Results 81 to 90 of about 398,949 (270)
[Review of] Michael P. Johnson and James P. Roark, eds. No Chariot Let Down: Charleston\u27s Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War [PDF]
, 1986 In an overgrown cemetery in the old village of Stateburg, South Carolina, a hundred miles north of Charleston lies the body of William Ellison (1790-1860), patriarch of a remarkable clan of free blacks whose achievements belie the myth of the Old South ...
Taylor, Orville W.
core +1 more source
Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.Fossil finds from three Middle Miocene sites in Poland reveal the northernmost known presence of trionychid turtles in Europe, tentatively identified as Trionyx cf. vindobonensis, suggesting a warmer climate that supported thermophilic species in Central Europe during this period. Abstract Modern trionychids (Testudines, Cryptodira) have a pan‐tropical
Yohan Pochat‐Cottilloux +5 more
wiley +1 more source
Finding Clio in Mid-Atlantic [PDF]
, 2019 When he frst stepped ashore in 1867, Mark Twain found Britain’s tiny mid-Atlantic colony of Bermuda a delightful place. Wearied by a long trip to the Holy Land, Twain found Bermuda’s semi-tropical aesthetic immediately restful.
Duncan, McDowall
core +3 more sources
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 2014 Archaeology in the ‘Land of Tells and Ruins’. A History of Excavations in the Holy Land Inspired by the Photographs and Accounts of Leo Boe, edited by Bart Wagemakers, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 264 pages, 2014, ISBN ...
Tim Murray
doaj +1 more source
Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
wiley +1 more source
Privilege Versus Right: Vigilantism Against Israel's Palestinian Citizens
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article addresses three core questions: What is the social origin of vigilantism? How do vigilantes justify extra‐legal violence and intimidation? What are vigilantism's long‐term effects? The analysis focuses on a period in which Israel's Palestinian‐Arab citizens increased their access to legal rights, social mobility, spatial ...
Gershon Shafir, Beatrice Waterhouse
wiley +1 more source
Terra e rendite nei secoli XII-XIII: Normandia, Inghliterra, Terrasanta. [PDF]
, 2010 Land and revenue in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Century: Normandy, England, the Holy Land Thanks to the documentation made available by the “Patrologia Latina” database, the author has managed to reconstruct the legal-institutional profile of the ...
ALONZI, Luigi +5 more
core
Reasons for Russian women’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the mid-19th — early 20th centuries [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной ЦерквиThe article reveals the motives for which Russian women went to Palestine in the period from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. The study is based on narrative and personal sources created by women who visited the Holy Land, as well as on archival ...
Tsys Valeriy, Ol′ga Tsys′
doaj +1 more source
The Leaner, Meaner State—And What It Means for Society
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Populism is an old phenomenon but one which appears to once again be in ascendance globally. Attributing a nation's problems to a wicked elite, populists seek to dismantle the old order and either remove or repurpose its institutions. This paper explores how populism changes economic governance and particularly, how its emphasis on fighting ...
Christopher A. Hartwell
wiley +1 more source
Meeting at Middle Ground: American Quaker Women’s Two Palestinian Encounters [PDF]
, 2012 In the late nineteenth century the Palestinian town of Ramallah began receiving American missionary women who embodied their middle-class ideology of womanhood and ventured to discourse on Arab women and culture. Their conviction of the American woman as
Othman, Enaya
core +1 more source