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Book The Mango Chronicle

Download or read book The Mango Chronicle written by Ricardo José González-Rothi and published by Running Wild, LLC. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an entangled exodus to freedom during a nuclear missile crisis, a young boy' s Cuban Huck-Finn-childhood is upended. After a decades-long struggle with identity, he transitions from refugee to “ good” American, returning to his roots for redemption. He left his birthplace during a nuclear missile crisis. As a refugee in a foreign land he struggles to adjust to a new set of life circumstances. The author recollects his childhood in his Cuban barrio from the eyes of a child, and then decades later, from the vantage of a grown adult. From stealing a rowboat and being nearly capsized by a Russian tanker, to befriending an old fisherman who tells him a haunting tale, to being bullied by a neighborhood thug, to cockfights gone wrong, to witnessing the plight of political prisoners during an invasion, to dealing with the injustices of growing up in a machismo and homophobic culture, he led a Cuban Huck Finn childhood. Arriving in a foreign land which is at times unwelcoming, he struggles to assimilate while preserving his native soul. Eventually he finds redemption upon circling back to his roots when he returns to the island.

Book The Mango Chronicle

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ric Gonzalez
  • Publisher : Rize
  • Release : 2024-03
  • ISBN : 9781960018199
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Mango Chronicle written by Ric Gonzalez and published by Rize. This book was released on 2024-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He leaves his birthplace during a nuclear missile crisis. As a refugee in a foreign land he struggles to adjust to a new set of life circumstances. The author recollects his childhood in his Cuban barrio from the eyes of a child, and then decades later, from the vantage of a grown adult. From stealing a rowboat and being nearly capsized by a Russian tanker, to befriending an old fisherman who tells him a haunting tale, to being bullied by a neighborhood thug, to cockfights gone wrong, to witnessing the plight of political prisoners during an invasion, to dealing with the injustices of growing up in a machismo and homophobic culture, he had led a Cuban Huck Finn childhood. Arriving in an at-times unwelcoming culture, he struggles to assimilate while preserving his native soul. Eventually he finds redemption upon circling back to his roots when he returns to the island.

Book Our Chronicle

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1873
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Our Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gardeners  Chronicle

Download or read book The Gardeners Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chronicle of Theophanes

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  • Author : Theophanes (the Confessor)
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 1982-09
  • ISBN : 9780812211283
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book The Chronicle of Theophanes written by Theophanes (the Confessor) and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1982-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most important illuminating source that survived from the two centuries termed "the dark ages of Byzantium" is the chronicle of the monk Theophanes (d. 817 or 818). In it Theophanes paints a vivid picture of the Empire's struggle in the seventh and eighth centuries both to withstand foreign invasions and to quell internal religious conflicts. Theophanes's carefully developed chronological scheme was mined extensively by later Byzantine and Western record keepers; his chronicle was used as a source of information as well as a stylistic model. It is the framework upon which all Byzantine chronology for this period must be based. Important topics covered by the Chronicle include: The Empire's struggle to repel explosive Arab expansionism and the Bulgar invasion. The iconoclastic controversy, which caused civil war within Byzantium and led to schism between the churches of Constantinople and Rome. The development of the Byzantine thematic system, the administrative and social structure that would bring the Empire to the height of its power and prosperity. Almost all the sources used by Theophanes have perished, leaving his chronicle as the most important historical literature from this period. Turledove's translation makes available in English this crucial primary text for the study of medieval Byzantine civilization.

Book Gardeners  Chronicle

Download or read book Gardeners Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Medieval Chronicle 12

Download or read book The Medieval Chronicle 12 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alongside annals, chronicles were the main genre of historical writing in the Middle Ages. Their significance as sources for the study of medieval history and culture is today widely recognised not only by historians, but also by students of medieval literature and linguistics and by art historians. The series The Medieval Chronicle aims to provide a representative survey of the on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from specific chronicles from a wide variety of countries, periods and cultural backgrounds.

Book Gardeners  Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette

Download or read book Gardeners Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Middle Byzantine Historians

Download or read book The Middle Byzantine Historians written by W. Treadgold and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, which continues the same author's Early Byzantine Historians , is the first book to analyze the lives and works of all forty-three significant Byzantine historians from the seventh to the thirteenth century, including the authors of three of the world's greatest histories: Michael Psellus, Princess Anna Comnena, and Nicetas Choniates.

Book John Skylitzes  A Synopsis of Byzantine History  811   1057

Download or read book John Skylitzes A Synopsis of Byzantine History 811 1057 written by John Skylitzes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was first published in 2010. John Skylitzes' extraordinary Middle Byzantine chronicle covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057, and provides the only surviving continuous narrative of the late tenth and early eleventh centuries. A high official living in the late eleventh century, Skylitzes used a number of existing Greek histories (some of them no longer extant) to create a digest of the previous three centuries. It is without question the major historical source for the period and is cited constantly in modern scholarship. This edition features introductions by Jean-Claude Cheynet and Bernard Flusin, along with extensive notes. It will be an essential and exciting addition to the libraries of all historians of the Byzantine age.

Book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle

Download or read book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gardeners  Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette

Download or read book The Gardeners Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Athen  um and Literary Chronicle

Download or read book Athen um and Literary Chronicle written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Entomological Society of London

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Entomological Society of London written by Royal Entomological Society of London. Library and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond Religious Borders

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  • Author : David M. Freidenreich
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2011-11-29
  • ISBN : 0812206916
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Beyond Religious Borders written by David M. Freidenreich and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medieval Islamic world comprised a wide variety of religions. While individuals and communities in this world identified themselves with particular faiths, boundaries between these groups were vague and in some cases nonexistent. Rather than simply borrowing or lending customs, goods, and notions to one another, the peoples of the Mediterranean region interacted within a common culture. Beyond Religious Borders presents sophisticated and often revolutionary studies of the ways Jewish, Christian, and Muslim thinkers drew ideas and inspiration from outside the bounds of their own religious communities. Each essay in this collection covers a key aspect of interreligious relationships in Mediterranean lands during the first six centuries of Islam. These studies focus on the cultural context of exchange, the impact of exchange, and the factors motivating exchange between adherents of different religions. Essays address the influence of the shared Arabic language on the transfer of knowledge, reconsider the restrictions imposed by Muslim rulers on Christian and Jewish subjects, and demonstrate the need to consider both Jewish and Muslim works in the study of Andalusian philosophy. Case studies on the impact of exchange examine specific literary, religious, and philosophical concepts that crossed religious borders. In each case, elements native to one religious group and originally foreign to another became fully at home in both. The volume concludes by considering why certain ideas crossed religious lines while others did not, and how specific figures involved in such processes understood their own roles in the transfer of ideas.

Book From Mulberry Leaves to Silk Scrolls

Download or read book From Mulberry Leaves to Silk Scrolls written by Justin McDaniel and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Mulberry Leaves to Silk Scrolls looks closely at a wide variety of Asian manuscript traditions with a special focus on both their history and the ways in which scholars have employed digital technology to make their cataloguing, comparative study, and aesthetic appreciation more accessible to scholars and students.