Asm 08/07/24
Not long ago, while writing about the African past, an elderly scholar of the West African city of Bobo-Dyulasso recalled the downfall of the Ummayad Caliphate, and opined that Africa had changed since then. Considering that the downfall of the Ummayad Caliphate had occurred a thousand years earlier, this was no small understatement; but the mufti of Bobo, concerned to argue that African histor…
This volume is one of a series of handbooks prepared by Foreign Area Studies (FAS) of The American University, designed to be useful to military and other personnel who need a convenient compilation of basic facts about the social, economic, political, and military institu- tions and practices of various countries. The emphasis is on objective description of the nation's present society and the…
Asm 03/07/24
Ance 21/08/24
How early man discovered the sea we shall never know. But it probably was not too diffrent from a young child frist expererience on an ocean beach: frist wonder,then touch,feel, and taste
Ance 20/08/24
Asm 18/9/24
Rst 02/07/24
like so many other books,this too started out as quite another one. some of the thoughts contained in these pages began in my attempts to teach and to erite about american social and cultural history in general and the american frontier in particular. the spesific impetus was an attempt to write an introduce section for a social interpretation of american history i felt i had to provide some t…