Forty Days

Forty Days
Title Forty Days PDF eBook
Author John Booker
Publisher Routledge
Pages 206
Release 2021-09-19
Genre History
ISBN 1000451097

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Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 –1900 provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East without spending up to 40 days in a lazaretto to ensure that no symptoms of plague were developing. Quarantine was performed in virtual prisons ranging from mud huts in the Danube basin to a converted fort on Malta, evoking every emotion from hatred and hostility through to resignation and even contentment. Drawing on the diaries and journals of some 300 men and women of many nationalities over more than two centuries, the author describes the inadequate accommodation, poor food and crushing boredom experienced by detainees. The book also draws attention to comradeship, sickness, and death in detention, as well as Casanova’s unique ability to do what he did best even in the lazaretto of Ancona. Other well-known detainees included Hans Christian Andersen, Mark Twain and Sir Walter Scott. Lavishly illustrated, the work includes a gazetteer of 49 lazarettos in Europe and Asia Minor, with inmates’ comments on each. This book will appeal to all those interested in the history of medicine and the history of travel.

Constantinople to Córdoba

Constantinople to Córdoba
Title Constantinople to Córdoba PDF eBook
Author Michael Greenhalgh
Publisher BRILL
Pages 572
Release 2012-08-01
Genre History
ISBN 9004229272

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Offering a multitude of examples through the centuries, this book examines how the architecture of the ancient world was transformed or destroyed under Byzantium and Islam, to produce new forms which often owed their materials and sometimes their styles to the past.

The Literary Digest

The Literary Digest
Title The Literary Digest PDF eBook
Author Edward Jewitt Wheeler
Publisher
Pages 766
Release 1912
Genre Literature
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Literature of Travel and Exploration

Literature of Travel and Exploration
Title Literature of Travel and Exploration PDF eBook
Author Jennifer Speake
Publisher Routledge
Pages 1425
Release 2014-05-12
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1135456631

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Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

Oriental Panorama

Oriental Panorama
Title Oriental Panorama PDF eBook
Author Schiffer
Publisher BRILL
Pages 453
Release 2023-11-20
Genre Art
ISBN 9004651179

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Dynamics of Production in the Ancient Near East

Dynamics of Production in the Ancient Near East
Title Dynamics of Production in the Ancient Near East PDF eBook
Author Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia
Publisher Oxbow Books
Pages 295
Release 2016-10-11
Genre History
ISBN 178570284X

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The transition between the 2nd and the 1st millennium BC was an era of deep economic changes in the ancient Near East. An increasing monetization of transactions, a broader use of silver, the management of the resources of temples through “entrepreneurs”, the development of new trade circuits and an expanding private, small-scale economy, transformed the role previously played by institutions such as temples and royal palaces. The 17 essays collected here analyze the economic transformations which affected the old dominant powers of the Late Bronze Age, their adaptation to a new economic environment, the emergence of new economic actors and the impact of these changes on very different social sectors and geographic areas, from small communities in the oases of the Egyptian Western Desert to densely populated urban areas in Mesopotamia. Egypt was not an exception. Traditionally considered as a conservative and highly hierarchical and bureaucratic society, Egypt shared nevertheless many of these characteristics and tried to adapt its economic organization to the challenges of a new era. In the end, the emergence of imperial super-powers (Assyria, Babylonia, Persia and, to a lesser extent, Kushite and Saite Egypt) can be interpreted as the answer of former palatial organizations to the economic and geopolitical conditions of the early Iron Age. A new order where competition for the control of flows of wealth and of strategic trading areas appears crucial.

Literary Digest

Literary Digest
Title Literary Digest PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 1590
Release 1914
Genre American wit and humor
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