East Window
Title | East Window PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Copper Canyon Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1556590911 |
Translations of Asian poetry by one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.
Window on the East
Title | Window on the East PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Geraci |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2018-10-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501724290 |
Robert Geraci presents an exceptionally original account of both the politics and the lived experience of diversity in a society whose ethnic complexity has long been downplayed. For centuries, Russians have defined their country as both a multinational empire and a homogeneous nation-state in the making, and have alternately embraced and repudiated the East or Asia as fundamental to Russia's identity. The author argues that the city of Kazan, in the middle Volga region, was the chief nineteenth-century site for mediating this troubled and paradoxical relationship with the East, much as St. Petersburg had served as Russia's window on Europe a century earlier. He shows how Russians sought through science, religion, pedagogy, and politics to understand and promote the Russification of ethnic minorities in the East, as well as to define themselves. Vivid in narrative detail, meticulously argued, and peopled by a colorful cast including missionaries, bishops, peasants, mullahs, professors, teachers, students, linguists, orientalists, archeologists, and state officials, Window on the East uses previously untapped archival and published materials to describe the creation (sometimes intentional, sometimes unintentional) of intermediate and new forms of Russianness.
Apocalypse
Title | Apocalypse PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Brown |
Publisher | Third Millennium Information |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Apocalypse in art |
ISBN | 9781908990310 |
This volume reproduces the Apocalypse Cycle of the Great East Window of York Minster in its entirety and in full colour for the very first time. Stunning photography presents each panel in detail, accompanied by expert commentary. The book is both a testament to the remarkable combination of skill, scholarship and cutting-edge technology that has gone into the conservation of the window, and an important study of the significance of the Apocalypse narrative both in the early 15th century and today.
Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester
Title | Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 1894 |
Genre | Cheshire (England) |
ISBN |
History and Architectural Description of the Priory of St.Mary, Bolton-in-Wharfedale
Title | History and Architectural Description of the Priory of St.Mary, Bolton-in-Wharfedale PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Hamilton Thompson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Augustinian canons |
ISBN |
An Introduction to English Church Architecture from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century. With 1,400 Illus
Title | An Introduction to English Church Architecture from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century. With 1,400 Illus PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Bond |
Publisher | |
Pages | 532 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Cathedrals |
ISBN |
Decorated Windows
Title | Decorated Windows PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund Sharpe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1849 |
Genre | Architecture, Gothic |
ISBN |