E-book Babad Tanah Jawi, The Chronicle of Java : The Revised Prose Version of…

Bbad are traditional Javanese chronicles written in verse. Although there aremany babad, some dealing with a specific area (Babad Madura), or period(Babad Kartasura), or event (Babad Pacina), the ‘mother’ of all babad is the text known as the Major Babad Tanah Jawi. The latest version of it dates from 1836, althoughthe events described end around the year 1770. It describes the h…

E-book Scattered Finds : Archaeology, Egyptology and Museums

Statues of ancient Egyptian rulers and their gods can be encountered in the grandiose galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Manhattan’s traffic-choked Fifth Avenue. More humble grave goods, excavated from tombs along the Nile, can be found in homemade cabinets in a South African barn at the end of a dirt track road. Several hundred artefacts made o…

E-book History of the Kings of Britain

Whilst occupied on many and various studies, I happened to light upon the History of the Kings of Britain, and wondered that in the account which Gildas and Bede, in their elegant treatises, had given of them, I found nothing said of those kings who lived here before the Incarnation of Christ, nor of Arthur and many others who succeeded after the Incarnation, though their actions both deserved …

E-Book Sahara

This book is in no sense a diary of day-to-day travel. Only a single chapter is devoted to the account of the extraordinary journey which Captain[viii] Buchanan and his cinematographer, Mr. Glover, made from Kano in Nigeria to Touggourt in Algiers—a journey of over 3,500 miles through the great desert of Africa. Some idea of the hardships which they encountered may be gathered from the fact t…

E-book Nineteenth-Century China : Five Imperialist Perspectives

The importance of opening a Second Port in China, as connectedwith the Company1 s interests, has escaped the attention of few Personswho have given the least consideration to our connections with that coun-try. Unfortunately, however, there exists so much diversity of opinionas to which Port would be the most favorable that we are involved …

E-book Natural History of the Farm : A Guide to the Practical Study of the So…

If you ever read the letters of the pioneers who first settled in your locality when it was all a wilderness (and how recent was the time!), you will find them filled with discussion of the possibilities of getting a living and establishing a home there. Were there springs of good water there? Was there native pasturage for the animals? Was there fruit? 'Vas there fish? 'Vas there game? Was t…

E-book Dynasties of China

The clay army stood in silent formation, guarding the tomb of the first emperor of China. Alert and ready for battle, they were to protect the emperor from evil spirits and robbers. If a robber did manage to break in, he might not escape in one piece—the clay army surrounded the tomb. Over seven hundred thousand workers built the first emperor’s tomb and created his army of clay. And it too…

E-book The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine Classical to C…

This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity and the phenomenology of breath and breathlessness. Contributions span the classical, medieval, early modern, Romantic, Victori…

E-book Greenland : Security Perspectives

Following the end of the Cold War, Greenland has played a limited role in global security policy. Nevertheless, an intensive debate has taken place in the Danish media about Greenland’s role in the Cold War, with a significant polarization of opinion concerning the American presence in Greenland. This debate and the discussion about openness in the existing sources on the subject gave rise to…

E-book The Inuit Way : A Guide to Inuit Culture

Pauktuutit fosters greater awareness of the needs of Inuit women, advocates for equity and social improvements, and encourages their participation in the community, regional and national life of Canada. Pauktuutit leads and supports Canadian Inuit women in policy development and community projects in all areas of interest to them, for the social, cultural, political and economic betterment of t…

E-book A History of Rome to 565 A.D

The student beginning the study of Roman History through the medium of the works of modern writers cannot fail to note wide differences in the treatment accorded by them to the early centuries of the life of the Roman State. These differences are mainly due to differences of opinion among moderns as to the credibility of the ancient accounts of this period. And so it will perhaps prove helpful …

E-book Ancient Greece and Rome

A Great Civilization Many people believe that the greatest of all the civilizations of the ancient world was the civilization of Greece. However, it is a little misleading to speak about ancient Greece as though it were a single civilization. Ancient Greece was not a unified country. It was a collection of independent city-states. The ancient Greek word for city-state was polis (/poh* lihs/). A…

E-Book She said she was in the family way : Pregnancy and infancy in modern I…

She said she was in the family way examines the subject of pregnancy and infancy in Ireland from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. It draws on exciting and innovative research by early-career and established academics, and consider topics that have been largely ignored by historians in Ireland. The book will make an important contribution to Irish women.

