Author: Peter Warner
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Keywords: origins, shire, suffolk
Number of Pages: 241
Published: 1996-05-15
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0719038170
ISBN-13: 9780719038174
Suffolk, the county of the Sutton Hoo and Mildenhall treasures and the core of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia, has a particularly resonant ancient and medieval past. This copiously illustrated book covers the history and archaeology of the county from the time of the first farmers to the coming of the Normans. Peter Warner gives details of recent excavations at sites of international significance such as Sutton Hoo, West Stow and Brandon. He compares the spectacular hoard of treasure discovered recently at Hoxne with Suffolk’s other great Roman find, the Mildenhall Treasure. He a
Author: Trevor Homer
Publisher: Plume
Keywords: origins, people, languages, things, food, speak, wear, discover, amazing, clothes, book
Number of Pages: 307
Published: 2007-05-29
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0452288320
ISBN-13: 9780452288324
Everything—from the mundane (the pencil) to the catastrophic (the atom bomb)—has an origin, but often it’s not what we expect. A few things you may not have known: • Gandhi was married at age thirteen! • Chinese fortune cookies are an American invention and were not eaten in China until the 1990s when they were advertised as "Genuine American Fortune Cookies." • Bayer lost the trademark for aspirin (which they had held since 1897) as part of the reparations Germany was forced to pay after World War I. • The original idea for the electric chair came from an American de
Author: St. Andrews Conference on the Historical Origins o
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: jesus, worship, supplements, journal, judaism, study, origins, historical, christological, roots, monotheism, papers, conference, andrews, jewish
Number of Pages: 373
Published: 1999-10
List price: $211.00
ISBN-10: 9004113614
ISBN-13: 9789004113619
The 18 essays of this work aim to demonstrate how the creation mythic of narratives, the revelatory power of mystical experiences, and the sociology of community formation capitalized on the Jewish meditoral tradition to encourage and legitimate the Christian praxis of Christ-devotion.
Author: Barnaby Rogerson
Publisher: Overlook TP
Keywords: shia, split, sunni, origins, century, first, islam, muhammadislam, heirs
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2008-04-29
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1590200225
ISBN-13: 9781590200223
The Prophet Muhammad brought his vision of the word of God to the Arabs, and within a generation of his death, his followers--as vivid a cast of heroic individuals as history has known--had exploded out of Arabia to confront the two great superpowers of the seventh century and establish Islam and with it a new civilization. The Heirs of Muhammad is a swaggering saga of ambition, achievement, self-sacrificing nobility and blood rivalry. In it, acclaimed historian Barnaby Rogerson recounts the lives of the handful of individuals--the first four Caliphs, the Prophet’s widows and the conq
Author: G. E. M. de Ste. Croix
Publisher: Duckworth Publishers
Keywords: war, peloponnesian, origins
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $54.00
ISBN-10: 0715617281
ISBN-13: 9780715617281
Author: A.J.P. Taylor
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: war, world, second, origins
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1996-04-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0684829479
ISBN-13: 9780684829470
Author: B. J. Slot
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: kuwait, origins
Number of Pages: 127
Published: 1991-08-01
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 9004094091
ISBN-13: 9789004094093
Since the discovery of the worlds third largest oil reserves within its borders, Kuwait has achieved international political prominence far exceeding its physical size. The country had already played a role in history before, however. Local sources take that history back to the beginning of the nineteenth century. The present book takes the history of Kuwait still further back using European sources. It includes analyses and comparisons of indications on maps from the sixteenth century onwards and of references to the Kuwait area in documents produced by officials of th
