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Book cover of Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire

Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire

A Systematic Survey of Subsistence Crises and Epidemics

by Dionysios Ch. Stathakopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire presents the first analytical account in English of the history of subsistence crises and epidemic diseases in Late Antiquity. Based on a catalogue of all such events in the East Roman/Byzantine empire between 284 and 750, it gives...
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Philosophical Glimpses

by Ch. Suryanarayana Rao
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016

Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Philosophical Glimpses covers all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets with a sonnet-by-sonnet exposition and delves into the three riddles involving the handsome young man, the dark lady and the rival poet.The book unravels the spiritual dimension within these sonnets from the perspective...
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The New Rhetoric and the Humanities

Essays on Rhetoric and its Applications

by Ch. Perelman
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Modern logic has Wldergone some remarkable developments in the last hun­ dred years. These have contributed to the extraordinary use of formal logic which has become essentially the concern of mathematicians. This has led to attempts to identify logic with formal logic. The claim has even been made...
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What Democracy Looks Like

The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics

by Christina R. Foust, Amy Pason, Kate Zittlow Rogness
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017

What Democracy Looks Like is a compelling and timely collection which combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies, while also exploring theories and ideas espoused by those in sociology, political science, and cultural studies. Recent protests around the...
Book cover of Leadership and Local Power in European Rural Development
by Imre Kovách
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

Contemporary processes of economic, social, political and cultural restructuring are having profound impacts on the form and function of rural areas within the countries of the European Union and beyond. Furthermore, rural development policies and programmes at EU and national levels have been critical...
Book cover of Prisons in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century
by Astrid Arrarás, Emily D. Bello-Pardo, Adrián Bonilla
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015

This volume on penitentiary systems in the Americas offers a long-overdue look at the prisons that exist at the forefront of the ongoing struggle against drugs and violence throughout North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. From Haiti to Bolivia, the authors examine the conditions in...
Book cover of The Criminalization of States

The Criminalization of States

The Relationship between States and Organized Crime

by Sigrid Arzt, Bruce Bagley, Adriana Beltrán
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019

This volume examines the relationship between states and organized crime. It seeks to add to the theoretical literature for analyzing the criminalization of the state. The volume also explores the nature of organized crime in countries throughout the Americas from Central America to the Southern Cone.
Book cover of Trésor des fèves et Fleur des pois
by Charles Nodier, Ch. Crespin
Language: French
Release Date: April 23, 2015

BnF collection ebooks - "Il y avait une fois un pauvre homme et une pauvre femme qui étaient bien vieux, et qui n'avaient jamais eu d'enfants: c'était un grand chagrin pour eux, parce qu'ils prévoyaient que dans quelques années ils ne pourraient plus cultiver leurs fèves et les aller vendre au marché."
Book cover of Sinaloa

Sinaloa

Historia breve

by Sergio Ortega Noriega, Alicia Hernández Chávez, Yovana Celaya Nández
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2012

Historia de Sinaloa que incluye los hechos más trascendentes para la formación del estado actual, presentados como una serie de acontecimientos que se suceden de manera concatenada a lo largo de cinco siglos. Se han destacado aquellos sucesos que resultan medulares para la conformación actual del...
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Oaxaca

Historia breve

by María de los Ángeles Romero Frizzi, Carlos Ramiro Sánchez Silva, Jesús Edgar Mendoza García
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2012

La presente Breve historia de Oaxaca da cuenta de diversos aspectos políticos, económicos, sociales y culturales ocurridos desde los tiempos que la población humana ocupó este rincón del país hasta la actualidad. El autor construye una investigación que, incorporando las interpretaciones históricas...
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Querétaro

Historia breve

by Marta Eugenia García Ugarte, Alicia Hernández Chávez, Yovana Celaya Nández
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2012

Se presenta la historia de Querétaro desde sus primeros pobladores: los pames y los otomíes, estudiando sus costumbres y organizaciones, y el cambio radical de estas al llegar las avanzadas colonizadoras, militares y religiosas del siglo XVI y el espíritu de empresa de españoles, criollos y mestizos...
Book cover of Federalismos latinoamericanos

Federalismos latinoamericanos

México, Brasil, Argentina

by Marcello Carmagnani, Alicia Hernández Chávez, Germán Bidart Campos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 19, 2012

El presente volumen ha sido organizado en tres partes. En la primera se analiza el surgimiento del federalismo desde fines del siglo XVIII hasta la primera mitad del siglo XIX; la segunda parte examina la consolidación del federalismo gracias a las reformas liberales, y en la tercera se ilustran las transformaciones del federalismo por efecto del nacionalismo en lo que va de nuestro siglo.
Book cover of El otro Occidente

El otro Occidente

América Latina desde la invasión europea hasta la globalización

by Marcello Carmagnani, Jaime Riera Rehren, Alicia Hernández Chávez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 9, 2012

Examen del encuentro entre Europa y América, y las transformaciones ocurridas mediante un proceso que comenzó con del descubrimiento y continúa hasta el presente siglo XXI. El autor muestra el tejido de las relaciones entre diversos modos de vida, creencias, organizaciones sociales, leyes y costumbres, políticas y economías, que originan así un nuevo modo de civilización Occidental.
Book cover of Para una historia de América, II.
by Marcello Carmagnani, Alicia Hernández Chávez, Ruggiero Romano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 24, 2016

Los estudios y ensayos que se presentan en este volumen examinan algunos puntos de particular importancia para la comprensión de la evolución histórica del subcontinente americano con el propósito de arrojar luz en torno a temas fundamentales como la religión, geografía, identidad nacional, economía y aspectos jurídicos en diferentes etapas históricas americanas.
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