The ancient Greeks at war [[electronic resource] /] / Louis Rawlings |
Autore | Rawlings Louis |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina | 355.020938 |
Soggetto topico |
Military art and science - Greece - History - To 500
Armies - Greece |
Soggetto non controllato |
ambushes
ancient Greeks annihilation battles conquest intimidation militarism raids sieges war |
ISBN |
1-84779-529-3
1-78170-083-4 1-84779-153-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 War and peace in ancient Greece; Chapter 2 Early Greek warfare; Chapter 3 The makers of war; Chapter 4 The patterns of war; Chapter 5 Battlefield engagements in the age of the hoplite; Chapter 6 Naval warfare; Chapter 7 Siege warfare; Chapter 8 War and economy; Chapter 9 War and religion; Chapter 10 War, the individual and the community; Conclusion The ancient Greeks at war; Bibliography; Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791737903321 |
Rawlings Louis
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The confusions of pleasure [[electronic resource] ] : commerce and culture in Ming China / / Timothy Brook |
Autore | Brook Timothy <1951-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
Disciplina | 951/.026 |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Asia / General |
Soggetto non controllato |
1600s
academic ancient world asia asian culture asian history china chinese culture chinese dynasty chinese history commerce conquest cultural studies culture dynasty exploration far east finance historical history buff history of china ming dynasty money philosophical philosophy political politics scholarly social studies |
ISBN |
1-283-32073-8
9786613320735 0-520-92407-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- A Ming Chronology -- A Genealogy of Ming Emperors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Seasons of the' Ming (1609) -- Dramatis Personae -- Winter: The First Century (1368-1450) -- Spring: The Middle Century (1450-1550) -- Summer: The Last Century (1550-1644) -- Fall: The Lord of Silver (1642-1644) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary and Index |
Altri titoli varianti | Commerce and culture in Ming China |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781443203321 |
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Death to tyrants! : ancient Greek democracy and the struggle against tyranny / / David A. Teegarden |
Autore | Teegarden David |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxfordshire, England : , : Princeton University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
Disciplina | 342.3808/54 |
Soggetto topico | Tyrannicide (Greek law) |
Soggetto non controllato |
Alexander
Areopagos council Asia Minor Athenian liberation Athenians Athens Eresos Eretria Erukrates Erythrai Four Hundred Ilian Ilion Philites Thirty Tyrants ancient Greece ancient Greek law ancient Greeks anti-democracy anti-tyranny conquest decree of Demophantos democracy democratic rule democrats dossier mass uprising oath of Demophantos polis public law punitive action tyranny tyrant-killing law tyrant-killing legislation tyrants |
ISBN | 1-4008-4853-9 |
Classificazione | NH 6820 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. The Invention of Tyrant-Killing Legislation -- Chapter 1. The Decree of Demophantos -- Part II. Tyrant-Killing Legislation in the Late Classical Period -- Chapter 2. The Eretrian Tyrant-Killing Law -- Chapter 3. The Law of Eukrates -- Part III. Tyrant-Killing Legislation in the Early Hellenistic Period -- Chapter 4. The Anti-T yranny Dossier from Eresos -- Chapter 5. The Philites Stele from Erythrai -- Chapter 6. The Ilian Tyrant-Killing Law -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Number and Geographic Distribution of Different Regime Types from the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Periods -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Death to tyrants! : ancient Greek democracy and the struggle against tyranny / / David A. Teegarden |
Autore | Teegarden David |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxfordshire, England : , : Princeton University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
Disciplina | 342.3808/54 |
Soggetto topico | Tyrannicide (Greek law) |
Soggetto non controllato |
Alexander
Areopagos council Asia Minor Athenian liberation Athenians Athens Eresos Eretria Erukrates Erythrai Four Hundred Ilian Ilion Philites Thirty Tyrants ancient Greece ancient Greek law ancient Greeks anti-democracy anti-tyranny conquest decree of Demophantos democracy democratic rule democrats dossier mass uprising oath of Demophantos polis public law punitive action tyranny tyrant-killing law tyrant-killing legislation tyrants |
ISBN | 1-4008-4853-9 |
Classificazione | NH 6820 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. The Invention of Tyrant-Killing Legislation -- Chapter 1. The Decree of Demophantos -- Part II. Tyrant-Killing Legislation in the Late Classical Period -- Chapter 2. The Eretrian Tyrant-Killing Law -- Chapter 3. The Law of Eukrates -- Part III. Tyrant-Killing Legislation in the Early Hellenistic Period -- Chapter 4. The Anti-T yranny Dossier from Eresos -- Chapter 5. The Philites Stele from Erythrai -- Chapter 6. The Ilian Tyrant-Killing Law -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Number and Geographic Distribution of Different Regime Types from the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Periods -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807095003321 |
