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Prague in Black and Gold
Prague is at the core of everything both wonderful and terrible in Western history, but few people truly understand this city's unique culture. In Prague in Black and Gold, Peter Demetz strips away sentimentalities and distortions and shows how Czechs, Germans, Italians, and Jews have lived and worked together for over a thousand years.
Gender and methodology in the ancient Near East: Approaches from Assyriology and beyond
This collection of 23 essays, presented in three sections, aims to discuss women’s studies as well as methodological and theoretical approaches to gender within the broad framework of ancient Near Eastern studies. The first section, comprising most of the contributions, is devoted to Assyriology and ancient Near Eastern archaeology. The second and third sections are devoted to Egyptology and to ancient Israel and biblical studies respectively, neighbouring fields of research included in the volume to enrich the debate and facilitate academic exchange. Altogether these essays offer a variety of sources and perspectives, from the textual to the archaeological, from bodies and sexuality to onomastics, to name just a few, making this a useful resource for all those interested in the study of women and gender in the past.
Edhina Ekogidho – Names as Links
What are the most popular names of the Ambo people in Namibia? Why do so many Ambos have Finnish first names? What do the African names of these people mean? Why is the namesake so important in Ambo culture? How did the long independence struggle affect personal naming, and what are the latest name-giving trends in Namibia? This study analyses the changes in the personal naming system of the Ambo people in Namibia over the last 120 years, starting from the year 1883 when the first Ambos received biblical and European names at baptism. The central factors in this process were the German and South African colonisation and European missionary work on the one hand, and the rise of African nationalism on the other hand. Eventually, this clash between African and European naming practices led to a new and dynamic naming system which includes elements of both African and European origin.
Mycotoxin Protocols
Mycotoxins produced by molds are common contaminants of many important crops, including wheat, corn, rice, and peanuts. Some mycotoxins are found in fruits and vegetables. These contaminants have a broad range of toxic effects, including carcinogenicity, neurotoxicity, and reproductive and developmental toxicity. The occurrence of mycotoxins in foods is an unavoidable worldwide problem. About 80 countries have imposed regulatory limits to minimize human and animal exposure to mycotoxins. Regulatory limits, including international standards, have tremendous economic impact and must be developed using science-based risk assessments. The purpose of Mycotoxin Protocols is to provide the scientif...
Prague in Danger
A dramatic account of life in Czechoslovakia's great capital during the Nazi Protectorate With this successor book to Prague in Black and Gold, his account of more than a thousand years of Central European history, the great scholar Peter Demetz focuses on just six short years—a tormented, tragic, and unforgettable time. He was living in Prague then—a "first-degree half-Jew," according to the Nazis' terrible categories—and here he joins his objective chronicle of the city under German occupation with his personal memories of that period: from the bitter morning of March 15, 1939, when Hitler arrived from Berlin to set his seal on the Nazi takeover of the Czechoslovak government, until ...
Genealogy of the Holloway Families (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Genealogy of the Holloway Families This book is presented to you not with the full satisfaction of the compiler but with the knowledge that a consistent and vigorous effort to obtain all the facts and data possible has been prosecuted over a period of more than five years, every effort has been made through a search of Court records, Wills, Church records and old Bibles to secure all information obtainable to trace the several branches of the family back to the earliest member of the name in this country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Der Landvogt der Niederlausitz zwischen Königsmacht und Ständen (1490 1620) Ein Diener zweier Herren?
Spannend schildert der Autor den Wandel des niederlausitzischen Landvogtamtes in den Jahren von 1490 bis 1620. Er zeichnet nicht nur ein Bild von den Persönlichkeiten der Landvögte, von ihren familiären Hintergründen, ihren politischen Karrieren und den Gründen ihrer Amtseinführung, sondern geht auch auf das Verhältnis zwischen dem König und den niederlausitzischen und böhmischen Ständen ein. Denn im 15. Jahrhundert kam ein neuer Machtfaktor ins Spiel - die Stände, die über das Schicksal ihres Landes mitentscheiden wollten und dafür einen schwachen Landvogt aus eigenen Reihen einem treuen Diener des Königs vorzogen. Der Autor verweist im notwendigen Maß auch auf das Geschehen in den übrigen Ländern der Böhmischen Krone und erfasst die Veränderung in den Kompetenzen der Landvögte sowie die Funktion und personelle Besetzung ihres Amtsapparates. Mit dieser breiten Fragestellung und dem großen Umfang der ausgewerteten Quellen unterscheidet sich diese historische Darstellung grundlegend von anderen Abhandlungen, die bisher zum Thema verfasst worden sind.
