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Book Bowing to Necessities

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  • Author : C. Dallett Hemphill
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 0195154088
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Bowing to Necessities written by C. Dallett Hemphill and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-Americans wrestled with some profound cultural contradictions as they shifted from the hierarchical and patriarchal society of the seventeenth-century frontier to the modern and fluid class democracy of the mid-nineteenth century. How could traditional inequality be maintained in the socially leveling environment of the early colonial wilderness? And how could nineteenth-century Americans pretend to be equal in an increasingly unequal society? Bowing to Necessities argues that manners provided ritual solutions to these central cultural problems by allowing Americans to act out--and thus reinforce--power relations just as these relations underwent challenges. Analyzing the many sermons, child-rearing guides, advice books, and etiquette manuals that taught Americans how to behave, this book connects these instructions to individual practices and personal concerns found in contemporary diaries and letters. It also illuminates crucial connections between evolving class, age, and gender relations. A social and cultural history with a unique and fascinating perspective, Hemphill's wide-ranging study offers readers a panorama of America's social customs from colonial times to the Civil War.

Book The Origins of Bowing and the Development of Bowed Instruments Up to the Thirteenth Century

Download or read book The Origins of Bowing and the Development of Bowed Instruments Up to the Thirteenth Century written by Werner Bachmann and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1969 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge Companion to the Violin

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Violin written by Robin Stowell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-12-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enth. S.1 - 29: The violin and bow - origins and development / John Dilworth

Book A History of the Violin Bow   A Selection of Classic Articles on the Origins and Development of the Bow  Violin Series

Download or read book A History of the Violin Bow A Selection of Classic Articles on the Origins and Development of the Bow Violin Series written by Various and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A History of the Violin Bow” is a collection of classic articles on the subject of the violin, with a particular focus on the bow. The articles explore a range of topics from the history and origins of the violin, to notable makers, rare examples, and beyond. This volume is highly recommended for violin players and those with an interest in the history of this wonderful instrument. Contents include: “Old Violins and Violin Lore, by H. R. Haweis”, “The Fiddler Fancier's Guide, by James M. Fleming”, “History of the Violin”, and “Catalog of Rare Old Violins, Violas, and Violoncellos – Also Bows of Rare Makers, by Lyon and Healy”. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of the violin.

Book War Bows

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  • Author : Mike Loades
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2019-02-21
  • ISBN : 1472825527
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book War Bows written by Mike Loades and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and lively history of four bows that changed warfare – the composite bow, the longbow, the crossbow and the Japanese bow, the yumi – by a world-renowned expert. War bows dominated battlefields across the world for centuries. In their various forms, they allowed trained archers to take down even well-armoured targets from great distances, and played a key role in some of the most famous battles in human history. The composite bow was a versatile and devastatingly effective weapon, on foot, from chariots and on horseback for over a thousand years, used by cultures as diverse as the Hittites, the Romans, the Mongols and the Ottoman Turks. The Middle Ages saw a clash between the iconic longbow and the more technologically sophisticated crossbow, most famously during the Hundred Years War, while in Japan, the samurai used the yumi to deadly effect, unleashing bursts of arrows from their galloping steeds. Historical weapons expert Mike Loades reveals the full history of these four iconic weapons that changed the nature of warfare. Complete with modern ballistics testing, action recreations of what it is like to fire each bow and a critical analysis of the technology and tactics associated with each bow, this book is a must-have for anyone interested in ancient arms.

Book The Bow  Its History  Manufacture   Use

Download or read book The Bow Its History Manufacture Use written by Henry Saint-George and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Origins of Bowing and the Development of Bowed Instruments Up to the Thirteenth Century

Download or read book The Origins of Bowing and the Development of Bowed Instruments Up to the Thirteenth Century written by Werner Bachmann and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1969 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Japan  From the origins to the arrival of the Portuguese in 1542 A D   v 2 During the century of early foreign intercourse  1542 1651   in collaboration with Isoh Yamagata   v 3 The Tokugawa epoche 1652 1868  revised and edited by Joseph H  Longford

Download or read book A History of Japan From the origins to the arrival of the Portuguese in 1542 A D v 2 During the century of early foreign intercourse 1542 1651 in collaboration with Isoh Yamagata v 3 The Tokugawa epoche 1652 1868 revised and edited by Joseph H Longford written by James Murdoch and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On the Origin of Genera

Download or read book On the Origin of Genera written by Edward Drinker Cope and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Learned Ignorance in the Medicine Bow Mountains

Download or read book Learned Ignorance in the Medicine Bow Mountains written by Craig Clifford and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an apologia for the rooted intellectual against the disdainful condescension of the cosmopolitan intellectual—an apology in the Socratic sense of the word. It reflects the author’s Texas rootedness unapologetically and offers a polemical but thoughtful indictment of the intellectual prejudice against rootedness; but it is ultimately about the universal human struggle with origins.

