidelite". Much has already been written on the Swiss regiments. The book skims over the Swiss troops in service with the King on the eve of the Revolution to concentrate on those who served the Republic, the Consulate and then the Empire, focusing on less well-known aspects'. Bibliography. ., Histoire and Collections, 2012, 5, Hardcover. Good. H.L. Lindquist, N.Y. 1948 hardcover edition. Cover, text and binding very good. Dust jacket shows considerable wear, particularly to spine area., 2.5, New York: Random House, Inc., 1988. Copyright © 1988 by Elaine Pagels . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Anita Karl & Jim Kemp (Design); Loretta Leiva (Jacket Design); 'Adam and Eve' by Lucas Cranach the Elder (Jacket Art); Jerry Bauer (Photo). 189 + xxviii pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy and dust jacket with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and light shelf wear. Relevant newspaper articles placed by previous owner included. Minor stains on fore-edge. Smooth covers. Dust jacket shows minimal, minor or light wear around edges. Synopsis: How did it happen that Christlan tradition came to find sexual desire sinful and to claim that infants, from the moment of conception, are infected with the disease of original sin, that Adam's sin corrupted the whole of nature, which until that point had known neither death nor labor nor suffering? How did it happen that the Christian church, which also proclaims the infinite value of each individual and celebrates the moral freedom of all its members, came by the middle of the fourth century to insist that humankind~made in God's image~cannot choose not to sin? This great paradox at the heart of Christian, and therefore Western, tradition is the subject of Elaine Pagels's briiliant new book, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent, a work that will prove a landmark of htstorical thought and profoundly affect all future interpretations of the historical meaning of Christianity. The attitudes and values we associate with Christian tradition, particularly attitudes toward sexual matters, evolved in Western culture at a specific time ~during the first four centuries of the common era, when the Christian movement, which had begun as a defiant sect, transformed itself into the religion of the Roman Empire. These attitudes had not previously existed in the Christian form they eventually took, and they represented a departure from both pagan practices and Jewish tradition. Within a century of Jesus and Paul, the Christian churches, though widely divided on questions of practice and belief, all agreed that Christians must reject the Roman gods and refuse to reverence the emperors, who ruled in their name, For many of the leaders of the early church, freedom was the practical message of the gospel: freedom in its many forms, including freedom from tyrannical government, freedom from prevailing social and sexual customs, freedom from sexual desire, and freedom of the will ~ that is, self~mastery as a means to spiritual renewal. For almost three hundred years, Christianity prospered and grew as an illegal sect whose members increasingly reflected the diverse interests of an ever more complex population. By the fourth century, as the Christian movement became more powerful, the emperor Constantine reversed the long~standing policy of persecution and himself became a Christian. In the century following these momentous conversions ~of Constantine to Christianity and the church to a respected imperial institution~Christian teaching itself underwent a revolutionary change from a doctrine that celebrated human freedom to one that emphasized the universal bondage of original sin. It is this profoundly consequential transformation that is the subject of Elaine Pagels's monumental book., Random House, Inc., 1988, 3, Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1999. English. Softcover. VG (Corner of back cover may be bent; covers may have slight scuffs, page edges may be tanning lightly; otherwise clean.). Brownish gray illustrated wraps. 272 pp. Color and bw illustrations. A collection of essays that explores the 19th-century architectural history of cities in the former Habsburg region. These include Budapest, Prague, Vienna, Zagreb, L'viv, Krakow, and Timisoara, among others. "As administrative hubs of empire, they had translocal, even transnational, significance. To build in them, therefore, was not only to shape spaces of modern urban life but also to engage the history of their imbricated fabric; it was to enter into debate with and question the authority of the forces that had formed them. This book proposes that it was in the lived cities of the region that the conflicting aspirations of empire and people and the intersecting of urban modernization and national autonomy gave shape to a modern architectural culture, one that was deeply rooted in place and in a conception of the great city as a protagonist in the making of history." (back cover)., Prestel Verlag, 1999, 3, St. Martin's Press. New. Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time Bestselling books were written about him Hollywood adored him Wherever the flag went, "The Fighting Quaker" went?serving in nearly every major overseas conflict from the Spanish War of 1898 until the eve of World War II From his first days as a 16-year-old recruit at the newly seized Guantmo Bay, he blazed a path for empire: helping annex the Philippines and the land for the Panama Canal, leading troops in China (twice), and helping invade and occupy Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Mexico, and more Yet in retirement, Butler turned into a warrior against war, imperialism, and big business, declaring: "I was a racketeer for capitalism"Award-winning author Jonathan Myerson Katz traveled across the world?from China to Guantmo, the mountains of Haiti to the Panama Canal?and pored over the personal letters of Butler, his fellow Marines, and his Quaker family on Philadelphia's Main Line Along the way, Katz shows how the consequences of the Marines' actions are still very much alive: talking politics with a Sandinista commander in Nicaragua, getting a martial arts lesson from a devotee of the Boxer Rebellion in China, and getting cast as a POW extra in a Filipino movie about their American War Tracing a path from the first wave of US overseas expansionism to the rise of fascism in the 1930s to the crises of democracy in our own time, Gangsters of Capitalism tells an urgent story about a formative era most Americans have never learned about, but that the rest of the world cannot forget, St. Martin's Press, 6, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 246pp. End notes, bibliography, index . Bound in illustrated boards, no jacket as issued., Stanford University Press, 2012, 5, Paperback / softback. New. Political and military developments in the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of Islam, 6<
