Download or read book Le moyen orient written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'histoire contemporaine du Moyen-Orient, région dont les contours comme la dénomination sont forgés par des luttes de domination et des emprises coloniales, loin de se résumer à des affrontements géopolitiques et des découpages territoriaux, s'écrit à partir du dernier tiers du XIXe siècle au fil des réformes, des inventions et des révolutions. La période envisagée embrasse les transformations qui affectent deux Empires (ottoman et perse), les mouvements révolutionnaires qui secouent de nombreuses régions. Elle voit la constitution d'idéologies nationales (nationalisme arabe, turc, iranien, kurde, panislamisme, wahhabisme, sionisme), la transformation en profondeur des sociétés rurales et l'émergence de nouvelles citadinités. Les espaces s'en trouvent en conséquence modifiés (au fil des dominations, des proclamations nationales et des contestations), renommés, parcourus sur des modes renouvelés (sédentarisations, transformation des échanges, migrations et déplacements de populations). Des pays naissent, d'autres échouent à se constituer. Elle est secouée par des épisodes de très grande violence, des massacres confessionnels au génocide arménien, des guerres israélo-arabes puis israélo-palestiniennes à la guerre civile libanaise et à l'émergence de l'un des conflits les plus meurtriers du siècle dernier, la guerre Iran-Irak. Plus qu'une synthèse, cet ouvrage constitue un ensemble d'éclairages sur les sociétés, les lieux, les cultures, nourris du regard singulier des auteurs. Autant de moyens d'ouvrir des voies pour une lecture de notre présent.
Download or read book Pr cis of the Lectures on Architecture written by Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760–1834) regarded the Précis of the Lectures on Architecture (1802–5) and its companion volume, the Graphic Portion (1821), as both a basic course for future civil engineers and a treatise. Focusing the practice of architecture on utilitarian and economic values, he assailed the rationale behind classical architectural training: beauty, proportionality, and symbolism. His formal systematization of plans, elevations, and sections transformed architectural design into a selective modular typology in which symmetry and simple geometrical forms prevailed. His emphasis on pragmatic values, to the exclusion of metaphysical concerns, represented architecture as a closed system that subjected its own formal language to logical processes. Now published in English for the first time, the Précis and the Graphic Portion are classics of architectural education.
Download or read book Mekka in the Latter Part of the 19th Century written by C. Snouck Hurgronje and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1884-1885, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje stayed in Mecca. He became intimately acquainted with the daily life of the Meccans and the thousands of pilgrims from all over the world. This volume deals with social and family life, funeral customs and marriage. It is a unique insight in one the most important places in islamic culture. With a new foreword by Jan Just Witkam
Download or read book Modern History of Visual Art in Southern Nigeria written by Laurent Fourchard and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books takes into consideration the changes that have occurred within the visual art landscape in Nigeria during the 20th century. This historical change is the result of new cultural exchanges between Africa, Europe and America, exchanges that developed different artistic practices and promoted new patrons. In this framework, cities have played a fundamental role in the development of modern art, especially because of the presence of a local or international art market. All the chapters of this book are related to specific Southern Nigerian cities: some are places of ancient royal art patronage (bronze casting in Benin City), some are city market where various popular expression of art could have developed (calendar in Onitsha), a few are strictly university based (Nsukka) but most of them have welcome elements of artistic lineages scattered all over Nigeria (the Fákéye family for instance).
Download or read book A Century of Artists Books written by Riva Castleman and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1997-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.
Download or read book Among the Copts written by John H. Watson and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores all the important themes of the Copts from the earliest moments of Christian history to the present day, achieving a balance between a critical re-examination of Coptic history and research. It contains small biographies to show the Coptic experience as it is lived.
Download or read book Terra 2008 written by Leslie Rainer and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthen architecture constitutes one of the most diverse forms of cultural heritage and one of the most challenging to preserve. It dates from all periods and is found on all continents but is particularly prevalent in Africa, where it has been a building tradition for centuries. Sites range from ancestral cities in Mali to the palaces of Abomey in Benin, from monuments and mosques in Iran and Buddhist temples on the Silk Road to Spanish missions in California. This volume's sixty-four papers address such themes as earthen architecture in Mali, the conservation of living sites, local knowledge systems and intangible aspects, seismic and other natural forces, the conservation and management of archaeological sites, research advances, and training.
