1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450240403321

Autore

Speidel Michael

Titolo

Ancient Germanic warriors : warrior styles from Trajan's column to Icelandic sagas / / Michael P. Speidel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-38420-3

1-280-23182-3

9786610231829

0-203-47587-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Classificazione

15.70

Disciplina

355.1/09363

Soggetti

Military art and science - Europe, Northern - History - To 1500

Germanic peoples - History, Military

Sociology, Military - Europe, Northern

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-307) and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; FIGURES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 WOLVES; 2 BEARS; 3 BUCKS; 4 MARTENS; 5 NAKED BERSERKS; 6 GHOSTS; 7 CLUB-WIELDERS; 8 WIELDERS OF HUGE SPEARS; 9 SHIELD CASTLES; 10 CHANTING; 11 WAR DANCES; 12 DART-THROWERS; 13 ROCK-THROWERS; 14 LANCERS; 15 SPEAR-THROWERS; 16 WHEELING RIGHT; 17 HORSE-STABBERS; 18 HORSE-HEWERS; 19 LONG-HAIRS; 20 HELMET-WEARERS; 21 IRON AGE WARRIORS AND THE CIVILIZATIONS OF GREECE AND ROME; 22 END AND AFTERGLOW; CONCLUSION; TIMETABLE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Presenting a range of evidence for these diverse styles, from Roman art to early medieval bracteate amulets, and from classical texts to Beowulf, the Edda and Icelandic sagas, Professor Speidel here details seventeen different Germanic warriors styles, including berserks, wolf-warriors, club-wielders, long-hairs, ghost warriors and horse-stabbers, and how they indicate an unbroken continuity of customs, beliefs and battle-field tactics.Ancient Germanic warriors played a decisive role in



historical events from 200 BC, when Germanic culture first became identifiable, to AD 1000 when Ch

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787701803321

Autore

Seekdaur Lukmaan Hakim Khan

Titolo

Malcolm x : the pragmatic nationalist / / Lukmaan Hakim Khan Seekdaur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hamburg, Germany : , : Anchor Academic Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

3-95489-705-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (61 p.)

Disciplina

920.009296073

Soggetti

African Americans

Black Muslims

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Malcolm X; Tale of contents; INTRODUCTION; 1 THE DOMESTIC PARAMETERS: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE STRATEGIC USE OF RACE; 1.1. Black Solidarity as a Reaction to American Racism; 1.2  Whiteness as a Site of Privilege; 1.3 Black Skin, White Masks: The Black Bourgeoisie/ Elite and the Grassroots.; 2 THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION: PAN AFRICANISM, SUBALTERN POLITICS AND ISLAM; 2.1. Recovering a Lost Base: The (Re)turn to Africa; 2.2 Blackness as Oppression: Malcolm X and Pragmatic Nationalism; 2.3 Universal, yet Exclusive: Islam in Malcolm X's Political Ideology; 3 CONCLUSION

Sommario/riassunto

This book tracks the evolution of Malcolm X from a racist, espousing the essentialist ideals of the Nation of Islam to a human rights activist, aware of the broader early 1960's struggle against imperial forces. Central to this was his strategic use of race to unite African-American initially and then the oppressed people in the world. Race was used as a strategy with the aim to abolish racial oppression. In the first chapter of this study we look at the constraints, most notably the white power structure, present in the United States during the mid-1960's which, on one hand gave form to Malcolm