The Journal of Education
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Page : 772 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Education
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Page : 772 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Education
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Page : 932 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Arts
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Author : James Silk Buckingham
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Page : 830 pages
File Size : 39,46 MB
Release : 1907
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Author : Carl Meinbof
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Bantu languages
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Author : James Silk Buckingham
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Page : 876 pages
File Size : 40,77 MB
Release : 1831
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Author : James Hastings
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Page : 778 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Ethics
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Page : 780 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : George Dutton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 39,29 MB
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0231511108
Sources of Vietnamese Tradition provides an essential guide to two thousand years of Vietnamese history and a comprehensive overview of the society and state of Vietnam. Strategic selections illuminate key figures, issues, and events while building a thematic portrait of the country's developing territory, politics, culture, and relations with neighbors. The volume showcases Vietnam's remarkable independence in the face of Chinese and other external pressures and respects the complexity of the Vietnamese experience both past and present. The anthology begins with selections that cover more than a millennium of Chinese dominance over Vietnam (111 B.C.E.–939 C.E.) and follows with texts that illuminate four centuries of independence ensured by the Ly, Tran, and Ho dynasties (1009–1407). The earlier cultivation of Buddhism and Southeast Asian political practices by the monarchy gave way to two centuries of Confucian influence and bureaucratic governance (1407–1600), based on Chinese models, and three centuries of political competition between the north and the south, resolving in the latter's favor (1600–1885). Concluding with the colonial era and the modern age, the volume recounts the ravages of war and the creation of a united, independent Vietnam in 1975. Each chapter features readings that reveal the views, customs, outside influences on, and religious and philosophical beliefs of a rapidly changing people and culture. Descriptions of land, society, economy, and governance underscore the role of the past in the formation of contemporary Vietnam and its relationships with neighboring countries and the West.
Author : James Hastings
Publisher : Edinburgh : T. & T. Clark
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : Thomas Mofolo
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1478609729
Chaka is a genuine masterpiece that represents one of the earliest major contributions of black Africa to the corpus of modern world literature. Mofolos fictionalized life-story account of Chaka (Shaka), translated from Sesotho by D. P. Kunene, begins with the future Zulu kings birth followed by the unwarranted taunts and abuse he receives during childhood and adolescence. The author manipulates events leading to Chakas status of great Zulu warrior, conqueror, and king to emphasize classic tragedys psychological themes of ambition and power, cruelty, and ultimate ruin. Mofolos clever nods to the supernatural add symbolic value. Kunenes fine translation renders the dramatic and tragic tensions in Mofolos tale palpable as the richness of the authors own culture is revealed. A substantial introduction by the translator provides valuable context for modern readers.