Historical Archaeology in Wachovia: Excavating Eighteenth Century Bethabara and Moravian Pottery (repost)

Historical Archaeology in Wachovia: Excavating Eighteenth Century Bethabara and Moravian Pottery by Stanley South


English | 1999 | ISBN: 0306456583 | 446 pages | PDF | 20 MB

Originally distributed with a different title as a very limited edition of twelve in 1975, Historical Archaeology in Wachovia presents a unique record of the 1753 Moravian town of Bethabara, near Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Stanley South, who led the site"s excavation in 1966, fully describes such discoveries as fortifications from the French and Indian War and twenty ruins of various shops and dwellings in the town. He also illustrates methods of ruin excavation and stabilization, including the replacement of palisade posts in the original fort ditch as part of the site"s development as Historic Bethabara Park. Some of the most interesting of South"s finds concern the confluence of two traditions of pottery and stoneware production. One of these is represented by forty pottery wheel-thrown types and forms made by the master German potter Gottfried Aust between 1755 and 1771, excavated from the ruin of his shop and kiln waster dump. Additional work at both Bethabara and Salem recovered the waster dumps of Aust"s journeyman potter Rudolph Christ, who had also studied with the Staffordshire potter William Ellis. Christ"s wares, which demonstrate both German and English influences, are discussed in detail. Extensively documented and heavily illustrated with over 320 photographs, drawings, and maps, this volume — a classic example of the process of historical archaeology as demonstrated by one of its foremost practitioners in America — is a valuable resource for avocational archaeologists, particularly those living in the Southeast, as well as historical archaeologists, historians, ceramicists, ceramics collectors, students of colonial culture, and museologists.

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Interim Judaism: Jewish Thought in a Century of Crisis (repost)

Interim Judaism: Jewish Thought in a Century of Crisis by Michael L. Morgan


English | 2001 | ISBN: 0253214416 | 128 pages | PDF | 1 MB

The three chapters in this book — the 1999 Samuel Goldenson Lectures delivered at Hebrew Union College — reveal the cumulative knowledge of a core debate in Judaism on the dilemma between reason and revelation and its effect on contemporary American Jewish life and thought. Morgan (philosophy and Jewish studies, Indiana Univ.) focuses on three strands of intellectual fabric, namely, the problem of objectivity, the question of transcendence in the human experience, and the view of redemption in historical life, which he calls the problem of messianism and politics. Through a variety of sources and spokespeople, Jew and non-Jew, he stitches religious, political, and philosophical thinking through patches of history and eternity, but there is no clear pattern showing whether the religionist (fundamentalist, existentialist) or the modernist (humanist, naturalist, secularist) patch came from the original cloth. The hand that weaves Jewish civilization, is it divine or human or both? What is seen in American Judaism at the start of a new century is a pragmatic Judaism less of rationalism and more of spirituality without clear concepts of redemption and revelation, made necessary by Auschwitz and Zion. Why? The former eclipsed biblical monotheism and rabbinic Geistesgeschichte, and the latter provided a legitimate and justified Jewish return to history. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and researchers.Z. Garber, Los Angeles Valley College, Choice, December 2001

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The Arts - A History of Expression in the 20th Century

The Arts – A History of Expression in the 20th Century by Ronald Tamplin


PDF | 1991 | 256 pages | ISBN: 0245549560 | English | 80.9 MB

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Housing Transformations: Shaping the Space of Twenty-First Century Living (Housing and Society Series) [Repost]

Housing Transformations: Shaping the Space of Twenty-First Century Living (Housing and Society Series) by Bridget Franklin


English | July 25, 2006 | ISBN: 041533618X | 320 Pages | PDF | 3.58 MB

Drawing together a wide range of literature, this original book combines social theory with elements from the built environment disciplines to provide insight into how and why we build places and dwell in spaces that are at once contradictory, confining, liberating and illuminating. This groundbreaking book deals with topical issues, which are helpfully divided into two parts. The first presents a conceptual framework examining how the built environment derives from a variety of influences: structural, institutional, textual, and action-orientated. Using illustrated case study examples, the second part covers new build schemes, including urban villages, gated communities, foyers, retirement homes and televillages, as well as refurbishment projects, such as mental hospitals and tower blocks. Multidisciplinary in its focus, Housing Transformations will appeal to academics, students and professionals in the fields of housing, planning, architecture and urban design, as well as to social scientists with an interest in housing.

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The Arabic Lexicographical Tradition: From the 2nd/8th to the 12th/18th Century (repost)

Ramzi Baalbaki, "The Arabic Lexicographical Tradition: From the 2nd/8th to the 12th/18th Century"


2014 | ISBN-10: 9004273972 | 489 pages | PDF | 10 MB

A comprehensive and methodologically sophisticated history of Arabic lexicography, this book fills a serious gap in modern scholarship. Besides meticulously examining the factors that led to the emergence of lexicographical writing as of the second/eighth century, the work comprises detailed discussions of the aims, range, and approaches of the most important writings and writers of lexica specialized in specific topics and multi thematic thesauri, and the lexica arranged according to roots. The organisation of the book and the lists of works cited in the various genres make it easy for the reader to find his way through an enormous amount of material. From a broader perspective, the book highlights the relationship between Arabic lexicography and other areas of linguistic study, grammar in particular, and the centrality of Qurʾan and poetry to lexicographical writing.

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