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Book Encyclopedia of Nusantara Kingdoms History Series III

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Nusantara Kingdoms History Series III written by Katrin Vee and published by Penerbit Andi. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nusantara Kingdoms refer to a network of kingdoms that once ruled the Indonesian archipelago before the colonial period. The history of the Nusantara Kingdoms dates back to the 4th century AD, when the Indonesian archipelago became a crucial trading center in Southeast Asia. The Nusantara Kingdoms had varied characteristics depending on their geographical location, religion, culture, and relationships with other kingdoms. The glory of the Nusantara Kingdoms also influenced the development of arts, architecture, and literature in the Indonesian region. In this book, we will delve further into the history of the Nusantara Kingdoms and their cultural heritage that is still visible today.

Book Encyclopedia of Nusantara Kingdoms History Series II

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Nusantara Kingdoms History Series II written by Katrin Vee and published by Penerbit Andi. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Nusantara kingdoms refers to the past when the Indonesian region was governed by various kingdoms with diverse cultures, languages, and customs. The history of the Nusantara kingdoms spans from prehistoric times to the period of European colonization and ultimately the independence of Indonesia. Within the history of the Nusantara kingdoms, there are many stories of the struggles and triumphs of kings, trade, competition, and conflicts with other nations. The history of the Nusantara kingdoms also showcases the cultural richness and heritage that continues to influence the present. Therefore, the history of the Nusantara kingdoms is crucial to be studied and appreciated as a part of Indonesia's rich and diverse history.

Book The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Download or read book The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms written by N. K. Jemisin and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her mother's mysterious death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky in order to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in the first book in this award-winning fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of The Fifth Season. Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate -- and gods and mortals -- are bound inseparably together.

Book Cattle Kingdom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Knowlton
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2017-05-30
  • ISBN : 0544369971
  • Pages : 469 pages

Download or read book Cattle Kingdom written by Christopher Knowlton and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!” — Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America The open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed. Cattle Kingdom reveals how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today. The tale takes us from dust-choked cattle drives to the unlikely splendors of boomtowns like Abilene, Kansas, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. We meet a diverse cast, from cowboy Teddy Blue to failed rancher and future president Teddy Roosevelt. This is a revolutionary new appraisal of the Old West and the America it made. “Knowlton writes well about all the fun stuff: trail drives, rambunctious cow towns, gunfights and range wars . . . [He] enlists all of these tropes in support of an intriguing thesis: that the romance of the Old West arose upon the swelling surface of a giant economic bubble . . . Cattle Kingdom is The Great Plains by way of The Big Short.” — Wall Street Journal “Knowlton deftly balances close-ups and bird’s-eye views. We learn countless details . . . More important, we learn why the story played out as it did.” — New York Times Book Review “The best one-volume history of the legendary era of the cowboy and cattle empires in thirty years.” — True West

Book Exploring a Heritage

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne-Louise Eriksson
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2012-11-08
  • ISBN : 1620321025
  • Pages : 331 pages

Download or read book Exploring a Heritage written by Anne-Louise Eriksson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a historical perspective, similarities among the Lutheran churches in Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden are easily understood. But these previously homogeneous northern societies, built on a Lutheran tradition with close ties between church and state, are now considered to be among the most secular in the world, as well as being impacted by a growing presence of other religions. These changes present a major challenge to the churches concerning how to relate to the state and how to be a "folk church." The goal of this volume is to explore how Lutheran identity presently shapes churches in the north. What are the burning issues engaging these churches at the beginning of the third millennium? Are there signs that they are affected by the global emergence of a theology and practice commonly known as Neo-Pentecostal or Charismatic? What is the situation for women in these churches embedded in societies ranked among the world's most egalitarian? In what ways does their Lutheran heritage influence how these churches shape themselves today? The point of departure for this study is not a predetermined, normative understanding of what a Lutheran church is or should be, but the fact that the churches presented here represent what "Lutheranism" is today in this part of the world. Contributors include Anne-Louise Eriksson, Steinunn Arnthrudur Bjornsdottir, Solveig Anna Boasdottir, Niclas Blader, Carl Reinhold Brakenhielm, Thomas Ekstrand, Arnfriður Guðmundsdottir, Goran Gunner, Harald Hegstad, Hjalti Hugason, Roger Jensen, Halvard Johannessen, Peter Lodberg, Benedicte Hammer Præstholm, Karin Sarja, Ulrika Svalfors, Merete Thomassen, Marie Thomsen, Marie Vejrup Nielsen, and Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen.

Book Aawambo Kingdoms  History and Cultural Change

Download or read book Aawambo Kingdoms History and Cultural Change written by Lovisa T. Nampala and published by BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Four Kingdom Motifs before and beyond the Book of Daniel

Download or read book Four Kingdom Motifs before and beyond the Book of Daniel written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four kingdoms motif enabled writers of various cultures, times, and places, to periodize history as the staged succession of empires barrelling towards an utopian age. The motif provided order to lived experiences under empire (the present), in view of ancestral traditions and cultural heritage (the past), and inspired outlooks assuring hope, deliverance, and restoration (the future). Four Kingdom Motifs before and beyond the Book of Daniel includes thirteen essays that explore the reach and redeployment of the motif in classical and ancient Near Eastern writings, Jewish and Christian scriptures, texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls, Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, depictions in European architecture and cartography, as well as patristic, rabbinic, Islamic, and African writings from antiquity through the Mediaeval eras.

Book The Impacts of Dictatorship on Heritage Management

Download or read book The Impacts of Dictatorship on Heritage Management written by Minjae Zoh and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between heritage and dictatorship has, arguably, been relatively understudied compared to research on the nation-state. In recognising the importance of understanding how different political systems can have various and particular outcomes on heritage, The Impacts of Dictatorship on Heritage Management has developed the concept of ‘Authorised Dictatorial Discourse’ (ADD) to the ever-growing and evolving field of Heritage Studies. Through the exploration of the various impacts a ‘dictatorship’ can have on the management and uses of heritage sites, this book sets out to examine how a dictator’s interests in certain heritage sites, and particularly territories, can affect how heritage becomes preserved and promoted in both the mid and long terms. Building on Laurajane Smith’s seminal works on Authorised Heritage Discourse (AHD) in her book Uses of Heritage (Routledge, 2006), this book also seeks to gain a more precise and in-depth understanding of the relationship between ‘heritage and dictatorship’, how authorised discourses on heritage has been exercised, and how territory policies that influenced the preservation and promotion of heritage sites have been executed. In doing so, The Impacts of Dictatorship on Heritage Management aims to provide a better insight into, demonstrate how, and the extent to which the politics of heritage and territory can be interlinked with this type of political system. This book will appeal to those with a keen interest in heritage management, dictatorship and heritage, South Korean heritage and theoretical heritage management. It will be of particular interest to research students and scholars who are part of this interdisciplinary field.

Book Burgesses and Burgess Law in the Latin Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus  1099   1325

Download or read book Burgesses and Burgess Law in the Latin Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus 1099 1325 written by Marwan Nader and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book devoted to the study of burgesses in the Latin Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus (1099-1325). It offers a comprehensive assessment of the contributions made by the non-feudal class to the development of legal and commercial institutions in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. Dispensing with the commonly held view that burgesses had only marginal influence, evidence is presented to illustrate how the existence of a 'middle class' was essential to the ambitions of the kingdoms' leaders. A systematic examination of all relevant contemporary source material - charters, law-books and narrative accounts - sheds light on how serfs and freemen, originating from diverse regions of Europe, were able to organise themselves into a class whose status set them apart from non-Latin Christians and Muslims. The study considers at length the different ways in which burgess legislation was formulated; traces the gradual development of the Cour des Bourgeois, the court of burgesses, in terms of its composition and competence; describes in detail the burgess laws of Acre and Nicosia which related, for example, to marriage and inheritance; and defines the special characteristics of a type of property known as a borgesie which was mostly but not exclusively in the hands of burgesses. Dr Nader's research, furthermore, reveals the complexity of burgess jurisdiction and legislation in the East, and advocates the theory that secular courts established by ecclesiastical institutions exercised authority over burgesses and borgesies in matters which went beyond the parameters of purely ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

Book The World s Heritage

Download or read book The World s Heritage written by Unesco and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique guide to every UNESCO World Heritage site, this book explores some of the world's most extraordinary places.

Book The Kingdom of God

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martyn Lloyd-Jones
  • Publisher : Crossway
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1433513404
  • Pages : 535 pages

Download or read book The Kingdom of God written by Martyn Lloyd-Jones and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2010 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world that has completely misunderstood Christianity, Martyn Lloyd-Jones calls Christians back to what the kingdom of God is truly about--a blessed Savior and wondrous forgiveness.

Book Poetry of the seasons  and of the kingdoms of nature  ed  by J D

Download or read book Poetry of the seasons and of the kingdoms of nature ed by J D written by Poetry and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Citizens of Two Kingdoms  Civil Society and Christian Religion in Greater China

Download or read book Citizens of Two Kingdoms Civil Society and Christian Religion in Greater China written by Shun-hing Chan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the complex relationships of civil society and Christianity in Greater China. Different authors investigate to what extent Christians demonstrate the quality of civic virtues and reflect on the difficulties of applying civil society theories to Chinese societies.

