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Myths and Realities of Caribbean History

By: Basil A. Reid

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Myths and Realities of Caribbean History

By: Basil A. Reid

This book seeks to debunk eleven popular and prevalent myths about Caribbean history. Using archaeological evidence, it corrects many previous misconceptions promulgated by history books and oral tradition as they specifically relate to the pre-Colonial and European-contact periods. It informs popular audiences, as well as scholars, about the current state of archaeological/historical research in the Caribbean Basin and asserts the value of that research in fostering a better understanding of the region’s past. Contrary to popular belief, the history of the Caribbean did not begin with the arrival of Europeans in 1492. It actually started 7,000 years ago with the infusion of Archaic groups from South America and the successive migrations of other peoples from Central America for about 2,000 years thereafter. In addition to discussing this rich cultural diversity of the Antillean past, Myths and Realities of Caribbean History debates the misuse of terms such as “Arawak” and “Ciboneys,” and the validity of Carib cannibalism allegations.

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170

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University of Alabama Press

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0817355340

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9780817355340

The Colonial Clippers

By: Basil Lubbock

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The Colonial Clippers

By: Basil Lubbock

Reproduction of the original: The Colonial Clippers by Basil Lubbock

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410

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752434627

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9783752434620

The German Law of Torts

By: Basil S Markesinis,Hannes Unberath

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The German Law of Torts

By: Basil S Markesinis,Hannes Unberath

This edition has been extensively rewritten and enlarged and is an ideal tool for those interested in comparative torts and comparative methodology.

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1127

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Hart Publishing

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1841132977

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9781841132976

The Translator As Communicator

By: Basil Hatim,Ian Mason

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The Translator As Communicator

By: Basil Hatim,Ian Mason

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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230

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Routledge

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1134817150

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9781134817153

Schloss Hainfeld or a Winter in Lower Styria

By: Basil Hall

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Schloss Hainfeld or a Winter in Lower Styria

By: Basil Hall

Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.

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358

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3368777440

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9783368777449

Ojibway Ceremonies

By: Basil Johnston

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Ojibway Ceremonies

By: Basil Johnston

Ojibway Ceremonies provides a unique and fascinating glimpse of Ojibway culture before its disruption by European civilization. It is the story of the Ojibway told through the ceremonies which dominated the most important occasions and stages of their existence. As a young boy grows up, we see him develop through his involvement in the many rituals so important to the Ojibway way of life. From the Naming Ceremony and the Vision Quest to the War Path, from the Marriage Ceremony to the Ritual of the Dead, we see the attitudes and beliefs of the Ojibway people come alive.

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194

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McClelland & Stewart

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1551995913

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9781551995915

Will Power

How to Act Shakespeare in 21 Days

By: John Basil,Stephanie Gunning

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Will Power

How to Act Shakespeare in 21 Days

By: John Basil,Stephanie Gunning

Thousands of young people set their sights on becoming professional actors each year hoping to get a foot in the door with a solid resum built in high school college and local theatre company productions. But competition for parts is fierce and no li

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379

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1617749583

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9781617749582

The Captor's Image

Greek Culture in Roman Ecphrasis

By: Basil Dufallo

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The Captor's Image

Greek Culture in Roman Ecphrasis

By: Basil Dufallo

An influential view of ecphrasis--the literary description of art objects--chiefly treats it as a way for authors to write about their own texts without appearing to do so, and even insist upon the aesthetic dominance of the literary text over the visual image. However, when considering its use in ancient Roman literature, this interpretation proves insufficient. The Captor's Image argues for the need to see Roman ecphrasis, with its prevalent focus on Hellenic images, as a site of subtle, ongoing competition between Greek and Roman cultures. Through close readings of ecphrases in a wide range of Latin authors--from Plautus, Catullus, and Horace to Vergil, Ovid, and Martial, among others--Dufallo contends that Roman ecphrasis reveals an ambivalent receptivity to Greek culture, an attitude with implications for the shifting notions of Roman identity in the Republican and Imperial periods. Individual chapters explore how the simple assumption of a self-asserting ecphrastic text is called into question by comic performance, intentionally inconsistent narrative, satire, Greek religious iconography, the contradictory associations of epic imagery, and the author's subjection to a patron. Visual material such as wall painting, statuary, and drinkware vividly contextualizes the discussion. As the first book-length treatment of artistic ecphrasis at Rome, The Captor's Image resituates a major literary trope within its hybrid cultural context while advancing the idea of ecphrasis as a cultural practice through which the Romans sought to redefine their identity with, and against, Greekness.

