Search Results - "frontier"

The foreign encounter in myth and religion by Pijl, Kees van der

Table of Contents: “…Tribal foreign relations and mythical ancestry -- Sedentary-nomad encounters in Semitic myth and religion -- Warrior heroes in the Indo-European lineage -- Imperial cosmologies and the nomad counterpoint -- Rival fundamentalisms on the imperial frontier.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

In darkest Alaska travel and empire along the Inside Passage / by Campbell, Robert (Robert Bruce)

Table of Contents: “…Voyage to Brobdingnag -- Continental drift -- Alaska with Appleton's, Canada by Baedeker's -- Scenic bonanza -- Frontier commerce -- Totem and taboo -- Juneau's industrial sublime -- Orogenous zones : glaciers and the geologies of empire -- Inside Passage.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The Moorish guard of the Kings of Castile (1410-1467) by Echevarria, Ana

Table of Contents: “…Christians, mudejars and Granadans : three sides of one political reality -- The Moorish knights, from the frontier to the court -- The king's "foreign" guard -- The conversion of the Moorish knights -- The dissolution of the Moorish guard -- Documentary appendix.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and free labor by Case, Theresa Ann, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Constructing a new Southwest -- Labor kinship -- Hierarchy and conflict -- Southwestern railroaders and the receding 'frontier of labor scarcity' -- Testing the hierarchies -- The independent path of District Assembly 101 -- Blaming Martin Irons.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The foreign encounter in myth and religion by Pijl, Kees van der

Table of Contents: “…Tribal foreign relations and mythical ancestry -- Sedentary-nomad encounters in Semitic myth and religion -- Warrior heroes in the Indo-European lineage -- Imperial cosmologies and the nomad counterpoint -- Rival fundamentalisms on the imperial frontier.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

In darkest Alaska travel and empire along the Inside Passage / by Campbell, Robert (Robert Bruce)

Table of Contents: “…Voyage to Brobdingnag -- Continental drift -- Alaska with Appleton's, Canada by Baedeker's -- Scenic bonanza -- Frontier commerce -- Totem and taboo -- Juneau's industrial sublime -- Orogenous zones : glaciers and the geologies of empire -- Inside Passage.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Language policy and language conflict in Afghanistan and its neighbors the changing politics of language choice /

Table of Contents: “…Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union -- section III. The northwest frontier province and Pashto, Punjabi, and Balochi -- section IV. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Language policy and language conflict in Afghanistan and its neighbors the changing politics of language choice /

Table of Contents: “…Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union -- section III. The northwest frontier province and Pashto, Punjabi, and Balochi -- section IV. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Codeswitching worldwide

Table of Contents: “…General issues and new frontiers -- section 2. Language norms and models and how to describe them -- section 3. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Codeswitching worldwide

Table of Contents: “…General issues and new frontiers -- section 2. Language norms and models and how to describe them -- section 3. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Theatres of violence massacre, mass killing and atrocity throughout history /

Table of Contents: “…Massacre and atrocity in the ancient and pre-modern eras -- pt. 2. The colonial frontier -- pt. 3. Contested narratives : memory, atrocity and massacre -- pt. 4. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Fragile Conviction : Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan / by Pelkmans, Mathijs, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…-- Walking the truth in Islam with the Tablighi Jamaat -- Pentecostal miracle truth on the frontier -- The tenacity of spiritual healing and seeing -- Conclusion : pulsation : dynamics of conviction.…”
Full text available:

Beyond NATO : A New Security Architecture for Eastern Europe / by O'Hanlon, Michael E.

Table of Contents: “…A primer on Europe's frontier states today -- 3. The case for a new security architecture -- 4. …”
Full text available:

Theatres of violence massacre, mass killing and atrocity throughout history /

Table of Contents: “…Massacre and atrocity in the ancient and pre-modern eras -- pt. 2. The colonial frontier -- pt. 3. Contested narratives : memory, atrocity and massacre -- pt. 4. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Fragile Conviction : Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan / by Pelkmans, Mathijs, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…-- Walking the truth in Islam with the Tablighi Jamaat -- Pentecostal miracle truth on the frontier -- The tenacity of spiritual healing and seeing -- Conclusion : pulsation : dynamics of conviction.…”
Full text available:

Beyond NATO : A New Security Architecture for Eastern Europe / by O'Hanlon, Michael E.

Table of Contents: “…A primer on Europe's frontier states today -- 3. The case for a new security architecture -- 4. …”
Full text available:

Transformational Moments in Social Welfare : What Role for Voluntary Action? / by Brewis, Georgina, Macmillan, Rob, Lindsey, Rose, Hardill, Irene, 1951-, Paine, Angela Ellis, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…-- Researching voluntary action and welfare -- Positioning voluntary action in social welfare -- Social welfare needs -- Working together in a mixed economy of welfare -- Making room for voluntary action -- Challenging the moving frontier?…”
Full text available:

Transformational Moments in Social Welfare : What Role for Voluntary Action? / by Brewis, Georgina, Macmillan, Rob, Lindsey, Rose, Hardill, Irene, 1951-, Paine, Angela Ellis, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…-- Researching voluntary action and welfare -- Positioning voluntary action in social welfare -- Social welfare needs -- Working together in a mixed economy of welfare -- Making room for voluntary action -- Challenging the moving frontier?…”
Full text available:

Faithful Transgressions In The American West : Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts / by Bush, Laura L., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.…”
Full text available:

Faithful Transgressions In The American West : Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts / by Bush, Laura L., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.…”
Full text available: