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Aztecs: An Interpretation
ISBN: 9781107693562 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 574 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its last unthreatened years. It provides a vividly dramatic analysis of Aztec ceremony as performance art, binding the key experiences and concerns of social existence in the late imperial city to the mannered violence of their ritual killings.
In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of...
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109,16 zł |
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Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact
ISBN: 9780521851374 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In January 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales, Australia and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their new neighbors. Dancing with Strangers tells the story of what happened between the first British settlers of Australia and these Aborigines. Inga Clendinnen interprets the earliest written sources, and the reports, letters and journals of the first British settlers in Australia. She reconstructs the difficult path to friendship and conciliation pursued by Arthur Phillip and the local leader 'Bennelong' (Baneelon) that was ultimately destroyed by...
In January 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales, Australia and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their ...
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379,10 zł |
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Dancing With Strangers: The True History of the Meeting of the British First Fleet and the Aboriginal Australians, 1788
ISBN: 9781841956992 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In January of 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who will be their new neighbours. Drawing on historical records, this book presents this key chapter in British colonial history, and
In January of 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who will be their new neigh...
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82,74 zł |
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Reading the Holocaust
ISBN: 9780521012690 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The events of the Holocaust remain unthinkable to many men and women, as morally and intellectually baffling today as they were a half century ago. Inga Clendinnen seeks to dispel what she calls the "Gorgon effect: " the sickening of imagination and the draining of the will that afflict so many of us when we try to confront the horrors of this history. Clendinnen explores the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' points of view. She discusses the remarkable survivor testimonies of writers such as Primo Levi and Charlotte Delbo, the vexing issue of...
The events of the Holocaust remain unthinkable to many men and women, as morally and intellectually baffling today as they were a half century ago. In...
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115,61 zł |
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The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society: Essays on Mesoamerican Society and Culture
ISBN: 9780521732079 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) How can men be brought to look steadily on the face of battle? Tenochtitlan, the great city of the Aztecs, was the creation of war, and war was its dynamic. In the title work of this compelling collection of essays, Inga Clendinnen reconstructs the sequence of experiences through which young Aztec warriors were brought to embrace their duty to their people, to their city, and to the forces that moved the world and the heavens. Subsequent essays explore the survival of Yucatec Maya culture in the face of Spanish conquest and colonisation, the insidious corruption of an austere ideology...
How can men be brought to look steadily on the face of battle? Tenochtitlan, the great city of the Aztecs, was the creation of war, and war was its dy...
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197,47 zł |
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Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact
ISBN: 9780521616812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In January 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales, Australia and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their new neighbors. Dancing with Strangers tells the story of what happened between the first British settlers of Australia and these Aborigines. Inga Clendinnen interprets the earliest written sources, and the reports, letters and journals of the first British settlers in Australia. She reconstructs the difficult path to friendship and conciliation pursued by Arthur Phillip and the local leader 'Bennelong' (Baneelon) that was ultimately destroyed by...
In January 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales, Australia and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their ...
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125,55 zł |
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The History Question: Who Owns the Past?; Quarterly Essay 23
ISBN: 9781863952545 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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92,90 zł |
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Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
ISBN: 9780521820318 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In what is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world, Inga Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes. In Ambivalent Conquests Clendinnen penetrates the thinking and feeling of the Mayan Indians in a detailed reconstruction of their assessment of the intruders. This new edition contains a preface by the author where she reflects upon the...
In what is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire and a work with implications for the understanding of European domina...
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453,66 zł |
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The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society
ISBN: 9780521518116 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. How can men be brought to look steadily on the face of battle? Tenochtitlan, the great city of the Aztecs, was the creation of war, and war was its dynamic. In the title work of this compelling collection of essays, Inga Clendinnen reconstructs the sequence of experiences through which young Aztec warriors were brought to embrace their duty to their people, to their city, and to the forces that moved the world and the heavens. Subsequent essays explore the survival of Yucatec Maya culture in the face of Spanish conquest and colonisation, the insidious corruption of an austere ideology...
How can men be brought to look steadily on the face of battle? Tenochtitlan, the great city of the Aztecs, was the creation of war, and war was its dy...
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379,10 zł |
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Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
ISBN: 9780521527316 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In what is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world, Inga Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes. In Ambivalent Conquests Clendinnen penetrates the thinking and feeling of the Mayan Indians in a detailed reconstruction of their assessment of the intruders. This new edition contains a preface by the author where she reflects upon the...
In what is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire and a work with implications for the understanding of European domina...
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120,57 zł |
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