Stutzmauern und Stein Bekleidungen
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Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,25 MB
Release : 1885
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Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,25 MB
Release : 1885
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Author : Dieter Arnold
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 35,8 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780195113747
This book traces methods of Egyptian stone construction during the pharaonic period, from the construction of the step pyramids at Saqqara to the obelisks of Tuthmosis III to the temples of Rameses II at Thebes. Dr. Arnold covers all aspects of building, including planning, measuring, quarrying and production, transporting heavy monuments, building, digging shafts, repairing damages, and securing tombs. Richly illustrated with photos and field drawings by the author, ancient representations of building activities, and illustrations of tools and objects in museum collections, this book offers a frank appraisal of current knowledge of the process of Egyptian stone construction.
Author : James M. McPherson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0807837326
Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In War on the Waters, James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and ultimately thrilling account of the war's naval campaigns and their military leaders. McPherson recounts how the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate coast, leaky as a sieve in the war's early months, became increasingly effective as it choked off vital imports and exports. Meanwhile, the Confederate navy, dwarfed by its giant adversary, demonstrated daring and military innovation. Commerce raiders sank Union ships and drove the American merchant marine from the high seas. Southern ironclads sent several Union warships to the bottom, naval mines sank many more, and the Confederates deployed the world's first submarine to sink an enemy vessel. But in the end, it was the Union navy that won some of the war's most important strategic victories--as an essential partner to the army on the ground at Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Mobile Bay, and Fort Fisher, and all by itself at Port Royal, Fort Henry, New Orleans, and Memphis.
Author : Wilhelm Korbinian Killer
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 1977
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Author : Raimondo Luraghi
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 37,40 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
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Pushing aside the long-held belief that the answers went up in flames when the Confederate Navy archives were torched during the evacuation of Richmond, Luraghi combed fifty archives in four countries and uncovered information that shattered prevailing myths about that service's contributions.
Author : Michael Peachin
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Page : 755 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0195188004
The study of Roman society and social relations blossomed in the 1970s. By now, we possess a very large literature on the individuals and groups that constituted the Roman community, and the various ways in which members of that community interacted. There simply is, however, no overview that takes into account the multifarious progress that has been made in the past thirty-odd years. The purpose of this handbook is twofold. On the one hand, it synthesizes what has heretofore been accomplished in this field. On the other hand, it attempts to configure the examination of Roman social relations in some new ways, and thereby indicates directions in which the discipline might now proceed. The book opens with a substantial general introduction that portrays the current state of the field, indicates some avenues for further study, and provides the background necessary for the following chapters. It lays out what is now known about the historical development of Roman society and the essential structures of that community. In a second introductory article, Clifford Ando explains the chronological parameters of the handbook. The main body of the book is divided into the following six sections: 1) Mechanisms of Socialization (primary education, rhetorical education, family, law), 2) Mechanisms of Communication and Interaction, 3) Communal Contexts for Social Interaction, 4) Modes of Interpersonal Relations (friendship, patronage, hospitality, dining, funerals, benefactions, honor), 5) Societies Within the Roman Community (collegia, cults, Judaism, Christianity, the army), and 6) Marginalized Persons (slaves, women, children, prostitutes, actors and gladiators, bandits). The result is a unique, up-to-date, and comprehensive survey of ancient Roman society.
Author : Kungl. Vitterhets, historie och antikvitets akademien
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Sweden
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Tidskrift för svensk antikvarisk forskning; journal of Swedish antiquarian research.
Author : Heino Engel
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Page : 360 pages
File Size : 17,50 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
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Back in print--the standard work on Heino Engel's structure systems. The hundreds of drawings and photographs reproduced in this hardback volume offer almost endless variations on the many structural systems that can keep buildings together: within a few pages of one another, tents, domes and cubes are shown supported by poles, cables, ribs, rafters and beams. Engel's presentation and explanation of this highly complex material differs fundamentally from others' work on the subject in that he focuses entirely upon the functions and design effects of these mechanisms, without regard for technical details: More than an engineering text, this is a catalogue of ideas and forms for architects and dreamers, a David Macaulay book for adults. Structure Systems skips over more commonly treated special designs and completed buildings for typical, representative and surprising shapes. As a reference work or daydream material, it is an indispensable repertoire of forms.
Author : Stephen R. Wise
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780872497993
One of the finest original works on the Civil War. -- Civil War News
Author : Koenraad Verboven
Publisher : Peeters
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
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