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This book addresses several of the classic questions in African Studies. In the pre-colonial era what were the sources of order in societies without states? And what were the origins of 'traditional' states in Africa? In the colonial period, what caused the divergent patterns of agricultural development? And what were the issues that drove the peasantry into the rebellions which brought an end to colonial rule? Since independence what has been the fate of the African peasantry? What has been the content of the agricultural policies adopted by the governments of Africa? And how can these policies be accounted for? In answering these questions, the book explores various forms of explanation and advances a form of political economy based upon rational-choice analysis.

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Vinyl LP pressing. 2014 release, the third album from the Canadian composer. ESSAYS IN IDLENESS sees him expanding his palette by narrowing his sound sources to a self-built analog synthesizer. Eschewing the whiplash and/or everything including the kitchen sink style of assembly so common among current analog aficionados, Bissonnette instead applies his signature compositional style of using long held tones and sweeping drones that alternate between, and fuse, pure tonal transcendence and patien

Defining the main principles of a distinct African philosophy, this work rejects the idea that an African philosophy consists simply of the work of Africans writing on philosophy. It argues that critical analyses of specific traditional African modes of thought are necessary to develop a distinctively African philosophy.

Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Michel de Montaigne pioneered the modern essay form. This edition contains all of his idiosyncratic and timeless writings on subjects as varied as the virtues of solitude, the power of the imagination, the pleasures of reading, the importance of sleep and why we sometimes laugh and cry at the same things. Montaigne's complete Essays, translated by M. A. Screech, are presented here as a beautifully produced, desirable collector's edition. This oversize volume is printed in two-colour, bound in high-quality rich blue cloth and embellished with gold foil stamped into the design. Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne, was born in 1533. He was brought up to speak Latin as his mother tongue and always retained a Latin turn of mind; though he knew Greek, he preferred to use translations. In 1569 he published his French version of the Natural Theology of Raymond Sebond; his Apology is only partly a defence of Sebond and sets sceptical limits to human reasoning about God, man and nature. He retired in 1571 to his lands at Montaigne, devoting himself to reading and reflection and composing his Essays (first version 1580). He loathed the fanaticism and cruelties of the religious wars of the period , but sided with Catholic orthodoxy and legitimate monarchy. He died at Montaigne in 1592 while preparing the final, and richest, edition of his Essays. M. A. Screech is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is recognised as a world authority on the Renaissance, especially for his studies on Rabelais, Erasmus and Montaigne. His translation of Montaigne was immediately welcomed for its discrete learning and elegance. In recognition of his achievements the French Republic made him a Chevalier dans l'Ordre national du Mérite and then a Chevalier dans la Légion d' Honneur.

Twenty-two essays by a music scholar who has been involved in the study of Byzantine music for more than thirty-five years focus upon the chants and liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox church

Peter Stern, writing in the forword to The Marvin P. Epstein Sherlock Holmes Collection published in 1985 said, One of the best examples of what it means to be a collector is that even now, as we are selling his collection, Marvin Epstein has barely slowed his buying. He still expresses interest in the unique, still buys the edition he doesnt have, still replaces the uninscribed copy with the inscribed one, and still pores through the odd item searching for hidden Sherlockian content. I think that one of the things he has liked best about collecting in this field was that he could never really finish, and one of his great satisfactions has been in the discovery of the unknown. A spectacular copy of a scarce Arthur Conan Doyle title which was edited and introduced by John Michael Gibson and Richard Lancelyn Green.

1969. 2nd Revised edition. Hardcover. Ex-libris with usual markings. Clean copy with some shelf wear, slight sunning to ffep and page edges with nicks and tears to dustwrapper but otherwise is clean. Dustwrapper is price-clipped. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Thousands of readers who have profited from engagement with the lively mind of Rudolf Arnheim over the decades will receive news of this new collection of essays expectantly. In the essays collected here, as in his earlier work on a large variety of art forms, Arnheim explores concrete poetry and the metaphors of Dante, photography and the meaning of music. There are essays on color composition, forgeries, and the problems of perspective, on art in education and therapy, on the style of artists' late works, and the reading of maps.Also, in a triplet of essays on pioneers in the psychology of art (Max Wertheimer, Gustav Theodor Fechner, and Wilhelm Worringer) Arnheim goes back to the roots of modern thinking about the mechanisms of artistic perception.

