Download or read book Social Life in the Caribbean 1838 1938 written by Bridget Brereton and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1985 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a clear and readable account ofa formative period in the history of the region. The text is divided into two halves: the first half looks at the structure of society and covers issues of race, class and wealth, while the second half looks at four particular aspects of community life - religion, the family, education and festivals...
Download or read book Centenary Celebration of the Arrival of Indians to British Guiana 1838 1938 written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Frontiers written by John P. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Cherokee Indians from earliest times to the date of their removal to the west, 1838.
Download or read book Sanatana Dharma and Plantation Hinduism Second Edition Volume 1 written by Ramesh Gampat and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Missionaries worked hard to convert immigrants. Their first order of business was to denigrate Hinduism, designate Hindus as heathen, and disparage their culture, food and even attire. Immigrants stubbornly resisted, led by the tiny educated elite, including Brhmaas whom we call Brahmins. Conversion was a failure at least up to the end of the 19th century but picked up a self-generating momentum thereafter. The result is that the share of Hindus in Guyana’s Indian population declined from 83.5 percent in 1880 to 62.8 percent in 2012. The largest portion of the contraction was lost to Christianity. The loss notwithstanding, even a casual observer would conclude that Guyanese Hindus, at home and in the Diaspora, are a very religious people. Many of us do a jhandi or havan once annually; others do the more elaborate and costlier yajña, where everyone is welcome, once or twice in their lifetime. Most of us do a short daily puja – prayers, offerings, reading the stras and listening to bhajan – in our homes. An important, but perhaps unintended, way immigrants countered conversion to Christianity was an unplanned movement towards a “synthesis” that brought Hindus, regardless of caste or sect, under a “unitary form of Hinduism.” The “synthesis” began around the 1870s and was completed by the 1930s to the 1950s. Guyanese Hindus call the unified corpus of religious beliefs and practices that emerged from the “synthesis” Sanatana Dharma. Ramesh Gampat labels it Plantation Hinduism in this path-breaking book. The book argues that the brand of Hinduism practiced is inconsistent with Sanatana Dharma, called Vednta by the more philosophically inclined. Plantation Hinduism features an extraordinary dependence upon purohits (pandits), which has anaesthetized the Hindu mind and render him unable to think, question and inquire when it comes to Dharma. Rituals and bhakti have been degraded and turned into desire-motivated worship; devats have been misconstrued as Brahman rather than as limited manifestation of the one non-dual pure Consciousness; belief in the multiplicity of gods encourages image worship; and superstitions anchor Guyanese Hindus to tradition and mere belief. Plantation Hinduism is little more than desire-motivated actions, dogmas and superstitions. Absent is the idea that Sanatana Dharma is a spiritual science no less scientific than hard sciences, such as physics and astronomy. The central message of Vednta is the innate divinity of every person and the freedom to realize that divinity through anubhava, direct personal experience of Supreme Reality.
Download or read book The World Almanac and Book of Facts written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tracing Your Manchester Salford Ancestors written by Sue Wilkes and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers with family ties to Manchester and Salford, and researchers delving into the rich history of these cities, this informative, accessible guide will be essential reading and a fascinating source of reference.Sue Wilkes outlines the social and family history of the region in a series of concise chapters. She discusses the origins of its religious and civic institutions, transport systems and major industries. Important local firms and families are used to illustrate aspects of local heritage, and each section directs the reader towards appropriate resources for their research.No previous knowledge of genealogy is assumed and in-depth reading on particular topics is recommended. The focus is on records relating to Manchester and Salford, including current districts and townships, and sources for religious and ethnic minorities are covered. A directory of the relevant archives, libraries, academic repositories, databases, societies, websites and places to visit, is a key feature of this practical book.
