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 Libri di Martin Meredith su Unilibro.it)
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1918 |
 
Title :
Getting Started With SteamAuthor: Krakower Billy, Martin Meredith Publisher: Routledge € 137,50
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Getting Started With SteamAuthor: Krakower Billy, Martin Meredith Publisher: Routledge € 32,70
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Portrait of a MurdererAuthor: Meredith Anne, Edwards Martin (INT) Publisher: Poisoned Pen Pr € 13,40
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1916 |
Title :
Architectural Space in Eighteenth-century EuropeAuthor: Baxter Denise Amy (EDT), Martin Meredith (EDT) Publisher: Taylor & Francis € 58,90
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Objects in Motion in the Early Modern WorldAuthor: Bleichmar Daniela (EDT), Martin Meredith (EDT) Publisher: Blackwell Pub Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World presents a collection of twelve original essays that examine the circulation of objects across a variety of global regions and cultures from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries that reveal the importance of mobility for understanding the production, use, and meanings of early modern art. Individual essays trace the routes of an unusually wide range of cultural, geographical, and material examples -- including Persian silk textiles in Venice, Chinese porcelain along the Swahili Coast, exotic South Pacific bird specimens in Holland, and various European objects through India and Siam. The multiple mechanisms by which each of these objects were transported, translated, resisted, and consumed in the early modern period are carefully explored, as well as the various forms of mobility -- both physical and interpretive -- that each historical object experienced during this period. Collectively, essays reveal how mobility provides a vital means to reconsider traditional geographies and hierarchies associated with global exchange, particularly those that privilege Western Europe. Timely and provocative, Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World sheds important new light on the mobility of objects and cultural meaning in the early modern world -- and paves the way to a consideration of broader questions about art history and its disciplinary boundaries. € 39,30
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Title :
The Fortunes of AfricaAuthor: Meredith Martin Publisher: Public Affairs € 21,40
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1915 |
Title :
The Fortunes of AfricaAuthor: Meredith Martin Publisher: Simon & Schuster € 17,40
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1914 |
Title :
Fortunes of AfricaAuthor: Meredith Martin Publisher: Simon & Schuster € 17,60
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Title :
The Fortunes of AfricaAuthor: Meredith Martin Publisher: Public Affairs Africa has been coveted for its riches ever since the era of the Pharaohs. In past centuries, it was the lure of gold, ivory, and slaves that drew fortune-seekers, merchant-adventurers, and conquerors from afar. In modern times, the focus of attention is on oil, diamonds, and other valuable minerals. Land was another prize. The Romans relied on their colonies in northern Africa for vital grain shipments to feed the population of Rome. Arab invaders followed in their wake, eventually colonizing the entire region. In modern times, foreign corporations have acquired huge tracts of land to secure food supplies needed abroad, just as the Romans did. In this vast and vivid panorama of history, Martin Meredith follows the fortunes of Africa over a period of 5,000 years. With compelling narrative, he traces the rise and fall of ancient kingdoms and empires; the spread of Christianity and Islam; the enduring quest for gold and other riches; the exploits of explorers and missionaries; and the impact of European colonization. He examines, too, the fate of modern African states and concludes with a glimpse of their future. His cast of characters includes religious leaders, mining magnates, warlords, dictators, and many other legendary figures, among them Mansa Musa, ruler of the medieval Mali empire, said to be the richest man the world has ever known. ?I speak of Africa,” Shakespeare wrote, ?and of golden joys.” This is history on an epic scale. € 38,40
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1913 |
Title :
State of AfricaAuthor: Martin Meredith Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER € 15,90
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1912 |
Title :
Born in AfricaAuthor: Martin Meredith Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER € 10,90
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Title :
Born in AfricaAuthor: Meredith Martin Publisher: Public Affairs Africa does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind. And yet, though vital clues still remain hidden, scientists have over the last century transformed our understanding about the beginnings of human life. In Born in Africa, Martin Meredith follows scientists' trail of discoveries about human origins, recounting their intense rivalry, personal feuds, and fierce controversies as well as their feats of skill and endurance. And he limns their momentous accomplishments: Scientists have identified more than twenty species of extinct humans. They have firmly established Africa as the birthplace not only of humankind but also of modern humans. They have revealed how early technology, language ability and artistic endeavour all originated in Africa; and they have shown how small groups of Africans spread out from Africa in an exodus sixty-thousand years ago to populate the rest of the world. € 14,30
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The Rise and Fall of MeterAuthor: Martin Meredith Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our understanding of English meter influenced by the history of England's sense of itself in the nineteenth century? Not an old-fashioned approach to poetry, but a dynamic, contested, and inherently nontraditional field, "English meter" concerned issues of personal and national identity, class, education, patriotism, militarism, and the development of English literature as a discipline. The Rise and Fall of Meter tells the unknown story of English meter from the late eighteenth century until just after World War I. Uncovering a vast and unexplored archive in the history of poetics, Meredith Martin shows that the history of prosody is tied to the ways Victorian England argued about its national identity. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Coventry Patmore, and Robert Bridges used meter to negotiate their relationship to England and the English language; George Saintsbury, Matthew Arnold, and Henry Newbolt worried about the rise of one metrical model among multiple competitors. The pressure to conform to a stable model, however, produced reactionary misunderstandings of English meter and the culture it stood for. This unstable relationship to poetic form influenced the prose and poems of Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Alice Meynell. A significant intervention in literary history, this book argues that our contemporary understanding of the rise of modernist poetic form was crucially bound to narratives of English national culture. € 47,80
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1911 |
Title :