E-book History and Religion

History is one of the most important cultural tools to make sense of one’s situation, to establish identity, define otherness, and explain change. As a consequence, the scientific discipline of history is not only practiced, but the study of historiography has advanced to a thriving field of research. In fact, an impressive amount of theoretical literature on historiography has been brought f…

E-book A Short History of the World

THE STORY of our world is a story that is still very imperfectly known. A couple of hundred years ago men possessed the history of little more than the last three thousand years. What happened before that time was a matter of legend and speculation. Over a large part of the civilized world it was believed and taught that the world had been created suddenly in 4004 B.C., though authorities diffe…

E-book Four Histories about Early Dutch Football, 1910-1920

I remember being interested in Dutch football from a young age. The first football match I can remember watching was the Italia 1990 World Cup match between England and the Netherlands – although saying I remember ‘watching’ it is a little inaccurate. To be honest, until I looked up the score, while writing this, I could not remember who had won (actua…

E-book Dissonant Heritages and Memories in Contemporary Europe

Herritage and memory, as closely related concepts, have great relevance to our world and European society today. Contemporery Europe faces political, economic, social, and humanitarian challenges that influence both how people deal with their past and how they build their identities and ideas of the future as they remember and reshape the past within, and related to larger power structures.

E-book Collecting Lives : Critical Data Narrative as Modernist Aesthetic in E…

On a near-daily basis, data is being used to narrate our lives. Categorizing algorithms drawn from amassed personal data to assign narrative destinies to individuals at crucial junctures, simultaneously predicting and shaping the paths of our lives. Data is commonly assumed to bring us closer to objectivity, but the narrative paths these algorithms assign seem, more often than not, to replicate…

E-book The Stone Age of Indonesia

GeologicaIly, 1ndonesia is complex. 1st consists of groups of large and small islands, situated between the Asiatic and the Australian Continents, and extends from 60 N. lat. to 110 S. lat. and 950 to 1400 E. long. The Archipelago is a heterogeneous geosyncIinal area divided into two dissimilar regions. One, the northwestern region, has been stabIe sin ce Pleistocene times; it has a quiet, reg…

E-book The Christmas drama of the household of St John’s College, Oxford

This chapter considers early modern academic drama performed at St John’s College, Oxford. Dutton begins by describing the college household materials on which such performances drew, adopting a productively broad definition of this category that includes the people working, studying, and teaching at St John’s, as well as their immediate neighbours in town; the college’s domestic furnishi…

E-book Games of History

Games of History provides an understanding of how games as artefacts, textual and visual sources on games and gaming as a pastime or a “serious” activity can be used as sources for the study of history. From the vast world of games, the book’s focus is on board and card games, with reference to physical games, sports and digital games as well. Considering culture, society, politics and me…

E-book New World Objects of Knowledge : A Cabinet of Curiosities

Unlike the items in Neil MacGregor’s bestselling A History of the World in 100 Objects, our small cabinet’s curious objects cannot be found in a single museum.1 The reasons for this are several. First, from the late 15th century down to our own day, the New World, and in particular that part of it now called Latin America, has been plundered and pilfered fo…

E-book Anti Computing

Anti-computing punctuates computational advances; the rush ahead, the demand to be wanted, the claims for progress, and for progress as automatically good. Anti-computing is a pause, a stop, a refusal, an objection, a sense, an emotion, a response, a popular campaign, a letter, an essay, a code-work, a theorist, a sensibility, an ambience, an absolute hostility, a reasoned objection, a glitch, …

E-book The Jesuits : A history from the Ignatius to the present

Within a few decades the Society of Jesus will observe the five hundredth anniversary of its founding in 1540. During the course of almost five centuries, it has had a rich, complex, and often tumultuous history. Much admired and much reviled, it has from the beginning eluded facile categorization. On the most basic level, the Society is simply a Roman Catholic religious order, whose members …

Leather gods & wooden heroes :java's classical wayang.

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Ninja, A.D. 1460-1650

The ninja were the secret agents and assassins of feudal Japan and they remain a subject of enduring fascination. They first arose during the power struggles of 9th and 10th century Japan - where they catered for an increasing demand for spies, informants and assassins - and were used until the mid-1600s when, due to a campaign to destroy them, disappeared.

Java's Onuitputtelijke natuur.

Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809-1864) heeft het belangrijkste deel van zijn leven gewijd aan het natuuronderzoek op Java. Tijdens zijn zwerftochten over dit eiland maakte hij aantekeningen, foto's en schetsen, die hij later verwerkte in zijn standaardwerk over Java. Rob Nieuwenhuys en Frist Jaquet hebben een selectie gemaakt van zijn reisverhalen, tekeningen en foto's. De complete serie gekleur…

E-book History of Julius Caesar

Alexander was the hero of the Greeks. He was King of Macedon, a country lying north of Greece proper. He headed an army of his countrymen, and made an excursion for conquest and glory into Asia. He made himself master of all that quarter of the globe, and reigned over it in Babylon, till he brought himself to an early grave by the excesses into which his boundless prosperity allured him. H…

E-book The Red Badge of Courage

Following the experiences of 19-year-old Henry Fleming, a recruit in the American Civil War, the story is about the meaning of courage. One of the most influential American anti-war stories ever written.

E-book The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757

Hawkeye and his Mohican companions Chingachgook and Uncas escort the Munro sisters, Cora and Alice, through the woods of New York to Fort William Henry. Also in the expeditin party are British army Major Duncan Heyward and a psalmist named David Gamut. Along the way they are forced to fight against Hurons led by the evil Magua, which leads to an encounter with another American Indian tribe call…

E-book ivanhoe

This, one of the great works of fiction, is of historical value for its graphic picture of the Saxons and Normans in England after the Norman occupation of the land. The tournament at Ashby, the siege of Torquilstone, the trial of Rebecca, the Jewess,--these are a few incidents in this story "of the days of old When knights were bold." Robin Hood, under the name of Locksley the yeoman, appears …

E-Book A Tale of two cities

Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond crosses from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into St. Giles's, to search for cont…

E-book Jeanne d'Arc Her Life and Death

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E-Book The River War

The reconquest of the Egyptian Sudan was a military achievement remarkable first of all for the fact that unvarying and complete success attended every movement form the advance from Wady Halfa to the defeat and death of the Khalifa. This success was mainly due to one man endowed with extraordinary organizing genius, seconded by able and zealous subordinates.

E-Book The Count of the Monte Cristo

A classic adventure novel, often considered Dumas' best work, and frequently included on lists of the best novels of all time. Completed in 1844, and released as an 18-part series over the next two years, Dumas collaborated with other authors throughout. The story takes place in France, Italy, and the Mediterranean from the end of the rule of Napoleon I through the reign of Louis-Philippe.

Jejak Langkah Pak Harto 29 Maret 1978-11 Maret 1983

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Jejak Langkah Pak Harto 27 Maret 1973-23 Maret 1978

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Jejak Langkah Pak Harto 28 Maret 1968-23 Maret 1973

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Jejak Langkah Pak Harto 1 Oktober 1965-27 Maret 1968

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A brief history of korea : isolation, war, despotism and revival

Korea was one of the last countries in Asia to be visited by Westerners and its borders have remained largely unchanged since it was unified in the seventh century. Though it is one of the world's oldest and most ethnically homogeneous states, Korea was not born in a vacuum. Geographically isolated, the country was heavily influenced by powerful China and was often used as a bridge to the mainl…

A Brief history of Indonesia Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis : The Incredible S…

This fascinating book tells the story of Indonesia as a narrative of kings, traders, missionaries, soldiers and revolutionaries--featuring stormy sea crossings, fiery volcanoes, and the occasional tiger. It recounts colorful visits by foreign travelers who passed through these shores for centuries--from Chinese Buddhist pilgrims and Dutch adventurers to English sea captains and American movie s…

A Brief History of Bali Piracy, Slavery, and Guns : The Story of An Island Pa…

Bali is a perennially popular tourist destination. It is also home to a fascinating people with a long and dramatic history of interactions with foreigners, particularly after the arrival of the first Dutch fleet in 1597. In this history, Willard Hanna chronicles Bali through the centuries as well as the islanders' current struggle to preserve their unique identity amidst the financially necess…

A Brief History of China Dinasty, Revolution, and Transformation: From The Mi…

Explores "the development of a rich and complex civilization where the use of paper, writing, money, and gunpowder were widespread in ancient times and where silk, ceramics, tea, metal implements, and other products were produced and exported around the globe. [The book] examines the special conditions that allowed a single culture to unify an entire continent spanning 10 billion square kilomet…

A brief history of Japan samurai, shōgun and zen : the extraordinary story …

This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion

A SHORT HISTORY OF INDONESIA

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A SHORT HISTORY OF AFRICA

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