books about: hinterland

books about: hinterland

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Hinterland

The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer

Georges Ifrah

Wiley, 2000

math history you can use
I am a teacher and I love this book. I use it to teach counting systems to young children. I like having access to all kinds of math of the past. How to write it, how it was used, the subtleties of each language. I personally love it for myself as well - I am a math ...

Cahokia and the Hinterlands: Middle Mississippian Cultures of the Midwest

University of Illinois Press, 1999

Hinterland: Book Two of the Godslayer Chronicles

James Clemens

Roc Hardcover, 2006

Another fine addition to this story
Hinterland by James Clemens is the second book in the Godslayer Chronicles, the first book being Shadowfall. While the Godslayer Chronicles are not Mr. Clemen's first novels, they are his first fantasy novels and it is a very good debut in the fantasy genre. Fans of ...

Hinterland
Sebastian Barry, Barry Sebastian

Faber & Faber, 2002

The latest dramatic offering from one of Ireland's master playwrights Johnny Silvester should be enjoying his retirement in his opulent home outside Dublin, but the past is catching up with him. Once lionized for ushering the Irish Republic into the modern world, Silvester has fallen out of favor not only with the public, but also with his ...

TIWANAKU & ITS HINTERLAND V2 (Smithsonian Series in Archaeological Inquiry)
Kolata Al

Smithsonian, 2003

Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands

University of California Press, 2003

Nation-building and the construction of citizenship, so often conducted--or coerced--from the center, are all too commonly studied from the center as well. This book moves the view of cultural citizenship to the periphery--specifically to the perspective of hinterland groups in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Sarawak, East Malaysia--to show that ...

Middlemen of the Cameroon Rivers: The Duala and their Hinterland c.1600-c. 1960
Ralph A. Austen, Jonathan M. Derrick

Cambridge University Press, 1999

This book is about the Duala "middlemen," who functioned as intermediaries between Europeans and their own hinterland for over three hundred years. Originally traders in ivory, slaves and palm products, they then became colonial-era cocoa planters, and finally took a leading role in anti-colonial politics. One of their lasting advantages was ...

The Northern Hinterlands (Palladium Fantasy RPG)

Palladium, 1991

"A 160 page fantasy sourcebook that explores and maps the areaof the Great Northern Wilderness just outside the mountains that divide the Land of the Damned from the rest of the world. The Shadow Coast of Bizantium. A hotbed of colonial rebellion. Kiridin, land of Eternal Autumn and oppression from the Coyle hordes. Coyle clans, villains and ...

The Hinterlands: A Mountain Tale in Three Parts

Robert Morgan

Algonquin Books, 1994

3 generations-people and panthers
I laughed so much during the second part of this book. A young man runs 20 some miles through the forest holding onto a pig's tail with one hand and a hatchet in the other hand to chop a trail for the first road in the area. His adventures during that memorable day ...

Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society: White Liberty and Black Slavery in Augusta's Hinterlands
J. William Harris

Louisiana State University Press, 1998

In this exciting study, J. William Harris explores two great ironies of American history-the South's commitment to a liberty supported by slavery and its attempt to maintain the status quo with a war that undermined southern society. He examines why white southerners-most of whom did not own slaves-united in a long, bloody war to preserve the ...

Metropolis and Hinterland: The City of Rome and the Italian Economy, 200 BC-AD 200
Neville Morley

Cambridge University Press, 1996

This book studies the growth of the city of Rome and the effects of the city's demands for food and migrants on the economy of Italy. It seeks to question the idea that all great cities, especially in the ancient world, were parasites on the societies that supported them. On the contrary, the growth of Rome promoted development in agriculture, ...

Hinterlands and Regional Dynamics in the Ancient Southwest

University of Arizona Press, 2007

Hinterlands and Regional Dynamics in the Ancient Southwest is the first volume dedicated to understanding the nature of and changes in regional social autonomy, political hegemony, and organizational complexity across the entire prehistoric American Southwest. With geographic coverage extending from the Great Plains to the Colorado River, and ...

Monte Alban's Hinterland: The Prehispanic Settlement Patterns of the Cent & South Pts of the Valley of ...

Univ of Michigan Museum, 1982

The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society, and Economy in Inland North China, 1853-1937
Kenneth Pomeranz

University of California Press, 1993

This wholly original reassessment of critical issues in modern Chinese history traces social, economic, and ecological change in inland North China during the late Qing dynasty and the Republic. Using many new sources, Kenneth Pomeranz argues that the development of certain regions entailed the systematic underdevelopment of other regions. He maps ...

Londinium and Beyond: Essays on Roman London and its Hinterland for Harvey Sheldon (CBA Research Report)

Council for British Archaeology, 2008

This exciting volume pays tribute to the work of the archaeologist Harvey Sheldon, who has been involved in the archaeology of London for over four decades. The papers, written by his friends and colleagues in the archaeological community, cover a wide range of subjects connected with the archaeology of Roman London. These are presented under four ...