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Across the Corrupting Sea Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean

Across the Corrupting Sea Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
Cavan Concannon, "Across the Corrupting Sea: Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean"
English | ISBN: 0367880644 | 2019 | 268 pages | EPUB | 1085 KB
Across the Corrupting Sea: Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean reframes current discussions of the Mediterranean world by rereading the past with new methodological approaches. The work asks readers to consider how future studies might write histories of the Mediterranean, moving from the larger pan-Mediterranean approaches of The Corrupting Sea towards locally-oriented case studies. Spanning from the Archaic period to the early Middle Ages, contributors engage the pioneering studies of the Mediterranean by Fernand Braudel through the use of critical theory, GIS network analysis, and postcolonial cultural inquiries. Scholars from several time periods and disciplines rethink the Mediterranean as a geographic and cultural space shaped by human connectivity and follow the flow of ideas, ships, trade goods and pilgrims along the roads and seascapes that connected the Mediterranean across time and space. The volume thus interrogates key concepts like cabotage, seascapes, deep time, social networks, and connectivity in the light of contemporary archaeological and theoretical advances in order to create new ways of writing more diverse histories of the ancient world that bring together local contexts, literary materials, and archaeological analysis.

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Accidental Incest, Filial Cannibalism, and Other Peculiar Encounters in Late Imperial Chinese Literature

Accidental Incest, Filial Cannibalism, and Other Peculiar Encounters in Late Imperial Chinese Literature
Tina Lu, "Accidental Incest, Filial Cannibalism, and Other Peculiar Encounters in Late Imperial Chinese Literature"
English | 2009 | pages: 330 | ISBN: 0674031563 | PDF | 8,2 mb
Described as "all under Heaven," the Chinese empire might have extended infinitely, covering all worlds and cultures. That ideology might have been convenient for the state, but what did late imperial people really think about the scope and limits of the human community? Writers of late imperial fiction and drama were, the author argues, deeply engaged with questions about the nature of the Chinese empire and of the human community. Fiction and drama repeatedly pose questions concerning relations both among people and between people and their possessions: What ties individuals together, whether permanently or temporarily? When can ownership be transferred, and when does an object define its owner? What transforms individual families or couples into a society? Tina Lu traces how these political questions were addressed in fiction through extreme situations: husbands and wives torn apart in periods of political upheaval, families so disrupted that incestuous encounters become inevitable, times so desperate that people have to sell themselves to be eaten.

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Aboriginal Protection and Its Intermediaries in Britain's Antipodean Colonies

Aboriginal Protection and Its Intermediaries in Britain's Antipodean Colonies
Samuel Furphy, "Aboriginal Protection and Its Intermediaries in Britain's Antipodean Colonies "
English | ISBN: 0367313413 | 2019 | 264 pages | EPUB | 929 KB
This collection brings together world-leading and emerging scholars to explore how the concept of "protection" was applied to Indigenous peoples of Britain's antipodean colonies. Tracing evolutions in protection from the 1830s until the end of the nineteenth century, the contributors map the changes and continuities that marked it as an inherently ambivalent mode of colonial practice. In doing so, they consider the place of different historical actors who were involved in the implementation of protective policy, who served as its intermediaries on the ground, or who responded as its intended "beneficiaries." These included metropolitan and colonial administrators, Protectors or similar agents, government interpreters and church-affiliated missionaries, settlers with economic investments in the politics of conciliation, and the Indigenous peoples who were themselves subjected to colonial policies. Drawing out some of the interventions and encounters lived out in the name of protection, the book examines some of the critical roles it played in the making of colonial relations.

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AWS® Essentials for Dummies A complete guide for beginners to master Amazon Web Services

AWS® Essentials for Dummies A complete guide for beginners to master Amazon Web Services
AWS® Essentials for Dummies: A complete guide for beginners to master Amazon Web Services by Abound Academy
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09YP6C3Q9 | 250 pages | EPUB | 11 Mb
Welcome to the AWS Essential content, where we are dedicated to getting started on your AWS journey. This AWS essential book is going to introduce you to products, services and common solutions. It is going to provide you with the fundamentals to become more provision in identifying which AWS service to use, so that you can make better decisions about how to build IT solutions based upon your business requirements. And we will say how you can get started using the AWS platform.

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A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning's Chasm

A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning's Chasm
Catriona McAra, "A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning's Chasm "
English | ISBN: 1472463447 | 2016 | 128 pages | PDF | 29 MB
In A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning's Chasm, Catriona McAra offers the first critical study of the literary work of the celebrated American painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012). McAra fills a major gap in the scholarship, repositioning Tanning's writing at the centre of her entire creative oeuvre and focusing on a little-known short story "Abyss," a gothic-flavoured, desert adventure which Tanning worked on intermittently throughout her creative life, finally publishing it in 2004 as

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A Natural History of Human Thinking

A Natural History of Human Thinking
A Natural History of Human Thinking by Michael Tomasello
English | February 17, 2014 | ISBN: 0674724771, 0674986830 | True EPUB/PDF | 192 pages |7.2/7.9 MB
Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals. In this much-anticipated book, Michael Tomasello weaves his twenty years of comparative studies of humans and great apes into a compelling argument that cooperative social interaction is the key to our cognitive uniqueness. Once our ancestors learned to put their heads together with others to pursue shared goals, humankind was on an evolutionary path all its own.

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