The Fall of the Caliphate of Córdoba : Berbers and Andalusis in Conflict /
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This book is a discussion of the complex events which surround the breakup of the Muslim Caliphate of Córdoba in the early eleventh century. The focus of the study concerns quite a short period of time: 1009-1031 A.D., although a wide-ranging investigation of the political structure of Muslim Spain is embarked on. A thorough narrative of the events is followed by separate discussions of some of the main groups involved in the civil wars, the Marwānids (the supporters of a legitimately-appointed Umayyad representative), the saqāliba (Slavs), the Berbers and the Christians of northern Spain. This book is able to fill the gap in our knowledge of this hitherto little-understood period of Spanish history and tackles important questions, such as the attitude towards the Berbers, tribal solidarity and the importance of land-reforms during the 10th century
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1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004610828
Rome and the worlds beyond its frontiers /
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This volume offers an expansive approach to interactions between Romans and those beyond the borders of Rome. The range of papers included here is wide, both in terms of subject matter and with respect to approach. That said, a number of important themes bind the essays. Who is an insider, and who the outsider? How were these categories of person, or identity, fashioned and/or recognized in antiquity? How shall we recognize them now? What are the categories, or standards, for measuring or determining inside and outside in the Roman world? And then, of course, what are the repercussions when inside and outside come into contact? What happens when the outside is in, or the inside out?
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1 online resource (xii, 262 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004326750 :
1572-0500 ; :
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Analyzing collapse : the rise and fall of the Old Kingdom /
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This book explores the long-term trends in the development of what was the first complex civilization in history, the Old Kingdom of Egypt (c. 2650-2200 BC), the period that saw the construction of eternal monuments such as Djoser's Step Pyramid complex in Saqqara, the pyramids of the great Fourth Dynasty kings in Giza, and spectacular tombs of high officials throughout Egypt. The present study aims to show that the historical trajectory of the period was marked by specific processes that characterize most of the world's civilizations: the role of the ruling elite, the growth of bureaucracy, the proliferation of interest groups, and adaptation to climate change, to name but a few -- and the way that these processes held the germ of ultimate collapse. The case is made that the rise and fall of the Old Kingdom state is of relevance to the study of the anatomy of development of any complex civilization.
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xv, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789774168383
bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt, NUMBER 199 - (Fall 2011)
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The Monastery of St Matthew the Potter al-Dayr al-Qadis al-Anba Mata'us al-Fakhuri, Esna -- the Wall Paintings From the Temple of Amenhotep ||| at Wadi es-Sebua: Conservation, Preservation, and Documentation -- "Restoring and Conserving a Tympmum from the North Chapel of the Senwosret ||| Pyramid Complex at Dahshur" -- Crumbling Challenge and Presentation Puzzle: the Karanis Site Management Project -- Egypt and the Block Sea Slave Trade During the Thirteenth Century -- An Introduction to the Palace in Ancient Egypt -- Director General of Upper Egypt and the Oases Presents Lectures -- ARCE Group Enjoys the Beauty and History of Cyprus -- Endowment Donors as of 7/21/2011 -- Annual Report.
bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt, NUMBER 199 - (Fall 2011)
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The Monastery of St Matthew the Potter al-Dayr al-Qadis al-Anba Mata'us al-Fakhuri, Esna -- the Wall Paintings From the Temple of Amenhotep ||| at Wadi es-Sebua: Conservation, Preservation, and Documentation -- "Restoring and Conserving a Tympmum from the North Chapel of the Senwosret ||| Pyramid Complex at Dahshur" -- Crumbling Challenge and Presentation Puzzle: the Karanis Site Management Project -- Egypt and the Block Sea Slave Trade During the Thirteenth Century -- An Introduction to the Palace in Ancient Egypt -- Director General of Upper Egypt and the Oases Presents Lectures -- ARCE Group Enjoys the Beauty and History of Cyprus -- Endowment Donors as of 7/21/2011 -- Annual Report.
bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt, NUMBER 193 - (Summer-Fall 2008)
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1948 to 2008: ARCE Reflects on its Past and Looks to Its Future -- Current ARCE Expeditions -- The William K. and Marilyn Simpson Library: Past and Present -- Antiquities Endowment Fund: A Lasting Legacy for Conservation Tracking Hundreds of Thousands of Objects is no Small Feat for Egyptian Museum Registrars -- ARCE's Fellowship Program -- Cairo Outreach Programs: Adventurous Fun -- ARCE's Local Chapters: Ambassadors to the Public -- the Memoirs of the Last Khedive of Egypt -- In Memoriam: Cathleen Keller -- The North Kharag Oasis Survey -- A Return to Cairo: Former Director Mark Easton Revisits ARCE's Conservation Program -- ARCE Annual Meeting -- Egypt in the Emerald City: ARCE's 59th Annual Meeting -- the Cave Church of Paul the Hermit -- Your Support Keeps ARCE Growing.
bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt, NUMBER 193 - (Summer-Fall 2008)
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1948 to 2008: ARCE Reflects on its Past and Looks to Its Future -- Current ARCE Expeditions -- The William K. and Marilyn Simpson Library: Past and Present -- Antiquities Endowment Fund: A Lasting Legacy for Conservation Tracking Hundreds of Thousands of Objects is no Small Feat for Egyptian Museum Registrars -- ARCE's Fellowship Program -- Cairo Outreach Programs: Adventurous Fun -- ARCE's Local Chapters: Ambassadors to the Public -- the Memoirs of the Last Khedive of Egypt -- In Memoriam: Cathleen Keller -- The North Kharag Oasis Survey -- A Return to Cairo: Former Director Mark Easton Revisits ARCE's Conservation Program -- ARCE Annual Meeting -- Egypt in the Emerald City: ARCE's 59th Annual Meeting -- the Cave Church of Paul the Hermit -- Your Support Keeps ARCE Growing.
bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt, NUMBER 181 - (Fall/Winter - 2001/2002)
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the Reconstruction of a Group of Wooden Models from the Tomb of Djehutynakht in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Nadia Lokma --Center Update -- Finding What Belzoni Didn't Take Foundation Deposit Pits in the Western Valley of the Kings / Richard H. Wilkinson -- Between Comite and Community: The Restoration of Al-Salih Tala'i / Alaa El-Habashi -- The Cairo Mapping Project / Nicholas Warner -- Conservation of the Cave Church at the Monastery of St. Paul / by the Red Sea Michael Jones.
bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt, NUMBER 181 - (Fall/Winter - 2001/2002)
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the Reconstruction of a Group of Wooden Models from the Tomb of Djehutynakht in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Nadia Lokma --Center Update -- Finding What Belzoni Didn't Take Foundation Deposit Pits in the Western Valley of the Kings / Richard H. Wilkinson -- Between Comite and Community: The Restoration of Al-Salih Tala'i / Alaa El-Habashi -- The Cairo Mapping Project / Nicholas Warner -- Conservation of the Cave Church at the Monastery of St. Paul / by the Red Sea Michael Jones.
The Animal Names of the Arab Ancestors : Explaining the Non-human Names of Arab Kinship Groups, Volume 2-1 Appendices /
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In the Arab world, people belong to kinship groups (lineages and tribes). Many lineages are named after animals, birds, and plants. Why? This survey evaluates five old explanations - "totemism," "emulation of predatory animals," "ancestor eponymy," "nicknaming," and "Bedouin proximity to nature." It suggests a new hypothesis: Bedouin tribes use animal names to obscure their internal cleavages. Such tribes wax and wane as they attract and lose allies and clients; they include "attached" elements as well as actual kin. To prevent outsiders from spotting "attached" groups, Bedouin tribes scatter non-human names across their segments, making it difficult to link any segment with a human ancestor. Young's argument contributes to theories of tribal organization, Arab identity, onomastics, and Near Eastern kinship.