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Empire at the margins [[electronic resource] ] : culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China / / edited by Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen Siu, and Donald S. Sutton |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (391 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.8/00951/0903 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
CrossleyPamela Kyle
SiuHelen F SuttonDonald S |
Collana | Studies on China |
Soggetto topico | Ethnicity - China - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
asia
avars bandits chinese culture chinese history colonialism conquest dan empire ethnicity foreign policy frontier gender guizhou hainan highlands han history imperialism independence islam kingdoms kitans manchu miao ming dynasty ming empire mongols mountains muslim nationalism nonfiction pearl river pirates provinces qiang qing empire qing law race rebellion religion resistance smuggling social order tusi uyghurs war women in history yao wars yao yunnan |
ISBN |
1-282-35656-9
0-520-92753-2 9786612356568 1-59875-924-8 |
Classificazione | LB 48440 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part I. Identity at the heart of empire -- Ethnicity in the Qing Eight Banners / Mark C. Elliott -- Making Mongols / Pamela Kyle Crossley -- "A fierce and brutal people:" on Islam and Muslims in Qing law / Jonathan N. Lipman -- Part II. Narrative wars at the new frontiers -- The Qing and Islam on the western frontier / James A. Millward and Laura J. Newby -- The cant of conquest: Tusi offices and China's political incorporation of the southwest frontier / John E. Herman -- Part III. Old contests of the south and southwest -- The Yao wars in the mid-Ming and their impact on Yao ethnicity / David Faure -- Ethnicity and the Miao frontier in the eighteenth century / Donald S. Sutton -- Ethnicity, conflict, and the state in the early to mid-Qing: the Hainan highlands, 1644-1800 / Anne Csete -- Part IV. Uncharted boundaries -- Ethnic labels in a mountainous region: the case of She "bandits" / Wing-hoi Chan -- Lineage, market, pirate, and Dan: ethnicity in the Pearl River delta of south China / Helen F. Siu and Liu Zhiwei. |
Altri titoli varianti | Culture, ethnicity, and frontier in early modern China |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783668803321 |
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 | ||
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The Etruscans in the modern imagination / / Sam Solecki |
Autore | Solecki Sam |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Montreal, Quebec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (343 pages) |
Disciplina | 937.5 |
Collana | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas |
Soggetto topico | Etruscans |
Soggetto non controllato |
Mediterranean
affinity cultural and national ancient civilizations assimilation classical conquest dance decline disappearance dissemination empires federalism genocide grand tour historiography ideological indigenous influence inventing the past linguistic genocide multicultural multivocal mythologies of unlucky conquered nations peoples unlucky in history pleasure religion superstition syncretic taste and antiquity the disappeared tomb paintings tombs uses of the past vanished civilizations |
ISBN |
0-2280-1577-4
0-2280-1576-6 |
Classificazione | cci1icc |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface: The Return of the Repressed -- Acknowledgments -- Antique Matters -- Introduction: The Etruscans from Empire to Defeat … Assimilation … Return -- Creating a Taste for the Etruscans -- Johann Joachim Winckelmann: The Etruscan Chapter in The History of the Art of Antiquity (1764) -- Sir William Hamilton and Josiah Wedgwood: The Indispensable Connoisseur and the Potter Who Made the Etruscans Visible, -- Fashionable, and Popular -- William Blake: What Is an “Etruscan” Doing in “An Island in the Moon” (1784–85)? -- Barthold Georg Niebuhr: The Return of the Etruscans in The History of Rome (1812) -- Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino: Selling Out the Etruscans -- Thomas Babington Macaulay: Lays of Ancient Rome (1842), a Poem of Empire -- Mrs Hamilton Gray and George Dennis: English Travellers -- Etruscans in Basel, Rome, Massachusetts, Paris, London, and Vienna -- Johann Jakob Bachofen: Das Mutterrecht (1861), The Saga of Tanaquil (1870), and an Etruscan Queen -- Etruscan Vases: Prosper Mérimée, Stendhal, and Gustave Flaubert -- Etruscans in America: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Dream (1862), Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun (1860), and Emily Dickinson's Etruscan Triptych -- Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, and Edith Reveley: The Sarcophagus of the Married Couple -- Anatole France's The Red Lily (1894), a Glance at Marcel Proust, and Etruscan Humour -- Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1900): Etruscan Dreams -- The Etruscans after Lawrence -- Aldous Huxley's Etruscan Decade: Those Barren Leaves (1925) and “After the Fireworks” (1930), with a Glance at Roger Fry -- D.H. Lawrence's Etruscan Places (1932): The Invention of the Etruscans for the Twentieth Century and Margaret Drabble's Lawrentian -- The Dark Flood Rises (2016) -- Raymond Queneau: How a Restless Surrealist and Future Pataphysician Resurrected the Etruscans in The Bark Tree (1933) -- Mika Waltari's The Etruscan (1955): Civilizations in Crisis and the Fate of Spirit -- Peggy Glanville-Hicks’s Etruscan Concerto (1954): Etruscan Music Imagined -- The Etruscans Enter Our World: The Holocaust, Modernism, the Cold War, Hollywood, Phenomenology, and Marilyn Monroe -- Giorgio Bassani’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962): EtruscansJewsItalians -- Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, and David Smith: Etruscan Affinities, and a Note on Massimo Campigli -- Zbigniew Herbert and Wisława Szymborska: Etruscans, Poles, and “Peoples Unlucky in History” -- Rika Lesser’s Etruscan Things (1983): If Stones Could Speak or Lithic Prosopopoeia -- Don Siegel’s The Killers (1964) and William Gibson’s Idoru (1996): When Is an Etruscan Not an Etruscan? -- Anne Carson: “Canicula di Anna” (1984) and Norma Jeane Baker in Etruria -- Afterword: Nostos -- Appendix: Etruscan Sightings -- Bibliography -- Index |
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The Etruscans in the modern imagination / / Sam Solecki |
Autore | Solecki Sam |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Montreal, Quebec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (343 pages) |
Disciplina | 937.5 |
Collana | McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas |
Soggetto topico | Etruscans |
Soggetto non controllato |
Mediterranean
affinity cultural and national ancient civilizations assimilation classical conquest dance decline disappearance dissemination empires federalism genocide grand tour historiography ideological indigenous influence inventing the past linguistic genocide multicultural multivocal mythologies of unlucky conquered nations peoples unlucky in history pleasure religion superstition syncretic taste and antiquity the disappeared tomb paintings tombs uses of the past vanished civilizations |
ISBN |
0-2280-1577-4
0-2280-1576-6 |
Classificazione | cci1icc |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface: The Return of the Repressed -- Acknowledgments -- Antique Matters -- Introduction: The Etruscans from Empire to Defeat … Assimilation … Return -- Creating a Taste for the Etruscans -- Johann Joachim Winckelmann: The Etruscan Chapter in The History of the Art of Antiquity (1764) -- Sir William Hamilton and Josiah Wedgwood: The Indispensable Connoisseur and the Potter Who Made the Etruscans Visible, -- Fashionable, and Popular -- William Blake: What Is an “Etruscan” Doing in “An Island in the Moon” (1784–85)? -- Barthold Georg Niebuhr: The Return of the Etruscans in The History of Rome (1812) -- Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino: Selling Out the Etruscans -- Thomas Babington Macaulay: Lays of Ancient Rome (1842), a Poem of Empire -- Mrs Hamilton Gray and George Dennis: English Travellers -- Etruscans in Basel, Rome, Massachusetts, Paris, London, and Vienna -- Johann Jakob Bachofen: Das Mutterrecht (1861), The Saga of Tanaquil (1870), and an Etruscan Queen -- Etruscan Vases: Prosper Mérimée, Stendhal, and Gustave Flaubert -- Etruscans in America: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Dream (1862), Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun (1860), and Emily Dickinson's Etruscan Triptych -- Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, and Edith Reveley: The Sarcophagus of the Married Couple -- Anatole France's The Red Lily (1894), a Glance at Marcel Proust, and Etruscan Humour -- Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1900): Etruscan Dreams -- The Etruscans after Lawrence -- Aldous Huxley's Etruscan Decade: Those Barren Leaves (1925) and “After the Fireworks” (1930), with a Glance at Roger Fry -- D.H. Lawrence's Etruscan Places (1932): The Invention of the Etruscans for the Twentieth Century and Margaret Drabble's Lawrentian -- The Dark Flood Rises (2016) -- Raymond Queneau: How a Restless Surrealist and Future Pataphysician Resurrected the Etruscans in The Bark Tree (1933) -- Mika Waltari's The Etruscan (1955): Civilizations in Crisis and the Fate of Spirit -- Peggy Glanville-Hicks’s Etruscan Concerto (1954): Etruscan Music Imagined -- The Etruscans Enter Our World: The Holocaust, Modernism, the Cold War, Hollywood, Phenomenology, and Marilyn Monroe -- Giorgio Bassani’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962): EtruscansJewsItalians -- Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, and David Smith: Etruscan Affinities, and a Note on Massimo Campigli -- Zbigniew Herbert and Wisława Szymborska: Etruscans, Poles, and “Peoples Unlucky in History” -- Rika Lesser’s Etruscan Things (1983): If Stones Could Speak or Lithic Prosopopoeia -- Don Siegel’s The Killers (1964) and William Gibson’s Idoru (1996): When Is an Etruscan Not an Etruscan? -- Anne Carson: “Canicula di Anna” (1984) and Norma Jeane Baker in Etruria -- Afterword: Nostos -- Appendix: Etruscan Sightings -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Food in time and place [[electronic resource] ] : the American Historical Association companion to food history / / edited by Paul Freedman, Joyce E. Chaplin, and Ken Albala |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (421 p.) |
