Travel in Syria and the Holy Land

John Lewis Burckhardt, "Travel in Syria and the Holy Land"
Publisher: Echo Library | 2006 | ISBN 1406800821 | PDF | 363 pages | 1.5 MB

I had intended to sleep at Om Ezzeitoun, but I found the Druses very ill-disposed towards me. It was generally reported that I had discovered a treasure in 1810 at Shohba, near this place, and it was supposed that I had now returned to carry off what I had then left behind. I had to combat against this story at almost every place, but I was nowhere so rudely received as at this village, where I escaped ill treatment only by assuming a very imposing air, and threatening with many oaths, that if I lost a single hair of my beard, the Pasha would levy an avania of many purses on the village. I had with me an old passport from Soleiman Pasha, who, though no longer governor of Damascus, had been charged pro tempore with the government till the arrival of the new Pasha, who was expected from Constantinople.

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Anglo-Irish Relations, 1798-1922 (Questions and Analysis in History)

Nick Pelling, "Anglo-Irish Relations, 1798-1922 (Questions and Analysis in History)"
Publisher: Routledge | 2003 | ISBN 0415286719 | PDF | 109 pages | 1.2 MB

For centuries the relationship between Ireland and England has been difficult. This work explores the tempestuous events from the Act of Union in 1800 to the Anglo-Irish settlement in 1922. All the key issues are discussed including the Catholic Emancipation crisis and O' Connell, the famine and the land question, the era of Parnell and the Easter Rising and Michael Collins.

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Empire and Memory: The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture (Roman Literature and its Contexts)

Alain M. Gowing, "Empire and Memory: The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture (Roman Literature and its Contexts)"
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | 2005 | ISBN 0521836220 | PDF | 194 pages | 1.3 MB

Despite the fact that the Roman Republic came to an undeniable end in 31 BC with the accession of the emperor Augustus, the memory of the Republic persisted. This book explores how that memory manifested itself, serving as an avenue for dissent as well as imperial propaganda, before gradually fading over the course of the early Empire (AD 14-117). Presenting case-studies of several imperial authors and key Roman monuments, it also examines the close relationship between memory and history in Roman thought, informed by modern studies of historical memory.

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Milton and the Manuscript of De Doctrina Christiana

Gordon Campbell, Thomas N. Corns, John K. Hale, Fiona J. Tweedie, "Milton and the Manuscript of De Doctrina Christiana"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2008 | ISBN 0199296499 | PDF | 193 pages | 1.5 MB

Debate about the authorship of the manuscript known to us as De Doctrina Christiana has bedeviled Milton studies over recent years. In this book four leading scholars give an account of the research project that demonstrated its Miltonic provenance beyond reasonable doubt. But the authors do much more besides, locating Milton's systematic theology in its broader European context, picking open the stages and processes of its composition, and analyzing its Latinity

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