Concerning Beards: Facial Hair, Health and Practice in England 1650-1900, Withey Alun

Автор: Thomas Alun
Название: Nomads and Soviet Rule
ISBN: 1788311558 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788311557
Издательство: I B Tauris
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Описание: The nomads of Central Asia were already well accustomed to life under the power of a distant capital when the Bolsheviks fomented revolution on the streets of Petrograd. Yet after the fall of the Tsar, the nature, ambition and potency of that power would change dramatically, ultimately resulting in the near eradication of Central Asian nomadism. Based on extensive primary source work in Almaty, Bishkek and Moscow, Nomads and Soviet Rule charts the development of this volatile and brutal relationship and challenges the often repeated view that events followed a linear path of gradually escalating violence. Rather than the sedentarisation campaign being an inevitability born of deep-rooted Marxist hatred of the nomadic lifestyle, Thomas demonstrates the Soviet state's treatment of nomads to be far more complex and pragmatic. He shows how Soviet policy was informed by both an anti-colonial spirit and an imperialist impulse, by nationalism as well as communism, and above all by a lethal self-confidence in the Communist Party's ability to transform the lives of nomads and harness the agricultural potential of their landscape. This is the first book to look closely at the period between the revolution and the collectivisation drive, and offers fresh insight into a little-known aspect of early Soviet history. In doing so, the book offers a path to refining conceptions of the broader history and dynamics of the Soviet project in this key period.

Автор: Withey, James
Название: How To Tell Depression to Piss Off
ISBN: 147214452X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472144522
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: Forty tried-and-tested ways to tell depression to piss off and start living your life

Автор: Richards, Alun John
Название: Slate quarrying at corris
ISBN: 1845240685 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781845240684
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Описание: Now an established classic, Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism was the first book to explore this alternative current of American political thought from the seventeenth-century English Revolution to the time of the American Revolution, when Thomas Paine was its great exemplar. This updated edition contains a preface by the author and a new historiographical essay by David Waldstreicher.

Автор: Buffry MR Alun
Название: All about My Hat - The Hippy Trail 1972
ISBN: 0993210716 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780993210716
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Описание: The story of a young man who travelled along the "Hippy Trail" to India in 1972, narrated through "Myhat". With little money and no travel experience, Al meets Myhat in Greece and they travel together through places few westerners would visit today, crossing Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Of the many that travelled the Trail and survived, few have told their unique and remarkable stories, this is one, told now by Myhat. "Let me introduce myself. "I am called Myhat. I was also known as Kapelomou. "I am quite an old hat. I was made decades ago. "I had been passed many times to different heads, yet had seldom found one that I felt really comfortable on. "About forty years ago, everything changed. I found myself upon a head that I had a close affinity with and I found myself seeing, hearing, smelling much through this young man, Al - and even picking up on his emotions and thoughts. "I was lost then for several years, stored in a cupboard until, once again, I found myself on Al's head and now I can tell my tales. "Al and I spent some nine months together on our first trip, visiting many big cities and several small villages, in eight countries, all different, all new to myself and my new head - an adventure of a lifetime. "I sat on Al's head and witnessed all sorts of strange places and events while we travelled to India and then to the UK. "When Al arrived back in the UK, he was quite ill, having suffered from a problem called Infectious Hepatitis and also dysentery. Al went to his parent's house in Wales and then to hospital. But after he was in that hospital, I was never on his head so often. "I didn't know what was happening. Why was Al leaving me? How long was I to be here? What would become of me now? Would I get a new head? Would I get more adventures? Would I be treasured or neglected? "Then one day, Al took me out of my box and put me back on his head. "That is how I came to find myself back on Al's head. I have been on and off Al's head for about forty years and now I can tell my tales. We have done a lot of travelling over those forty years."