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1 online resource (450 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004690400
Growing up in the Cis-Baikal region of Siberia, Russia : reconstructing childhood diet of Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers /
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This volume analyses the dietary life histories of prehistoric hunter-gatherers from six cemeteries in the Lake Baikal region of Siberia, Russia. The overarching goal was to better understand how they lived by examining what they ate, how they utilized the landscape, and how this changed over time.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
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9781803274942 (PDF ebook) :
Early ancient glass : core-formed, rod-formed, and cast vessels and objects from the late Bronze Age to the early Roman Empire, 1600 B.C. to A.D. 50 /
: At head of title : The Toledo Museum of Art. : 453 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-438) and indexs. : 093392092x (alk. paper)
Life histories of Theban tombs : transdiciplinary investigations of a cluster of rock-cut tombs at Sheikh 'Abd el-Qurna /
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"In recent years, archeological research has undergone major changes. The material turn in archaeology and related disciplines prompted the adoption of sophisticated scientific, digital, and technical approaches and methods often conducted on a micro level, enhancing our understanding of depositional processes and of the creation and life of an archeological object. This volume reflects seven seasons of transdisciplinary archaeological research at a cluster of rock-cut tombs in Sheikh Abd al-Qurna, an ancient Egyptian hillside cemetery and part of the much larger Theban Necropolis. Organized in twelve main chapters, Life Histories of Theban Tombs presents current investigations in landscape archaeology (including recent excavations at a large debris hill previously covering a tomb), geo- and bioarcheology, the archaeology of tomb construction, burial practices, and domestic uses as well as various epigraphical, visual, and material studies[should there be a serial. The last two sections provide additional insight into the applied recording, surveying, and visualization methods and techniques and the database system used for data recording and organization. "
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xxv, 178 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 30 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781617979910
1617979910
The impact of mobility and migration in the Roman empire : proceedings of the twelfth workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Rome, June 17-19, 2015) /
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Following on previous workshops of the Impact of Empire network which looked at frontiers (Impact 9), integration (Impact 10) and the world(s) beyond the borders of the Roman empire (Impact 11), the twelfth meeting of the network focused on movement within the Roman world. The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire assembles a series of papers on key themes in the study of Roman mobility and migration. It discusses legal frameworks, the mobility of the army (both at war and in peace-time), ethnic identity, the mobility of women, the mobility of senators, diplomatic mobility, war-induced mobility, and deportations. The papers vary in geographical scope, ranging from empire-wide approaches to reconstructions of patterns at particular sites. It employs a rich variety of sources, ranging from classical authors to documentary papyri, from legal sources to shipwrecks.
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1 online resource. :
9789004334809 :
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The settlement issue in Turkey and the Kurds : an analysis of spatial policies, modernity and war /
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In seeking to understand village evacuation in the Kurdistan region of Turkey in the 1980s and 1990s, this book focuses on the spatial aspects of the armed conflict. It tries to explain how settlement and resettlement policies and practices in Turkey have been part of a larger project of political and cultural engineering, based on a revision of a classical understanding of modernity as reflected in the work of Durkheim, Mauss, and Tönnies. This interdisciplinary perspective has allowed contributions from sociology to the political sciences and from history to social geography.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-348) and index. :
9789047420118 :
1385-3376 ; :
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Rivers of paradise : water in Islamic art and culture /
: "The following essays are the written record of the second biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture, held at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts in Doha, Qatar (VCUQatar), from 4 to 6 November 2007" --Introduction. : [ix], 364 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color), plans ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-355) and index. : 9780300158991
David Jones : a Christian modernist? : new approaches to his art, poetry and cultural theory /
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David Jones: A Christian Modernist? is a major reassessment of the work of the poet, artist and essayist David Jones (1895-1974) in light of the complex, ambiguous idea of a 'Christian modernism'. His richly experimental and palimpsestic poetry, art and thought drew extensively on Christian tradition and symbolism as a key to the future: rejecting a technocratic and utilitarian modernity in favour of a revitalised culture of sign and sacrament. This volume examines historical influences on Jones's development, his impassioned engagement with the idea of modernity and with modernist literature and art, the theological sources and resonances of his work, and contemporary or late-modern perspectives on his achievement.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004356993 :
1877-3192 ; :
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