Download or read book Guide to the Study of United States Imprints written by George Thomas Tanselle and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Memory to Marble written by Elizabeth Rankin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, the 92-metre frieze of the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, one of the largest historical narratives in marble, has been made the subject of a book. The pictorial narrative of the Boer pioneers who conquered South Africa’s interior during the 'Great Trek' (1835-52) represents a crucial period of South Africa’s past. Conceptualising the frieze both reflected on and contributed to the country’s socio-political debates in the 1930s and 1940s when it was made. The book considers the active role the Monument played in the rise of Afrikaner nationalism and the development of apartheid, as well as its place in post-apartheid heritage. The frieze is unique in that it provides rare evidence of the complex processes followed in creating a major monument. Based on unpublished documents, drawings and models, these processes are unfolded step by step, from the earliest discussions of the purpose and content of the frieze, through all the stages of its design, to its shipping to post-war Italy to be copied into marble from Monte Altissimo, up to its final installation in the Monument. The book examines how visual representation transforms historical memory in what it chooses to recount, and the forms in which it is depicted. The second volume expands on the first, by investigating each of the twenty-seven scenes of the frieze in depth, providing new insights into not only the frieze, but also South Africa’s history. François van Schalkwyk of African Minds, co-publisher with De Gruyter writes: From Memory to Marble is an open access monograph in the true sense of the word. Both volumes of the digital version of the book are available in full and free of charge from the date of publication. This approach to publishing democratises access to the latest scholarly publications across the globe. At the same time, a book such as From Memory to Marble, with its unique and exquisite photographs of the frieze as well as its wealth of reproduced archival materials, demands reception of a more traditional kind, that is, on the printed page. For this reason, the book is likewise available in print as two separate volumes. The printed and digital books should not be seen as separate incarnations; each brings its own advantages, working together to extend the reach and utility of From Memory to Marble to a range of interested readers. For more material you can browse at Stanford's database "Voortrekker Monumentality: a digital archive".
Download or read book Hydraulicians in Europe 1800 2000 written by Willi Hager and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 850 individuals partly forgotten by name, but sometimes found in historical writings, together with many well known or recently deceased persons are presented in terms of bio-data, short career highlights, and main advances made to the profession with a short biography of the main writings. If available, a portrait is also included.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Public Documents of the the Fifty third Congress to the 76th Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 3208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Letters of Richard Cobden written by Richard Cobden and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-11-22 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of four volumes, this book provides the first critical edition of Richard Cobden's letters, providing a unique insight into the career of one of Britain's leading nineteenth-century politicians. Drawing on material from Britain, Europe, and the United States, the letters are accompanied by notes, and an introduction explaining the unusual history of the letters and re-assessing Cobden's importance in their light.
Download or read book Greater Iowa written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Harmonisation of European Contract Law written by Stefan Vogenauer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-03-16 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an extended period in which the European Community has merely nibbled at the edges of national contract law, the bite of a 'European contract law' has lately become more pronounced. Many areas of law, from competition and consumer law to gender equality law, are now the subject of determined efforts at harmonisation, though they are perhaps often seen as peripheral to mainstream commercial contract law. Despite continuing doubts about the constitutional competence of the Commission to embark on further harmonisation in this area, European contract law is now taking shape with the Commission prompting a debate about what it might attempt. A central aspect of this book is the report of a remarkable survey carried out by the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law in collaboration with Clifford Chance, which sought the views of European businesses about the advantages and disadvantages of further harmonisation. The final report of this survey brings much needed empirical data to a debate that has thus far lacked clear evidence of this sort. The survey is embedded in a range of original and up-to-date essays by leading European contract scholars reviewing recent developments, questioning progress so far and suggesting areas where further analysis and research will be required
Download or read book Combined Statement of Receipts Expenditures and Balances of the United States Government written by United States. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of Accounts and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 1764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Postage Stamps of the United States written by United States. Office of Special Assistant to the Postmaster General and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicine and Industrial Society written by John V. Pickstone and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Designing Modern Norway written by Kjetil Fallan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse is an intellectual history of design and its role in configuring the modern Norwegian nation state. Rather than a conventional national design history survey that focuses on designers and objects, this is an in-depth study of the ideologies, organizations, strategies and politics that combined might be said to have "designed" the modern nation's material and visual culture. The book analyses main tropes and threads in the design discourse generated around key institutions such as museums, organisations and magazines. Beginning with how British and continental design reform ideas were mediated in Norway and merged with a nationalist sentiment in the late nineteenth century, Designing Modern Norway traces the tireless and wide-ranging work undertaken by enthusiastic and highly committed design professionals throughout the twentieth century to simultaneously modernise the nation by design and to nationalise modern design. Bringing the discussion up towards the present, the book concludes with an examination of how Norway's new-found wealth has profoundly changed the production, mediation and consumption of design.