Download or read book Hommes de l entre deux written by Bernard Heyberger and published by Les Indes savantes. This book was released on 2009 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Des Cap Corsins et des marchands maltais entre Marseille, l'Italie et les côtes de Barbarie ; des 'Levantins' à Alep, à Smyrne et à Constantinople ; des chrétiens syriens entre le Liban, l'Égypte, la France et au-delà : des ecclésiastiques orientaux ; des intellectuels de la Nahda ; des fonctionnaires égyptiens ou ottomans 'modernisateurs' : la palette de ces 'hommes de l'entre-deux', du XVIe au début du XXe siècle, est large, et invite à considérer la frontière méditerranéenne, entre l'Europe chrétienne d'une part et l'Empire ottoman musulman de l'autre, comme un lieu de l'interactivité et de l'interrelation, plutôt que de l'opposition et de l'affrontement. La course et le commerce, les associations d'affaires et l'endettement, les cursus de formation 'moderne', les travaux de traduction et de journalisme, l'exercice de charges administratives, la mise en œuvre de projets de protection du patrimoine, sont autant de champs d'activité où s'élaborent très concrètement des 'histoires croisées', des représentations et des modes d'action qui constituent la matière des identités respectives."--Page 4 of cover
Download or read book Jerusalem 1900 written by Vincent Lemire and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elected Council Members: Citizens, City Dwellers, and Property Owners -- Yussuf Ziya al-Khalidi, the Founding Mayor -- At the Heart of Municipal Action: The Defense of Public Space -- Urbanites All? Public Health, Leisure, and Municipal Finances -- 6. The Wild Revolutionary Days of 1908 -- What Time Was It in Jerusalem? -- The Wild Days of August 1908: Jerusalem's Forgotten Revolution -- Unexpected Fracture Lines -- New Vectors of Lively Public Opinion -- Underneath Communities, Classes? -- 7. Intersecting Identities -- Albert Antébi, Levantine Urbanite -- An "Arab Awakening" in the Chaos of Battle -- Jerusalem and the Parochialism of the "People of the Holy Land"--Jerusalem, the Thrice-Holy City, and the Municipium -- Conclusion: The Bifurcation of Time -- The Bird People -- Ben-Yehuda, the Outsider -- Toward a Shared History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Download or read book Foreign relations with Ethiopia written by Lukian Prijac and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethiopia has always been part of our universe through the descriptions of Greek and Roman travellers. Since Antiquity, the part of the world which would become Ethiopia has always had trade, diplomatic, cultural or religious relations with other peoples whether they were the first relations between Pharaonic Ethiopia and the Land of Punt, the arrival of the evangelist Greeks in the 4th century, Portuguese Jesuits in the 16th century, or explorers, consuls, servicemen, and other merchants, European or not, in the 19th and 20th centuries. What drew people of the nations of the world to Ethiopia and what were their stories?
Download or read book Dictionnaire D arch ologie Chr tienne Et de Liturgie Publi Par Le R P Dom Fernand Cabrol Avec Le Concours D un Grand Nombre de Collaborateurs written by Fernand Cabrol and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Divine Names on the Spot written by Fabio Porzia and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ancient Greek and Semitic languages resorted to a large range of words to name the divine. Gods and goddesses were called by a variety of names and combinations of onomastic attributes. This broad lexicon of names is characterised by plurality and a tendency to build on different sequences of names; therefore, the Mapping Ancient Polytheisms project focuses on the process of naming the divine in order to better understand the ancient divine in terms of a plurality in the making. A fundamental rule for reading ancient divine names is to grasp them in their context - time and place, a ritual, the form of the discourse, a cultural milieu...: a deity is usually named according to a specific situation. From Artemis Eulochia to al-Lat, al-'Uzza and Manat, from Melqart to "my rock" in the biblical book of Psalms, this volume journeys between the sanctuary on Mount Gerizim and late antique magical practices, revisiting rituals, hymnic poetry, oaths of orators and philosophical prayers. While targeting different names in different contexts, the contributors draft theoretical propositions towards a dynamic approach of naming the divine in antiquity.'
Download or read book Philosophy manual a South South perspective written by Chanthalangsy, Phinith and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Shi ite Pilgrimage to Mecca 1885 1886 written by Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ḥusaynī Farāhānī and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The account of a 19th-century pilgrimage to Mecca by an Iranian Shi'ite gentleman. The memoir reveals social and economic information about Tsarist Russia, the Ottoman Empire and Arabia, detailing the pilgrims' experiences, the physical hardships, disease, generosity, banditry, hospitality and exaltation. It describes tensions between the Shi'ites and the Sunnis. The author records details of distances, currencies, accommodations and modes of travel.
Download or read book A History of the Chinese Secret Service written by Richard Deacon and published by London : Muller. This book was released on 1974 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ours Once More written by Michael Herzfeld and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this work – one that contributes to both the history and anthropology fields – first appeared in 1982, it was hailed as a landmark study of the role of folklore in nation-building. It has since been highly influential in reshaping the analysis of Greek and European cultural dynamics. In this expanded edition, a new introduction by the author and an epilogue by Sharon Macdonald document its importance for the emergence of serious anthropological interest in European culture and society and for current debates about Greece’s often contested place in the complex politics of the European Union.
Download or read book State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan written by Ronald P. Toby and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to describe how Japan manipulated existing diplomatic channels to ensure national security. Rather, far from aiming at seclusion, Japan's diplomacy in the seventeenth century was orchestrated to achieve certain objectives, both outside the country and inside it. The aim was to build Japan into an autonomous center of its own. Since the country was "closed," elaborate and expensive foreign embassies were obliged to make the journey to Edo. Countries which were perceived as potential threats, such as Portugal and Spain, were excluded from this process. Only those such as the Chinese and the Dutch, with whom trade was recognized as desirable, were allowed a supervised presence in Japan itself. Closing the gates to Japan was not the object. Rather, carefully judging just when they should be open and shut was the aim.
