Peasant Fires
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Peasant Fires
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Author : Richard M. Wunderli
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1992
Peasant Fires written by Richard M. Wunderli and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages categories.
One night in 1476 in the small southern German town of Niklashausen, an illiterate shepherd and street musician by the name of Hans Behem had a vision of the Virgin Mary. This work sets the pieces of the story into their cultural, religious, and political context. It explores important questions about the period and about historical memory.
All Russia Is Burning
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Author : Cathy A. Frierson
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2012-11-10
All Russia Is Burning written by Cathy A. Frierson and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-10 with History categories.
Rural fires were an even more persistent scourge than famine in late imperial Russia, as Cathy Frierson shows in this first comprehensive study. Destroying almost three billion rubles’ worth of property in European Russia between 1860 and 1904, accidental and arson fires acted as a brake on Russia’s economic development while subjecting peasants to perennial shocks to their physical and emotional condition. The fire question captured the attention of educated, progressive Russians, who came to perceived it as a key obstacle to Russia’s becoming a modern society in the European model. Using sources ranging from literary representations and newspaper articles to statistical tables and court records, Frierson demonstrates the many meanings fire held for both peasants and the educated elite. To peasants, it was an essential source of light and warmth as well as a destructive force that regularly ignited their cramped villages of wooden, thatch-roofed huts. Absent the rule of law, they often used arson to gain justice or revenge, or to exert social control over those who would violate village norms. Frierson shows that the vast majority of arson cases in European Russia were not peasant-against-gentry acts of protest but peasant-against-peasant acts of "self-help" law or plain spite. Both the state and individual progressives set out to resolve the fire question and to educate, cajole, or coerce the peasantry into the modern world. Fire insurance, building codes, "scientific" village layouts, and volunteer firefighting brigades reduced the average number of buildings consumed in each blaze, but none of these measures succeeded in curbing the number of fires each year. More than anything else, this history of fire and arson in rural European Russia is a history of their cultural meanings in the late imperial campaign for modernity. Frierson shows the special associations of women with fire in rural life and in elite understanding of fire in the Russian countryside. Her study of the fire question demonstrates both peasant agency in fighting fire and educated Russians' hardening conviction that peasants stood in the way of Russia's advent into the company of prosperous, rational, civilized nations.
My Wanderings Being Travels In The East In 1846 47 1850 51 1852 53
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Author : John Gadsby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
My Wanderings Being Travels In The East In 1846 47 1850 51 1852 53 written by John Gadsby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with Middle East categories.
Schiller S Poems And Plays
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Author : Friedrich Schiller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Schiller S Poems And Plays written by Friedrich Schiller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with categories.
Chamber S Journal Of Popular Literature Science And Arts
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
Chamber S Journal Of Popular Literature Science And Arts written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with London (England) categories.
Chambers S Edinburgh Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
Chambers S Edinburgh Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with Periodicals categories.
Chambers S Journal Of Popular Literature Science And Arts
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
Chambers S Journal Of Popular Literature Science And Arts written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with Humanities categories.
The European Studies Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The European Studies Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Europe categories.
New One Act Plays For Acting Students
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Author : Deb Bert
language : en
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing
Release Date : 2003
New One Act Plays For Acting Students written by Deb Bert and has been published by Meriwether Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Drama categories.
This latest volume in a series of short play anthologies compiled by Deb and Norman Bert provides roles for almost any mix of students in an acting class. The plays range in mood from serious and heavy to dark or satiric comedy to farce. The heart of the book includes fifteen scripts for two actors. Also included are five monologues and five three-character plays. The playwrights are icons of the American avante garde, writers who have contributed much to regional theatre over recent years. An excellent resource for classrooms and festival competition use.
Littell S Living Age
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1925
Littell S Living Age written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925 with categories.