Book A sketch of the relations which subsist between the three kingdoms of nature  the mineral  vegetable  and animal  with a view to a brief exposition of the present state and future pretensions of organic Chemistry  in relation to agriculture  physiology  and dietetics  with observations on the Hygiene of Swansea

Download or read book A sketch of the relations which subsist between the three kingdoms of nature the mineral vegetable and animal with a view to a brief exposition of the present state and future pretensions of organic Chemistry in relation to agriculture physiology and dietetics with observations on the Hygiene of Swansea written by Thomas WILLIAMS (M.D., of Swansea.) and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book China Among Equals

    Book Details:
  • Author : Morris Rossabi
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-11-10
  • ISBN : 0520341724
  • Pages : 435 pages

Download or read book China Among Equals written by Morris Rossabi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have long accepted China's own view of its traditional foreign relations: that China devised its own world order and maintained it from the second century B.C. to the nineteenth century. China ruled out equality with any nation: foreign rulers and their envoys were treated as subordinates or inferiors, required to send periodic tribute embassies to the Chinese emperor. The Chinese court was otherwise uninterested in foreign lands. Its principal interests were to maintain peace with what it perceived to be barbarian neighbors and to coax or coerce them into admitting China's superiority and accepting the Chinese emperor as the Son of Heaven. But Chinese foreign policy was not monolithic. Court officials in traditional times were much more realistic and pragmatic than is commonly assumed. They did not scorn foreign trade, nor were ignorant of foreign lands. Challenging the accepted view of Chinese foreign relations, the authors of China among Equals contribute to a clearer assessment of Chinese foreign relations and policy. From the tenth to the thirteenth centuries, China did not dogmatically enforce its own world order. Chinese were eager for foreign trade and knowledgeable about their neighbors. The Sung (960-1279), the principal dynasty during that era, was flexible in its dealings with foreigners. Its officials recognized the military and political weakness of the dynasty, and in general they adopted a realistic and pragmatic foreign policy. They were compelled to accept foreign states as equals, and the relations between China and other states were defined by diplomatic parity.

Book Islamic Heritage Architecture and Art

Download or read book Islamic Heritage Architecture and Art written by C.A. Brebbia and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Islamic Heritage Architecture and Art. The papers deal with the design of many types of buildings in Islamic countries and the influence that these structural forms have had in non-Islamic countries. Coverage will also include construction materials. There is much to learn from past experiences to arrive at solutions that are environmentally sound and sustainable in the long term. As conventional energy resources become scarce, the Islamic design heritage can offer invaluable lessons on how to deal with difficult and extreme environments in an efficient manner. Traditional architecture and urban environment in most Islamic countries is now being eroded by overemphasis on global type of architecture and city planning. As a consequence, many regions are losing their identity. The Conference will aim to review these developments in the light of what the classical Islamic urban designs and architectures have to offer modern society. There will also be coverage of conservation techniques appropriate to the materials and structural forms used. Topics covered include: Architectural heritage; Archaeological studies; Historical aspects; The Islamic urban environment; Types of buildings (e.g., Mosques and minarets; Mausolea; Citadels and fortifications, Baths and caravanserais; Bridges and dams; Cisterns and quants; Earth-sheltered architecture; Irrigation systems; Wind towers); Climate adaptability; Arches and vaults; Domes and squinches; Double shell dome; Geometry and orientation; The use of light; Design and nature; Vernacular architecture; Construction materials (e.g., Masonry and mortars; Wood, Metals; Tiles, Adobe); Structural analysis; Earthquake resistant structures; Calligraphy, painting and patterns; Architectural conservation. The contents will be of interest to all researchers, practitioners and government employees actively involved with Islamic Heritage Architecture.

Book Bernard Stiegler

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bart Buseyne
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2024-01-25
  • ISBN : 1350410454
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Bernard Stiegler written by Bart Buseyne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honouring the memory of the late Bernard Stiegler, this edited collection presents a broad spectrum of contributions that provide a complex and coherently articulated image of Stiegler's thought which reached beyond the boundaries of academic, artistic and experimental techno-scientific enclaves where it had been originally received. Stiegler's philosophical work encompassed theorization, social diagnosis, planning, practical and territorial experimentation, politics, and aesthetics. In its wake, the essays in this volume celebrate and explore the wealth of this multi-dimensional legacy. They examine the conditions of human life in general, its foundational intermittence, and carry forward Stiegler's post-phenomenological unfolding of the distinctive spatio-temporalities that weave together the epoch we call 'present'. Engaging closely with Stiegler's original impetus for the creation of technologies of care, as well as of communities of knowledge and artistic practice,