Book Mordecai Would Not Bow Down

Download or read book Mordecai Would Not Bow Down written by Timothy P. Jackson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Never again!" In the years following the Holocaust, the phrase came to signify a general determination never again to permit systemic anti-Semitism and genocidal violence. Yet anti-Semitism endures, and its underlying causes persist. The resilience of anti-Semitism casts the Holocaust not as inexplicable or singular, but as an event shaped by identifiable--and universal--human prejudices. Despite the intense attention focused on the Holocaust, we consistently misrepresent it. By describing it as a purely irrational phenomenon, we risk minimizing the threat that anti-Semitism continues to pose. Instead, we must identify and acknowledge its causes, which are not only political, economic, and pseudoscientific but ideological as well. Taking its title from the Book of Esther, Mordecai Would Not Bow Down investigates these ideological causes. Timothy P. Jackson argues that the Jewish victims of the Holocaust were persecuted for their belief in one God who is the sole Creator of a moral order centered in selflessness and love. Judaic teachings about the importance of caring for the weak and vulnerable overtly contradicted the Nazis' "natural" lust for power and enjoyment of cruelty, which further fueled their anti-Semitism. By analyzing the ideological clash between Nazism and Judaism, Jackson reveals the ways in which Christianity was complicit in the Holocaust-specifically, the role of Christian supersessionism: the belief that the New Covenant supplants or erases the Old Covenant, making Christians and not Jews God's elect. Supersessionism has historically enabled Christian anti-Semitic violence. Yet Judaism and Christianity are ultimately complementary in their shared origins and analogous aims: the Law that saves the Jews and the Gospel that saves the Gentiles are of a piece. God's choosing the Jewish people to embody collectively a message of fellowship and moral responsibility is parallel to God's calling on Jesus to save humanity individually. Moreover, both divine vocations often engender demonic resentment. Recognizing that Auschwitz and Calvary are but two sites of the same murderous despair is an important step toward eliminating the pervasive menace of anti-Semitism.

Book De Bow s Review

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  • Author : John F. Kvach
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2013-11-05
  • ISBN : 0813144221
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book De Bow s Review written by John F. Kvach and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades preceding the Civil War, the South struggled against widespread negative characterizations of its economy and society as it worked to match the North's infrastructure and level of development. Recognizing the need for regional reform, James Dunwoody Brownson (J. D. B.) De Bow began to publish a monthly journal -- De Bow's Review -- to guide Southerners toward a stronger, more diversified future. His periodical soon became a primary reference for planters and entrepreneurs in the Old South, promoting urban development and industrialization and advocating investment in schools, libraries, and other cultural resources. Later, however, De Bow began to use his journal to manipulate his readers' political views. Through inflammatory articles, he defended proslavery ideology, encouraged Southern nationalism, and promoted anti-Union sentiment, eventually becoming one of the South's most notorious fire-eaters. In De Bow's Review: The Antebellum Vision of a New South, author John Kvach explores how the editor's antebellum economic and social policies influenced Southern readers and created the framework for a postwar New South movement. By recreating subscription lists and examining the lives and livelihoods of 1,500 Review readers, Kvach demonstrates how De Bow's Review influenced a generation and a half of Southerners. This approach allows modern readers to understand the historical context of De Bow's editorial legacy. Ultimately, De Bow and his antebellum subscribers altered the future of their region by creating the vision of a New South long before the Civil War.

Book The Composite Bow

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  • Author : Mike Loades
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2016-08-25
  • ISBN : 1472821629
  • Pages : 84 pages

Download or read book The Composite Bow written by Mike Loades and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient design, emerging from Central Asia in the second millennium BC, the composite bow was adopted by a staggering variety of cultures, from nomadic tribal peoples such as the Huns, Turks and Mongols, to mighty empires such as the Romans, Byzantines, Persians, Arabs and Chinese. Offering high power and portability, the composite bow was an ideal cavalry weapon, though it was also used by infantry in open battle and as a siege weapon. In this important study, an expert on Eastern military technology tells the story of this extraordinary piece of military hardware; how it was made and how various cultures developed differing tactics for using it. He explains why the composite bow achieved such stunning successes and how it endured as a weapon of choice for thousands of years.

Book The National Union Catalogs  1963

Download or read book The National Union Catalogs 1963 written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sacred Art of Bowing

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  • Author : Andi Young
  • Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
  • Release : 2012-01-21
  • ISBN : 1594735034
  • Pages : 121 pages

Download or read book The Sacred Art of Bowing written by Andi Young and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-01-21 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open your heart, strengthen your spiritual core, and discover how the sacred art of bowing can enrich your spiritual life. Daily, across America and across the world, people begin their day by bowing. Christians kneel for morning prayers, Muslims turn east to Mecca for the first salat (prayer) of the day, Jews daven (pray), and Buddhists prostrate themselves. Over the course of the day, many more people will find time to pause and, bending their body toward the earth, bow as part of their spiritual practice. —from Chapter 1 The Sacred Art of Bowing serves as a welcoming introduction to the whys and ways of bowing. This ancient tradition—so often mistakenly tagged as only part of Asian cultures—has roots in nearly every religion around the world. In different forms in different faiths, people bow as a physical expression of their spiritual aspirations, humility, gratitude, and respect. A companion for your journey rather than an instruction book, The Sacred Art of Bowing shares helpful insights that will inspire you to begin or deepen your own bowing practice through: A comprehensive look at bowing as practiced in many spiritual traditions Illustrations of bowing in practice Inspiring reflections from people who practice the sacred art of bowing Advice on how you too can incorporate bowing in your daily spiritual life

Book Living the Lord s Prayer

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  • Author : Albert Haase OFM
  • Publisher : InterVarsity Press
  • Release : 2009-02-27
  • ISBN : 0830835296
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Living the Lord s Prayer written by Albert Haase OFM and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-02-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Father Albert Haase follows the lines of the Lord's Prayer, showing how the ideas have been understood by great people of faith, including Francis of Assisi, Martin Luther, Thérèse of Lisieux and others, and revealing how God can use this ancient prayer to transform your very soul and teach you to walk in the way of a true disciple of Christ.

Book The Etymological Compendium  Or  Portfolio of Origins and Inventions    Containing a Particular Account of London and Its Public Buildings

Download or read book The Etymological Compendium Or Portfolio of Origins and Inventions Containing a Particular Account of London and Its Public Buildings written by William Pulleyn and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: