Amazons Savages And Machiavels
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Amazons Savages And Machiavels
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Author : Andrew Hadfield
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2001-09-20
Amazons Savages And Machiavels written by Andrew Hadfield and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-20 with History categories.
The articles selected for this anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance period represent the world-picture of 16th and 17th century English readers. The extracts are grouped geographically and prefaced by headnotes.
Amazons Savages And Machiavels
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Author : Matthew Dimmock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Amazons Savages And Machiavels written by Matthew Dimmock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with British categories.
The second edition of Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels is significantly revised and expanded, twenty years after the first edition helped to establish the field of travel and colonial writing in English. The anthology includes substantial new chapters of extracts on 'The North', detailing the important Arctic voyages and the search for the elusive North-West Passage to China; 'Islamic West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean' includes new material on Persia, Russia, and Jerusalem; 'England from Elsewhere' includes observations of England and the English from European travellers; and an epilogue on women travellers explores the importance in particular of Lady Catherine Whetenhall's journey to Italy, recorded after her early death. The chapter on Africa includes new material on the Congo, Gambia, and Sierra Leone, and the chapter on East Asia and the South Seas contains new material on China and Japan. There are new images of West African figures and Sir Anthony and Lady Sherley in Persian courtly attire. The introduction has been carefully revised to take into account the wealth of scholarship on English perceptions of Asia and the Mediterranean, and the analysis of race and racial identity has been expanded in line with contemporary concerns. Headnotes and notes have been revised and expanded throughout the text. The anthology is the most comprehensive single-volume available in English, and, with its newly modernized text and reader-friendly apparatus, is designed to appeal to the general as well as the specialist reader. No one interested in the history of travel, colonial writing, and racial politics at the time of the first British Empire can ignore this work.
Teaching Medieval And Early Modern Cross Cultural Encounters
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Author : K. Attar
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-12-17
Teaching Medieval And Early Modern Cross Cultural Encounters written by K. Attar and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Drawing from theatre, English studies, and art history, among others, these essays discuss the challenges and rewards of teaching medieval and early modern texts in the 21st-century university. Topics range from the intersections of race, religion, gender, and nation in cross-cultural encounters to the use of popular culture as pedagogical tools.
Nineteenth And Twentieth Century Readings Of The Medieval Orient
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Author : Liliana Sikorska
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-11-08
Nineteenth And Twentieth Century Readings Of The Medieval Orient written by Liliana Sikorska and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-08 with History categories.
Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. Analyzing the discourses on Muslims which originated in the European Middle Ages, the first part of the book discusses the troubled legacy of the encounters between the East and the West and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands in the liminal space between history and fiction. Drawing on the nineteenth-century models, the second part of the book looks at fictional and non-fictional works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century which re-established the "Oriental obsession," stimulating dread and resentment, and even more strongly setting the Civilized West against the Barbaric East. Here medieval metaphorical enemies of Mankind – the World, the Flesh and the Devil – reappear in different contexts: the world of immigration, of white women desiring Muslim men, and the present-day "freedom fighters."
Gentlemen And Amazons
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Author : Cynthia Eller
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2011-02-06
Gentlemen And Amazons written by Cynthia Eller and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-06 with FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS categories.
Gentlemen and Amazons traces the nineteenth-century genesis and development of an important contemporary myth about human origins: that of a matriarchal prehistory. Cynthia Eller explores the intellectual history of the myth, which arose not from male scholars who wanted to limit the aspirations of the nascent women's movement and vindicate the patriarchal family model as a higher stage of human development. Eller tells the stories these men told, analyzes the gendered assumptions they made, and describes the moral lessons they drew from the presumed existence of prehistoric matriarchies. She reveals the astonishing variety of advocates who have supported the myth--feminists and misogynists, fascists and communists, sexual puritans and libertarians--and provides the necessary context for understanding how feminists of the 1970s and 1980s embraced as historical "fact" a discredited nineteenth-century idea.
Machiavelliana
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Author : Michael Jackson
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-06-05
Machiavelliana written by Michael Jackson and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with Philosophy categories.
Machiavelliana is the first comprehensive study of the uses and abuses made of Niccolò Machiavelli’s name in management, primatology, leadership, power, as well as in novels, plays, commercial enterprises, television dramas, operas, rap music, children’s books, and more.
New Perspectives On The History Of Facial Hair
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Author : Jennifer Evans
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-03-02
New Perspectives On The History Of Facial Hair written by Jennifer Evans and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-02 with History categories.
This volume brings together a range of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to re-examine the histories of facial hair and its place in discussions of gender, the military, travel and art, amongst others. Chapters in the first section of the collection explore the intricate history of beard wearing and shaving, including facial hair fashions in long historical perspective, and the depiction of beards in portraiture. Section Two explores the shifting meanings of the moustache, both as a manly symbol in the nineteenth century, and also as the focus of the material culture of personal grooming. The final section of the collection charts the often-complex relationship between men, women and facial hair. It explores how women used facial hair to appropriate masculine identity, and how women’s own hair was read as a sign of excessive and illicit sexuality.
William Shakespeare S Othello
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Author : Andrew Hadfield
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-11-16
William Shakespeare S Othello written by Andrew Hadfield and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume is a broad-ranging guide to Othello, providing an introduction to the contexts of the play, the range of critical responses to the play and the play in performance.
The History Of The New World
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Author : Girolamo Benzoni
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2017-01-03
The History Of The New World written by Girolamo Benzoni and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-03 with History categories.
The History of the New World is an abridged, unique English translation of sixteenth-century Italian merchant Girolamo Benzoni’s popular account of his adventures in the Americas and the Spanish colonies. First published in Venice in 1565, Benzoni’s book was an immediate best seller and available in at least five languages before the end of the century. It spanned the years 1541–56, providing detailed descriptions of native flora and fauna, exciting narration of harrowing exploits, and a surprisingly critical perspective on the expanding Spanish Empire’s methods of conquest and governance, in which Benzoni highlighted the struggles of indigenous peoples. This edition follows the three-book structure of the original account but focuses on Benzoni’s own experiences, omitting episodes to which he was not a witness and excising repetition and hyperbolic hearsay. The first English-language version published since 1847, this volume includes an informative introduction and annotations that situate Benzoni and his fascinating writings in the larger context of Spanish colonial conquest. Perfect for classroom use, this is a lively, vivid firsthand account of the adventure and wonder of the New World.
An Encyclopedia Of Swearing
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Author : Geoffrey Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-03-26
An Encyclopedia Of Swearing written by Geoffrey Hughes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-26 with Business & Economics categories.
This is the only encyclopedia and social history of swearing and foul language in the English-speaking world. It covers the various social dynamics that generate swearing, foul language, and insults in the entire range of the English language. While the emphasis is on American and British English, the different major global varieties, such as Australian, Canadian, South African, and Caribbean English are also covered. A-Z entries cover the full range of swearing and foul language in English, including fascinating details on the history and origins of each term and the social context in which it found expression. Categories include blasphemy, obscenity, profanity, the categorization of women and races, and modal varieties, such as the ritual insults of Renaissance "flyting" and modern "sounding" or "playing the dozens." Entries cover the historical dimension of the language, from Anglo-Saxon heroic oaths and the surprising power of medieval profanity, to the strict censorship of the Renaissance and the vibrant, modern language of the streets. Social factors, such as stereotyping, xenophobia, and the dynamics of ethnic slurs, as well as age and gender differences in swearing are also addressed, along with the major taboo words and the complex and changing nature of religious, sexual, and racial taboos.