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The Battle of Adwa African Victory in the Age of Empire

The Battle of Adwa African Victory in the Age of Empire
Raymond Jonas, "The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire"
English | 2015 | pages: 426 | ISBN: 0674503848, 0674052749 | PDF | 3,6 mb
In March 1896 a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the unthinkable-it routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's war of conquest in Africa to an end. In an age of relentless European expansion, Ethiopia had successfully defended its independence and cast doubt upon an unshakable certainty of the age-that sooner or later all Africans would fall under the rule of Europeans. This event opened a breach that would lead, in the aftermath of world war fifty years later, to the continent's painful struggle for freedom from colonial rule.

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The Baptism of Early Virginia How Christianity Created Race

The Baptism of Early Virginia How Christianity Created Race
The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race By Rebecca Anne Goetz
2012 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1421407000 | PDF | 2 MB
In The Baptism of Early Virginia, Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of race through the religious beliefs and practices of English Virginians. She finds the seventeenth century a critical time in the development and articulation of racial ideologies-ultimately in the idea of "hereditary heathenism," the notion that Africans and Indians were incapable of genuine Christian conversion. In Virginia in particular, English settlers initially believed that native people would quickly become Christian and would form a vibrant partnership with English people. After vicious Anglo-Indian violence dashed those hopes, English Virginians used Christian rituals like marriage and baptism to exclude first Indians and then Africans from the privileges enjoyed by English Christians-including freedom. Resistance to hereditary heathenism was not uncommon, however. Enslaved people and many Anglican ministers fought against planters' racial ideologies, setting the stage for Christian abolitionism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Using court records, letters, and pamphlets, Goetz suggests new ways of approaching and understanding the deeply entwined relationship between Christianity and race in early America. -- James Sidbury, Rice University

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The Artificial Body in Fashion and Art Marionettes, Models and Mannequins

The Artificial Body in Fashion and Art Marionettes, Models and Mannequins
Adam Geczy, "The Artificial Body in Fashion and Art: Marionettes, Models and Mannequins"
English | ISBN: 1472595963 | 2016 | 216 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Artificial bodies constructed in human likeness, from uncanny automatons to mechanical dolls, have long played a complex and subtle role in human identity and culture. This book takes a range of these bodies, from antiquity to the present day, to explore how we seek out echoes, caricatures and replications of ourselves in order to make sense of the complex world in which we live.

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The Apocalyptic Paul Retrospect and Prospect

The Apocalyptic Paul Retrospect and Prospect
Jamie Davies, "The Apocalyptic Paul: Retrospect and Prospect "
English | ISBN: 1532681925 | 2022 | 208 pages | EPUB, PDF | 367 KB + 1357 KB
The Apocalyptic Paul is rapidly becoming one of the most influential contemporary approaches to the apostle's letters, and one which has generated its share of controversy. Critiques of the movement have come from all sides: Pauline specialists, scholars of Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature, and systematic theologians have all raised critical questions. Meanwhile, many have found it a hard conversation to enter, not least because of the contested nature of its key terms and convictions. Non-specialists can find it difficult to sift through these arguments and to become familiar with the history of this movement, its most important contemporary voices, and its key claims. In the first part of this book, New Testament scholar Jamie Davies offers a retrospective introduction to the conversation, charting its development from the turn of the twentieth century to the present, surveying the contemporary situation. In the second part, Davies explores a more prospective account of the challenges and questions that are likely to energize discussion in the future, before offering some contributions to the apocalyptic reading of Paul through an interdisciplinary conversation between the fields of New Testament scholarship, Second Temple Jewish apocalypticism, and Christian systematic theology.

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