Essays in Musical Analysis, Vol. 4: Illustrative Music Paperback - September 14, 1972 by Sir Donald Francis Tovey (Author)

Contents: Introduction. 1. Delhi-the profile of a capital city/H.C. Verma. 2. Hazarat-i-Delhi: the making of the Chishti Sufi centre and the stronghold of Islam/Raziuddin Aquil. 3. Delhi: through the eyes of medieval Indian historians 13th and 14th century imagery of Delhi/Archana Ojha. 4. The Delhi of the Mughals prior to Shahjahanabad as reflected in the patterns of imperial visits/Ebba Koch. 5. Spaces of encounter and plurality looking at architecture in pre-colonial North India/Monica Juneja. 6. Gardens of death in Lodi's Delhi/Sara Mondini. 7. Water problems in medieval Delhi/Nirmal Kumar. 8. An imperial capital or a camp city? A review of Bernier's testimony/Fatima Imam. 9. Cityscape of an imperial capital Shahjahanabad in 1739/Stephen P. Blake. 10. Medieval Delhi, real or imagined and Shahjahan's perfect capital site/Urvashi Dalal. 11. Urdu in medieval Delhi/Kumkum Srivastava. 12. The identity of a mystic: the case of Said Sarmad a Jewish Yogi sufi courtier of the Mughals/Nathan Katz. 13. Mirza Ghalib his contribution to Urdu literature/Rakesh Kumar. This collection of essays means to serve those who are keen to learn new facets of the Delhi, the capital of India. For a tourist Delhi means its Islamic glory. Few tourists come to see its ancient or modern glories. Mostly it is from Qutb Minar to Red Fort that attracts them. This volume attempts to provide its reader some thing that is not mentioned in usual books on Delhi. It is neither a compendium of monuments nor a book of travelogue. It is meant for serious student of Delhi who want to ask questions and go beyond the obvious. Scholars from all over the globe have contributed to the volume with their unique perspectives. (jacket)

Spanning the years in which Virginia Woolf penned her classic novel The Waves and worked on Flush, the nonfiction pieces in this fifth volume provide further insight into Woolf’s creative genius and showcase her supreme stylistic capability. The far-ranging essays and criticism collected here include ruminations on the romantic and literary lives of William Cowper and Christina Rossetti and an introduction to memoirs by the Women’s Cooperative Guild that reveals Woolf’s signature feminism. This collection also includes the entirety of The Common Reader: Second Series, the sequel to The Common Reader. 

Translated by Ellen von Nardroff and Ernest H. von Nardroff The reflections on art and literature that Goethe produced throughout his life are the premise and corollary of his work as poet, novelist, and man of science. This volume contains such important essays as "On Gothic Architecture," "On the Laocoon Group," and "Shakespeare: A Tribute." Several works in this collection appear for the first time unabridged and in fresh translations.

Few thinkers have addressed the political horrors and ethical complexities of the twentieth century with the insight and passionate intellectual integrity of Hannah Arendt. She was irresistible drawn to the activity of understanding, in an effort to endow historic, political, and cultural events with meaning. Essays in Understanding assembles many of Arendt’s writings from the 1930s, 1940s, and into the 1950s. Included here are illuminating discussions of St. Augustine, existentialism, Kafka, and Kierkegaard: relatively early examinations of Nazism, responsibility and guilt, and the place of religion in the modern world: and her later investigations into the nature of totalitarianism that Arendt set down after The Origins of Totalitarianism was published in 1951. The body of work gathered in this volume gives us a remarkable portrait of Arendt’s developments as a thinker—and confirms why her ideas and judgments remain as provocative and seminal today as they were when she first set them down.

Essays discuss various aspects of life in ancient Egypt.

A masterly exposition of the pre-eminent Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita. It was after reading these essays, in particular, that in the 1930's President Wilson's daughter went to Sri Aurobindo and devoted her life - receiving the name Nishtha via his vision in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Pondicherry.

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Emerson's second collection of essays appeared in 1844, when he was forty-one. It includes eight essays--"The Poet," "Experience," "Character," "Manners," "Gifts," "Nature," "Politics," and "Nominalist and Realist"--and one address, the much misunderstood "New England Reformers." Essays: Second Series has a lightness of tone and an irony absent from the earlier writings, but it is no less memorable: "a sermon to me," Carlyle wrote, "a real word."The present edition, drawing on the vast body of Emerson scholarship of the last forty years, incorporates all the textual changes Emerson made or demonstrably intended to make after 1844. It records variant wordings and recounts the development of the text before and after publication. A list of parallel passages makes it possible to trace Emerson's extensive use of material from his journals, notebooks, and lectures. Endnotes provide information about people, events, and now-obscure terms. A brief historical introduction places the book in the context of the years during which it was written, the time of Brook Farm, The Dial, and the death of Emerson's five year-old son.Historical Introduction and Notes by Joseph SlaterText Established by Alfred R. Ferguson and Jean Ferguson CarrTextual Introduction and Apparatus by Jean Ferguson Carr

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