Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions - The Contested Legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade
This volume comprises papers presented at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Joachim Wach's death, and the centennial of Mircea Eliade's birth. Its purpose is to reconsider both the problematic, separate legacies of these two major twentieth-century historians of religions, and the bearing of these two legacies upon each other.
The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies
In The Long Shadow of the Civil War, Victoria Bynum relates uncommon narratives about common Southern folks who fought not with the Confederacy, but against it. Focusing on regions in three Southern states--North Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas--Bynum introduces Unionist supporters, guerrilla soldiers, defiant women, socialists, populists, free blacks, and large interracial kin groups that belie stereotypes of the South and of Southerners as uniformly supportive of the Confederate cause.
Cultural Legacies of Ancient Civilizations - Incas - Oppression Self-Destroys An Empire
Like the Romans, the Incas conquered a large number of cultures, binding them together with a network of roads. The Incas also showed remarkable engineering skills in buildings and terraced farming fields, as at Machu Picchu.
Cultural Legacies of Ancient Civilizations - Romans - Inclusive Conquest & Loyal Citizens
The Romans ruthlessly conquered Carthage and the rest of the Mediterranean region, but also gained the allegiance of most of the people they subdued. How? By giving them citizenship and including them in the benefits of empire, best exemplified by one of Rome’s good emperors, Hadrian.
Legacies of Colonial English is abook about varities aqnd dialects of the English language. It explains how due to colonialism the English language began to varieies and have lots of Dialects.As a result of colonisation, many varieties of English now exist around the world. The book closely examine a wide range of Englishes – including those in North and South America, South Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand – and explain why many of them still reflect nonstandard British usage from the distant past.