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294

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Oxford University Press

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0199344175

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9780199344178

Letters of Basil Bunting

By: Alex Niven

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Letters of Basil Bunting

By: Alex Niven

An edition of the letters of the poet Basil Bunting (1900-1985). This is a long-awaited first selected edition of the letters of Basil Bunting, one of the major modernist poets of the twentieth century. It includes a large portion of Bunting's correspondence (around 200 letters) to recipients including Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Harriet Monroe, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Ted Hughes, George Oppen, Allen Ginsberg, Donald Davie, and Tom Pickard. Following Bunting from his first encounters with major literary figures in London and Paris in the 1920s to his death in Northumberland in 1985, this selection showcases a narrative that is crucial to the history of modernism and modern poetry in English. Highlights include a long and detailed dialogue with Ezra Pound in the 1930s on political, economic, and literary subjects, a rich, ruminative exchange with the American poet Louis Zukoksfy lasting over four decades, and various accounts of the excitements and controversies of the Anglo-American poetry scene of the 60s and 70s. Whether Bunting is writing from New York at the height of the Depression, Iran in the aftermath of World War II, or the north of England during preparation of his masterpiece Briggflatts (1966), his prose is unfailingly sharp, eloquent, entertaining, and caustic. This edition contains detailed annotations of Bunting's letters, a critical introduction, glossary of names, and an editorial commentary.

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Oxford University Press

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0198754817

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Disorienting Empire

Republican Latin Poetry's Wanderers

By: Basil Dufallo

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Disorienting Empire

Republican Latin Poetry's Wanderers

By: Basil Dufallo

Disorienting Empire is the first book to examine Republican Latin poetry's recurring interest in characters who become lost. Basil Dufallo explains the prevalence of this theme with reference to the rapid expansion of Rome's empire in the Middle and Late Republic. It was both a threatening and an enticing prospect, Dufallo argues, to imagine the ever-widening spaces of Roman power as a place where one could become disoriented, both in terms of geographical wandering and in a more abstract sense connected with identity and identification, especially as it concerned gender and sexuality. Plautus, Terence, Lucretius, and Catullus, as well as the "triumviral" Horace of Satires, book 1, all reveal an interest in such experiences, particularly in relation to journeys into the Greek world from which these writers drew their source material. Fragmentary authors such as Naevius, Ennius, and Lucilius, as well as prose historians including Polybius and Livy, add depth and context to the discussion. Setting the Republican poets in dialogue with queer theory and postcolonial theory, Dufallo brings to light both anxieties latent in the theme and the exuberance it suggests over new creative possibilities opened up by reorienting oneself toward new horizons, new identifications-by discovering with pleasure that one could be other than one thought. Further, in showing that the Republican poets had been experimenting with such techniques for generations before the Augustan Age, Disorienting Empire offers its close readings as a means of interpreting afresh Aeneas' wandering journey in Vergil's Aeneid.

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0197571808

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Ojibway Heritage

By: Basil Johnston

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Ojibway Heritage

By: Basil Johnston

Rarely accessible beyond the limits of its people, Ojibway mythology is as rich in meaning and mystery, as broad, as deep, and as innately appealing as the mythologies of Greece, Rome, Egypt, and other civilizations. In Ojibway Heritage, Basil Johnston sets forth the broad spectrum of his people’s life, legends, and beliefs. Stories to be read, enjoyed, dwelt on, and freely interpreted, their authorship is perhaps most properly attributed to the tribal storytellers who have carried on the oral tradition which Basil Johnston records and preserves in this book.

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174

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McClelland & Stewart

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1551995905

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9781551995908

Chance and Commitment

Memoirs of a Medical Scientist

By: Basil S. Hetzel

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Chance and Commitment

Memoirs of a Medical Scientist

By: Basil S. Hetzel

The work of Dr. Basil Hetzel and his team of researchers has prevented and will continue to prevent millions of people worldwide from being born intellectually disabled. In this memoir, Hetzel recalls his discovery that a single dose of iodized oil added to the diet of pregnant women could eradicate the serious birth defects that had plagued many developing countries.

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Wakefield Press

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1862546827

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9781862546820

Book's by Basil Stewart

Myths and Realities of Caribbean History

Myths and Realities of Caribbean History

The Colonial Clippers

The Colonial Clippers

The German Law of Torts

The German Law of Torts

The Translator As Communicator

The Translator As Communicator

Schloss Hainfeld or a Winter in Lower Styria

Schloss Hainfeld or a Winter in Lower Styria

Ojibway Ceremonies

Ojibway Ceremonies

Will Power

Will Power

The Captor's Image

The Captor's Image

Letters of Basil Bunting

Letters of Basil Bunting

Disorienting Empire

Disorienting Empire

Ojibway Heritage

Ojibway Heritage

Chance and Commitment

Chance and Commitment

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