The Fate of AfricaAuthor: Meredith Martin Publisher: Public Affairs First published in 2005, The Fate of Africa was hailed by reviewers as ?A masterpiece. . . The nonfiction book of the year” (The New York Post); ?a magnificent achievement” (Weekly Standard); ?a joy,” (Wall Street Journal) and ?one of the decade's most important works on Africa” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Now Martin Meredith has revised this classic history to incorporate important recent developments, including the Darfur crisis in Sudan, Robert Mugabe's continued destructive rule in Zimbabwe, controversies over Western aid and exploitation of Africa's resources, the growing importance and influence of China, and the democratic movement roiling the North African countries of Tunisia, Egypt, and Jordan. € 21,40
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Born in AfricaAuthor: Meredith Martin Publisher: Perseus Books Group Africa does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind. After a century of investigation, scientists have transformed our understanding about the beginnings of human life. But vital clues still remain hidden. In Born in Africa, Martin Meredith follows the trail of discoveries about human origins made by scientists over the last hundred years, recounting their intense rivalry, personal feuds, and fierce controversies as well as their feats of skill and endurance. The results have been momentous. Scientists have identified more than twenty species of extinct humans. They have firmly established Africa as the birthplace not only of humankind but also of modern humans. They have revealed how early technology, language ability, and artistic endeavour all originated in Africa; and they have shown how small groups of Africans spread out from Africa in an exodus sixty thousand years ago to populate the rest of the world. We have all inherited an African past. € 23,00
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1910 |
Title :
MandelaAuthor: Martin Meredith Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER € 20,39
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2008 |
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Diamonds, Gold, and WarAuthor: Meredith Martin Publisher: Public Affairs Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the land. The result was the costliest, bloodiest, and most humiliating war that Britain had waged in nearly a century, and the devastation of the Boer republics. The New Yorker calls this magisterial account of those years ?[an] astute history.? Meredith expertly shows how the exigencies of the diamond (and then gold) rush laid the foundation for apartheid.” € 19,60
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Diamonds, Gold and WarAuthor: Meredith Martin Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER € 13,30
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2007 |
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MugabeAuthor: Meredith Martin Publisher: Public Affairs Robert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe in 1980 after a long civil war in Rhodesia. The white minority government had become an international outcast in refusing to give in to the inevitability of black majority rule. Finally the defiant white prime minister Ian Smith was forced to step down and Mugabe was elected president. Initially he promised reconciliation between white and blacks, encouraged Zimbabwe's economic and social development, and was admired throughout the world as one of the leaders of the emerging nations and as a model for a transition from colonial leadership. But as Martin Meredith shows in this history of Mugabe's rule, Mugabe from the beginning was sacrificing his purported ideals—and Zimbabwe's potential—to the goal of extending and cementing his autocratic leadership. Over time, Mugabe has become ever more dictatorial, and seemingly less and less interested in the welfare of his people, treating Zimbabwe's wealth and resources as spoils of war for his inner circle. In recent years he has unleashed a reign of terror and corruption in his country. Like the Congo, Angola, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Liberia, Zimbabwe has been on a steady slide to disaster. Now for the first time the whole story is told in detail by an expert. It is a riveting and tragic political story, a morality tale, and an essential text for understanding today's Africa. € 14,30
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2006 |
Title :
The Fate of AfricaAuthor: Meredith Martin Publisher: Perseus Books Group Fifty years ago, as Europe's colonial powers withdrew, Africa moved with enormous hope and fervor toward democracy and economic independence. Dozens of new states were launched amid much jubilation and the world's applause. African leaders, popularly elected, stepped forward to tackle the problems of development and nation-building. In the Cold War era, the new states excited the attention of the superpowers. Africa was considered too valuable a prize to lose. Today, Africa is a continent rife with disease, death, and devastation. Most African countries are effectively bankrupt, prone to civil strife, subject to dictatorial rule, and dependent on Western assistance for survival. The sum of Africa's misfortunes ? its wars, its despotisms, its corruption, its droughts ? is truly daunting. What went wrong? What happened to this vast continent, so rich in resources, culture and history, to bring it so close to destitution and despair in the space of two generations? Focusing on the key personalities, events and themes of the independence era, Martin Meredith's riveting narrative history seeks to explore and explain the myriad problems that Africa has faced in the past half-century, and faces still. From the giddy enthusiasm of the 1960s to the "coming of tyrants" and rapid decline, The Fate of Africa is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how it came to this ? and what, if anything, is to be done. € 17,60
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2004 |
Title :
Elephant DestinyAuthor: Meredith Martin Publisher: Perseus Books Group For thousands of years, the majestic elephant has roamed the African continent, as beloved by man as it has been preyed upon. But centuries of exploitation and ivory hunting have taken their toll: now, as wars and poachers continue to ravage its habitat, as disease and political strife deflect attention from its plight, the African elephant faces imminent extinction. What will become of these magnificent beasts? As the elephant's future looms ever darker, Martin Meredith's concise and richly illustrated biography traces the elephant's history from the first ivory expeditions of the Egyptian pharaohs 2500 years ago to today, exploring along the way the indelible imprint the African elephant has made in art, literature, culture, and society. He shares recent extraordinary discoveries about the elephant's sophisticated family and community structure and reveals the remarkable ways in which elephants show compassion and loyalty to each other. Elegant, illuminating, and urgent, Elephant Destiny offers a beautiful and important tribute to one of earth's most magisterial creatures at the very moment it threatens to vanish from being. € 11,80
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1991 |
Title :
Lilla Cabot PerryAuthor: Martindale Meredith, Moffat Pamela Publisher: Univ Pr of New England € 27,40
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