Disciplina | 641.309 |
Soggetto topico |
Food - History
Food habits - History Food and Beverages - history |
Soggetto non controllato |
american historical association
ancient mediterranean basic human needs colonization conquest crops culinary cultural history famines food and cuisine food and hunger food and popular culture food culture food history food supply food french food gastronomy geography globalization haute cuisine historical research on food history of food history immigration medieval food nutrition public health regional histories social history types of cuisine world history |
ISBN | 0-520-95934-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Food History as a Field -- 1. Premodern Europe -- 2. China -- 3. India -- 4. Out of Africa: A Brief Guide to African Food History -- 5. Middle Eastern Food History -- 6. Latin American Food between Export Liberalism and the Vía Campesina -- 7. Food and the Material Origins of Early America -- 8. Food in Recent U.S. History -- 9. Influence, Sources, and African Diaspora Foodways -- 10. Migration, Transnational Cuisines, and Invisible Ethnics -- 11. The French Invention of Modern Cuisine -- 12. Restaurants -- 13. Cookbooks as Resources for Social History -- 14. The Revolt against Homogeneity -- 15. Food and Popular Culture -- 16. Post-1945 Global Food Developments -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791159003321 |
Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
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Food in time and place [[electronic resource] ] : the American Historical Association companion to food history / / edited by Paul Freedman, Joyce E. Chaplin, and Ken Albala |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (421 p.) |
Disciplina | 641.309 |
Soggetto topico |
Food - History
Food habits - History Food and Beverages - history |
Soggetto non controllato |
american historical association
ancient mediterranean basic human needs colonization conquest crops culinary cultural history famines food and cuisine food and hunger food and popular culture food culture food history food supply food french food gastronomy geography globalization haute cuisine historical research on food history of food history immigration medieval food nutrition public health regional histories social history types of cuisine world history |
ISBN | 0-520-95934-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Food History as a Field -- 1. Premodern Europe -- 2. China -- 3. India -- 4. Out of Africa: A Brief Guide to African Food History -- 5. Middle Eastern Food History -- 6. Latin American Food between Export Liberalism and the Vía Campesina -- 7. Food and the Material Origins of Early America -- 8. Food in Recent U.S. History -- 9. Influence, Sources, and African Diaspora Foodways -- 10. Migration, Transnational Cuisines, and Invisible Ethnics -- 11. The French Invention of Modern Cuisine -- 12. Restaurants -- 13. Cookbooks as Resources for Social History -- 14. The Revolt against Homogeneity -- 15. Food and Popular Culture -- 16. Post-1945 Global Food Developments -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809521903321 |
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Founding gods, inventing nations [[electronic resource] ] : conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam / / William F. McCants |
Autore | McCants William Faizi <1975-> |
Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
Disciplina | 939/.40072 |
Soggetto topico |
Mythology, Middle Eastern
Greeks - Middle East - History Romans - Middle East - History Arabs - Middle East - History Acculturation - Middle East - History Civilization - Philosophy |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
Arab conquests
Arabs Greek conquests Greek ethnography Greek philosophy Greeks Ibn Qutayba Islam Islamic culture Islamic thinking Jews Muhammad Near East Pliny Qur'an Roman conquests Romans ancient Greece ancient culture ancient mythology ancient texts civilization conquerors conquest conquests culture myths ethnic belonging ironsmithing learned culture medicine native history origin origins philosophy postconquest period pre-Islamic culture protography science |
ISBN |
1-283-28067-1
9786613280671 1-4008-4006-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Gifts of the gods : the origins of civilization in ancient Near Eastern and Greek mythology -- The beneficent sky god : cultural history in the Qur'an -- Who was first? : protography and discovery catalogs -- Inventing nations : postconquest native histories of civilization's origins -- "The sciences of the ancients" : speculation on the origins of philosophy, medicine, and the exact sciences. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457921803321 |
McCants William Faizi <1975->
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