Download e-book for kindle: Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History by S. Wheatcroft

By S. Wheatcroft

ISBN-10: 0230506119

ISBN-13: 9780230506114

ISBN-10: 0333712390

ISBN-13: 9780333712399

ISBN-10: 1349413429

ISBN-13: 9781349413423

This assortment offers perspectives on key facets of Russian/Soviet heritage akin to the non-Slavic assets of Russian statehood; tsarist penal structures; the pre-evolutionary technological point; the famine of 1931-3; patronage practices in Stalin's Russia; and the autumn of the Soviet Union.

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Download e-book for iPad: The Myth of the Machine. The Pentagon of Power by Lewis Mumford

By Lewis Mumford

In this concluding quantity of the parable of the desktop, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale renowned conceptions of human and technological growth. faraway from being an assault on technology and technics, The Pentagon of energy seeks to set up a extra natural social order in accordance with technological assets. Index; photographs.

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Download e-book for iPad: Популярная история Земли by Монин А.С.

By Монин А.С.

ISBN-10: 3642125883

ISBN-13: 9783642125881

ISBN-10: 3642125891

ISBN-13: 9783642125898

Аннотация издательства: В книге излагаются в общедоступной форме современные сведения об истории пашей планеты, о росте ядра и эволюции оболочек, происхождении атмосферы и гидросферы, образовании и развитии океанической и континентальной земной коры, геологических периодах последних six hundred млн. лет. Специальные главы посвящены истории жизни па Земле, палеомагнитным данным об изменении земного магнитного поля, об образовании и распаде суперконтинентов и движении континентов и полюсов и, наконец, истории климата, включая ледниковые периоды. Книга представляет собой переработанное и дополненное издание книги «История Земли» (Л.: Наука, 1977).

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Read e-book online Historic ornament treatise on decorative art and PDF

By James Ward

Прекрасная книга по истории орнаментального искусства. Автор изучает орнаменты, оставленные разными культурными традициями в различные исторические эпохи. В поле зрения автора попадает практически все, на что наносился орнамент: оружие, посуда, архитектурные памятники, предметы обихода и т.д.
Текст книги постоянно сопровождается наглядными иллюстрациями, что делает книгу понятной широкому кругу читателей.

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Get At Ease in Zion: Social History of Southern Baptists, PDF

By Rufus Spain, Samuel S. Hill

ISBN-10: 0817350381

ISBN-13: 9780817350383

First released in 1967, Rufus Spain’s thorough research into Southern Baptist attitudes set the degree for examine on faith within the American South. In At Ease in Zion, Spain questions the titular “ease” with society that Southern Baptists looked as if it would keep following the Civil conflict. His research of denominational newspapers, in addition to reviews from the Southern Baptist conference and country conventions, paint a compelling photo of the themes’ complacency with their social lifestyles, while they criticized own and leisure ethics.

whereas the South confronted major social, financial, and political adjustments after the Civil warfare, faith remained the first ethical impact. because the Southern Baptist denomination made up an important majority of the inhabitants at the moment, its leaders and attitudes had a transparent and indisputable effect on social norms. Rufus Spain was once one of many first writers to actively show the connection among Southern faith and Southern society, and his paintings monitors meticulous cognizance to the ways that we're tormented by complacency. He asserts that Southern Baptists considered the yank South as a model of God’s perfect society; any matters they needed to handle have been attributable to members (such as those that didn't comply with societal norms) or exterior attitudes (such as these in differing religions or regions).

At Ease in Zion is a serious a part of the scholarly dialogue on faith in society. Spain’s learn bargains a daring research of the yank South and its voters in the course of probably the most tumultuous occasions in its heritage whereas offering a foundation for arguments on “social Christianity” and its ever-shifting function within the world.

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Download e-book for kindle: Plantation and Civility in the North Atlantic World: The by Aonghas Maccoinnich

By Aonghas Maccoinnich

ISBN-10: 9004226281

ISBN-13: 9789004226289

The cost of the Hebrides is generally thought of by way of the country formation schedule. but the realm used to be topic to successive makes an attempt at plantation, mostly ignored in ancient narrative. Aonghas MacCoinnich’s examine, Plantation and Civility, explores those plantations opposed to the heritage of a Lowland-Highland cultural divide and festival over assets. The Macleod of Lewis extended family, ‘uncivil’, Gaelic Highlanders, have been dispossessed by means of the Lowland, ‘civil,’ Fife Adventurers, 1598-1609. regardless of the cave in of this Lowland Plantation, besides the fact that, the recourse to the Mackenzie extended family, frequently concept a failure of coverage, used to be as a substitute a realistic reaction to an intractable challenge. The Mackenzies additionally pursued the civility schedule treating with Dutch companions and keeping off their English opponents so as to improve their plantation.

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