Download or read book Visions of Conquest written by Geoff Hunter and published by geoff hunter. This book was released on 2007 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Illynium Warriors were masters of space travel and the bloody exploitation of primitive civilizations. When their massive spacecraft disintegrated in a meteor storm, it folded space to send its commander and ten bodyguards to the safety of the nearest inhabitable planet. They were lucky. They landed on a medieval world, still struggling through the dark years of ignorance, squalor and small feuding kingdoms. This is the story of that encounter, long since lost in the dusty pages of history. A story, not of technology and science, but of the hero spirit that against all odds, drove four young men and a woman to stand alone in the face of a savage onslaught that tore at the heart of their small kingdom.
Download or read book The Vision of the Vanquished written by Nathan Wachtel and published by Barnes & Noble. This book was released on 1977 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Visions and Revelations written by John Taylor Dean and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Conquered Conquistadors written by Florine Asselbergs and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2008-08-31 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Conquered Conquistadors, Florine Asselbergs reveals that a large pictorial map, the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan, long thought to represent a series of battles in central Mexico, was actually painted in the 1530s by Quauhquecholteca warriors to document their invasion of Guatemala alongside the Spanish and to proclaim themselves as conquistadors. This painting is the oldest known map of Guatemala and a rare document of the experiences of indigenous conquistadors. The people of the Nahua community of Quauhquechollan (present-day San Martín Huaquechula), in central Mexico, allied with Cortés during the Spanish-Aztec War and were assigned to the Spanish conquistador Jorge de Alvarado. De Alvarado and his allies, including the Quauhquecholteca and thousands of other indigenous warriors, set off for Guatemala in 1527 to start a campaign against the Maya. The few Quauhquecholteca who lived to tell the story recorded their travels and eventual victory on the huge cloth map, the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan. Conquered Conquistadors, published in a European edition in 2004, overturned conventional views of the European conquest of indigenous cultures. American historians and anthropologists will relish this new edition and Asselbergs's astute analysis, which includes context, interpretation, and comparison with other pictographic accounts of the "Spanish" conquest. This heavily illustrated edition includes an insert reproduction of the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan.
Download or read book A Book of Conquest written by Manan Ahmed Asif and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Frontier with the House of Gold -- Chapter 2. A Foundation for History -- Chapter 3. Dear Son, What Is the Matter with You? -- Chapter 4. A Demon with Ruby Eyes -- Chapter 5. The Half Smile -- Chapter 6. A Conquest of Pasts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Download or read book Official Report of the International Christian Endeavor Convention written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Visions of the Beyond by a Seer of To day Or Symbolic Teachings from the Higher Life written by Herman Snow and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Visions of the Beyond by a Seer of Today written by Herman Snow and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Beclouded Visions written by Kyo Maclear and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trauma of Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrates the limits of dominant visual models, such as photography, for providing adequate historical memory. The author argues that collective traumas suggest the need for a prolonged gaze, such as can be provided by expressive art.
Download or read book Masks of Conquest written by Gauri Viswanathan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipline's transcontinental movements and derivations, showing that the origins of English studies are as diverse and diffuse as its future shape. In her new preface, Gauri Viswanathan argues forcefully that the curricular study of English can no longer be understood innocently of or inattentively to the imperial contexts in which the discipline first articulated its mission.
Download or read book no 1 The awakening of China 3d ed no 2 The opportunity in China no 3 Dreams of China no 4 New chapters on The awakening of China written by James Whitford Bashford and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prussian Nights written by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn and published by London : Collins : Harvill Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Visions of Ryukyu written by Gregory Smits and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1609 and 1879, the geographical, political, and ideological status of the Kingdom of Ryukyu (modern Okinawa) was characterized by its ambiguity. It was subordinate to its larger neighbors, China and Japan, yet an integral part of neither. A Japanese invasion force from Satsuma had conquered the kingdom in 1609, resulting in its partial incorporation into Tokugawa Japan’s bakuhan state. Given Ryukyu’s long-standing ties with China and East Asian foreign relations following the rise of the Qing dynasty, however, the bakufu maintained only an indirect link with Ryukyu from the mid-seventeenth century onward. Thus Ryukyu was able to exist as a quasi-independent kingdom for more than two centuries—albeit amidst a complex web of trade and diplomatic agreements involving the bakufu, Satsuma, Fujian, and Beijing. During this time, Ryukyu’s ambiguous position relative to China and Japan prompted its elites to fashion their own visions of Ryukyuan identity. Created in a dialogic relationship to both a Chinese and Japanese Other, these visions informed political programs intended to remake Ryukyu. In this innovative and provocative study, Gregory Smits explores early modern perceptions of Ryukyu and their effect on its political culture and institutions. He describes the major historical circumstances that informed early modern discourses of Ryukyuan identity and examines the strategies used by leading intellectual and political figures to fashion, promote, and implement their visions of Ryukyu. Early modern visions of Ryukyu were based on Confucianism, Buddhism, and other ideologies of the time. Eventually one vision prevailed, becoming the theoretical basis of the early modern state by the middle of the eighteenth century. Employing elements of Confucianism, the scholar and government official Sai On (1682–1761) argued that the kingdom’s destiny lay primarily with Ryukyuans themselves and that moral parity with Japan and China was within its grasp. Despite Satsuma’s control over its diplomatic and economic affairs, Sai envisioned Ryukyu as an ideal Confucian state with government and state rituals based on the Chinese model. In examining Sai’s thought and political program, this volume sheds new light on Confucian praxis and, conversely, uncovers one variety of an East Asian “prenational” imagined political/cultural community.
Download or read book Visions and Blueprints written by Edward Timms and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
